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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]

My kid is a jock with a 3.5 GPA who wants to attend a big school where weekend revolve around football.   He's received more mail from NYU and Chicago than any other schools.

He's taking it in stride, but when the brochures from Sarah Lawrence start showing up it may be a different story.      [/quote]

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