Do likely letters from elsewhere correlate with Yale acceptance?

Confucian
Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:53:22 +0000

lolToasty:

I’m in the same position as you, also a Yale deferee, also wondering if/hoping that LLs from a couple (roughly) peer schools foreshadow good news come April.

entomom:

I joined CC last year, and as a junior I rarely heard anything at all about likely letters, I thought they were just formalities for a few athletes. As a senior going through the process this year, yes, it definitely seems like LLs dominate much of the talk in Feb-March, and they seem fairly widespread even among non-athletes. I don’t know whether this is indicative of a larger trend, though, or it is just because of my perspective as an applicant.