<p>I would like feedback from everyone and anyone who has received brochures, postcards, etc. in the mail (postal mail, that is) from colleges. </p>
<p>1) Did the places YOU receive info from differ from the places your friends received info from (you must have compared)?</p>
<p>2) Did you receive different types of info (or more info) once your PSAT scores were released--assuming that you had good PSAT scores? Did any of your friends/peers receive MORE or LESS info, depending upon whether their scores were better (or worse) than yours? Like, if you have PSATs of 200 and your friend had a PSAT of 168, did you get more college info? </p>
<p>Here's why I ask: I am 15 and a sophomore. I have never received any college info in my life. But in the past two weeks (I understand the CSS released test scores to colleges recently) I have been deluged with a bunch of college mail. So have SOME of my friends. But there is a big difference in what they are getting and what I am getting. The schools I am getting info from are different than those of my friends. And my brochures have a lot more ethnic types photos, as well as phrases like "cultural diversity" etc. etc.. </p>
<p>I wonder, would it be because my PSAT scores were higher than the average sophomore? Mine were 190. Also, my last name is Hispanic. </p>
<p>I would like some feedback from you all to see if there is some pattern or correlation.</p>
<p>I didn't receive any mail until my junior year, really, with a >200 PSAT. Just a lot of University of Arkansas stuff (I saved it and am having a bonfire after the whole college thing is over :D ). I guess that being hispanic would influence what kind of mail you get, though I didn't know that the mailings are tailored to the kid... since I have a very caucasian last name, I don't get anything special then, alas</p>
<p>I had some overlap with my friends (mostly local colleges and St. John's) but we got a lot of different stuff, I think it depends on what academic interest you put down on your PSAT.</p>
<p>Thats okay, i got a lot of mail from IVY league schools (brown, princeton, cornell), and top 25 engineering schools even though my PSAT scores were probably national average. It still confuses me, im not sure its all about the scores.</p>
<p>I did take the regular sat's, and ended up doing way better (m-620, r-640, w-590), and getting into one of the schools that sent me such a brochure, amazingly...</p>
<p>I dont think it has to do with scores, id like to say its all random, but i dont really know.</p>
<p>What you code in for careers and majors affects it, too. My home address is STILL recieving mail from colleges based upon what I coded in two years ago, trying to get me to think about grad school and give them money for seminars and stuff. And some don't realize I'm already in college.</p>
<p>for me, its gotten really strange. soph year i got a 208, and TONS of college mail---now im a junior, and got a near perfect psat this time, but much less college mail, compared to last year. tons from emory and mt holyoke (im female), but i feel like its totally random, a few of my friends with scores significantly lower than mine are getting just as much mail. so yeah :)</p>