Mailings from Graduate Schools?

emilybee
Thu, 13 Feb 2014 01:22:46 +0000

I thought I was done with getting brochures from colleges, but yesterday in the mail one came from a highly ranked graduate school program addressed to my kid who is a Junior. I assumed he requested it, but when I talked to him he said he hadn’t requested anything. Just wondering if this is common and if so, how do graduate schools get the names of these students (his major is a natural fit for this particular program) or do the colleges give the names of their students to graduate schools? He hasn’t taken the GRE so I know that is not how the school got his name.