<p>Yea i got the letters and e-mails too and I realize they mean nothing but I couldn’t help but be excited when i got one from Columbia :)</p>
<p>Private colleges send the most mail because:
- They have the budget for it. Public colleges generally don’t spend much on admissions (because they cost less, they already attract a good number of applicants).
- Private colleges are trying to build name recognition, especially private liberal arts colleges.</p>
<p>I think I could have wallpapered my room and my living room walls with the amount of mail I got from colleges =D I wish I kept them though.</p>
<p>I’m a freshmen and I get that stuff all the time. I get a lot sent from University of Miami, TCU, Rice, Ithica and more. Plus summer things like summer@Brown and NSLC</p>
<p>I mean, seriously. Like my ego needs any more inflation…</p>
<p>You don’t need to receive those generic letters to be in the range of getting into those colleges, nor does getting those mean you’ll get into those colleges.</p>
<p>The letters don’t mean anything.
I’m a junior w/ a 3.5, and got a 177 on my PSAT which is equivalent to a 1770 SAT score, and I’m getting letters from Brown and NYU.
They sell letters to everyone.</p>