<p>Hi, I heard from a neighbor who claimed that he got several acceptance letters from top 10 BS already. Sounds a bit incredible - but is this done by top 10 BS? </p>
<p>I thought all the formal decisions are made and informed on March 10th, but now I wonder if the top candidates get notices before the date?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>I don't believe that lol
What schools?</p>
<p>That sounds like a load of you know what....</p>
<p>Admission letters? I don't think so, in part because many (most?) of the top schools have agreed to certain restraints on their behavior, which restrict notification of applicants to March 10th. In part, this makes sense for the top schools, as many of the best candidates apply to a number of schools.</p>
<p>However, in college admissions, colleges send out what are termed "likely letters" to candidates likely to be accepted. They send out very few, and they accept scads of people who never receive a "likely letter." </p>
<p>I don't know if boarding schools do this, so I suppose I'd appeal to others, if they've ever heard of it?</p>
<p>Every school we visited (12 of them) said March 10 and not a second earlier under any circumstances.</p>
<p>My son received a "likely" e-mail. In it, he was told congrats and it's up to fa now. This was sometime in February.</p>
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My son received a "likely" e-mail. In it, he was told congrats and it's up to fa now. This was sometime in February.
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Wow, I'm surprised.</p>
<p>If this "likely" email came from one of the Ten Schools Organization schools they have broken the code set forth to insure fairness. This is important because if they wanted AESD could cherry pick the top 3500 applicants with ED promises.It would weaken the community and widen the have-havenots among boarding schools.</p>
<p>Hi capriatifan, my neighbor's son is applying to Andover, Exeter, Groton!</p>
<p>melamede: i doubt that this is true. although i dont know much about keylyme's "likely", what i do know is that the schools probably haven't reviewed all their applicants yet. if there is a limit to the number of students that they can admit, and they havent reviewed them all yet, how do they know that the remaining unreviewed applicants arent all fabulous genius kids with amazing skills and personalities? unikely i know but still. maybe your neighbour got a "likely" letter, like keylyme's son.</p>
<p>I agree that this early in the game, the apps have not all been reviewed. We heard at the very end of February, and it wasn't "official".....just an e-mail from someone at the school letting us know that the app had gone on to fa and everything looked great. (Obviously, if it had gone one to fa....he had passed the "admissions" hurdle). Our situation was a bit unique, though.
Also, not a TSAO school. But....I think even with those schools.....you have a pretty good idea, particularly if you are a recruited athlete with excellent scores, grades, letters, etc.</p>
<p>Can't speak for the TSAO but many of the rest of us are on rolling admissions and will let students know their admission status as soon as we can. No reason to prolong the anxiety.</p>
<p>All the schools we interviewed at - of the 12, 9 of them are non-TSAO and of those 9 at least 7 of them state they are on a "rolling admissions." However, they ALL still say March 10 for a notification date. It could be because they are all also in New England and have an agreement (possibly informal) with each other.<br>
Since 4 of the schools we are applying to fall in the non-TSAO catagory with rolling admissions, I sure hope they let us know prior to 3/10, but I'm not counting on it.</p>
<p>I have been following this board for almost 2 years now. In that time, I only remember people posting about 2 likely letters, and both were sent a few weeks before March 10th. One was from Choate congratulating someone for getting all 99s on the SSAT, and referring him to someone like the Dean of Academics to learn more about the challenges they offer. If my memory is correct, the second one was also from Choate, letting one of last year's candidates know that she had nominated for a specific scholarship. Neither letter said that the candidate had been accepted. The majority of applicants Choate accepted did not get any likely letters.</p>
<p>Is a likely letter a letter that congratulates you for your SSAT score?
Because I got one from Hill...
but I don't think that it is a likely letter...</p>
<p>I don't think you can consider it to be a likely letter until it is close to March 10th. For those of you reading this, please don't panic if you don't get a likely letter. As I said above, I have only heard of 2 cases posted on this board over a 2 year period. Actually, make that 3 based on Keylme's post on her son getting one.</p>
<p>Some schools send out letters to all applicants who score high on the SSAT. I think it indicates interest in applicants with high SSAT scores, but is not an indication of acceptance. At this point, they probably have not even read your application.</p>
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This one gave me a chuckle since most of the non-TSAO schools have 2/1 deadlines.....
One of the TSAO schools told me they start reading them 1/18, but that would just mean that they have started the first round of the reads.</p>