| Boy, it's nice to see the $$$ especially for twins!
I don't think your twins' school is allowed to send out info w/o permission for each college, so that may not be how/why the offers came in. If your twins did well on PSAT, SAT, and/or ACT then colleges are notified about that by the testing companies (they, too, cannot give out exact scores without your permission BUT they can give to colleges lists of kids who score over certain numbers.)
There are certain "benchmarks" that certain colleges look for when giving out merit $$$. When my s took the ACT, since his score was over a 32 (a benchmark for some colleges) he began getting $$$ offers. (obviously, ACT, Inc, released a list that had all students who scored a 32 or higher - which is 99%tile.) The same happened when s made the National merit cutoff for PSAT. Collegeboard had released the list of students who made the cutoff to colleges across the US and $$$ offers came in. |