<p>Does Cornell send out these letters during the RD admissions?</p>
<p>yeah, they do... like in March or something</p>
<p>In that case, I guess there aren't any likely letters for the Colleges that are rolling?</p>
<p>Hm? What are likely letters?</p>
<p>-WJJ</p>
<p>They send you this letter that's like "although we aren't done with admissions, you're very likely to get in".</p>
<p>But I heard only Engineering does it...</p>
<p>WHY would a college send something like that?</p>
<p>so that you don't automatically accept an offer from a school that reports decisions ealier? :</p>
<p>Yeah, I got one for engineering... that might be the only college that does it. I think they send them so that you can make arrangements to visit campus again and also so that you don't enroll at another school who sent its decisions out earlier. I think the ivies have a pact that they won't mail decisions until some specific date in April.</p>
<p>but for the certain rolling schools.. decisions come out earlier than april</p>
<p>i didn't get one, but my friend who was applying to CALS got one, and she got in.</p>
<p>Does the engineering college roll?</p>
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Does the engineering college roll?
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no, it does not roll</p>
<p>it does rock though ;)</p>
<p>haha, good one nomad</p>
<p>lol thanks, CC offers very little chance to humor so had to do it there :)</p>
<p>When does CALS send out likely letters? I don't see the point in them. I mean, if you're gonna get in, why don't they just send the decision?</p>
<p>they sent her one in february, she didn't get officially accepted until mid-march.</p>
<p>so if u don't get a letter like that does that mean your chances for admissions is slim to none?</p>
<p>r these likely letters only for US applicant?</p>
<p>ALL Ivies send "likely letters" - which were pioneered by Princeton some years ago to tie down restive recruits being offered athletic scholarships elsewhere and being pressured to sign a so-called "letter of intent." Because they weren't technically (wink-wink) offers of admission, the letters were not deemed a violation of the Ivy rule that all admit letters would go out April 1.</p>
<p>Now, "likely letters" have mushroomed, and go to URMs, top scholars, and desirable admits of all kinds.</p>
<p>Dartmouth, Cornell and Yale send HUNDREDS of them, with Harvard trailing at the moment. I'm not sure about the volume at other Ivy addresses.</p>
<p>I expect that this trend will continue to grow, so that the Dec 15 and April 1 notification dates become a mere formality, with most candidates issued what amounts to a semi-binding commitment months earlier. In effect, what we will have (in the Ivies, anyway) will be a form of "rolling admissions."</p>
<p>While a reply is not necessarily required from the prospective admit, the schools do invite inquiry, and the responses no doubt help them to gauge the degree of enthusiasm in those contacted, and may allow more careful "fine-tuning" of the eventual, formal admit list so as to raise the yield rate.</p>
<p>(If you know in advance that X number of admits are likely to matriculate, you don't have to admit as many as would otherwise be necessary to fill the vacant slots.)</p>
<p>What kind of stats do you need to receive one?</p>