<p>The CSS email?</p>
<p>No likely letter, no CSS email, no nothing… looks like I can give up my hope on Dartmouth now.</p>
<p>Anyone who is assuming that this letter indicates admission, keep in mind that they’re asking for clarification, if his CSS had been completely understandable he wouldn’t have got this letter. Thus, just because you didn’t get one doesn’t mean you aren’t in the same imaginary category as OP.</p>
<p>So are u guys sure Dartmouth doesn’t put together FA packages for everyone? I thought FA and Admissions were completely separate.</p>
<p>Dartmouth’s official position is that they do create packages for all FA applicants, everything said here is just guesswork.</p>
<p>Not sure about Dartmouth as many posters seem to think otherwise. However asking for clarifications for only potential admit will go against the need blind policy IMO.</p>
<p>MIT seems to think so as well.</p>
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<p>I’m a student employee at the admissions office, and although we work in the same building as financial aid, I haven’t seen any indication of coordination between the two groups. We have different reception staff and the backend staff work in completely different rooms. Admissions and financial aid officers might know each other, but don’t work together day to day. If there’s any coordination, it’s quite secret and unknown to me.</p>
<p>Thank you johnleemk. I guess everyone is hoping for some indication of favorable candidacy. </p>
<p>As some poster said in a similar thread on the Harvard Forum, don’t mistake a wink for an invitation to bed. :D</p>
<p>What is a “likely” letter? Thanks. My daughter is junior in HS and I was just reading this thread. Thanks.</p>
<p>It is a letter to tell you that you will have a spot from school’s admission office. They tell you early so that you will have less stress and they will send in an official admission letter to you when it is a decision day. Basically, you are in and you are the lucky one! So, it is a very good thing.</p>
<p>All I can say is that in March of 08 we got an inquiry about some details for FA, and my son was admitted a week or two later. I recall posting a very similar inquiry.</p>
<p>I got one today, 9 days before admissions results. Has to be a good sign, right?!</p>
<p>I actually got two personalized emails, for what it’s worth.</p>
<p>If anyone was wondering, I got contacted for financial aid clarification in early March and was accepted to Dartmouth today.</p>
<p>I posted in the thread I started on this matter as well:
Like Smile99, I was contacted for financial clarifications and was accepted to Dartmouth. </p>
<p>And for what it’s worth, the exact same thing happened with Swarthmore.</p>
<p>haha…I got in too. It was indeed a good sign :)</p>