<p>Dear X</p>
<p>Are you wondering about Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee? Theres an easy way for you to learn more about us via our virtual tour, a complete campus tour led by current Vanderbilt students. You may choose to experience the tour in English, Spanish, or Mandarin.</p>
<p>it goes on and tell me they look forward to me applying. </p>
<p>Does this mean I have a good shot or do they send these to everyone?</p>
<p>It sounds pretty generic. I’m guessing they send those a good number of people, but that doesn’t mean you don’t have a shot either.</p>
<p>If you took the PSAT or th PLAN, you will get emails like this from many of the best schools in the country. They do not yet have access to your scores or your grades–they just know that you took the test. And freshmen and sophomores who take these tests tend to be good students, so they begin solicitations early. Sorry, but your receipt of these emails really says nothing about your chances of admission. Heck, my son has received several from Yale and there’s no way on earth that he would be admitted there (sorry to say, but just being realistic).</p>
<p>Unfortunately, it’s just marketing, but usually colleges will set a certain test score benchmark you must have achieved in order to receive it.</p>
<p>Yeah, that is only part of college mass marketing, which gets more and more confusing and annoying these days. Reality is that tens of thousands of students who receive those emails and packages apply to Vanderbilt, and only one out of ten of those very qualified applicants are admitted. Getting accepted to Vanderbilt is almost as hard as getting accepted to Harvard and Yale these days.</p>