Likely Admit Program

Colleges & Universities A-Z Stanford University
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<p>Have any of you known or heard of anyone who got this? Apperently 121 students were contacted before they applied to the university in order to convince them to attend Stanford. Here's a website talking about this program <a href="http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2006/april26/minutes-042606.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2006/april26/minutes-042606.html&lt;/a> . What do you think of this program and has anyone heard of the results of it?</p>

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<p>how about thats too freakin long to read. why dont you sum it up then people will say how they feel about it.</p>

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<p>No - haven't heard anything about it (other than the article)</p>

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<p>Also, I don't think it would accept the applicant pool that much, seeing as how its only 121 students and, being qualified for a likely letter, would have their choice of any US university..</p>

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<p>i know someone who got a likely letter from stanford this year. this is after getting accepted Yale EA. he will attend harvard. he's not an athlete. just really really REALLY smart. and URM (although i dont know if he ended up putting his ethnicity on his app)</p>

<p>from what i hear, stanford's likely admit program is far less extensive and widely-advertised than, say, Duke's or WashU's... far fewer people get the letter.</p>

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<p>ummm... as far as "potential" applicants being notified BEFORE they even apply... i THINK that some recruited athletes "apply" in september and are accepted in october and are flown out to stanford for a campus visit in october (all paid by stanford, of course). </p>

<p>(this is just what i hear from a few athletes, i dont know for sure, dont quote me on that, i dont know if they were exaggerating or not)</p>

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<p>You would be right, firebird.</p>

<p>Stanford will never actually say how its likely letter program went, in terms of yield. It's also hard to extract any meaningful data from it because there's no control group to compare it to, unless one does year-on-year analysis. </p>

<p>But that being said, Stanford did take a few more high-placers in the big-name science contests than in most years, and, I think, got more RSI kids than in years past.</p>

<p>Those are the kinds of kids targeted with Stanford's likely letter program.</p>

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<p>firebird Stanford's would probably not be as famous as Duke's seeing as this year was its first. Its totally different than the sports one however.</p>

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<p>For non-athletes -- Likely letters, as described in Post #8 - - similar to Yale and Harvard -- were sent to regular admissions candidates, before the regular admission notification date ("regular review admissions date.") They were not sent to candidates before they applied to Standford --- they were sent after they had applied and the applications had been reviewed. HYS are doing this to try to do more marketing with top applicants and increase their yield...as noted in the quote.</p>

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<p>Thanks 2boysima.</p>

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<p>i don't know if this is the same thing, but a friend of mine got a letter from swarthmore this year in early march saying that they were so impressed with her application that they wanted to tell her ahead of time to celebrate. it wasn't an official acceptance letter, but it basically told her that she had gotten in. it was only a few weeks before regular letters were arriving, though.... so it could be a totally different thing.</p>

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<p>yes...same thing. New yield strategy for a bunch of schools.</p>

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<p>I'm curious about the phrase:Each of these 121 students will be admitted to every competitive institution in the country.
I mean what qualifications do these students have that makes Stanford sure they'll get in EVERYWHERE??</p>

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<p>if you're one of them, you'd know. if not, it's no use worrying about it anyways.</p>

<p>for starters: if you've attended RSI</p>

<p>or if you've competed on a national level in multiple competitions spanning multiple subjects (not JUST math/science, but also speech&debate, quiz bowl, mock trial etc) and won</p>

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<p>And yet most of the RSI kids coming to Stanford are rejects from the big H. Problematic.</p>

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<p>Trust me I'm not worrying about it or anything but I'm just curious I mean most of the threads here say stuff like: you know Stanford is a super reach for everyone but apparently not everyone according to this super reach thing!! Don't get me wrong I'm not annoyed I didn't get selected or anything if anything I'm still slightly in shock they even accepted me! But just call me curious :)</p>