<p>Do early writes from Williams/Amherst/Swarthmore generally indicate some level of success with admissions from HYPS? Does anyone know what percent of applicants get these early writes?</p>
<p>P.S. This is the same thread from 2005, but I didn't want to revive an old thread: <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/yale-university/43855-lac-early-writes.html%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/yale-university/43855-lac-early-writes.html</a></p>
<p>Anything is speculation. To say that a Early Write recipient or Likely Letter recipient from one extremely selective institution leads to other Likely Letters is a logical presumption – but only that.</p>
<p>As for %, you’ll have to plumb those schools’ fora to see how many get issued – if that info is even available. For Yale, a historical number of 300 Likely Letters has been tossed around. But that’s a very loose figure – Yale can do whatever it wants year to year. </p>
<p>Ultimately I think this is tea leaf reading. Not much can be gained from scrutinizing these extremely nuanced stats IMHO.</p>
<p>It mean nothing–one way or the other. A good friend of my kid’s got an early write from Williams, was rejected by Yale, and ended up at Stanford.</p>