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A letter of inquiry is a formal approach to a company that deals with operations or business lines such as: job vacancies, funding, grants, scholarships, projects, sales, pre-proposals, and others. Today it may be a survey with different social media purposes versus a formality letter of decades past. Such letters are still used as social media has changed the way we all communicate far more effectively.All the best!

In response to your A2A: it depends. Can the student get admitted? I will assume that by “poor” you mean in need of financial assistance and not performing poorly in school.Admission to Harvard and any of the Ivies and elite universities or colleges, requires more than just good grades in hard courses, excellent test scores, and top quality extracurricular activities. There needs to be a good narrative, good personal essays and strong recommendation letters. For the most selective of the colleges, it is almost a roulette wheel of other unknown factors about what the field for that year’s applying freshmen can bring to the college. You have no control over those factors, e.g. the roulette wheel metaphor.If the student can get in, then Harvard and about 74–85 other colleges will pay up to between 90% to 100% of the student’s financial need. Depending on how much that “need” is (the amount above the EFC - Expected Family Contribution - and the cost of college), then maybe the student can attend for “free”.Though the student and family need to look at the financial aid award as in most cases it will include some student loans - so be careful. The formula for no loans versus some loans is often based on family income, number of siblings, age of parents, and other factors. There will probably be a difference in the loan to scholarship ratio between a family income of $50,000 and one of $25,000 - though both need full financial assistance for a college education that costs $65,000 per year.But the student should consult with a good college counselor, beginning at least 10th or 11th grade at the latest (preferably earlier) about colleges, and test preparation and all of the other factors briefly mentioned above and in the other answers - including extra curricular activities that match the student’s interests - not activities to please a college. Harvard is just one of those 75 -85 excellent colleges or universities that will match almost or all of financial need. The student might find a better fit elsewhere and get that “free” education they need.There are other options as well - but that needs the consultation with a trained and experienced college counselor. Your question reminds me of a recent article in Slate magazine where the parent writing the article bragged about dashing her daughter’s dreams about art and graphics training and bad mouthed the college counselor at the daughter’s school. The author was focused on ROI and cost of college and her belief that there were no careers in graphics and art.It is imperative that the student and their family not destroy themselves financially, but no where in the Slate article was there an oz. of actual financial analysis or inquiry on college scholarships, just a straight ahead - go low cost and find a major that pays. Instead of college and career counseling and discovering what financial resources were possible, the parent assumed they knew all of the answers.Don’t be that student - the cheapest options for college are often the best colleges, as they have larger endowments and therefore more money for scholarships. Consult with a real expert, not just a fearful parent, and test the options. That free or nearly free education might just be waiting for you. But you will have to cultivate that field of your studies now - during middle and high school.Best wishes.

God, I loved the Verbal section then. Maths sections were uber easy except for maybe 1 or 2 questions in each section.Loved the reading passages and as well the analogies and antonyms. Even a 2 week prep, which is all that I did, opened a whole new world to me.As a jock who had never studied 1 minute in my life, if I hadn't taken the SAT I would be illiterate still.You see I was a cricket player who did nothing but play, practise, dream cricket for years by then. Waking, sleeping, getting up, in school, cricket was all that I thought of. I either played it, or dreamed about it.So the chance encounter with the SAT opened my eyes to a whole new world.The average scores then were much lower - my guess is about 150–200 lower then. You simply cannot compare the scores from them with now. The only thing you can compare are percentile rankings.From Barrons Handbook of American colleges, circa 1982:MIT’s average enterimg score in 1981 was 600 Verbal and 750 Maths. Caltech was 670 Verbal and 770 Maths. No other school except Harvey Mudd had an average entering score of more than 1300.Harvard was 650 Verbal and 650 Maths. Rice was 610 Verbal and 690 Maths. They were the only 2 others that reached 1300.All other schools had average entering scores combined less than 1300. Usually around 1200–1240. This included Stanford, Columbia, Chicago, Williams College etc etc.Percentile rankings were therefore very different. A 650 Verbal was 99th percentile. A 750 Maths was 99+ pecentile.And I vividly recall an Ivy League school I applied to and got accepted into showing my SAT scores in comparison with their entering freshmen for the previous year.It was 59% percentile Verbal and 79% Math. The ETS showed your percentile rankings compared to the average entering freshmen scores.So the test results slip you got showed not just the overall percentage rankings but against each school you applied to - asuming the school had shared the information with the ETS.At my school no one had even heard of the SAT. Some students did sit it privately