Mass e-mail or individual interest

Mass e-mail. Believe it or not, Stanford casts a very wide net. Also all the boys on my sons team received something similar. Stanford has several camps to fill!

I can't remember what the number was....I think someone posted it about this time last year....but they send that email to ALOT of kids.  We are in Ohio...and nearly every kid my son has ever played travel ball with got that letter the fall of their junior year....lol

We received that exact email early this summer and just last week received another just talking about whats going on with the program. No camp invite just info. 

If you think your son fits the Stanford profile be sure to fill out the forms. He should be in the top 5% of his class academically and end up being one of the top 250 kids in the US athletically in his position. As others have said they cast a wide net early but it keeps filtering down until they pick the 10 or so kids who get to attend the school and make the team. There are some posters here who's kids have played there so it happens. 

One clue: is there an Unsubscribe link at the bottom of the email? That tells you that the sender has used a 3rd party email service provider (ESP) to deliver the mail. Senders will use an ESP for two reasons: (1) it's pretty damn easy to send an email to a large DB, and (2) they can track who opened the email and who clicked on the email.

Now a sender can personalize email sent via an ESP, but only to the degree that it merges data into the email template, and that normally is the first name, last name. You can get creative with personalization, e.g., HS name, position, summer team, etc. But it takes some work to personalize full sentences and paragraphs: not impossible, but not worth the effort.

So as you receive these emails, bear in mind that the sender can track your response, thus if the sender is one of your targeted schools, you'll definitely want to open and click.

My 2016 son got a hand signed letter from them in the mail the first week in September.  Any difference?  He's in the top 2% of his class of 650 students and attended a camp there last Christmas.

Stanford casts a wide net and then narrows down from there.