Really? I don’t think a school like Vanderbilt or Chicago need to send mailers to SO many kids in order to get who they want. The kids who can get into those schools, know who they are. These aren’t schools they’ve never heard of. The reason they would apply after getting a mailer is specifically because they think they have a CHANCE. And they think they have a chance, because they got a letter…from Harvard! From Yale!
Our high stat son got those letters and he never would get into those schools. From our high school, absolutely no one gets into Harvard, Yale, or Princeton unless they are either recruited athletes or legacies. I’ve gone back at least eight years on this and that’s the deal. Don’t send kids at our school letters saying you want them. That’s false advertising to kids at the time they don’t need that. I knew the deal and S19 didn’t think anything of the letters but many (most?) people want to believe them.