HS junior - got a friendly email from Pomona

Colleges & Universities Pomona College
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<p>D (1014) got this email a few days ago from Pomona (we visited and toured in Feb.):</p>

<p>"Please accept our warm greetings from Pomona College in Claremont, California—founding member of the Claremont Colleges.</p>

<p>Your performance on College Board exams and self-reported academic profile and interests caught our attention. We believe your talents and curiosities nicely match our offerings…" </p>

<p>My question: is this just a mass emailing? Should it be interpreted as a good sign, or no big deal? </p>

<p>She now tells me she’s gotten emails from other schools which she’s been deleting (I’m not sure why).</p>

<p>Thanks. </p>

<p>Dinmor</p>

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<p>Its probably no big deal, a mass generated email for students who have done well on PSAT or SAT/ACT.</p>

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<p>It’s a mass email…they sent it out to kids who self-report high GPAs and who get high test scores</p>

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<p>Yup, pretty common …I get tons of these every week…</p>

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<p>OK–thanks, guys.</p>

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<p>Oh jeez–1014 should be 2014 on OP.</p>

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<p>Hmmm. I didn’t think Pomona sent these out.</p>

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<p>PS: D was accepted to the Pomona College class of 2014!</p>

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<p>I guess they meant business with that email a year ago…Is she gonna go to Pomona?</p>

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<p>Yes, and she couldn’t be happier.</p>

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<p>Well, I’m sure our daughters will meet at some point. She’s starting there in August as well.</p>

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<p>My daughter, also a Junior, has of this morning, received 438 emails from colleges (obviously some schools are sending a lot more than just one). Two of which were from Pomona. She has also received at least 100 pieces of snail mail. </p>

<p>Most of this generates from the PSAT. My son, now in college, never took the PSAT, and only got a fraction of the mail that my daughter is getting. </p>

<p>When they take the PSAT they can specify if they want mail from the colleges. They really should say “Do you want to kill trees?”, because it is a lot of paper!!</p>

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<p>anotherparent: This past year my daughter got 453 college brochures - some colleges sent multiples. I had her high school counselor choose the ones she wanted, and then I removed our address from all of them, put them in a nice box, labeled them “2010 college brochures” and gave them to Goodwill. I couldn’t stand the thought of recycling them after one use - some of them were really beautiful.</p>

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<p>Sorry, I should have been clearer. Yes, my kid also got a million paper/e-contacts, but the Pomona one came after the PSAT flood, to a separate email account that we had supplied to them after a visit. Its tone made me think it might have been some sort of “likely email,” and in fact she did get in.</p>

<p>I agree, rickmanfan, some of those brochures are almost edible. The MIT one was really clever.</p>

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<p>They get their email address from all sorts of places. Why wouldn’t they send email to an address that you supplied? In fact, that would be less likely to be indicative of someone they wanted, because unlike the PSAT flood, they know less about you. </p>

<p>But, by all means, apply :-)</p>

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<p>^His daughter already got in. But you’re right, obviously if you visit and supply your email, you will get on their email list. It is not indicative of anything. Visiting does increase your chances though- it will show that you are sincerely interested. </p>

<p>And you counted the number of emails? The mass-mail is generated by the PSAT- I’ve also received hundreds of emails. I can’t imagine counting them or even collecting the mail…</p>