<p>^^^ I also think there’s a place to indicate year of graduation, so if they know he’s graduating this year then by now they know most apps have long since been sent in.</p>
<p>I thought DD got a lot of email after she took her APs (one frosh and one soph.), but want is happening now is crazy - she is averaging 8 pieces of snail mail a day and 20+ emails a day. It has to be more than just the PSAT, it has to be the time of year and junior year. Most are the same, “congratulations on your h.s. accomplishments, go to our website and claim your free copy of ____, just enter your code.” There are some that are unique and they do stand out. They are usually offers to spend the weekend at the honors college and meet with admissions dean and sit in on a class, go to a lunch or a dinner. DD is enjoying the attention, even though she is pretending not to. these college guys are slicker than car dealers. I am waiting for the offer for free acid rain protection if she fills out the applicatin early.</p>
<p>My D12 put an incorrect gmail address on her PSAT. She only discovered the error when she read the typo’d address printed in a couple of the snail-mail packets.<br>
She has decided to only correct the error at colleges she’s specifically interested in…</p>
<p>Some poor sot is getting inundated with all the rest of the emails!</p>
<p>D2 has relatively low ACT scores but high PSAT scores. However, the PSAT is not official eventhough it’s graded by the collegeboard. So technically her ACT scores are what these marketing people go by. Yet, she still receives tons of mails and emails from these colleges.</p>
<p>DrGoogle, what makes you think her PSAT scores aren’t used for this marketing? I think collegeboard sells lists of names of students in score bands on the PSAT.</p>
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Well, each school can be different on this. Some might send info about scholarships a student fits the demographics/norm for, others send info about scholarships to anyone, with the idea that they could get one.</p>
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Correct. Colleges can buy lists based on a lot of things from the PSAT, including score ranges, race, gender, region of the country, preferred religion, listed major. The most common, of course, is score ranges. They pay however much to get all the PSAT scores from 180-240, or 200+, or whatever they’re looking for.</p>
<p>Hunt, all the emails state the information from ACT.</p>