<p>No likely letters are given to the strongest applicants, people who get straight A's (maybe one or two B's) all four years, not just senior year. I doubt a deferred applicant falls into that category.</p>
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<p>Though I wouldn't say it's impossible.</p>
<p>okay, so you disagree if it is someone with improved good grades only. What if a 2000 deferred student with awesome GPA and ec's jumps to a 2300?</p>
<p>Thinking about it... An acceptance, maybe. A likely letter, highly doubtful.</p>
<p>w/e... but, someone please post if you know someone who did get deferred and then get a likely.</p>
<p>I was thinking that it could be possible, because of a rumor I had heard that for some deferred applicants, the second they defer them, they already have them marked to be accepted regular decision. This happens when some schools want to play with the numbers, and make it look like their ED acceptance rate is not extremely higher than their RD acceptance rate. (<em>cough</em> Penn <em>cough</em>). Also another peculiar one is MIT, who had a lower acceptance rate EA last year than it's RD rate. In fact, I've heard that if you are deferred from MIT, your chances actually go up! (less than a percent i think). So, if it is reported at other schools maybe it happens at Dartmouth too!</p>
<p>omg have any southern ppl received likely letters? so far i've only read northern, east and west-coasters getting them
i'm from texas and i've received likely letters from uva, rice, and i was accepted early by vandy for rd. i am somewhat spastic right now b/c i didnt know dartmouth also sent likely letters!!
does anyone know how much sway interviewers have over admission to the school? my interviewer said he'd try to help me as much as he could after my interview was over. i want a likely letter soo badly!!</p>
<p>i got a likely, and Im from Virginia (i still consider it the south). Its an acceptance right? its says no question, right? idk. i don't have high SATs so there are some hope for people like me. i got into vandi to mismi, but not uva, and im from virginia</p>
<p>well, the likely letter to uva means probably ill get in, but not definitely. you'll probably get into uva if you're into dartmouth though..only about 8% of uva applicants get likely letters (i am not a nerd for knowing this...really). you definitely still have a great chance to get in.
and yes, virginia is southern--more southern than texas, even though geographically we're more southern. i mean, we have a different legacy, since we were a country that didn't do much in the civil war.
anyways, i hope hope hope i get a dartmouth letter soooon</p>
<p>This is the first time I've heard of the 'likely scenario'.</p>
<p>I see that Columbia does it too.</p>
<p>I haven't seen anything like this in the HYP threads. Do they do it?</p>
<p>^ Yale does.</p>
<p>can internationals get likelies too?</p>
<p>D applied RD and am assuming ( you know what they say about that word) and has not received a likely letter. We are from the Atlanta area. Based upon what I have seen in this thread, I am beginning to think if applicant has not received a ll then chances are very slim for admissions. I hope for the sake of everyone on this thread I am wrong. D' stats are within range for Dartmouth x/that SAT's are slightly below 1400 ( CR+M). </p>
<p>She has also applied to Cornell-no LL from there either. Both kids ( twins) are weighting for the Vandy decisions. I would hope that some kids from the South would get ll letters from Dartmouth soon.</p>
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<p>Not true. Not true. Not true.</p>
<p>Most admitted applicants do not receive likely letters.</p>
<p>Many students from the northeast received ll's from Dartmouth already.... some kids from my school with 800's on CR/M, and good EC's didn't.....</p>
<p>Georgiatwins, read Sybbie's posts on this thread(she is the resident expert adult on here). Only about 500 of the roughly 2000 accepted applicants will get one---that's only a quarter of the yeses they give out.</p>
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<p>Er, it's kind of silly to draw conclusions from the few people on this thread who have received likely letters. They are stellar students that Dartmouth may not want to lose to other schools (ie. Harvard, Princeton).</p>
<p>Out of the 2000-ish students that Dartmouth accepts, only a couple hundred receive likely letters.
Relax.</p>
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<p>And that's the secret. CC people are very very special. </p>
<p>Again, "Out of the 2000-ish students that Dartmouth accepts, only a couple hundred receive likely letters.
Relax."</p>
<p>Gosh eaglet, </p>
<p>The pressure, the pressure</p>
<p>One more time gang...</p>
<p>** The overwhelming majority of students admitted during the RD cycle will not receive likely letters**</p>
<p>As I stated in one of the previous postings; likely letters are a 2-edged sword. I know the likely letters are suppose to a stress reliever, but I think that the process creates more stress than it relieves. </p>
<p>If you have not received one yet, it does not mean that you won't get one or you have a slim chance of being admitted as the process is not over yet. The mailing of likely letters are not finished yet (as the process goes on until ~ mid march).</p>
<p>Take a deep breath and have faith in the process that when all of this is over and done that you will end up where you need to be.</p>
<p>to Georgiatwins: does cornell even give out likely letters? they seemed to be pretty late in even processing the application materials b/c by the time when they finally posted application status on their web site (mid-Feb.), some other schools had already sent out their ll's</p>
<p>So I have a question....</p>
<p>... does Dartmouth really give out likely letters to students who Dartmouth believes are competitive students at other institutions (other ivy schools)? Any insight?</p>