<p>When did you send your application, cloudnine?</p>
<p>hmm.... about a week before it was due</p>
<p>i'd like to kno that also, thanks :)</p>
<p>ohh thanks (sry i don't know how to delete the post).</p>
<p>one last question-- anyone from the NY state region (either upstate , or downstate/the big city), received a letter? recently?</p>
<p>congratulations to those who got likely letters. Just curious if any of you applied to any EA schools and got accepted. Did your interviewer ask about it?</p>
<p>Well the one girl I know who did didn't apply early anywhere</p>
<p>She also said that in the letter, only 50 kids got them?</p>
<p>For athletes, were you in range for your school and sport pushed you in or were you out of usual GPA/SAT score range? Also did person on this post who got academic likely letter and then didn't get in ever follow up on what that was all about?</p>
<p>that's strange-- they must have had terribbleee grades, or got caught doing something illegal??</p>
<p>I applied to one school EA as a safety. I was competing for a scholarship and I wanted to get my app in. I definitely wasn't an athletic recruit.</p>
<p>congrats cloudnine!!! :)</p>
<p>bigman, my d is a student athlete admitted EASC at Yale who received a likely letter in October with the understanding that Yale was her first and only choice. </p>
<p>She is ranked about 5/440, just got her first semester report card, GPA 5.0, carrying 6 APs, cumulative well over 4.3 weighted, and 4.0 weighted. SAT I and II's well within the Yale standard. As her coach said, "don't worry about getting in anywhere: you're the prettiest girl at the dance." </p>
<p>She's a three season athlete, and no slacker in the classroom. Also cute and nice. yeah, I'm her mom.</p>
<p>congrats rivverunner!</p>
<p>So october is about two months before the SCEA was released, so two months before April is right about now. so they should alll b out by now?</p>
<p>End of October arrival of likely letters for SCEA is driven by the fact that athletes are trying to choose between D1s offering letters of intent, and other Ivies with ED plans who may also be courting these applicants. Coaches like to lock in rosters in the fall. Student athletes can only apply to one school with an early plan. Therefore, Ivies with early application windows may choose to issue a likely letter to a student athlete to assure them that, if they apply they will be accepted, and should look no further. Most early deadlines are Nov 1, so likelies are only useful to athletes if they are issued before that date. </p>
<p>Likelies from Ivies are not issued willy-nilly (sorry, I've been watching Wooster and Jeeves.) They follow a serious conversation between athlete, coach and admissions, about the mutual desire for a match.<br>
This has no bearing on the timing of spring likely letters.</p>
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<p>riverrunner: I'm puzzled. A month after Yale's EA decisions came out, you posted that your daughter received an additional acceptance. Given that under the terms of her likely letter Yale was to be her "first and only choice," how can that be? I'm not trying to be contentious, just trying to understand how EA works for recruited athletes in the Ivies.</p>
<p>My understanding of EASC is that students can also apply to schools with rolling admissions. Those acceptances can come in before the SCEA, but are declined if the EASC app is successful. There's a long discussion of this in the Admissions thread. To be honest, while I thought we understood and could trust in a likely letter followed by EA acceptance sequence, the whole thing made me very nervous. I was afraid to let my D put all her eggs in that basket. It all worked out it the way the Yale admissions had said it would.</p>
<p>The non-athletes who submit SCEA applications to Yale can't submit ED or EA applications to other schools, but they can apply to RD and rolling admission schools. If they're accepted by Yale EA, they don't have to withdraw pending applications. <a href="http://www.yale.edu/admit/faq/applying.html#23%5B/url%5D">http://www.yale.edu/admit/faq/applying.html#23</a></p>
<p>Does that procedure differ for recruited athletes?</p>
<p>I have a likely letter to HYP for athletics when I choose to commit. Now I just need to choose which one...</p>
<p>wjb, I'm not the parent of a recruited athlete, but Cornell has a good page explaining the ins and outs here: <a href="http://cornellbigred.com/Sports/general/2007/Recruiting.asp?tab=bigred%5B/url%5D">http://cornellbigred.com/Sports/general/2007/Recruiting.asp?tab=bigred</a></p>
<p>"A coach may both inquire about a candidate's level of commitment to an Ivy institution, or interest in attending that Ivy institution, and encourage that interest. However, a candidate may not be required to withdraw, or not make, other applications, or to refrain from visiting another institution, as a condition for receiving a "likely" letter or for a coach's support in the admissions process."</p>