<p>is there a such thing for EA at Yale?</p>
<p>you know to get a head start with a super students who might choose H or P over Yale.</p>
<p>I am sure many students who wanted to do early this year to H and P just applied Yale EA.</p>
<p>I don't think so...</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure likely letters come only with the Regular Decisions...</p>
<p>Not likely -- too quick a turnaround for little gain. H or P, without EA/ED don't have a competing deadline w/Yale's EA decisions date. </p>
<p>Understandable for RD, not for the EA round</p>
<p>thanks everyone!!</p>
<p>j mom I sent you a pm</p>
<p>J mom--Yes, there are likely letters for EA and some have already gone out to this year's EA applicants.</p>
<p>my friend got his likely letter for harvard lik a month ago but maybe yale is different</p>
<p>I don't know about yale specifically, but I believe the likely letters that go out this early tend to be for the athletes, who might otherwise sign or otherwise commit to other schools.</p>
<p>In my region, Yale likely letters go to top science students most frequently. There has been one likely letter each year from the pool of applicants in my region (I know this info as an alumni interviewer), so please do not freak out if you don't get one. My understanding is that Yale only sends out around 100 each year, although the strategy may be different this year. The VAST majority of accepted students do not receive likely letters.</p>
<p>What is a likely letter?</p>
<p>The likely letters that have already gone out (for EA) and for schools like Harvard (no EA/ED) are for RECRUITED ATHLETES.</p>
<p>Likely letters are given by Yale, Columbia SEAS, Dartmouth, and Brown during the RD rounds to get up yield. Otherwise, only recruited athletes get them.</p>
<p>A likely letter goes out to applicants that a school REALLY wants before the EA or the RD decisions are made. The letter lets the applicant know that unless they royally screw up, they're in. It's a way for schools to get to an applicant before anyone else does. Schools want to give top applicants their "first kiss" so they'll get so excited about that school that they won't consider other schools. Some schools use likely letters much more aggressively than others. Like I said above, I think Yale sends out about 100, but I remember reading on the parents forum that Dartmouth (a school with a small number of students) sends out around 400.</p>
<p>Truazn--I respectfully disagree that the likely letters that have already gone out are only for athletes. Perhaps that has been the pattern in your region, but it is not the pattern in mine. Likely letters are a fairly recent phenomenon, so the sample size from which to draw conclusions about who gets them is small.</p>
<p>oh wow how amazing academically do you have to be to get a likely letter!??! and hec2008, you said that your friend already got likely letters, how did that work? did he already turn in apps or something, or is this for sports?</p>
<p>well, even if it's for sports, you have to turn in the complete app, including school report and recs. When my daughter got hers (from harvard) she had to turn everything in in Aug, so waaay ahead of even the early round. Oct 1 is the first date any college in the Ivy league is allowed to admit anyone, or at least any athlete, so that's when the first likely letters go out, though the phone calls may happen on Oct 1 itself.</p>