<p>@metalpalm
LL’s are usually send out in waves; I guess the first wave has now passed, but the second will begin around the end of the month.</p>
<p>When I check my app status, it says my fee waiver is still pending. Does it mean the adcoms haven’t looked at my app yet?</p>
<p>@metalpalm: the cut off is Mar 15. Whether schools actually go that late is unknown.</p>
<p>@smilldeb: I’m only guessing at their vetting process. As for LL’s, each school has discretion how to use them. Anecdotally, it appears Dartmouth uses them to a bigger proportion than other Ivies. Again, see it only as a marketing tool in the arms race for the coveted students. But it still stands that the bulk of eventual admitees never see a single LL. My stance is to downplay them – they really just add another item for students to fret about needlessly. If one comes, great. If they don’t, still don’t worry, right? Nothing can be done about it anyway.</p>
<p>@ngthuyah: It’s more likely that no one has updated the fee waiver status. Yale is happy to have your app. They would not have left it unread. And if any problem existed, they would have contacted you. The fee or fee waiver isn’t that important to them.</p>
<p>@Dantari: how did you receive your likely letter, by regular mail or e-mail? And what are your ECs, grades and scores? Would be grateful if you answer.</p>
<p>Additional question: when did you submit your Common application and Yale supplement?</p>
<p>I wonder if the order that LLs go out depends on last name? Probably more likely that it depends on time the application was submitted…either way, I can still hope!!</p>
<p>@2698036070922 What’s the name of the FB group? I tried searching it, but no luck…</p>
<p>Yeah me too:). Got a likely letter, but have no clue how to find the FB… help?</p>
<p>Congrats guys! Can’t imagine how it must feel!</p>
<p>A question tho- do internationals stand a chance of getting one?</p>
<p>^ I have heard of an international student getting Likely Letters from Ivies. It’s extremely rare though!</p>
<p>I’m an international student with a likely letter from Spain, so I’d say yes. To answer amatore, I’ll post my stats when decisions officially come out, and I sent the Common App very close to December 30th.</p>
<p>oh thanks for that! =D
Wouldn’t hurt to keep checking my mail over the next month would it? 
haha XD</p>
<p>FYI for likely letter recipients – Somehow, I just managed to get into the admitted students website with my Eli account information. Maybe now we can get our class t-shirts :)</p>
<p>Based on the posts on this thread, it appears to me that Yale has expanded the use of likely letters as a recruiting strategy.</p>
<p>^ I think Ivies as a whole are looking at their RD pool and issuing likelies to few hundred (depending on the school) to make them feel wanted. Columbia issued a bunch early last week, Penn issued them on Friday, Dartmouth has been issuing them over the last two months (someone told me their alum request came after they already got a likely from Dartmouth). Not sure how Harvard is doing them although one poster on this thread mentioned receiving it from several Ivies including Harvard so far based on her postings in each thread.</p>
<p>Yes, we can indeed get our class t-shirts :)</p>
<p>Just wondering if non-Ivies send out Likely Letters as well?</p>
<p>Duke has sent them a few weeks ago.</p>
<p>UChicago sends a few academic ones and a lot more sports ones according to Chicago thread.</p>
<p>^^yes, Stanford too.</p>
<p>Do you think Yale is finished sending whatever liely letters they were going to send? No one has posted about it in a weeke or more. Columbia just sent theirs out last week.</p>