<p>Does Cornell CAS give likely letters to non athletes and academic superstars like what Columbia does for Fu?</p>
<p>Cornell gives them out to athletic recruits, but don’t know about others…</p>
<p>in early Spring some non-athletic candidates will get likely letters. use the search function on this topic. the letters are vague enough that the recipients usually end up posting “Is this a likely letter??”</p>
<p>Cornell uses the letters for ed athletes, just so they don’t start talking too much to coaches at other schools about doing RD applications while they wait for their ed decision from Cornell. As for RD, it makes no difference at that point because all your applications are already out, but I think that Cornell and some other schools still sometimes use them for RD. There are not many athletes that do RD if their first choice has ED and they have been recruited by the school. I guess any likely letters that are sent out by Cornell RD are not for recruited athletes as almost all of them go ED.</p>
<p>From what I’ve seen in the past, the majority of likely letters go out to athletes, URM’s, and females applying to the engineering school.</p>