A student at our HS received a Likely Letter to an Ivy last week. I guess selection is now under way!
which school? how? did she/he/they have a hook? were they an athlete? congrats to the student!
The student would have to be a recruited athlete. The ivies have not even opened their applications yet.
Wake Forest has already accepted ED students for the class of 2022.
These early actions immediately increase the pressure on every other kid in the school who now feels a step behind.
Wake Forest is not an Ivy.
Currently the Ivys are doing preread for likely letter, so that student may have received a “positive” preread email from the coach for the likely letter. Accordimg to the Ivy league regulation, it is my understanding that no Lilely Letter will be issued before Oct 1.
TomSr, Wake’s inclusion was in response to the OP’s comment that “selection is underway”. It has definitely started, and in more advanced ways than just a letter. The thread isn’t by title an Ivy discussion. The inclusion of the Ivy reference could have been any conference.
To my earlier point, as @justverycurious points out, it is most likely not a Likely Letter, but the hopeful embellishment by someone suggesting to their classmates that they already have a spot at an Ivy. School’s are playing with students, who in turn add pressure to other kids who unknowingly begin to believe they are somehow behind in the applications process. That’s wrong IMO.
““positive” preread email from the coach for the likely letter.”
That may be correct. I did not see the letter. It may not be a Likely. I assumed that. I know the parent. They know the process well and have another student-athlete at a top school, but this one is better.
In this case, I suspect that the school is a fortunate to get a student-athlete who is putting their education ahead of attending the best school they could attend for their sport.
In our HS, three years ago, it was well-known when she was a high school junior that an athlete would be going to Penn. She is indeed at Penn. I suspect this is a similar scenario.
@Lindagaf It seems UPenn coaches tend to let their recruits know earlier than other Ivy’s of their intention to recruit and commit.
In my son’s sport, two of his friends were committed to Penn in March and April of their junior year with an email from their coach stating that they had a positive preread from their adcom. The Ivy coach for my son’s school didn’t do prereads until the mid summer.
@Lindagaf - there is a rising senior at our school who has been “going to Brown” for a while (a year or two). Occasionally I think personal relationships can play into this.
Four years ago this week I was having breakfast with a colleague whose son was a rising senior. I asked him how the search was going, and he said they were completed: his son was going to Stanford. I obviously responded with a suggestion that it might be a bit aggressive to confidently say such things, and he explained…
His son is a great kid: a very good student, and a very good athlete. As a young player, he attended sports camps, where he interacted with the coach at a school about as far from Stanford as you can get. The coach told him “when you’re ready for college, I will have a spot for you”. That coach goes on to get a job at Stanford. Promise delivered.
A perfect example of how it’s never too early to be a nice person, and that some kids will have special circumstances that make the impossible possible.
A rising senior we have known since kindy recently completed in the world championships in her sport. She placed 10th in the world and was the only under 18 invited. She also has a 1400+ SAT and the grades to match.
She’s been contacted by at least the top 20 colleges in her sport and likely letters aren’t even in her vocabulary. It’s more than “likely” she can go anywhere she wants.
Many athletes commit to a school as early as sophomore year. For Ivies, they are ‘committing to the process’ but if the coach wants them and they have the stats to be in the admissions pool and they aren’t dependent on a certain FA package, they are pretty confident that’s where they are going.