<p>interesting. let us compare this to last year. </p>
<p>I got good PSAT scores (semifinalist) so I got a lot of these emails. I have dumped all college stuff in a folder called “Colleges” where I’m sure upward of 95% is just junk college mail. I have 729 converations in that folder and 649 unread. I read them for the first 8 days, then only read ones from colleges that interested me.
it is notable that I didn’t receive my first email until January 29th, and they didn’t start coming on strong until the first week of February. </p>
<p>my favorite email came late this October from Deep Springs College apologizing for sending me info since it’s only open to males. they said they were very embarrassed, but it wasn’t a malicious prank.</p>
<p>I also have a huge box of college snail mail in my room. I’ve been keeping it casually so I can look at its impressive quantity. if I see it on the table I scoop it up and stick it in the pile but it’s not scientific, if it gets swept off the table with the newspaper I don’t care. the envelopes at the bottom of the pile are opened, but not so much since then. my snail mail has actually tapered of quite a bit this past week. maybe they’re worried about next year already! the emails continue though, just had to stick one or two into Colleges.</p>
<p>Lavieboheme- we just started getting them a couple of days ago too, to the email address she used as a sophomore to sign up for the SAT subject tests. So, did you get any good ones? ;-)</p>
<p>I took the PSAT last year as a sophomore and checked the box saying I wanted to recieve info from colleges. The only mail I got was from small schools in the middle of nowhere (which is not what I want). I started getting mail around the same time that we got our PSAT scores, early December.
I took the PSATs again this year as a junior, and checked the college mail box again, thinking that this year I would get mail from better schools since I am a junior. A few days ago, I started getting mail again from some of the same schools that sent me mail last year. If you scroll to the bottom of the emails, there is usually a link to take you off their mailing list. Its not a pain to do it, all you have to do is click, and it save a lot of room in your inbox. This way, I only get one email from the school, not 30.</p>
<p>Biohelpmom, don’t worry if most of the mail you’re getting is from small colleges with little or no reputation. The strength of the colleges that contact you doesn’t really seem to be correlated with your PSAT score in my experience.</p>
<p>Yeah, it’s so obscure that she didn’t even want to put it on her resume, but it is an accredited college that has, I’m sure, some fine graduates.</p>
<p>OK, so I did some sleuthing on the College Board website, and found that colleges can access PSAT information on January 22, 2008. So as someone reasoned above, it would appear that the college emails are being generated from last year’s PSAT information.</p>
<p>Interesting. I was also wondering if maybe the first wave of PSAT-related emails is to all students who registered at all, without regard to scores. (I have no idea if that is so; that’s just something I wondered about.) And I wonder if this-year junior versus this-year sophomore is an issue as to who gets the emails. I asked my son, and he said he self-reported his usual email address and thus far has received NO emails related to taking the PSAT, as far as he can tell. He says he gets email from Columbia’s engineering school every two weeks or so, but I think that is related to an in-person meeting he had with a Columbia rep at a joint info session sometime last school year. (The other colleges at the same info session don’t seem to send him much mail of any kind; Columbia has also sent postal mail.)</p>
<p>My D hasn’t gotten anything, well nothing from any new schools yet…and it may indeed be that some schools by big lists, while others may have more finally tuned ones</p>
<p>but it will be what it will be, no use stressing over getting or not getting stuff…</p>
<p>I took the PSAT my sophomore year and junior year (I am a junior now). I am now getting snail mail from schools like Georgia Tech, Fordham, University of Washington in St. Louis, etc. I am pretty sure they got the information from this year’s PSAT. I am saying this because on my sophomore test I did not put down that I am interested in Economics and Political Science, but I did this year and the snail mail says my interests are Economics and Political Science. Apparently Washington U in STL generally contacts students with scores above 180, so I have high hopes for my score this year.</p>
<p>Edit: Oh, I have not recieved any e-mail, only snail mail, maybe they misread my e-mail address or something.</p>
<p>Update! Today brougt a PILE of email and snail mail from many colleges I have never heard of, and…PSAT scores! They were all in the high 600s, just shy of a 200 total. So, I can honestly report that there is no correlation between scores and the kind of mail that you going to get.</p>
<p>I emailed collegeboard a week ago regarding spam that I thought was generated by PSAT. Collegeboard emailed me back saying that the PSAT scores aren’t even in their systems until January and that the mail I’m getting is from an unaffiliated group.</p>
<p>My son didn’t take the PSAT last year but is getting lots of mail, so I know his isn’t tied to a PSAT score from last year. Could it be tied to Who’s Who? He was nominated by a teacher and signed up (no thanks on buying the book!).</p>
<p>Degoutant, you’re getting mail from the same people my son is. What do we have in common? I’d love to know how the schools tailor their mailing lists. If the College of Saint Rose were sending mail to everyone above a certain number, wouldn’t many of us have gotten mail from this school and not just biohelpmom? Interesting …</p>
<p>We’re hearing from the College of Saint Rose every other day now, as well as about 20 other schools (Lynchburg College was a new one yesterday.) A few of the emails have said “We got your name from the College Board.” PSATS as a junior this fall were the first contact she had with ETS. Scores were slightly below 200.</p>