<p>soccernut, engineering did send letters out
i got one</p>
<p>im a south korean international living in canada</p>
<p>what is URM? Underrepresented minorities?
I applied to the CAS.
Are there a lot of people here that didn't get a "Likely" letter?
Kind of nervous...</p>
<p>Congrats everyone! I just got a likely email from Cornell (CAS). And I'm also a Canadian applicant.</p>
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I wish I could go, but I'll have my exams excatly on those days. Congrats LadyLou! I guess that you've probably been accepted at Ox/Cam or some London University? I know choosing between the US and UK is hard, but keep in mind that you're gonna have more of a college life in the US. Neither Oxbridge nor the London Unis have a real campus, so Cornell would really give you this "Wow I'm at college" feeling.
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I have had an offer from cam for econ and the same at LSE,although I have certainly disgarded the latter because i'm not at all keen on LSE for the reasons above. I am a little unsure about cam v US, especially one of the less internationally well know ivies like Cornell (not knocking the college, its just not many UK peeps have heard of it) but then again I would quite like to go to med school/grad school of some sort, so i may end up staying in america which means that ofcourse cornell is very well respected.</p>
<p>At the moment, if it wasn't for the prestige issue, I would pick the US without any thought, it is just that I keep getting told how stupid it is to turn down cambridge, because we are sorta reared here to thing of cambridge as the ultimate goal in life!</p>
<p>OMG i got a likely email!!!!!! its sooo astonishing ..... but i applied for engineering ... although it is not stated in the email, does that mean that i got that discipline?</p>
<p>My son is an international student in an independent school in NJ. His school dean got an email from Cornell admission today. The letter thanked him for sending a student like ***, a type of student that Cornell is looking for, and asked for his support for 2008 application from the school. However, we didn't get a likely letter/email yet. Is this a common correspondence between schools and ivies? Good luck to you all.</p>
<p>Wow Cam vs. Cornell for a future med. I'm probably not the best person to give you advice then, I have no clue about medicine at all, haha. So you applied for med although you want to become a doctor? Very intersting! </p>
<p>@leedongho, I've never heard about something like this before, but it definitely seems to be a good sign. Not getting a likely letter does not mean that your son won't get in. Only a small percentage of ppl get these letters and I think none of us can really say why we got them. Good luck</p>
<p>yer, i applied for econ at cam becuase anyone who is seriously considering becoming a doctor at the moment in england is seriously crazy. The wholetraining process is going down the drain, and doctors who have been in training for 8 years are finding themselves jobless becuase of a ridiculous 'fair' system that allocates registrar positions. What i might do is, after my u/grad degree in teh UK (if i go to cam) then do a grad medicine course, that is if the whole system has improved and I have some faith in the training system! Otherwise i'll go to US and give med-school there a shot.</p>
<p>I'm leaving my decision till after I hear from other unis tho.</p>
<p>did any international requiring finaid get a likely?</p>
<p>leedongho, since your son is in NJ, maybe he'll get a letter instead of e-mail? So far I think all the internationals who got likely e-mails are not currently staying in the US.</p>
<p>spacepirate, I'm international and I asked for aid. But it doesn't matter since Cornell is admission blind to internationals so we wouldn't necessarily get aid but I hope we do.</p>
<p>thanks eslite. and congrats on the likely letter!</p>
<p>so you can <em>receive a likely letter</em> and not get accepted...</p>
<p>but then you can <em>not receive a likely letter</em> and get accepted...</p>
<p>so what's the point of this?</p>
<p>are u "not as likely to get accepted" if you don't get one? =)</p>
<p>base, the only reasons why a person who got a likely letter would not get accepted are death, committing a crime, not graduating from High School, or a very serious drop in grades (e.g. going from a 3.9 to a 2.0).
I see the letters as being part of a marketing scheme: I suppose that the schools have done research that indicates that those candidates who received "likely letters" also are likely to have applied to peer institutions (in this case Dartmouth, Brown, etc.), and the "likely letters" give them a marketing advantage. Specifically, the schools have noted that statistically the applicants who receive "likely letters" enroll at higher rates, increasing their yield.</p>
<p>Have any HE applicants received likely letters?
Have any international HE applicants received likely letters?</p>
<p>@spacepirate: both me and my friend applied for aid and got likelies.
btw where in hyderabad do you live?
and what school are you frm?
pm me if you want</p>
<p>I think MSMDAD pretty much sumed it all up. None of us can really tell for sure that it's a marketing scheme, but a lot of evidence indicates that this assumption is true. I'm still curious as to how many non athletes got these letters last year. Does anyone know?</p>
<p>Have any non-URM, non-international students gotten a likely letter?</p>
<p>I think someone mentioned requesting 60% financial aid. How do u request? I thought u just fill out the forms and mail/fax them ur tax forms and they determine your financial need? so you dont exactly request.</p>
<p>Isn't there a section on the Profile that says "amount parents willing to contribute to education" or something like that? Maybe that's what they're talking about? I'm not sure about the FAFSA.</p>
<p>o perhaps. i see what u mean now. i got a likely email yesterday too. Im just a bit worried about cornell's financial aid system. I asked for 78% financial aid, which seems like a lot, but my parents really can't afford that much. My friends say that Cornell is pretty stingy in terms of financial aid. Just how much is stingy? Anyone knos of any examples?</p>