<p>A quick question: I read over on the Dartmouth forum that Yale sends out likely letters to some of its candidates. Is this true, and if so when would they mail these letters?</p>
<p>Yale does mail likely letters to its top recruited athletes and a few people with insane hooks. My understanding is that dozens, not hundreds, receive likely letters. They go out at different times for different people (many times depending on when an alumni interview or recruiting trip takes place), but almost certainly would have gone out by now, if that's what you're asking.</p>
<p>Ooh, I think I would go to heaven if I got a Yale likely letter. hehe</p>
<p>My understanding is Yale also sends likely letters to desirable URMs, and to top scholars/SAT scorers, in addition to recruited athletes.</p>
<p>Basically - led by Dartmouth - the Ivies increasingly are disregarding the April 1 notification date, which is becoming a dead letter. </p>
<p>What you will shortly have, IMHO, is a form of rolling admissions, as each school tries to steal a recruiting edge on the "competition".</p>
<p>The desirable recruits will be clutching a fi****ll of February and March "likely letters" in the same way top recruits a few years ago were celebrating multiple admissions letters on April 1.</p>
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<p>[note: the automatic censor is quirky - it excised the middle 4 letters of the word you get when you combine "fist" with "full"! Odd indeed!]</p>
<p>If you didn't get a likely letter last month, you aren't getting in at all.</p>
<p>duh.</p>
<p>If you think that was a brilliantly witty or satirical response, let me tell you that you're dead wrong.</p>
<p>just trying to lighten the mood.</p>
<p>I wasn't trying to be incredibly witty or satirical.</p>
<p>but here's a joke anyways.</p>
<p>Banta Singh, coming back from a late night movie was attacked by a thief. There was a terrific fight and Banta gave a good account for himself. But finally the thief tied him down and went through his pockets. He found only 25 Paisa.</p>
<p>The exasperated robber exclaimed "What the hell! Why were you fighting for only 25 Paisa?"</p>
<p>Banta replied "Oh. You were only after this 25 paise is it ? I thought you were after the Rs.1,000 I have hidden in my left shoe".</p>
<p>Ah sorry... a little quick to react.</p>
<p>BTW, any reason why them Sardars are always the butt of such jokes?</p>
<p>I dunno. I'm Catholic.</p>
<p>i doubt yale sends likely letters to people simply for being top scholars/SAT scorers. I got a 2400 in one sitting and i was deferred SCEA.</p>
<p>It takes more than simple SAT scores to make you a recruitablesuperstar. USAToday winner? Intel Award? National debate champion?</p>
<p>Firstly: hi, Gautam! (Er, sorry...Gautambhatia.)</p>
<p>Next...</p>
<p>Yes, I would imagine Yale's "likely letter" cache would be much more selective than most...after all, they're one of HYP; they like suspense and they have a reputation to maintain...not that many of the schools that send likely letters don't. I got a likely letter from Dartmouth yesterday, and UVA today (which means a shot at Echols), but though I hope desperately for one from Yale, I have to admit that I think the odds are very slim. (2380 SAT, by the way, and 4.0 UW about 4.6 W, all 5s 6 APs. But it's YALE.)</p>
<p>It's like April in February....:)</p>
<p>i'm not sure what I would do with myself if I got a likely letter from Yale.</p>
<p>I might be mistakened, but I think I saw that there was a poster quite a while ago who posted a link to site with all her college letters. And I think she received a Yale likely letter...might have been something else, though. Anyway, she was an RSI scholar, I think.</p>
<p>yea it's been posted and reposted all over CC. If anyone wants to see it, just use the search function.</p>
<p>yeah Yale sends around 100 likely letters</p>