Phantom application

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<p>Last night my son received an email from [unnamed university] saying that they were in receipt of his application, but were missing the following ... a list of everything you would submit then followed (scores, transcripts, essay, recommendations).</p>

<p>He did not apply to this school! At one point he was receiving a lot of mail from this school, and he thinks he answered one of the mailings - filling out a card saying send me more info (thus they had his email address). But this school was never on his list of schools and he certainly didn't fill out an application.</p>

<p>He replied via email saying that he had not applied and to cancel the application (he was accepted via ED elsewhere).</p>

<p>Anyone ever had such an experience?! Should my son call the school to make sure this application is "withdrawn"?</p>

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<p>I would not bother. </p>

<p>My S withdrew his application to a college as soon as he heard from his EA school. The college in question had a Dec 15 deadline, which was the very day he was to receive the EA decision. So within days of sending in his application, he wrote to withdraw it. Recently, he received a postcard informing him that the college had received his completed application. That was February. Shrug.</p>

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<p>Sounds like a marketing ploy- similar to sending "checks" for $15,000, that are actually part of application to a loan once you try and cash them, or those inumerable credit card applications that no one ever solicited.
Just ignore them</p>