<p>It’s funny–we hardly get anything in the mail, although my D has started to get a flood of emails. Her handwriting is not always the clearest, but I think she said they bubble their address for the PSAT. I don’t want to get buried under paper, but a postcard about an open house would be nice.</p>
<p>My D is off next week too. We’re ready for it. She is trying to bounce back from strep on Friday and was not bouncing very high this morning…</p>
<p>Apparently colleges just got scores from CB, as S2 has gotten a flood of emails in the past week, and there was NOTHING at all before that.</p>
<p>S2 and DH are headed to W&M next Monday.</p>
<p>About the junk mail…There are at least 3 colleges who have inundated D with emails, but they are really reaches based on her current SAT scores. What is the point of their solicitation?</p>
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<p>Three generations of women in my stepmother’s family have gone to W&M, beginning in the 1940’s, and absolutely loved it. So far, S isn’t interested, but maybe that will change.</p>
<p>QM, to get her to apply so that the colleges look more selective.</p>
<p>I’m hoping he really likes it. Has a great rep, is a good size for him, works in lots of ways.</p>
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<p>Well that’s not going to work! We already have D’s two reaches picked out and no others need apply!</p>
<p>I do look through the solicitations for possible matches and safeties though. So far nothing interesting there either.</p>
<p>S hasn’t been inundated with emails yet, but I like to see the unusual variety he does get. Yesterday it was Williams College and Humboldt State University. I had to laugh.</p>
<p>D got a lovely view book yesterday plus six sheets of paper with special interest info. Luckily, the book was on recycled paper, but she was appalled that they would waste so much paper trying to get her to come to their school. Yes, one of the sheets was about the environmental program. I wonder if any school will send an ‘acceptable’ amount of paper to her. She was completely turned off, and I wonder if it will be that way with all of them.</p>
<p>S received snail mail letters from Carleton and University of Rochester last week. The Carleton letter said that based on his PSAT score that he should be inundated with mail soon. Apparently they are very determined to get NMF to attend as they were boasting about the % of NMF in their admitting class. </p>
<p>He received approximately 25 emails in the last week from various and assorted colleges (from the midwest to the east coast). Maybe schools are cutting back on the snail mail in order to save money and trying to reach students through email.</p>
<p>^^^I got the same impression from Carleton.</p>
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<p>Same here. I mentioned to S that school’s must be cutting back on outreach and he said, “I don’t think so, I’ve been getting lots of emails.” Oy.</p>
<p>I think the mail may be about to start. My son just got about 15 emails all of a sudden within the last few days and today 3 schools that he never contacted sent out mailings to him.</p>
<p>^^^^I didn’t know S was receiving emails from schools either. Since he gave me his email password I just checked and saw them all in his inbox (and unread might I add).</p>
<p>Oh my son would not have read it, or told me about it, but we have set up a special email address for all of the college information. They got this email address either from the standardized test companies or from some other place, and I monitor that address so I will know about the important stuff when he begins applying (ie: like scholarship deadlines, scholarhip opportunities that he might never tell me about, etc.). He only uses this email address for colleges.</p>
<p>My D put my email address on her PSAT, so I get all of them. She just uses me as a spam filter.</p>
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<p>Same here, QM. Same here.</p>
<p>Northeast Mom - That sounds like a great idea. I think maybe we will set up a new email address as well.</p>
<p>It’s great. This way we won’t miss any deadline reminders, or important financial information.</p>
<p>So, I’ve been poking around online and on the collegedata site, D’s scores get a certain type of college for matches and safeties. Princetonreview’s counselor-matic gives a much lower level of colleges. D’s school naviance seems to suggest a higher level of matches than both of them. Which is more correct?</p>
<p>Naviance should be the most accurate with the caveat that it may be a smaller data base, so can be skewed by information you don’t have. (i.e. if you look at our Naviance data you might think it’s easier to get into Stanford (only 2 acceptances out of 25) if your scores are ca. 1400 rather than over 1500, and your grades aren’t over 100 WGPA - clearly ridiculous - the truth is that Stanford has never accepted anyone from our school that wasn’t a recruited athlete/URM/politically connected/legacy.) But if I look at RPI (11 accepted out of 35) I see that every kid with a 90+ average and 1300+/1600 was accepted. I’d say if my kid had 1350 SAT and 95 GPA, RPI was a safety, though other sites might say it was a match. So for Stanford I’d go with Princeton, realizing that the chances are probably even less than the data suggests, while for RPI I’d trust the school data. For schools like SUNY Binghampton, the numbers are even clearer the vast majority of kids with 90+ WGPA and 1250+ SATs are in.</p>