Apply to our Math (WOW AWESOME) Finance (awww) program

[tydil]

I signed up to let other universities see my general GRE scores and the emails from top-notch places around the country still aren't slowing down. The emails all read similarly:

From the admissions office of (examples include all the math dream schools you could imagine: Berkley, Columbia, Cornell, NYU, Stanford)

We saw your GRE scores and suggest you apply for the Math Finance program at our super-duper-so-great-you-didn't-even-bother-to-apply-because-you-won't-get-in school.

Sign,

The people you'll always be jealous of

I read these emails and get excited when I see the word Math, but then that Finance word brings me back down. The emails are providing encouragement for some of my friends who want to study math finance at these schools, but they're taunting me. Just wanted to know if anyone is feeling the same way.

Note: verbal 520, quant: 790. (as far as I've seen, it's no big deal).

[indydream]

I am in a different field, but this is the story of my life. On a similar note, I keep getting emails from admissions@genericgradschoolemail.com with the first line being "Congratulations!" - and my heart leaps as I imagine I've been accepted somewhere, only to find out they are telling me "Congratulations, we'd like to invite you to apply to our MA program!" (I am applying to PhD programs in a field where a masters is essentially worthless).

Also, I accidentally checked the "life sciences" box, so I keep getting emails to apply to bizarre biology programs, which I'm sure are very interesting to some people, but it's not my field at all

[tydil]

"They" either found out I studied economics also or I told them, but I get plenty of emails from business schools. I have to admit the Hult International Business School makes some impressive offers. Their most recent email offered me an ipad...Yeah it's nothing like what I want to do with my life but hey, free ipad.