<p>Oh my goodness. Now I have a reason to anticipate and be disappointed two weeks before the actual anticipation and disappointment?</p>
<p>I think a personalized note would be the best thing ever.</p>
<p>OP, I PM'd you.</p>
<p>n response to OP's post. I am confused if you are indeed talking about an athletic likely letter ( as opposed to academic) Likely letters are not casual items in my experience. Likely letters are an Ivy league response to letter of intent offered by other D I schools. Because Ivy recruits are also being pursued by other D I schools that might also be offering athletic scholarships, the Ivies came up likely letters which at least let a recruit know that he or she will be admitted when making college choices. The Ivy league website says:</p>
<ul>
<li>Admissions Offices at each Ivy school may offer some athletic and other candidates a "likely" letter, which has the effect of a formal letter of admission provided the candidate continues to have a satisfactory secondary school experience. Coaches may initiate the requests for these letters, but only the office of admission can issue a"likely" letter.</li>
</ul>
<p>The process for my d was pretty formal. After committing to attend, coaches agreed to place her on recruiting list and pursue likely letter (obviously all done with word of honor). Application in September 1 to admissions, likely letter received in October. The letter from Dean of Admissions, "welcomes her to the Yale family"</p>
<p>Now a number of long time posters have asked / searched for someone who received a likely letter (from admissions, not some letter from coaches / athletic dept) who was not admitted. The best we have heard is that "someone knows someone whose friend didn't..." as one long time poster said, kind of like an urban legend.</p>
<p>So back to OP. The scenario doesn't make sense to me. Coaches expect a verbal commitment before going to admissions. perhaps others know differently and some coaches are willing to get a likely before a commitment to attend if admitted. But seems very unlikely to me. HOWEVER, there is nothing formally stopping a applicant from applying to where ever he or she wants; this is all done on a "word of honor" basis.</p>
<p>Why would they send out likely letters EA? Isn't December 15th early enough?</p>
<p>Nice try st. aegis...</p>
<p>@Ephemeral - I think there would be an incentive for schools like Yale to send out likelies to top athletes, lest a competitor outdoes them and the athlete chooses to go there instead. But sending academic likelies would be useless, as you pointed out.</p>
<p>The only person getting an academic likely letter from any Ivy will be Philip Streich, FYI.</p>
<p>Last year, Yale sent about 150 likely letters, around 50 for recruited athletes and about 100 for academic. I believe the academic likely letters were during RD round and recipients got them around Jan. 20th-25th.</p>
<p>wow i didn't know ivies sent out likely letters
you guys are talking about those persistent letters from Hawaii or New Mexico schools right?
no offense to anyone whose dream school is in those areas (but surely not here in Yale forum)
but Yale's likely letters should not be called likelies
more like early christmas present, right?</p>
<p>So how does that work (lazy me, don't wanna do research, so just explain to me, anyone?)
is the letter like a tip-off before the actual announcement that a person is accepted
or is it literally "you are likely to get in, but we'll have to see, so don't get your hopes up yet!"?</p>
<p>The only thing in my mind is right now is that I would like one.</p>
<p>A likely letter tells a student, before the formal notification date, that he/she is very likely to be accepted or that the school is provisionally reserving a place for him/her. Basically, all the applicant has to do is wait for the formal letter and, like any other kid who has been admitted, not let grades fall seriously, get arrested etc. </p>
<p>Likely letters for athletes are subject to their own rules. Schools that issue likely letters to non-athletes send them out in the regular round. I don't think any colleges send these letters out to students who have applied ED/EA. I am virtually certain that Yale did not issue any academic likelies in the early round last year or in recent years. AdmissionsAddict is a Yale alum interviewer. If he/she knows of a change in policy (and Post #9 indicates he/she may) I hope he/she will clarify.</p>
<p>st. aegis, I thought you applied EASC to Stanford. How could Yale have read your application to then offer you a likely? </p>
<p>In the interest of clarifying likely letters, I hope you'll respond.</p>
<p>My friend got a likely letter from Yale for academics last year during RD. His SAT's? 1460/1600. He was a beast though, and had a perfect GPA in super-hard classes and had distinguished himself academically in ways other than standardized tests. Numbers, I believe, aren't really a factor with likely letters.</p>
<p>hai guys!</p>
<p>i made a facebook group!!!! All of us should join so that we can relieve some of that EA stress.</p>
<p>Login</a> | Facebook</p>
<p>If that link doesn't work, search for "Y>HPSM" and you'll find us!</p>
<p>riverrunner -- st.aegis is saying he applied to Yale RD, not SCEA, and that he's already received a likely letter. Not likely. I imagine Yale is pretty busy reading early apps now, and that it won't even start reading RD apps until after the EA round.</p>
<p>And sorry about your wager. ;)</p>
<p>^^wjb, I get it. I just looked at Stanford's Early Action policy. They do allow students to apply RD to other schools, just not early. So St. Aegis could have applied early to Stanford and RD to Yale, or anywhere else.</p>
<p>I'm really not trying to play "gotcha" with St. A, but I do feel for the other applicants who want to understand the likely letter timeline, and delay/discourage the obsession of peering into the mailbox.</p>
<p>And I'm working on the limerick. There are lots of words that rhyme with the phrase "our offense sucked" but I'm trying to elevate the form.</p>
<p>I don't know who is getting the EA likely letters, I just know they are being sent. I have been notified that a student with whom I have scheduled an interview will be receiving a likely letter. Haven't met the student yet, so don't know if the likely letter is based on athletics or academics or something else (like music).</p>
<p>riverrunner : limerick = hahahahaha. it certainly did !!!</p>
<p>i seriosuly got one from yale......
it is a likely letter, however, I think it strange they sent one to me this early.....</p>
<p>yeah...i got one too, from harvard, even before i submitted my app.</p>
<p>Hieronymus312, me too! Yale actually sent me one when I was a freshman.</p>
<p>I'm thinking we should not even give st. aegis the time of day.</p>
<p>hi everyone</p>
<p>i applied to yale early as a recruited athlete for swimming, and i asked my coach if i was going to get a likely letter. he told me that the swim team only had 4 letters to give: two for boys, two for girls. They reserve the letters for athletes who were on the fence academically, so he said that i wouldn't get one.</p>
<p>i think that yale only sends likely letters to the students that they really want, but the students themselves may not be confident that they will get in. perhaps it is a confidence booster? just a guess.</p>