<p>I got a call at home today telling me I would be receiving a likely letter in the mail very soon, and that Yale was really impressed with my application. I was wondering if I would be getting a shirt too, like the early action people, and if this was normal, especially considering I only got an e-mail saying they received my application about a week ago?</p>
<p>Everyone got an email saying their application was complete one week ago, regardless of when Yale actually deemed it ready for review, internally (aka complete). So, congratulations on (basically) being admitted to Yale, you should feel pretty darn good about your yourself. However, you should be able to do some research, using that likely-letter from Yale level of intelligence that you undoubtedly possess (and that nifty, new-fangled google thing), and be able to conclude that likely letters are not formal offers of admission (only indications that, come decision time, you will be formally offered admission), so they would not be sending you a shirt anytime soon (though you will undoubtedly get one later, once formally admitted). Once again, congratulations…you don’t know how much I wish I could be you right now lol.</p>
<p>Congrats dude! You made it to Yale
ah, the joy of the likely notification…I 
Ivies for doing that</p>
<p>CONGRATULATIONS! That’s so great. I’m mad jeal. :)</p>
<p>Congratulations!</p>
<p>congrats
I’m so jealous</p>
<p>wow congratulations! that’s amazing :)</p>
<p>I never got an email though a week ago saying my application is complete?</p>
<p>Congratulations.
And same here, I got my Eli Account info a month ago but never got the “Application Complete” email.</p>
<p>I never got that email either, but maybe its because i applied SCEA?</p>
<p>Same here. I got the Eli Account but not the confirmation email. What does that email even say?</p>
<p>^ If you got the Eli account, you got the confirmation email, kiddo.</p>
<p>WOAH insanely jealous! CONGRATS!</p>
<p>oh and have any deferred SCEA people ever gotten likely letters?</p>
<p>Are you a recruited athlete or just an academic student?</p>
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<p>Deferred EA candidates never get likely letters. I mean, that’s why they were deferred rather than accepted…</p>
<p>Nope, not an athlete. I’m just pretty “decent” at science (bio). </p>
<p>I’m pretty excited but I wasn’t really expecting this, mostly because I never thought there was something in my application that would stand out, so I don’t really know what to think.</p>
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<p>Presuming your aren’t ■■■■■■■■, it is fairly easy to hazard an educated guess as to why you got the letter - Yale’s admissions committee views science ability is a good thing. Search the Yale Daily News site for an article about recruiting prospective science majors.</p>
<p>It is possible for deferred applicants to get likelies, though they are very very rare. </p>
<p>Somebody on CC got one last year.</p>
<p>^^You can’t believe everything you read on CC. Unless the applicant accomplished something absolutely extraordinary – truly earth-shattering – between December and February (and I can’t imagine what that might be) there is no way Yale would send a likely letter to a deferred candidate. </p>
<p>That doesn’t mean that some deferred candidates won’t be admitted in April. They will.</p>
<p>I was deferred… wish I could get a likely letter! -sniffle-</p>
<p>But congrats sdxdtx! That is super exciting :]</p>