Got a likely letter today from UPENN, pleasant surprise!!!
Questions, do people who have applied to dual degree programs usually get LL’s?
Are all the LL’s released or some left?
Yes dual degree applicants get likelies but later. Last year normal applicants got on 14 on Dual degree ones got on 28th.
Congratulations to those who got likely letters! Would you be willing to post your stats?
@marioharvy “I got Berkeley Regents but DID Not get UPENN LIKELY LETTER! 
freaking out”
DD got Berkeley Regents’ and Chancellor’s last year. She did not get a likely from Penn, but did get admitted regular admission to SEAS. When I took her to Quaker Days, the first person she met was a boy she met at the Berkeley interview day for the Berkeley Regents scholarship. lol
It is not time to freak out yet. You have a good chance. I know it seems like forever, but hang in there.
@ambitious19 “Also, does a likely letter mean I’m guaranteed a spot? Because I have a B- currently in AP Calc (senioritis…help…) and a B+ in AP Lit and I’m genuinely afraid I’ll get rescinded. The way they phrase it doesn’t offer much comfort…”
Basically it means that you will be admitted, unless you do something wrong. Do not commit a felony between now and Ivy day. Do not wind up on the cover of the New York Times for some bad thing you did.
With regard to grades, I would suggest that you work to raise that B-. A B- will not get your rescinded, but a D could, and you do not want to get that close to the fire where a couple of dumb mistakes could get you rescinded. Use your likely as motivation to refocus on it.
they got sent out already 
Did anyone get a likely letter? I read that they will be sent out soon
@Much2learn Thank you for the advice! And congrats to your DD. Is she currently a student at Penn? Today my Calc teacher finally put in my homework points which raises my 82 to an 86. I’m not really shooting for an A at this point, although I understand that’s a pretty terrible thing to say. During my freshman to junior years I swore that I would resist senioritis as a second semester senior, but it’s easier said than done
@ Ambitious19 “Is she currently a student at Penn?” Yes, she is a freshman in Penn SEAS. She loves it there.
“I don’t think we’re expected to stay there for the entire duration”
Most students stayed, but I am sure they are flexible if you tell them in advance. By that time, you may have already shortened the list. DD’s final four admissions were Penn, Columbia, Cornell, and Berkeley (Chancellor’s and Regents). However, she had just visited Berkeley and Cornell, so she took a week off from school and we attended the Penn Quaker Days and then we took the train to Mid-town because Columbia’s admitted student days began a day after Penn’s ended.
Penn did a very good job of educating admits and parents about Penn and making the experience fun at the same time. The “Little Quakers” all stayed with students to get a feel for the campus, and there were a lot of fun activities planned for them in the evenings that really helped her assess how well she fit in with the students and admits, and decide which school was right for her.
Most of the parent activities were separate to give the admits some space to explore on their own.
@Ambitious19 I’m just curious, but what are your test scores? Congrats on the likely letter! I’m so jealous 
Anyone think/know that there will be more batches of likely letters? Not asking for myself because it would be self deprecating even hoping for a likely letter, let alone acceptance, with my all around averageness, but asking for a female STEM high stats friend of mine. She had part of her application missing (school report, I think?) and that was just sent in on Wednesday, so she doesn’t think her application has even been reviewed yet. Someone earlier said that last year they were sent in batches.
^would like to know too!
Unfortunately, things like that would result in rejections from admission because they just don’t have enough time to review such late applications. Not sure why you would even worry about a likely letter.
^nearly all schools are lenient about these things because it is very plausible it could have gotten lost in the mail or the student did everything they could and it was the counselor’s fault for being late. I’m not sure about Penn because I didn’t have any late materials there, but I did for UVA. They sent an email saying something similar to “Your portal indicates you have late material. If you do not submit this material by x date (usually 1-2 weeks away), your application will not be reviewed.” Another friend told me that for Duke, the message was the same, so I’m assuming Penn is the same as well.
@rippedfishnets the daily pennsylvanian said there will be a second batch of 200 likely letters in march
We just attended the information session 5 days ago and he said likely letters would go out in early March. Btw, it was a sincere and earnest great session and I was so impressed he didn’t use the word holistic.
One would like to believe that for two to three weeks, not 5 weeks. They will say the application is complete and start reviewing but you have to consider that the likelies are already being issued before this application was complete which means they have already reviewed a great many applications, made decisions on them etc. There are fewer seats to allocate as time progresses.
Keep in mind that likely letters do not necessarily go to the best candidates. They can send them to anyone they wish to send them to. You could be the best candidate that Penn has and if you are not in a group they are targeting for likely letters, you may not get one. Don’t assume that a student that gets one is better than you. Conversely, if you get one, you should not assume that you are better than those who did not. It does not work like that.
Some schools will send them to candidates who they have decided to admit who on paper look like long shots. The student can be a very margin candidate at times.
Uh @Much2learn I’d like to know how do you know that?