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<p>As early as august?! Talk about ENJOYING senior year!</p>
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I have never heard of such a thing happening.</p>
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<p>That’s because it didn’t happen. The only things Harvard send out before the designated Ivy League decisions day are likely letters.</p>
<p>But Harvard and Princeton do give the athletes their financial aid package along with the likely. This may appear to some as the above-mentioned “full” acceptance. Earlier a poster said the EA is binding on the college and a likely is not. Several responders disagreed. Early action does bind the college, not the student, more so than a likely. But as we all know, an acceptance may be rescinded for cause. A likely is more flexible. I know of an athletic recruit that just had her likely withdrawn by an lac, and not due to any action o r inaction by her.</p>
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I applied RD to Harvard and have a pretty amazing SPORTS record. I am a National Sports Scholar in India and am the State Captain of the TT team. I have mentioned all this in my App, however, I did not separately apply for athletic recruitment. Do I qualify for this debate?</p>
<p>^Same, with another sport though. But no, you don’t qualify unless you submit a sports supplement. Also, the recruiting process finished way back. (That’s what I heard from yale when I asked in October.)</p>
<p>Ivy Likely Letters can not be sent before October 1. The LA recruit must have gotten a very unofficial communication from Harvard athletics, not Harvard admissions.</p>
<p>Collegebeckons: likely letters go out to athletes that Harvard wants/i.e. recruits for. TT isn’t one of them.</p>
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<p>I don’t think Stanford has ED for most applicants, but I don’t know how the process is for athletes. I DO have a friend (one grade above me) who got “into” Stanford by the end of junior year for a sport but still had to stay at school during senior year, so the process for athletic admits at Stanford is probably different than at the Ivies.</p>
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<p>What sport do you play? I’m interested in the intramural inner-tube water polo at Yale since I can’t swim LOL</p>
<p>By ivy rules’ likely letters are binding unless a significant academic detrioration occurs. A lac “likely letter” may not have same binding effect. Check out the ivy league page for confirmation.</p>
<p>Only 9 of Inside Lax’s Top 50 Young Gun JUNIORS were listed as undeclared as of a 12/27/10 “check-in” by the mag. </p>
<p>UNC has 7 of the top 50, Duke has 6, Maryland (with Harvard’s former coach Tillman) has 6, UVA and Princeton have 3 each, Cornell has 2, Dartmouth and Harvard have one each</p>
<p>T264E - the info these kids get they can take to the bank. The Ivy league has 5 teams ranked in the top 20 this preseason. Cornell and Princeton always seem to be in the mix for the national championship and both are in the top 10. The day an ivy league coach can’t deliver on a promised admission to one of these top recruits is the day he loses his program.</p>
<p>The “likely” or whatever to a recruited athlete is tantamount to admission. Were Harvard to later withdraw a likely admission (assuming no material change in applicant status) would have a severe chilling effect on athletic recruitment. To attach some other meaning to the “likely” letter betrays a certain naivete about how these processes work.</p>
<p>My daughter is a sophomore in HS. Her club coach recently told us , he was approached by a Harvard coach regarding her play at a recent showcase. We know it’s early but we are extremely excited about the possibility. I am hoping she will become a recruited athlete who recieves a " likely letter"</p>