<p>I know a student who got a "personalized" note from an admissions officer thanking her for taking the time to interview with her, with a handwritten P.S. at the end.</p>
<p>The kicker: the student had never visited the school, had never even been on that side of the country, had never met the admissions officer! (Admissions rep had not visited the student's high school and student had not attended any "college fairs," so there was simply no way the student could ever have met her!)</p>
<p>Student had apparently gotten on some mailing list because of PSAT and I guess the college must somehow have gotten their mail-merge lists confused and accidentally sent her the wrong form letter!</p>
<p>(At least that mixup wasn't as bad as the cases of the colleges that accidentally mixed up their email lists for accepted and rejected students and sent a mass-mailing congratulating the rejected students on their admission and telling them about a special admitted-students event!)</p>