<p>Thanks, sybbie! :)</p>
<p>Calidan: Here's some info about likely letters. <a href="http://www.thedartmouth.com/article.php?aid=2005022401040%5B/url%5D">http://www.thedartmouth.com/article.php?aid=2005022401040</a> </p>
<p>I don't know the postmark, but the last round is early March.</p>
<p>Anyway, sybbie, thanks for your advice. I'm going to hold off on calls until I get home, check the mail, and I'll go from there. But for now, I'll be content. Woot! :D</p>
<p>haha i attend a private school... and i am DEFINITELY going. hope to meet some of you on that bus :)</p>
<p>I got an email too, but I haven't received a likely letter - which was why the whole "in light of the positive news" part really got my heart racing!! So this is definitely not sent to all applicants as a general promo for the college??</p>
<p>It is not. I confirmed that there ARE applicants who have not received the email, so it wasn't an accidental "send to all" blunder. If you got the email, I would say that you'll definitely be receiving a likely letter soon.</p>
<p>YAY then! I got an e-mail, but I hadn't gotten a letter, so I was a tad hesitant to celebrate just yet. I think maybe they don't have my correct address, because when I tried to sign up for the bus, it said I should also have received a web ID or somesuch in an earlier letter, and I didn't get that either. I'm going to call tomorrow, but for now, I'm just going to be really really happy, and a tiny bit confused (as in, why on earth would they send (or, say they sent) me a likely letter? I would have been shocked to be accepted at all!)</p>
<p>I got a likely but no e-mail -- I just checked.</p>
<p>Odd it is.</p>
<p>same here.</p>
<p>and my likely hadn't said anything about dimensions...</p>
<p>interesting.</p>
<p>the dimensions website says it's for admitted students... so i dont know?</p>
<p>-i hope i haven't gotten my hopes up for nothing :(</p>
<p>Did the ED acceptee crowd get the email? Are they invited too, including offers of rooming with D students? Any ED lurkers out there?</p>
<p>Ahh.... it sounds like SOMEONE screwed up SOMEHOW at Dartmouth. Hope that doesn't mean my email was a mistake!</p>
<p>fiesta- i'm sure they wouldn't have gotten your hopes up like that. and if they have, i dont want to go there anymore. because that would just be a not very nice thing to do.
but since i want to believe that they dont suck at life, i think you can start getting excited.</p>
<p>and sleet- i've heard that ed accepts don't get housing for dimensions, but they're fine to just come anyway. they just dont get formally invited.
but i can't go, so you can just be me...</p>
<p>Thanks for the generous offer--skyandsea--but I'm not with the ED crowd. I know last year the ED acceptees didn't get housing, but I was just wondering whether it was the same case this year.</p>
<p>Ok, my friend told me that Dartmouth sends out two versions of the likely letter. One says that your chances are "very likely" and gives detailed information about Dimensions of Dartmouth. The other says "no question" and doesn't give information.</p>
<p>I dunno, it's really strange... but I'm hoping for the best. Good luck to everyone else who's in the same boat as me!</p>
<p>technically... i still have not gotten a letter. i'm waiting for their "positive news"</p>
<p>Hey - I had posted earlier that I hadn't gotten my likely letter, but it just came in the mail!! =D</p>
<p>So those who've gotten the emails but not the letters, don't worry...the letter's coming soon!</p>
<p>Congrats twinkle.
Is anyone going to Bulldog Days before they head up to Hanover? I love how great missing so much school right before APs and not even caring is!</p>
<p>Congrats Twinkle and Cube.</p>
<p>The ED crowd normally is not invited to Dimensions because they have already committed to coming to Dartmouth. However, if you know someone at school who is willing to host you, you are more than welcomed to participate in all Dimension activities once you get there (they feel the more the merrier) . Many members of the freshmen class look forward to hosting prospective students so usually the school will send out a blitz (e-mail) asking who is willing to do so. Some of current Dartmouth students who post on the CC did avail themselves to hosting ED students (I know that I spoke with my D and her roommate and they are hosting 2 CC posters who are ED students for Dimensions). If you are paying your way anyway to Dartmouth and want to attend, call the admissions office to find out if they can find someone to host you (you have nothing to lose).</p>
<p>Some people get straight out invitations to Dimensions in thier likely letters. These invitations are budgeted into their recruitment events and part or all of the trip may be underwritten by the admissions office. The reason for straight out invitations could be as varied as making the visit to Dartmouth as affordable as possible to students who have great financial need and and the trip to Hanover may be a huge expense(especially flying across country), URM's which Dartmouth really want to attract to the campus, students which they really want ot woo into attending Dartmouth, and students with a close proximity to the campus (it's just as easy to bring a whole bus load of people from NYC as it is to bring a handful. </p>
<p>When my daughter was invited last year, they had buses that left NYC and the cost of the trip was $75 for the bus. In the regular RD lettere that come out on April 1, it states * All of us at Dartmouth hope you will visit campus during the month of April and take the opportunity to meet students and faculty, attend classes and stay overnight in the dorms. Surin the period from April 22 to April 25 (last year), we will sponsor a series of special programs to introduce admitted students to the academic and extracurricular life at the College.* So to that extend all RD students get invited.</p>
<p>I did not find this unususal as most people pay their own way to admitted students days any way. .(There are some whose have airline tickets that have been picked up. </p>
<p>I know that even with the DOC trips at the end of the summer any student recieving financial aid the school tries to help underwrite the trip, provide slepping bags and packs to students that do not own packs and chartered buses from the NYC/Boston area people who were interested in taking the bus to Hanover. These are usually the early DOC trips because students return home after the trip then come back for move in day where as students who travel a great distance are usually given later DOC trips so that they maydrop their stuff off before their trip begins and move in at the end of their DOC trip.</p>
<p>If you get the opportunity to attend Dimensions go. If you were invited, fine if your wern't you would still be welcomed.</p>
<p>oh the confusion. the mailman came and there was no letter. but i'm already set on that bus. sigh. what do y'all think--- should i wait and call tomorrow??</p>
<p>My friend got an email but no likely. She called the admissions office and they said they made a mistake. The emails weren't supposed to go out before the likely letters were received. They couldn't ell her she was accepted, though, because of the Ivy rule.</p>