<p>What areas are all the likely letter recipients planning on studying?</p>
<p>My kid got Upenn likely letter today for 2015 class. I’m so happy for him!</p>
<p>Me too! Totally unexpected. Penn is probably my first choice. (:</p>
<p>Heads Up. The newest round of likely letters that went out is most certainly fake/a prank. It was a very good one at that since I originally feel for it too. 
But anyways it links applicants to this site:
[Penn</a> Admissions: My Decision](<a href=“HugeDomains.com”>http://www.pennlikely.com/)</p>
<p>Note how this site isn’t a .edu site and this “letter” is available for everyone who clicks on the link. So I pulled the WHOIS registration for this site and this is who it comes up as:</p>
<p>CCA
16 Sage estate
Albany, New York 12204
United States</p>
<p>And this person is linked as an administrative and technical contact with the same address above: Sirianno, Edward <a href="mailto:esirianno@ccanewyork.com">esirianno@ccanewyork.com</a></p>
<p>Also to top it off, the domain with the letter was created 01-Mar-11 or in other words 3 days before this prank was sent out.</p>
<p>Finally the email sent to us says it is “Powered by Emma.” This is a “stylish email marketing” service.</p>
<p>What I really want to know is a) how did whoever is behind this know we have applied to Penn and b) how did they get our email?</p>
<p>@1253729, how do you know what emails people got?</p>
<p>whoa. that’s crazy.</p>
<p>I posted the link on Facebook for fun and someone is like “You got a likely letter from Penn, congrats!” I even said “click this if you applied to Penn and just wanna make yourself feel better” before the link XD.</p>
<p>@rainbowrose</p>
<p>I really don’t know. But I can tell you what I do know:</p>
<p>A) It’s a fake email linking to a fake site.
B) I assume it was meant to prank RD applicants.
C) Two posters above me claimed to have gotten likely letters as well after this email’s time stamp. (Per my email, it was sent out at 18:03)</p>
<p>So I am assuming that other people who got a “likely” letter today probably got the same fake one that I received. But yes, I am not 100% sure.</p>
<p>absolutely flabbergasted. :O</p>
<p>So you actually received this fake email? I’m sure some people got real likely letters too.</p>
<p>@rainbowrose</p>
<p>Yes, I actually received this email at 18:03. Yes, I am sure some got real ones as well. But my questions is did they receive real likely letters today?</p>
<p>I think likely letters are usually snail mail no???</p>
<p>@ceresma</p>
<p>That is what I believe as well.</p>
<p>According to other people on this site, Dartmouth sends out emails so it’s not impossible that Penn would too.</p>
<p>Perhaps, but Dartmouth doesn’t link in their emails to a non .edu site and doesn’t use a cheap “email marketing” service to send their emails. And somehow I can’t believe that they would create the site they are linking to 3 days before sending emails.</p>
<p>Penn does traditionally send out emails. The video on that website is almost definitely real…but the method of directing students to a .com is highly unusual.</p>
<p>I have no doubt in my mind that that website you linked was fake, but that doesn’t mean everyone posting on this thread received THAT email.</p>
<p>I’m most certainly not referring to everyone who posted in this thread. My bad if thats what it sounded like. I am only referring to the two posters right above my original post in this thread who said they received letters today around when I received it! As far as any posters above them who posted before today, I completely believe that they got real likely letters.</p>
<p>But if this is a prank, what about the video? That seems pretty legit to me.</p>
<p>@Elikplim, when I posted it on Facebook, someone who got admitted ED said that it looked EXACTLY like her ED acceptance page. Some devious hacker probably figured out a way to save the video and make that webpage look exactly like an acceptance page.</p>