<p>Anyone get one?</p>
<p>I know kids who got them from Yale and Princeton. I do not know anybody who has received one from Harvard.
According to the 2016 Harvard RD thread here on CC, though, a kid from Australia claimed he received one. Check that thread or PM him to confirm.</p>
<p>yes 
in january</p>
<p>@knitswim Congratulations! How’s the likely letter like? Thanks</p>
<p>What did it say? Are you going to accept?
Congratulations!!</p>
<p>Likely letters basically inform recipients that pending nothing dramatic (criminal activity, fraud), the admissions committee fully expects to make an offer once the official notification date arrives. Basically it’s an offer before the actual offer. They are marketing tools used by some colleges to get in the door with their most coveted applicants – b/c they know others will be courting them as well.</p>
<p>But the huge majority of eventual acceptees never see one. So don’t let this stress you out.</p>
<p>^basically that! Thanks I don’t know if I’ll go yet.</p>
<p>I’m the “kid from Australia [that claims] he received one”.</p>
<p>My admissions officer told me that Harvard sent me a likely letter because I was from a remote part of the world, had barely any assistance in the application process and could potentially need extra persuading to go to Harvard because my local university starts its academic year in late February. He also mentioned that the number of non-athletic likely letters Harvard sends out is minute. Basically, if you don’t receive a likely letter (or a likely call followed by a likely letter, as in my case), don’t worry. Likely letters seem to only be given out in exceptional circumstances. </p>
<p>Best of luck to all of you :)</p>
<p>If you haunt the other Ivy sites you’ll see some of them send likely letters in batches. Harvard seems not to to the degree some others do. That said, even for those that do, it’s a small number of the applicants who will be offered admission very soon anyway.</p>