<p>Recently I received a booklet of information from Yale and Harvard about some of their programs without requesting it. Does this mean I am more likely to get into these colleges or is it just junk mail?</p>
<p>It does not at all mean you are more likely to get in to either college, although I wouldn’t go so far as to call it junk mail. It’s meant to spur your interest in applying.</p>
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As opposed to who? The average kid? Yes. But the avg kid is in no way, a viable Yale applicant.</p>
<p>When you get offers to investigate their colleges with about a 5-6% admit rate, then it’s totally up to you to decide. No one has a good shot at these colleges. Whether you’re a viable applicant is to be determined. They welcome your investigation but make no promises whatsoever. </p>
<p>Pity the recipients of those mailers who think otherwise.</p>
<p>T26E4, the correct is “as opposed to whom?” Just a tip from a Harvard student! Pity on you!</p>
<p>gotcha. same ol’ udd.</p>
<p>Keep that grip on that #1 ranking. Don’t let your hand go numb, there.</p>
<p>udd, when you insist on “as opposed to whom,” the people around you are snickering at you, not with you.</p>
<p>And that is why my son prefers Yale to Harvard (in the abstract anyway; he might be accepted at neither). High fives for catching the thunk of the mistaken “who” rather than “whom,” but it is something else to point it out. A gentle person lets it pass by unmentioned, making the generous assumption that the speaker was just being colloquial.</p>
<p>I guess you guys have history with each other; I haven’t been on the site long enough to know. Pity, uddhavagita.</p>
<p>OP, it just means you wound up on a list of good prospects (because of your standardized tests, maybe your school, etc.)</p>