<p>I'm an oos applicant who is freaking out because i didn't get a likely letter and it seems like lots of other people have... so if I haven't gotten one dose that mean i probably wont get in?</p>
<p>Not at all!</p>
<p>I think this is one of the problems that College Confidential creates, because it can make it seem as if everyone and their third cousin twice removed is getting some letter, email, or brochure you aren't getting.</p>
<p>In reality, most people who get into any college -- including UNC-Chapel Hill -- never receive likely letters.</p>
<p>UNC-Chapel Hill sends out several batches of likely letters at different times, depending on when your application is read et cetera. Getting a letter means you are almost certainly admitted, but not getting one does not say much of anything at all. :)</p>
<p>(I applied - January deadline - two years ago, and only got a likely letter several weeks AFTER being named as a semifinalist for a scholarship, several months after I had applied to UNC.)</p>
<p>Thank you!!!</p>
<p>I didn't get a likely letter and got in.</p>
<p>Hah, yeah I'm sitting in North Carolina where I've been on vacation for the last week or so and so I'm starting to wonder if I might by some chance have one waiting at home for me. When did they go out? I thought I read somewhere that they sent them out in batches at different times?</p>
<p>I just got mine today, it was dated Dec.22. I really thought I was not getting one at this point but there is still hope! I live in northern New Jersey</p>
<p>Are likely letters a new thing? I didn't get one last year, and none of my friends did either. weird.</p>
<p>No, they are not new. They began a long time ago as a way for colleges to recruit athletes and over the years have spread and are now used generally to recruit students.</p>
<p>This repeats a lot of what I said earlier, but it's important to reiterate:</p>
<p>A small number of people get them, and the important part is that a majority of people who are eventually admitted NEVER got a likely letter.</p>
<p>There are all sorts of reasons the letters are or are not sent to any particular student by a university, not always related at all to the merits of the student's application. As just one example, some colleges (particularly small ones) only send likely letters to students from high schools where only one person applied in order to attempt to avoid other students from unnecessary worry.</p>
<p>But reading a site like College Confiedential can sometimes make you feel as if most students who end up getting in get likely letters. That is simply not the case at all.</p>
<p>i didn't get a likely letter and I got in (I was in-state). I applied RD.</p>