<p>a bunch of kids at my school claim to have gotten accepted to various ivy league schools this week such as upenn etc. </p>
<p>is this plausible? isn’t it too late for ed too early for regular? </p>
<p>what do you think?</p>
<p>Likely’D</p>
<p>Well in terms of Penn, I know the Nursing school released RD results a few days ago, so that may be true (if s/he applied to Nursing, that is… The other 3 schools are March 29).</p>
<p>hmm that would make sense, i think one person may have applied to nursing. do u know how selective the program is?
but the other people did not break 2000 on the sats, so likely letters aren’t …likely</p>
<p>3 of the colleges at Cornell do release RD decisions in mid February- This includes School of Industrial Labor Relations, CALS (college of Agriculture and Life Sciences) and Hotel.<br>
My “educated guess” is that they are allowed to do so prior to 4/1 as their is no comparable program in the Ivy League. The other 4 colleges at Cornell release decisions on 4/1–CAS, architecture, Human Ec and engineering.</p>
<p>Are uni acceptances always based on SAT grades in the US?
I highly doubt that SAT scores really determine how much you’ll succeed in Uni due to so many reasons i’m not even going to list.</p>
<p>Kind of random question, shuanggou, but to answer your question, no. Acceptances are based on a number of factors, the most important of which are SAT, GPA and transcript, and ECs.</p>
<p>There are a bunch of threads on this topic. You should do a search for them.</p>
<p>OP, some colleges send out likely letters. For UPenn, it’s already released decisions for its nursing school, as someone said before. (Although I’m not sure why.)</p>
<p>Nursing isn’t TOO selective, compared to the other Penn schools, although I’m sure it’s still relatively tough to get into… It is Penn after all.</p>
<p>honestly, i think they’re making it up. we had this happen at our school last year and this kid in my AP psych class said he’d gotten into princeton in early february. by august, he was enrolled at a local state school!</p>
<p>Just because you don’t end up enrolling doesn’t necessarily mean that you didn’t get in - If I am accepted to any ivies, I doubt I’ll be able to afford attendance.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure they’ve gotten likelies. From CC alone I’ve seen these ivies send out likelies: Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Columbia</p>
<p>Likely letters, possibly, but if they didn’t break 2000 on the SAT, it seems highly unlikely, but perhaps they are famous or rich or legacies or athletes? Who knows.</p>
<p>maybe they’re just lying. who knows.</p>
<p>Cornell’s Agricultural and Life Sciences college releases their decisions on a rolling basis, I think. I friend of mine got into CALS a few days ago.</p>
<p>what is a likely letter?
do international students get them?
what are they for, and what benefit does the college have for sending out likely letters? (we all know college is just a business, so let’s not pretend they’re trying to educate the future)</p>
<p>It’s a letter sent some time before the scheduled results-release date to students that colleges think are very likely to be admitted, providing that said students do not screw up their grades or get arrested for something. I do not know if internationals get likely letters, but an advantage of sending likely letters is that the college will have given a student it wants to have enroll more time to consider attending; likely letters usually attest to the college’s strengths and give reasons why it should be chosen before the student is actually even accepted.</p>
<p>And about UPenn, yeah, their School of Nursing just sent out admission decisions, so the braggarts in the OP might be for real. Don’t have any comments about the person who got into Princeton in February, though. o_0</p>
<p>Last year a girl (international) from my school said that she got a likely letter from Penn in about February…either she lied, or misunderstood the letter, cause she’s now at a local college. And my guess is if you’re good enough to get a likely from Penn, you’re good enough to get into a lot of places…so…</p>
<p>My friend got accepted to Dartmouth last week. The ivies do send acceptances early if they receive an exceptional application.</p>