AustenNut is an incredible resource and has given me wonderful information. Another link that might be helpful is (Dataverse – College Transitions Admissions Data & Information) There is a wealth of info there. If you scroll down that page towards the bottom there is a set of links referred to as Top Feeders, and one link there is for PhD feeder programs.
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Anyone else’s kid get a letter from Yale? I assume this is a common letter high achieving kids get, but no one else at her school has gotten one.
A one page letter, front and back, that kind of explained their process? If so, yes about 2 weeks or so ago. If you are referring to a different letter, I haven’t seen it. My D25 essentially just throws all college mail into the trash without looking at it.
Very helpful! Thank you!
Yes, probably that. It was something like “you have been identified as…”
Nope. My midwest 35 ACT (36 science) ACT kid didn’t get a single piece of mail from any of the top spam mail colleges.
It helps if you unsubscribe to College/Scholarship Search on College Board.
If you don’t sign up for college search on CB you don’t really get them. Its wonderful!
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Exactly, it’s the best! With two ‘25 in our house/blended family the amount of mailings we would receive if we hadn’t check/unchecked the various marketing boxes, I’m not sure our little mailbox could handle it 
Actually, I am fascinated at the mailings from a marketing perspective. What are they saying, how are they saying it. I find the messaging quite interesting.
But, between the wife and daughter and two dogs, virtually all mail is either eaten, destroyed or thrown away by the time I get home. This is the case regardless of the importance of the mail (perhaps there is an inverse relationship between importance and time it takes to destroy). I learned last week while trying to get through security at an airport that my license had expired. Turns out the notice had gone directly into the trash.
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My kid’s gotten spam from all of the Ivies so far, except for some reason Cornell.
And I’m with @MidwestPack, I find the college junk mail fascinating.
It is definitely fascinating! We call it ‘fan mail’ and are keeping it all stacked on a table to see how high the stack gets! 
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Same, but we got Cornell too! Maybe because my older kid applied to Cornell in 2019.
SAT scores are out. Math was rough but almost a perfect score on English. Trying to figure out if a 1470 is a high enough score for National Merrit confirmation.
She’s glad I already scheduled a June test.
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We get those. We’re not going to qualify. I assume they just blanket people because that’s a top ‘pain point’ (given the ridic cost of university).
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S25 didn’t prep much and his score went down. Need to figure out next steps of when he will retake.
The math was really rough. D25 got a 690 compared to her perfect PSAT math score. Her score is high enough to get her considered for the top scholarship at one of her top choices for schools so we’re happy. She would just like to get that math score up!
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Kiddo got a perfect score on math on the PSAT and was at a 710 on this SAT. English score went down considerably and most of the points lost were on punctuation. (Which he has always been awful at!). His last practice test was a 1500 so I assume he had a bad day. So this test was 1390 and superscore is 1430. Also concerned about confirming score for NM as he had a 1480 on PSAT.
I am so disappointed for him. (But I am saying this here and most definitely not to him!)
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Our kids sound very similar with the same PSAT score. I just looked at a score calculator page and it looks like my D25 got 7 wrong in the math. If she had only gotten 6 wrong, she would have scored 40 points higher (according to the site I found). That is crazy! 40-point difference between 6 and 7 wrong!
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He’s on a band trip and is texting me freaking out. He’s confused and so upset. We signed him up for the May 4th test. It’s terrible timing with AP exams that week but we are out of the country on June 1st.
He said he felt so confident about the math. (And he is normally spot on in assessing how he did on tests.) Looks like he did better on the advanced math but missed more geometry/trig/algebra. He will have to go back and refresh.
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