<p>does anyone know of anyone getting accepted into princeton this early maybe under special circumstances? because someone at my school is claiming that they received an acceptance letter from princeton already after applying through mail but i didn't know it was even possible to find out this early.</p>
<p>I knew lots of people who claimed this stuff, with other schools like Harvard as well. I think it’s 100% false.</p>
<p>he may gave gotten a likely letter if he is a recruited athlete, but that pretty unlikely (ha!) this early in the year.</p>
<p>I’m fairly certain that you can’t apply by mail unless you do the Common App through mail, but I don’t see why your friend would want to do that. Plus, an acceptance in September? Sounds obviously fishy to me.</p>
<p>True acceptance letters do not come out this early.</p>
<p>By Ivy League agreement, likely letters cannot be sent out before October 1.</p>
<p>Do all Ivies send out likely letters? Even the traditionally highly selective HYP? I am curious to know…</p>
<p>Likely letters are sent out by Ivies to very highly recruited athletes (and the athlete will already have discussed the likely with the coach). A handful of academic likely letters may be sent by Ivies, but only to the top ten or so of 20,000 applicants.</p>
<p>my d got her likely last week, but she sent in common app in sept</p>
<p>How many days did it take from the time Princeton had a complete application to getting the likely?</p>
<p>@2924SW: Was that an academic likely or athletic likely?</p>
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Last year for my son it was about 30 days.</p>
<p>Sorry, I was talking about athletic likely letter right now (i.e. before early action or early decision deadlines at other schools).</p>
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<p>If your post is in response to mine: I too am talking about athletic likely letters. DS and coach mutually commited during summer; DS applied late Sept.; coach submitted letter of support to Admissions in early-mid Oct.; LL was postmarked 10/24 and was preceded by a phone call from a Dean of Admissions. Oddly perhaps, took his official visit late October.</p>
<p>This coach didn’t submit all letters of support at the same time; he sent them in batches throughout Sept.-Nov.</p>
<p>Good luck to your student/athlete.</p>
<p>Some girl at a local high school got recruited and signed a letter of intent to join Princeton’s Ice Hockey team.</p>
<p>I just have a general question about likelies; from what I have gathered, most schools (Pton included maybe, I forget) have said they don’t start looking at applications until the app deadline…</p>
<p>But if this is true, how can some of these recruited athletes be “pretty much admitted” already? So clearly they <em>do</em> start reviewing some cases early, I’m guessing? If so, wouldn’t it help by submitting the app early even if I’m not a recruited athlete because they seem to be reading some of them…?</p>
<p>Sorry, I’m just a bit confused here… 
Thanks for any help!</p>
<p>Sorry, there are no letter of intent at the Ivies. She may have gotten a likely letter, which is non-binding on the student’s part, unlike a Div. 1 letter of intent (incidentally, there are official NCAA signing periods, which at least for most sports if Nov. 11-18 for early signing period this year).</p>
<p>A highly ranked soccer player at my school is going to Yale. I guess he was recruited. He’s a smart kid too and amazing on the field.</p>
<p>The coach sends in his/her request for a likely letter for athlete X, and that gives admissions the signal to start reviewing athlete X’s application.</p>
<p>For non-athletic applications, I’m not sure if they actually do start looking at them early. I don’t really think it would give you a great advantage to submit your application super early. I’d suggest taking your time and submit an OUTSTANDING application, versus worrying about submitting one early. The benefits are much greater if you wait to submit and turn in a superior application than if you just churn out something to get it in, in the off-chance they MAY look at it early.</p>
<p>If he is a recruited athlete the head coach of the varsity team could have sent him a letter noting that a “strong flag” will be put in his application.
Each varsity team is allowed a certain number of flags of varying “strength”. So if the coach really wants him and has told him so he may be “in” already.
However official acceptances from the admissions office cannot be sent out this early.</p>