<p>I would just note that you have to be careful that all that spam doesn’t confuse you. So (for example), if you want to withdraw your application from Wesleyan University, make sure you don’t do it by replying to an e-mail from Wesleyan College.</p>
<p>The emails are generated by a marketing company (might be a service of College Board, but I’m not sure of that). Like any other marketing company they will select based on criteria: minimum PSAT score is commonly used, as well as expressed interest areas, geographical region, gender, and race (the last two only for specific schools of course).</p>
<p>So high scorers will hear from a CalTech and a Stanford, lower scorers might not. High scorers will often hear from every single school out there, including schools that are unlikely to be selected by a top-tier student.</p>
<p>Funniest thing is sometimes the programming is done wrong: my son got a lot of spam from a women’s college in the midwest (and his name is not ambiguous)! He found it very funny.</p>
<p>I think it’s ludicrous to call this “spam.” This is no different from any marketing effort that any number of companies do. They obtain email or address lists of prospects and they send materials out. If you don’t like it, delete the email or recycle the mail. </p>
<p>I bet if any of you ran, say, a local florist shop, you wouldn’t consider it “spam” if you got a hold of a list of brides getting married in the next year and sent something to them about your services. Or a car dealership with high-end cars getting a mailing list of people who make above $300,000 a year. This is just basic marketing 101, no big deal at all, and no reason why colleges shouldn’t send these materials out as they see fit.</p>
<p>DD is a college freshman and still receives test prep and college information via snail mail and email.</p>
<p>Remember: “unsubscribe” is your friend.</p>
<p>Pizza I absolutely consider those types of mailings to be spam. But to me spam is any email I don’t ask to receive from any company I am not doing business with already, that is mailed out to any sort of list.</p>
<p>College emails via CB aren’t spam, to me, since they result from a check box on the PSAT. If D didn’t check it (or uncheck it) and the emails STILL came, that would IMO be spam.</p>
<p>So if the local pizza place sends out a mailing to the neighborhood saying, “Hey! $5 off your pizza with a coupon, come visit us!” that’s spam?</p>
<p>For me if it comes by email, yes. </p>
<p>I actually belong to a couple of restaurant email lists because I want to receive their coupons. That’s not spam either, since I asked for it.</p>
<p>They can send me all the unsolicited paper they like.</p>
<p>We were in a very similar position. Ask for the class to be held off the calculation until others have taken the class.</p>
<p>One man’s spam is another man’s filet mignon.</p>
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<p>Thanks, 99.
That’s the only explanation that makes sense to me for some of the email that my son
has been receiving of late. He’s getting repeated email from some schools for which
I know he wouldn’t make the cut.</p>