Harvard Emails to Students?

compmom
Mon, 03 Nov 2008 07:27:43 +0000

I think these communications occur because you checked something on your SAT’s or ACT’s, indicating you were willing to receive info from colleges, and also probably the box for ethnicity. I would imagine there is some minimum score required to get one, but it probably does not have to be sky high: Harvard does not limit itself to ultra high scorers!

One of our kids is at Harvard. She never checked the box to receive info from colleges, and did not receive a single college catalog or letter or e-mail, not a single one.

One of our other kids checked the box and was inundated, including a letter from Harvard. He is at another university, by choice.

I have friends who tell me that their kid received a letter from x University and they clearly feel this means their kid is special, and that the school is going out of their way to solicit them. I don’t say anything. But, no offense, I think a lot of the mail and e-mail is generated electronically without any human being there saying, “well, this looks like a good candidate, let’s go after them.”

I could be wrong, but I don’t think it means much. But I’m sure you guys are special anyway!