<p>Hi, parents. My DD is a junior in HS. Unfortunately, Carnegie-Mellon seems to think she is a senior in HS. </p>
<p>DD got an invite to CMU’s sleeping bag weekends. The invite says (in large letters) that the weekends are “open to students applying for admission beginning fall of 2007.” However, when I went to CMU’s site to sign her up for a weekend, the registration form says, “To register for a SBW you must be a High School Senior and at least 16 years old.” It also says it’s for students applying starting in fall 2007.</p>
<p>I called Admissions and a student answered the phone. She said they’re for seniors, but since DD got an invitation, she could come to one, although she might be the only junior there. </p>
<p>So I’m thinking she’ll go to a sleeping bag weekend in Spring or Fall 2007, but today we got a piece of mail from CMU with a detailed look at financial aid. All the information we’re getting from them has a “for seniors” quality about it. I think we even got an application from them over the summer that I didn’t really look at or think about till now.</p>
<p>Is anyone else’s junior getting mail from CMU that looks like it’s for seniors?</p>
<p>son got some stuff as a hs soph/junior (?) from CMU. We were flattered but really didn’t think much of it b/c we live West Coast. Thought that the stuff came because 1) he got good test scores, 2) Wife works for a company with HQ in Pittsburgh and some power people at her company had something named at CMU. Long time ago, and we never investigated the mailing source. Maybe kid did something that trigger the mailing. </p>
<p>Wacky: I would think that a current HS senior would be too late in thinking about CMU if they attended a Spring 2007 SBW.
Go as a junior, and spend an extra day visiting PITT. </p>
<p>Other colleges began sending son stuff a year later.</p>
<p>They get the lists for these things from the College Board, mostly.</p>
<p>It might be worthwhile to look at your daughter’s various score reports (PSAT, SAT, AP) and see whether her graduation date is listed incorrectly. If it is, you may want to contact the College Board and see about getting it corrected.</p>
<p>The problem isn’t that she’s getting wrong stuff right now. The problem is that she might not get stuff she wants in the future if the “system” has her graduation date wrong.</p>
<p>The College Board really will correct things. Both of my kids have had errors on AP score reports (one kid’s graduation date was incorrect; the other had her name spelled correctly one year and misspelled the next, meaning that the two years’ scores did not appear on the same report). We were able to get corrections made in both cases.</p>
<p>Marian, yes, that’s what I’m worried about–that after this year they’ll assume she’s not interested and she’s going somewhere else, and they’ll take her off their lists. </p>
<p>Only CMU is acting like she’s a senior. She’s getting loads of stuff from other colleges, but most of it is clearly geared to juniors.</p>
<p>I wasn’t thinking in terms of CMU misjudging your daughter. I was thinking in terms of other things – like scholarship programs – where it may be crucial for your daughter’s graduation date to be recorded correctly.</p>
<p>CMU seems to be one of the bigger senders of junk mail. My daughter, who is a senior, gets almost as much stuff from them as from WUSTL.</p>
<p>I know that my roommate from last year ended up attending a SBW for ‘celebration of diversity’ even though she’s not a minority - didn’t realize it until she got there, and it wasn’t an issue. I suppose CMU just has some issues with getting the right mail to the right people.</p>