College emails after SAT...targeted based on score?

thumper1
Thu, 13 Mar 2014 22:25:35 +0000

Shellz, my daughter started getting college mail as a ninth grader. She had not taken an SAT. She had not participated in any talent search types of programs. She just started getting mail. We advised her NOT to check the box when she took her PSAT and SAT. By that time, she was already getting a ton of (useless) mail.

The mailings came for highly competitive schools as well as smaller ones.

We quipped that DD should have applied to WUSTL, and include ALL of the mailings that said what a great addition she would make to their campus. She didn’t have an ice cubes chance in hell of being accepted there.

The good thing about email is that if you don’t want it, you can flag it as spam, or block the URL. With snail mail…it was IMPOSSIBLE to stop receiving mail.