<p>Hey all, just some questions, I hope Byerly gets on this, he seems to know so damn much haha</p>
<p>1) Who recieves likely letters?
2) When do they get mailed out?
3) What Ivies send likely letters?</p>
<p>your help would be much appreciated.
peace.</p>
<p>jeez, we just had a 5+ page thread devoted to EXACTLY what you’re asking…try scrolling down, buddy</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=26920[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=26920</a></p>
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<li><p>Recruited athletes, desirable URMs, superstar scholars, and people with special talents all receive likely letters.</p></li>
<li><p>Schools follow different practices. For most recruited athletes, they have been sent already for RD applicants; many recruited athletes who applied EA or ED got likely letters in the late fall to “insulate” them from the need to sign “Letters of commitment” with athletic scholarship granting schools. </p></li>
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<p>Some schools send out the RD likely letters in “waves” in late January or mid-February, etc, and other send them out just as soon as they spot a desirable candidate whose application has been stuck in the “clear admit” file.</p>
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<li>All Ivies send likely letters. They will all say they’re doing it because the “other schools” are doing it. The device is intended to finesse the Ivy rule that all admission letters be sent on or about April 1. The hope is to get a leg up on the competition by being the first to “declare your love” for desirable candidates.</li>
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<p>thanks for holdin it down B</p>
<p>Is Byerly the new Zuma? No one can replace ZUMA!</p>
<p>where did Zuma go?</p>
<p>is it true that yale’s beginning to send out more of these letters to students who’re good at science/math/research to boost their science depts and do away with the notion that yale is just a humanities school?</p>
<p>why would they wanna do that? humanities is where its at!!! science, pssshh :p</p>
<p>to mit_hopefulgirl: I wouldn’t be surprised if that were true. Yale’s working hard to change it’s image as being the “fuzziest” (read: most humanities-centric) among HYPS.</p>
<p>Yes, note that tours make an obvious first stop at the engineering school’s new billion dollar building or whatever—that’s a disproprtionate amount to spend on a department with only 3% majoring in it, if the goal were not to up the eng. school. (Yale’s is currently ranked pretty low, like #30 or some such.)There was some big meeting among Ivy deans last year regarding the need to “offer education that society is demanding”…Engineering is definitely a hook at Yale, and even moreso for a female.</p>
<p>But then again, Yale’s pure science courses are much better than the engineering ones right?</p>
<p>And for “likely letters”, how many are they sending out this year? is 100 or so, or 400++ as what some claim?</p>
<p>I don’t think they release the info on how many they send, but probably safe to say that it’s between 100 and 400 :D</p>
<p>mit_hopefulgirl: I think so. I know Yale is good for the pure sciences, but I’ve never heard anything about Yale and engineering. Me not hearing anything probably means that the engineering program at Yale is not quite as good as the engineering programs at comparable schools like Princeton, Columbia, and MIT.</p>