<p>Some of you have posted about receiving a thin envelope with a thank you from their prospective college in mid feb</p>
<p>I believe this might be a possible likely letter, being that it tells students the advantages of the school</p>
<p>Also my mom received the same letter from Lehigh, but it spoke about talking to alumni</p>
<p>The admissions board has already gotten a chance to look at many students applications minus the midyear report, which many have only been sending recently. They have probably sent this letter to strong applicants, who will most likely get in if their midyear report is decent. I have heard that a school accepts you and then looks at the midyear report before making the final decision</p>
<p>Plus, my friend, who has mediocre stats did not receive a letter</p>
<p>Most of the applicants on this page are solid, good students so most have probably received letters</p>
<p>Though, this is only a guess. I am not certain</p>
<p>I got the two you are talking about from the engineering department and I am most definitely not a strong applicant for their program. I am probably in the 40-45th percentile for admitted students (for the entire school) from last year and I hear that the engineering department is MUCH more difficult. I don't know anyone else(locally) that's applying to Lehigh so I don't have anything to compare myself with...</p>
<p>I could see this as a logical idea if the kids getting the letters were 1450's, straight A applicants but they're(or I'm) not.</p>
<p>I dont think its a "likely letter" persay, but I think they are sending us stuff because they believe we are a competitive applicants at their schools</p>
<p>as of today, my friend, with lower stats, has not received anything.</p>
<p>Plus I dont understand why they would send these letters out this late to students they have already rejected. Usually they send the booklets and stuff right after you applied</p>
<p>Though, I do not want to get any of your hopes up. It is far from a confirmation of acceptance</p>
<p>I really hope that is what those letters mean. I mean, I guess I could have gotten in but it is a HUGE reach for me. I only had a 1280 lol. But yeah, I don't see why they would waste their time sending out letters to people that they rejected, especially this late in the game. But they could have just sent it to everyone because they were just starting to look at the RD kids. It wouldve been right around the time that they sent out ED II letters and started looking at reg letters right?</p>
<p>My son received a likely letter from another college and the wording went something like this:
"While we can't send out official letters of acceptance at this time, when we do you will likely receive one."</p>
<p>My S received a letter from Lehighlast week and we received a letter from the parents association about a week before. From what I hear lots of school are sendling out "likely letters", but they vary as to what they say. In our case, the letter waas from the Dean of the Arts & sciences school thanking him for his application- never actually send he was in, but urged him to consider Lehigh when he does make a decision.</p>
<p>We got these letters too. Does anyone remember if the common application had a section for alternate majors? My son thought he applied for Bio in the A&S school but the letter he received was from the Engineering school. We're thinking maybe he put bio-engineering as a second choice and they bounced him over there. We're not sure whether to call or just leave it be. </p>
<p>Btw, we have an older child at Lehigh and I don't remember getting any letters prior to acceptance.</p>
<p>I don't know about likely letters, especially for intels (never heard of such), but if you were to judge admission possibilty by everything you receive by e-/mail, then I am screwed. I didn't even receive the e-mail about the chat and everybody else from my school who applied there received it :( .</p>
<p>Have you checked to make sure they received your application? That they have your correct e-mail? That it didn't get routed to your spam folder? All of these things (in addition to a transposed phone number that thankfully the person setting up interviews took the time to check) have happened to us at one time or another. A few years back, we got a nice plastic bag from the post office with my daughter's UPenn application in it, with half of it torn off and lost. I mean, it only had to go about 20 miles....</p>
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<p>My son got the "Thank you for your continued interest in Lehigh" postcard today, too.
His midyear transcript was logged in Feb. 16, so maybe that's why the postcard was sent.</p>
<p>We got the postcard, too, but it was directing us to look at the "new " website- it did begin "Thank you for your continued interest..." - didn't participate in the chat, so I don't think that had anything to do witth it. I don't consider this a "likely letter". We received a letter last week, that began Dear...</p>