<p>Hey everyone!</p>
<p>Heard Yale has started sending out likely letters. Has anyone gotten one from Harvard yet? And does Harvard predominantly send likelies to athletic recruits?</p>
<p>Thanks!!</p>
<p>Yes, most Harvard likely letters are sent to athletes. Many received them in the fall or December. A few are sent to academic stars (the general belief is around 10-12 total).</p>
<p>whoa seriously? 10-12 ppl. a friend of mine got one last year. and he was pretty darn exceptional i would say.</p>
<p>My daughter received one today, and she is not an athlete. The letter is beautiful; she is elated; her parents are stunned.</p>
<p>Fauve’s info sounds off to me. Harvard begins reviewing apps in December. Harvard doesn’t know who’s applying in the fall, so how could they be sending LL?</p>
<p>Congrats to your daughter CCSHSM. It must be nice :).</p>
<p>Oh, congrats CSShsm…what a great time you must be having in your household! I’m sure she worked hard for it and deserves it and hope you all are on cloud 9!</p>
<p>yay they’re out!</p>
<p>congratz csshsm! did your daughter apply very early?</p>
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where did you hear this?</p>
<p>I would say that I’m excited, but the chances of me receiving a likely letter are probably .000001%, so I’ll just wait till April and hopefully the news won’t be too crushing.</p>
<p>If you look at a thread from 2009, by this time last year, ppl were posting about receiving likelies from Yale</p>
<p>Man, gotta admit, the thought of a likely letter is enough to elicit some wistful sighs. Of course, I hardly could hope to expect a regular acceptance, let alone an early one!
My, my, though…</p>
<p>Major congrats to csshsm!</p>
<p>I think that the athletes that schools are recruiting are pretty well identified very early on. A few stories that I can share are 1) An athlete girl from our town was accepted two years ago. The receipt of her likely letter was known by Mid-January. So she had to have received it by that point. 2) Friends son is a recruited Football player. According to mother, Harvard was one of many pursuing him and was basically guaranteed admission if he applied (regardless of academics - but then again he cannot be that bad since he attends a private school with worldwide reputation). He did not choose Harvard (now having regrets) and made his commitment to another school all the way back in July. 3) Football/Basketball athlete from my daughter’s year got his Amherst likely letter in November (I know that is not Harvard but still highly selective school)</p>
<p>My reason for these comments is in response to the statement that Harvard does not know who are applying in the fall. For athlete recruits, schools do know about them because they have been pursuing them well in advance and therefore the possibility of early likely letters is real.</p>
<p>Both Harvard and Yale recruited a football player at my school back in November. It wasn’t a likely letter, but he says Harvard essentially told him that he would be in if he got an SAT score above a certain cutoff.</p>
<p>Millancad- Ivy league likely letters can be sent as early as mid-October. For highly desireable athletes whom are receiving money offers from non-Ivy schools, likely letters are an essential tool for Harvard to gain athletes’ commitments. </p>
<p>With the end of EA at Harvard, LL tend to go out later, morelike December. If you would like specific examples, go to the Athletic Recruits section of Special Admissions section of CC, where there was a flurry of LLetter activity at the end of last year.</p>
<p>ccshm – congrats. if your daughter is not an athlete, what is her special hook which occassioned a likely letter?</p>
<p>@ yodastreet: What was the SAT cut-off?</p>
<p>They told him 1700. I’m guessing the reason that it was so low is because his 3.95 GPA made up for it in Academic Index calculation.</p>
<p>Thanks for the congratulations. Regarding her “hook”, we really don’t know. She does have national level stuff in her main interest, but I can’t imagine that was a hook in itself. She is just the kind of kid with a lot of a lot of things. Great scores, but not all 800s. Perfect grades, but not in a competitive school. School’s only NMSF. All the usual school ECs. Her essays were funny, but touching, and the recs I saw made me cry because they were so thoughtful. Never cured cancer or started a major charity. She really just made the most of the world she was offered. I am so awed that Harvard was able to see the potential this child has.</p>
<p>Your daughter should be very proud of herself, and you should be proud of her. I can’t tell you how jealous and envious I am of her at the moment :P. </p>
<p>Anyways, when did your daughter submit her application? Before the priority deadline (I would assume that most people who receive likely letters apply before December 15th, at the very least) or extremely close to Jan 1st?</p>