<p>My daughter has received an e-mail from St. John's, Cal Lutheran and University of LaVerne..all with the Re: I've noticed your academic achievements ...</p>
<p>They are basically the same letter informing her her that she can apply free to these schools.</p>
<p>Can anyone tell me where they are getting her e-mail address and how they have "noticed" her academic achievement? Is anyone else getting them...and what other schools may she expect to get one from? It there some "coalition" of schools that work together and send out the same email?</p>
<p>When she took a PSAT she probably checked the box that said CollegeBoard could give out her e-mail to colleges. I did the same too, thinking that some colleges I’d like to attend would e-mail me but little did I realize that colleges I would be ashamed to go to are the ones contacting me.</p>
<p>I just asked her and the e-mail she had when she took the PSAT was different than the one it was sent to. Do they also ask that question when you sign up for the SAT or ACT…she took both tests?</p>
<p>isaacn - there was actually a recent poll taken by employers saying that where someone went to school serves as a little factor on their application</p>
<p>Not only that, but I would never be ashamed to go to any school - college is college. Yes, some are better, and some are much better, but all college educations, if you make the best of it, are valuable.</p>
<p>Sidthekidc87, understood. Don’t get me wrong, I agree completely. Just I have certain goals for myself and in some cases the difference between Fordham and Cornell is quite big. Don’t know why this is being discussed as it is completely off-topic…</p>
<p>SockherMom, I’m not sure about the actualy SAT or ACT as I have never taken one before. I would ask your daughter if she could talk to someone in her counseling department if it is a big deal. Maybe she signed something and they gave it out? Otherwise you can open the emails and at the bottom you can unsubscribe from their emails.</p>
<p>Isaacn16-We are not upset about the e-mails, in fact, we are quite happy that she is receiving applications to schools she can apply to for free. This is one of the reasons why I posted, I was wondering if she should be “expecting” other “free” applications, from other schools…it maybe one she may want to apply to!!</p>
<p>I, a parent, have been getting them from U. of Portland. Believe me, I have not taken the PSAT or SAT in more than 40 years!!! I have, however, registered as a parent for several college fairs. Maybe I have also registered on the Princeton Review or College Board web sites; stuff just keeps filling my In Box. I can never remember those darn passwords/user names/user IDs. Neither parent nor student has initiated any special contact with U. of Portland. Perhaps they were at one of the mega college fairs we attended. The schools scanned in the fair IDs.</p>
<p>I have been getting hundreds and hundreds of those emails but I wouldn’t consider the majority of them. I would look for colleges that you find fit and then see if any have emailed you rather than the other way around</p>
<p>The College Board sells mailing lists to colleges. My daughter in law works in the Admissions Department of a midwestern LAC and she said that all the schools buy mailing and email lists from CB and some other college related sources that include college related web sites, college fairs, etc. With the CB, you tell them what factors you want such as minumum scores, state of residence, zip codes, areas of noted interest, etc. These lists are BIG business for the schools and the CB.</p>
<p>She did go to a large college fair but I don’t think she gave them SAT/GPA info. What we found interesting is that the e-mails were worded the same except for the college name. I hope she gets more because one may come from a college she was “considering” but wouldn’t apply to because it is a "reach"and didn’t want to pay the app fee. You never know!</p>
<p>Another word for it is spam. Yes there are many of those “free application” e-mails, such as Rochester’s, Drexel’s VIP application, etc, etc. Most likely your daughter wrote it in the SAT information sheet / when she signed up for collegeboard. After I took the SATs they came in like in-discriminant bugs. Very few (by few I mean 1/500, literally) of these e-mails are actually valuable. </p>
<p>The free applications can be obtained even without such e-mails, simply by your daughter submitting her information to be allowed a free application, but most likely for a school whose SATs range is much lower than your daughter’s score - thus schools she may not really consider.</p>
<p>I agree with candlelight. Much of it is spam. In reality, they my not know anything at all about your daughters achievements. But by throwing a wide net, they hope to snag/attract the students that may not have considered their school before.</p>
<p>college knows you email/address + college thinks you’re in high school = mail from college</p>
<p>I will be so greatful the day American colleges stop acting like businesses and start spending that money on bettering education, or increasing their class sizes</p>
<p>If she applied online for the SAT/ACT, that’s probably where they got a hold of it. I’ve been getting emails and brochures constantly since 10th grade. And yes, MANY of them mention these so called “achievements”. At least I’ve been getting lots of them from good schools (Chicago, Stetson, NYU. lol.)</p>
<p>But yes, tons of crap from schools I’ve never heard of or would ever apply to.</p>
<p>I HATE those emails! Most of them go to my junk folder. Allegheny College, a school I have never heard of, just sent me a “leadership application” in the mail and said I wouldn’t have to pay the application fee or send in an essay based on my “academic achievements” (I am a homeschooler, almost no one has ever seen my GPA and I have never taken a staandardized test) and my “demonstrated interest” in the school (as I said before, I have never heard of the school or had any contact with them, unless you count deleting their emails from my junk folder). How do these people even know I exist?!? I also get lots of emails from New College of Florida (I think I did contact them once but have never shown any interest since). Only recently have a few of the schools I am interested in started contacting me, like Wesleyan and Chicago. Nothing from the schools I have actually requested information from.</p>
<p>Maybe I have a different outlook on these emails. I know that I have not heard of or about all of the possible colleges out there so I appreciate learning of different schools. I usually put the name in college board, check out SAT ranges, see if the desired majors are available, look at costs and scholarships, etc. I also use the find similar colleges feature as well. If the school passes the tests, I go to the website and check that out.</p>
<p>I am not insulted or offended on my behalf o my son’s if a college sends me email. If you are, you can always opt out. I consider these emails one more tool in the arsenal of trying to find a school for my son, who has no clue where he wants to go.</p>
<p>Joan, I am not insulted either, and I do open them to see about the school sometimes if I have not heard about it. But I do not put any merit in their claims that my child is “special” to them and they searched him out. I realize that they are just marketing efforts.</p>