Congratulations, you have been accepted to College. This is the letter that so many students hope for after they apply to college and wait for from weeks to months to get an answer. For some students, they are receiving these letters from colleges they have never applied to and may never have heard of. There are several programs where schools are now accepting students without the student having applied so that the acceptance letter comes as a very pleasant and unexpected surprise. You may ask why schools would do this and the reasons seem to be two-fold: to get to students who may not have considered applying to the college and to help schools increase their enrollment numbers in this extremely competitive environment.
As many colleges work hard to attract students, we still find that many low-income students are not applying to college or are not completing their applications often because of application fees, admissions essays or other barriers. In an effort to increase college opportunities, especially for low-income students, there are a variety of experiments going on around the country to have colleges admits students who have not applied to the school.
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