<p>I was wondering if any of you have ever gotten any spam emails from PhD programs asking you to apply to their programs? I haven't taken the GRE or any other type of test that may send my information to grad schools, so I have not been recruited by any program yet. In high school, I remember an aggressive recruiting campaign by smaller private schools after I took my first ACT test.</p>
<p>All the time. Unless they’re being sent from an individual faculty member and the emails are actually personalized to your profile (and not just numbers and whatnot), I’d ignore them.</p>
<p>I got a flood of emails and postcards after I took my GREs, but it was mostly the same 5 programs spamming me on a semi-daily basis.</p>
<p>Columbia sends me mail all the time because I half-finished an application ten years ago. TEN YEARS.</p>