<p>ditto to oldfort! </p>
<p>Also # 2 rec’d about 30% to 40% more in college advertisements & solicitations than # 1 did in a two year period - especially from colleges w/ potential money offers. Her SATs were lower than #1 so that doesn’t explain it.</p>
<p>I read every single one and was only suckered in by one! “You may qualify for $16K…” Came April, D was accepted w/no money. I was ticked (she had rec’d many other merit awards) I felt like it I was scammed & wanted the $45 application fee back, especially since she never wanted to apply there! 
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<p>I don’t think all schools dangling carrot offers are a scam- especially the smaller, lower tiered LACs.</p>
<p>I attribute the increase in solicitations to technology, that and a desire to increase # of applicants (many, many were “waive the fee” if apply by a certain date").</p>
<p>BTW -that was College of Charleston</p>
<p>I don’t think it’s a big deal. My son recceived most of the regular mail, but a couple of U’s also sent follow ups to The Parent’s Of. Nobody in the family thought anything of it. My son did put my email address on his 2nd PSAT test, so he “wouldn’t be bothered”, and I enjoyed reading them, and filtered them for him, so he could focus on the one(s) he cared about.</p>
<p>He only wanted to apply one school ED so all that mail and email was wasted, except as entertainment value. We persuaded him to apply to a couple of other schools “just in case”, but he got in the the ED school. It was fun while it lasted, and good luck to everyone still working on it.</p>
<p>We received only two “Parents of” letters: one from a local college asking our D to consider it (probably got our address from the local HS) and one after acceptances from a set of parents from a current student inviting us to call with any questions we might have. Glad I don’t have to worry about this again for another 7 years.</p>