Likely Letter for Ivy Schools.

<p>@ nervousmomo, 2-3 days, Princeton.</p>

<p>After my kid came back from the OV to possibly #1 choice and claimed that she got an offer I sent an email to the coach asking some questions. I started it with “Thank you very much for offering a spot on your team to my kid” and got “It was my pleasure to offer…” email back. Still not a guarantee of admission but at least I had a proof that she did get an offer of LL in writing.</p>

<p>I don’t think melanie9 is a poster with a lot of knowledge about LL’s so I wouldn’t let that worry you much. Osasmom–sounds like everything’s in order for your athlete–the commonapp has so many glitches this fall! It’ll be interesting to see if they get them all cleared up by the November EA deadline. </p>

<p>What we didn’t realize is that it takes up to two days for the CommonApp to process a payment. What vendor anywhere these days doesn’t immediately process a payment? So aggravating…and I didn’t see any warning of this up front (though admittedly I didn’t fill out the application). I wonder if kids miss the submission deadline because of this?</p>

<p>The best part is that you cannot finalize your application until the payment is cleared. I contacted their tech support and they told me that it was my responsibility to keep checking if the payment was posted. Plus the web site is clearly overloaded during US evening hours. I ended up helping my kid to submit her supplement over VPN to London. If parents work for multinational companies they may have remote VPN access to different regions of the world where people are asleep during US evening hours and you can hit less busy CommonApp servers. Just an idea but desperate times call for desperate measures:)</p>

<p>I agree with classicalmama, I don’t think you have anything to worry about. My child was in the exact same position at Yale and the LL took a few days longer than expected because of lots of CA glitches, but got the call from the coach a few days ago that the LL was approved by admissions and now it’s been received in the mail. Hooray! Based on what you described it is a matter of when not if.</p>

<p>The coach told our child that the Likely Letter was the equivalent to an offer of admission subject only to a drastic drop in grades or major disciplinary action. However, the actual hard copy letter from Y appears a lot more cautious until the last line where it welcomes the athlete to the Y community. Any thoughts about how unequivocal the Likely Letter really is?</p>

<p>IvyJockDad - the LL is solid. The wording will vary from school to school, but the only things that would cause it to be rescinded are the same that would be jeopardize an offer of admission.</p>

<p>Boondocks #12 and ClassicalMama#14: In my kid’s case it would not be possible to “not disclose” the commitment to school #1, unless kid outright lied. Kid was offered slots at 2 others and the 4th said that if she applied early they would offer support. </p>

<p>I guess kid could have just ignored offers and questions, but that does not look so good either. When asked directly, kid responded honestly that commitment was done, but also how much she had liked the competing schools. In two of the three cases K was told to please contact them asap if things did not work out. </p>

<p>Those who have not disclosed your commitment - did you lie? Or did you have no competing offers?</p>

<p>Just to clarify–that’s what I was saying. Full disclosure is scary but necessary. </p>

<p>My kid was offered slots at all schools where he OV’d. Once he verbally committed, he waited only long enough to get the final green light from the coaches (about 24-48 hours) before letting the other coaches know that he had committed. Then he had to just trust the process while he was waiting for the likely to come through ( It was about a week from submission of the app. to admission’s approval). </p>

<p>Even had he wanted to wait, I’m pretty sure the other schools would have asked for a commitment before the likely came through from school number one. But even if they hadn’t, to my mind, he’d have been acting in bad faith to hold out just to be safe. Those coaches needed to move on to other recruits.</p>

<p>Yes ClassicalMama your situation sounded like ours. Not sure how Boondocks could avoid coming clean and telling of commitment.<br>
My Kid did all OVs, then committed to #1. After several confirming conversations with #1, kid had communication / conversation with #2 and #3 and told them status. It was very friendly - good luck all around, but “call us if it does not go as planned.” Told #4 a few days later as we thought they had fallen off the map - but they called and asked where they stood. Kid told them of commitment to #1. They were not so friendly, but whatever.</p>

<p>We had a step #3.5. After hearing from the admissions office, the coach called and said the LL would arrive at our house in a week or so, and it did yesterday.
The LL we received made it very clear that academics and citizenship must not slip! Did anyone else receive a LL recently?</p>

<p>IvyJockDad – we too were thrown by how not warm and fuzzy the Yale LL was until, as you note, the last sentence. I’m sure everything will turn out just fine but the letter didn’t necessarily makes us feel 100% of the way there.</p>

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<p>It’s fine. Just don’t do anything stupid like get a detention or a B in a class.
(I’m kidding)</p>

<p>varska – Lol. This has been quite a ride and the actual admissions accepatnce letter can’t come soon enough!</p>

<p>I’m getting nervous for my athlete as I read all this…Still no word from coach or admissions. Although application was sent Sept 25, I don’t think it was marked “complete” until a week ago due to CA glitch with college counselor signature on ED form. So I assume admissions would not have started to read it until it was complete? Coach said there were “no red flags” after summer pre-read, so I’m hoping the LL will come soon and my kid won’t be that exception!</p>

<p>Have you confirmed with the coach that s/he has submitted his/her piece in support of the application? Yale coach made sure we let the coach know as soon as the application was submitted so that the coach could make the submission to admissions – which I believe was a short summary of the athlete’s academic and athletic achievements and the coach’s statement of how important the athlete is to the team.</p>

<p>If you think the coach is receptive, I would have your child check in with the coach, Osasmom, to make sure there isn’t anything missing. And, we were very upfront about urgency with our child’s school, which was very helpful in expediting the college’s receipt of materials due to the CA glitches.</p>

<p>osasmom,</p>

<p>Last year, we had a glitch in our application. Received a call from the coach informing us of the missing items. Had to wait an extra 10 days because that’s when the admissions committee was meeting again (missed the first round because of the missing items). I would check with the coach to make sure everything is in and find out the next date they are reviewing applications.</p>

<p>When my S got his Princeton LL he compared it with a Harvard LL. He was concerned because Harvard’s was much more reassuring. He called Princeton admissions and they told him not to worry.</p>

<p>Different schools word them differently, but in the end, they’re all reliable.</p>

<p>Thanks Sherpa, good to hear</p>