<p>Based on past years' threads, that is. They will hopefully start arriving next week at least!
:)</p>
<p>whoa. :D</p>
<p>I agree. If any past early write recipients are reading this, could you please post your stats? Thanks.</p>
<p>Class of 2014 started finding out on 3/8 - <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/williams-college/830083-official-williams-college-class-2014-rd-applicants-8.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/williams-college/830083-official-williams-college-class-2014-rd-applicants-8.html</a>
Class of 2013 started finding out on ~2/27 - <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/williams-college/660002-regular-decision-early.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/williams-college/660002-regular-decision-early.html</a>
Class of 2012 started finding out on ~2/25 - <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/williams-college/466223-early-write-class-2012-a.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/williams-college/466223-early-write-class-2012-a.html</a>
Class of 2010 started going out on ~!3/1 - [Williams</a> Record ARCHIVES: February 22, 2006](<a href=“WRAPS organizes campus-wide food drive, adapts to COVID restrictions – The Williams Record”>WRAPS organizes campus-wide food drive, adapts to COVID restrictions – The Williams Record)
^ from that article
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<p>Just thought I’d post that to confirm that we should expect people to start getting early writes within the next 1-2 weeks.</p>
<p>did anyone get anything today?</p>
<p>Calm down, chile.</p>
<p>this is the only college I applied to that has admission decisions before march 30th…I will not calm down</p>
<p>Based on last year, it looks like they will start coming a week from today.</p>
<p>@justink, what do you mean? On the Williams website, it says decisions come out April 1.</p>
<p>Everyone has to remember, only a small percentage of students admitted to each college receive likelies. At the very least, usually 75% of kids admitted will NOT receive a likely letter, at many schools it can be up to 90% of admitted students.</p>
<p>Even if you aren’t admitted to Williams or your top choice school, being in this type of applicant pool, chances are you will be admitted to at least one or two schools (if not many more) that will satisfy your needs. Once you get above a certain point, the difference in resources between schools will not make a noticeable difference to an undergrad. You’re not performing too much ground-breaking research lol that’s more for grad students (that obvss doesn’t even apply to Williams).</p>
<p>^He/she means that Williams is the only school he/she applied to that extends early writes.</p>
<p>Oh, I kind of assumed that a lot of the other schools were probably Ivies since those are the schools that tend to release as late as March 30th. Ivies send out likelies.</p>
<p>I only applied to 3 ivies; one is Harvard, and I will not get anything near a likely letter, let alone that I probably won’t get in. The other is Columbia, who only gives likelies to SEAS and not CC applicants, and then Brown, which I’m not even sure if they do give likelies. </p>
<p>I my only chance for a likely letter is from Williams, and even that may be a stretch!</p>
<p>so yeah…</p>
<p>^You can get accepted to Williams and still not receive a likely letter. This is how most applicants to Williams are accepted. Likely letters are reserved for academic superstars and candidates deemed desirable by other proxies, like athletic ability or ethnicity. I took the liberty of perusing your various (and zealous, might I add) chance threads, and you are a fine candidate to Williams, but by your own confession you are hardly the candidate Harvard will be banging down the doors for. It is 100% possible that you will not receive a Williams likely letter, yet be accepted to Williams at the regular date. You should also rest easy knowing you will almost certainly be admitted to UVa and W&M, which are two excellent instate options; not every applicant is so lucky to have such a situation.</p>
<p>Do not add unnecessary stress and anxiety to your life by waiting for a likely letter that may never arrive, especially when (1) you don’t know when it should arrive and (2) your acceptance is not contingent on its arrival.</p>
<p>^ thanks I think?</p>
<p>Oh and I enjoy the suspense in waiting for a (potential, but maybe unlikely) likely letter…it has nothing to do with evoking unnecessary stress or anything like that, I just like knowing my acceptance may or may not be waiting when I get home from school each day!</p>
<p>From what I have seen, those who get early writes (they are not likely letters), are the ones that probably will be admitted to Ivies and other peer schools. Williams would like to get an advantage by admitting those students early and getting financial aid out.</p>
<p>Someone I know got accepted RD yesterday. So it’s official,
Class of 2015 start finding out on 2/28</p>
<p>This is pretty nerve-wracking for us lay people 
Why do I have to wait till a month later???</p>
<p>Is he/she an international applicant?</p>
<p>I received an e-mail from an admissions counselor saying that they loved my essay and thought I was a “marvelous” applicant. We’ve been talking, but I was wondering…</p>
<p>how common is this? Should I take it cum grano salis, as it were?</p>
<p>I think that it is a good sign, Kdurs11. I’d be very happy if I were you. I have no idea how common it is, though.</p>
<p>Sounds like you’re in like Flynn…</p>
<p>soo they haven’t been sent yet…?</p>