<p>Has anyone here received a "likely letter" from Cornell. I was reading about it in another room and it is a letter that some schools send out to some students telling them that they will likely be accepted way before the actual decisions come out. Anyone here have gotten something like that?</p>
<p>I got it from this post:
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=13204%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=13204</a></p>
<p>I didn't think Cornell sent out likely letters for ED only for RD. ED they already have you recruited. They only send out the likely letter RD for people they really want so they don't check out other schools.</p>
<p>My friend's brother got one last year. I'm not sure, but I think only the Engineering department gives those out.</p>
<p>I guess that makes sense for the engineering department to give them out, but i hope it is only for RD, i applied ED and didn't get one, darn, rejection letter here I come</p>
<p>Has anybody gotten a likely letter this year for ED? If so, which college?</p>
<p>Why does it make sense for only the engineering department to give them out? I have not heard of colleges giving likely letters out for ED/EA, I think it is a bit nonsensical to do that anyways, since early decisions are already pretty rushed. For regular decision there is more of a gap between the application deadline and the notification deadline, so they are capable of sending likely letters a week or 2 before the deadline. The early decision notification deadline is probablly too rushed for them to be able to do this.</p>
<p>As Bertbacharat said, it doesn't make any sense to send them out for ED applicants. You're going to have to go if you get accepted; likely letters are used to encourage the applicant to go to the school by showing the school's interest in the applicant.</p>
<p>hmm if that's the reason, then there would be letters for EA, no? I have not heard of colleges sending EA likely letters out, but there could be some that do.</p>
<p>I was under the impression that likely letters were only sent out to recruited athletes...</p>
<p>i said makes sense for engineering b/c cornell's engineering is the best next engineering of the ivies, but still below other engineering colleges, so they would want to recruit away from the other non ivy schools, like MIT or Berkely, that is why I thought it would make sense for engineering to do it</p>
<p>Cornell has the best engineering program in the Ivy League...</p>
<p>My son received a likely letter for Cornell engineering about 2 weeks before the RD deadline. It was like a breath of fresh air in what was a very tense time for my son. He's at Cornell now and very happy there.</p>