<p>Congrats, sodade!</p>
<p>Hmmm perhaps…I’m also a prospective humanities major and I tried logging in, but no luck. Hopefully, there will be more info in the actual mailed likely letter. So excited.</p>
<p>Has anyone actually recieved the mailed letter yet?? I can’t wait for it to arrive!</p>
<p>^If we’re allowed to access the admitted students page, hopefully the letter will provide our login information.</p>
<p>I’m a prospective political science major and got my likely letter a week ago. It’s a two page letter with congrats and describing all the great things at Yale, but no info to access admitted student pages or a tee shirt 
Soooooo excited!</p>
<p>Congratulations to all those who have received the phone calls about likely letters. Curiously, have you all had your interview already? Submitted mid-term reports? Just wondering what admissions counselors are requiring before making decisions on ‘likely letters’.</p>
<p>interviews are not related to the admissions office issuing Likely Letters. Completely different mechanisms apply to each.</p>
<p>I haven’t had an interview. I did submit the midyear report a while back though.</p>
<p>What’s funny is I had an interview one day before my likely call. I wonder how many likely letters were sent to non athletes and non science majors like myself.</p>
<p>All of you non-science majors and non-athlete superstars who got likely letters, I’m curious… other than academics and scores which I’m sure are high, what do you think really stood out about you?</p>
<p>32 ACT , no SAT, a rank of 1/145… not a superstar but with some cool ECs pertaining to Military Veterans and active in athletics.</p>
<p>Congratulations, that is amazing! My stats actually sound really similar to yours…wondering if maybe I could be getting a likely letter. 
Don’t want to get my hopes up too much though. You should be extremely proud of yourself, good luck next year at Yale!!</p>
<p>Hello! I’m a prospective natural sciences major from Spain and I recieved my likely letter on Friday. It came as such a surprise!</p>
<p>Finally came in the mail yesterday!! Can’t wait for Bulldog Days - sooo psyched.</p>
<p>@smilldeb I had an on-campus interview with a current student last year and an alumni interview in January. I think my counselor submitted a mid-year report, as well.</p>
<p>@retrohippo The likely letter, honestly, was totally unexpected. I enjoyed my academics and had decent scores, but I spent most of my time devoting myself completely to a few ECs involving writing/politics in both my high school and, more importantly, the professional environment. I had to create many of my own opportunities. I had national/regional awards and scholarships, but stats set aside, I think the greatest challenge of the admissions process was portraying what I had to offer in the best possible light. I tried to demonstrate my genuine long-time passion for what I do in my application, as well as how specifically I could contribute to the Yale community.</p>
<p>i got a likely letter a couple weeks ago too! if any of you other likely admits here are not already in the fb group, you should deff join it. and lol i had my interview like a week after getting my likely letter.</p>
<p>My S’s semester just ended and mid-term reports have yet to go out (going out next week we’ve been told). He just had his interview yesterday and it went great. He’s now torn between schools (if he gets in). So if interviews aren’t considered for likely letters I wonder what they use them for? Those of you who received phone calls, did they not say what it was about your application that they liked? </p>
<p>@zeitgeist It sounds like you did a great job portraying yourself in your essays. Congrats!</p>
<p>smilldeb wrote: “So if interviews aren’t considered for likely letters I wonder what they use them for?”</p>
<p>If you peruse this thread, you’ll get a sense when and if interviews factor into a student’s evaluation:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/yale-university/283957-rd-applicants-interview-advice.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/yale-university/283957-rd-applicants-interview-advice.html</a></p>
<p>But as I said before, the mechanisms for assigning interviews are independent of the quick reads they do in New Haven where a list of Likely Letter recipients gets generated. </p>
<p>An applicant’s name is forwarded to local coordinators as soon as their app is complete – before anyone even reads the first word. So you can see how the interview assignment process moves along w/o regard to the Likely Letter process.</p>
<p>It seems that Yale is sending out an unusually large number of likely letters this year.</p>
<p>@smilldeb, the admissions officer who called me didn’t mention anything specific about my application. If I had to take a guess, I’d say the additional essay probably played a big part.</p>
<p>Still waiting on the letter…Hopefully Monday :)</p>
<p>It is true that the interview process can be kicked off long before the admissions office identifies a likely candidate, but they may also tell an interviewer to please hurry and do the interview to help with that decision. Students are unaware of any special handling.</p>
<p>Anyone know when they STOP sending likely letters / calling? Have any of you received either without having an interview yet?</p>
<p>@t26E4 Thanks for the tips…so obviously it takes them awhile to get through the 1000’s of applications even for a quick read so do they more or less do a quick review of an application and place segregate them into ‘likely’ piles vs. ‘need to read more’ vs. ‘not likely’? I’m trying to understand how the process works so I can explain to students I counsel as I’ve not heard of ‘likely’ letters for academics before.</p>
<p>@Yale84Alum I’m beginning to get the ‘order’ of things now. </p>
<p>@g30rg3 Students should never consider the ‘optional’ essay as ‘optional’ at highly selective universities like Yale. They should always take every advantage to tell more about themselves so long as it’s adding to what’s already in the application and not being redundant. It’s good to hear you took advantage of it and it worked out for you. Congrats!</p>