after prepping for a year or a few months.In my case it was approximately 2 weeks. And it is the first time I applied myself.As opposed to the rote memorisation and regurgitation my state school specialised in, the SAT was the first time I actually had to employ my brain to come up with answers. So I enjoyed it immensely.It seemed like fun sport to me, as opposed to the meanigless tedium of education as handed out to us.The funniest incident happened when I sent inquiry letters to colleges that I considered compatible based on my SAT scores. I looked up “Most competitive” colleges to get into as described in the Barrons Handbook and sent them letters. As a foreign student applying for financial aid and scholarships it was not going to be easy…The funniest reply was a letter from Bryn Mawr college in Pennsylvania:It began“Dear Miss Afaf,We are delighted to hear of your interest. With your outstanding SAT scores and interests we would strongly encourage you to apply for a full academic scholarship. We are very confident that if you made a formal application you have a very high chance of… “It was the nicest, most encouraging letter I have ever received in my life, then or now. But of course I didn't really know what Bryn Mawr was. And Brywn Mawr didn't know who I was. Which was the wrong gender…We did laugh as to what would happen if I showed up in drag having secured the scholarship…Bryn Mawr College - WikipediaBryn Mawr College ( / ˌ b r ɪ n ˈ m ɑː r / brin- MAR ; Welsh : [ˌbɾɨ̞nˈmau̯ɾ] ) [7] is a women's liberal arts college in Bryn Mawr , Pennsylvania . Founded as a Quaker institution in 1885, Bryn Mawr is one of the Seven Sister colleges and the Tri-College Consortium . The college has an enrollment of about 1,350 undergraduate students and 450 graduate students . It was the first women's college to offer graduate education through a PhD. [8] Bryn Mawr College Motto Veritatem Dilexi ( Latin ) Motto in English I Delight in the Truth Type Private liberal arts college Women's college Established 1885 ; 136 years ago ( 1885 ) Affiliation None, formerly Quaker Endowment $887.8 million (2020) [1] President Kimberly Wright Cassidy [2] Academic staff 160 full-time, 41 part-time (2019) [3] Students 1,719 (Fall 2019) [4] Undergraduates 1,384 (Fall 2019) [4] Postgraduates 335 (Fall 2019) [4] Location , , United States Campus Suburban, 135 acres (55 ha) Colors Yellow and black [5] Athletics NCAA Division III – Centennial Conference Affiliations Seven Sisters CLAC Oberlin Group Annapolis Group WCC Mascot Owl Website www .brynmawr .edu Bryn Mawr College Historic District Show map of the United States Location Morris Ave., Yarrow St. and New Gulph Rd., Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania , USA Coordinates 40°1′35″N 75°18′49″W  /  40.02639°N 75.31361°W  / 40.02639; -75.31361 Coordinates : 40°1′35″N 75°18′49″W  /  40.02639°N 75.31361°W  / 40.02639; -75.31361 Area 49 acres (20 ha) Built 1885 Architect Multiple Architectural style Late Gothic Revival , Gothic, Collegiate Gothic NRHP reference No. 79002299 [6] Added to NRHP May 4, 1979 Bryn Mawr College is a private women's liberal arts college founded in 1885. The phrase bryn mawr means "large hill" in Welsh , [9] literally "hill (bryn) large (mawr)". The Graduate School is co-educational. It is named after the town of Bryn Mawr , in which the campus is located, which had been renamed by a representative of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Bryn Mawr was the name of an area estate granted to Rowland Ellis by William Penn in the 1680s. Ellis's former home, also called Bryn Mawr, was a house near Dolgellau , Merioneth , Gwynedd , Wales . The College was largely founded through the bequest of Joseph W. Taylor , and its first president was James Rhoads . Bryn Mawr was one of the first institutions of higher education in the United States to offer graduate degrees, including doctorates , to women. The first class included 36 undergraduate women and eight graduate students. Bryn Mawr was originally affiliated with the Quakers (Religious Society of Friends), but by 1893 had become non-denominational. In 1912, Bryn Mawr became the first college in the United States to offer doctorates in social work , through the Department of Social Economy and Social Research. This department became the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research in 1970. In 1931, Bryn Mawr began accepting men as graduate students, while remaining women-only athttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryn_Mawr_CollegeNow after I got my SAT scores, I compared to colleges with similar scores. But they all required something called “Achievement Tests. “ These were subjects tests. When I picked up the prep books I realised they actually required subject knowledge! But I knew nothing…Zilch.So I had to teach myself Maths and Physics from those prep books. You could take up to 3 Achievement tests on the same day so I sat them twice. Apart from Maths Level 1, Maths Level 2, Physics etc, I randomly took English Literature as fill in and guessed my way through. And I enjoyed that the most. The score that came out surprised both me and others.The other bizarre thing is that if you got above certain SAT scores you qualified for MENSA!It seemed totally pointless to me so I never applied. I don't recall if I received a letter from MENSA saying I had qualified. But I know I could have. But even then, as a young teenager, I could tell the whole MENSA thing was just a pointless self congratulatory narcissistic set up.The funny thing is that after getting into college in the US I decided to take the General GRE years ahead of the date I was supposed to enter graduate school. Strangely I found the GRE much less challenging and much more boring. It was easy to get 800 or near 800 in each of the 3 sections.Dead boring. Unlike the SAT….