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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's Small Liberal Arts College, not "selective"!

My DD is getting those emails and letters too. She never visited, never contacted one school, and it's sending her letters urging her to apply, offering her money, etc.! Crazee!

She did attend an open house at another school nearby (another SLAC), so they shared information? I don't understand that, but the Interwebs make it so easy to get info on people.

DD has very good stats, far too high for this school! It seems a bit pathetic, if you ask me. It's not a terrible school, though, just a nice middle of the road SLAC. I guess these schools are getting desperate for more students, and they all want to up their rankings in US News, so they are trying to grab the high stats students.

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She took practice PSATs starting freshman or junior year, right? I think the College Board shares your info unless you take steps to tell them not to.

What I don't get is why DS, with a B+ average after sophomore year, is getting spam from the top universities in the country/Ivies, who would probably laugh at his application. A few years ago older DD, who had a 3.9, hardly heard from any of these places even though she actually got in and attends one now. I get that some schools (U Chicago, Wash U in St Louis) spam everyone, but this is above and beyond and many of the schools spamming DS now really don't need more applications, if their extremely low acceptance rates are any indication. Either it really does pay to be a boy in the admissions game, or even the top universities are getting into this spam marketing game.[/quote]

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