<p>my friend, also a rickoid, got his acceptance letter from Yale today. It wasn't a likely letter. It was very strange, but congrats to him :)</p>
<p>I wonder if anyone else on here received it</p>
<p>r u going to MIT staticsoliloquy b/c i know u went to RSI which makes u automatically accepted to MIT or are u a senior in high school and when did u attend RSI?</p>
<p>i'm an rsi04, and i don't know if i got into mit or not :)...even rickoids are scared of the admission process and nothing's ever automatic.</p>
<p>what's a rickoid?</p>
<p>nope :( not as special and you and your friend.. no RSI for Canadians.</p>
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Are you sure? Rickoid or not, it would be strange indeed, since it sounds like a violation of Ivy League agreements.</p>
<p>what is the ivy league agreement? can someone elaborate?</p>
<p>See <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:6_G4glcfpWkJ:www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/faqs/admissions/app_pols/joint-ivy-statement.pdf+common+ivy+group+admissions+procedure&hl=en&client=safari%5B/url%5D">http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:6_G4glcfpWkJ:www.admissions.college.harvard.edu/faqs/admissions/app_pols/joint-ivy-statement.pdf+common+ivy+group+admissions+procedure&hl=en&client=safari</a>, especially point #4, on the Common Notification Date. (If the link doesn't work, try a Google search for "Common Ivy Group Admission Procedure.")</p>
<p>interesting...maybe he was a special case? maybe they wanted him so bad?</p>
<p>Does he have like every possible hook?</p>
<p>The "special cases" are supposed to get likely letters. Are you positive that's not what your friend received? The rules seem so clear that it's hard to imagine Yale sending an out-and-out acceptance at this time. :confused:</p>
<p>To return to the original question, has anyone else received one?</p>
<p>What's a "rickoid"?</p>
<p>hey wmgan (long time no see!) - a Rickoid is a Research Science Institute (RSI@MIT) participant.</p>
<p>huh that's so strange... my likely letter said that the official letter will be sent in april - so why are official letters coming out now?</p>
<p>Btw, RSI is not guaranteed admission to MIT (especially internationals). It's a big hook though.</p>
<p>Maybe he got tagged by Skull and Bones or something</p>
<p>if the OP's friend did really receive something, it was probably a likely letter. I very very highly doubt that yale -- or any ivy school -- would stray from the commony ivy group policy. They just don't do that!</p>
<p>I know someone who says he was accepted too, but his home "dot" doesn't appear on the yale admitted students map like my dot does.</p>
<p>I imagine it was a "likely" letter but it means the same thing. See an earlier thread where the recipient of a "likely" letter posted the contents of his letter. Congratulations!</p>