<p>Not to one-up you cardsecret but I just received a likely letter from the White House. Turns out those national elections are shams and that the president is pre-selected decades before he/she is inaugurated. Take a guess who’s up for 2036?</p>
<p>Isn’t 2036 when that asteroid is going to wipe out humanity?</p>
<p>I think getting a likely from Harvard, Yale and Stanford is definitely possible for cardsecret if he is a genius in some area. The people I know of are normally cross admits who get accepted to all of the top schools. So if he really is outstanding I really don’t see a doubt in his likely. The top 200 academic students are probably been heavily recruited by many schools.</p>
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<p>This is a new initiative launched by the Admissions Office. Their goal is to have Skype video chats replace phone interviews for applicants in remote regions.</p>
<p>For those who doubt my Stanford likely letter, here are some quotes of interest from the letter:</p>
<p>“It gives me great pleasure to inform you that initial reviews of your application indicate you will be offered admission to Stanford.” (1st sentence of the letter)</p>
<p>“You join a select few of the many applicants to Stanford who have been identified by admission officers as exceedingly successful in your academic and other pursuits.”</p>
<p>“We will hold a place for you in the freshman class and send you a formal announcement of your admission in early April by letter and email.”</p>
<p>"(Name), you are among a very small group of applicants for whom I have the privilege of extending an early offer to Stanford.</p>
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<p>An interested thing to take note of is that Yale’s letter really is the only LIKELY letter of the three. (Yet, I received a phone call and e-mail from Yale that really made it obvious I had a place in the class 2014, e.g. title of e-mail was “Welcome to the Yale class of 2014”)</p>
<p>Harvard doesn’t call or e-mail, just sends a letter through postal correspondence. This letter is clearly a letter of admission, or as close as you can get with the Ivy League. (Quotes from this letter can be found in earlier posts in this thread)</p>
<p>Stanford’s letter is basically an admissions letter as well. The word likely is not used. No phone call or e-mail, just a letter. Also, this is one of the few letters that is not commonly cited- there are not many statistics on how many people receive this type of letter. (Yale ~70 applicants, Harvard~7-12 applicants, only academic likely letters)</p>
<p>Again, my accomplishments are purely academic and extracurricular, and do not deal with athletics. Perhaps my test scores and GPA aren’t unbelievable compared to SOME people here, but they are apparently good enough to receive likely letters for the three most selective schools in the country.</p>
<p>P.S.- No RSI. I wanted to, but was too lazy to apply.</p>
<p>So what have you accomplished?</p>
<p>cardsecret: are you URM? What is your hook?</p>
<p>not sure if cardsecret is truthful or not, but it is possible. My son received a likely letter from Brown (2 years ago) and then did get the official acceptance in April. He’s now attending Harvard, but did NOT get a likely from Harvard. He’s not a recruited athlete.</p>
<p>^ It’s possible to the slimest of margins… It’s something like the limit as x approaches 0 of 1/x… If cardsecret was a recruited athlete, this would be a different story, but cardsecret keeps on insisting that everything is academic, but he/she has failed to give us to details as to what he/she thinks got her a likely letter to three top colleges… The fact that he/she got NOT ONE but THREE likely letters FOR academics is basically impossible, without reason. And it seems like cardsecret has no reason for this.</p>
<p>good point smarts1. My son only received 1 likely and it was from Brown (academics). Oh well, people always like to ■■■■■ these sites. we should just let it go and not give it any more thought</p>
<p>Last year someone I know received an academic likely from Harvard, but Harvard only. He also got accepted into Yale and Princeton, but received no likelies from them. </p>
<p>Hence, I’m extremely skeptical of cardsecret’s claims.</p>
<p>How does one even be an ‘academic’ likely candidate?</p>
<p>quite honestly, if you think about it, it isn’t less likely that a person receive three likely letters than 1
consider an extremely excellent student, like extremely extremely excellent then it makes perfect sense that they receive letters from all 3, as each school’s likely letter just adds further confirmation of the student’s beastness (if that’s a word…)</p>
<p>i guess I can’t attest to the other two, but I did receive my stanford likely letter today and it does say exactly what cardsecret claimed</p>
<p>so all i have left to say is congrats to cardsecret for being evidently so awesome that 3 of the most elite schools in the nation sent him/her likely letters</p>
<p>There have to be thousands of other students just as qualified/impressive as he is. It is mathematically less likely that he receives three letters. Also, when he received his Harvard letter is a little suspicious (the very day after he creates this thread). Congrats on the Stanford letter, though!</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>i guess another way to look at this is
either this person is insanely good and absolutely deserves it
or
this person is a ■■■■■…which means, who cares anyway</p>
<p>Why do you think that there have to be thousands of other students that are impressive as him?</p>
<p>Today, I received a Stanford package containing a letter and booklet describing their undergraduate research programs.</p>
<p>I am not a URM, but I do have hooks. From what I can tell, each university took interest in a different aspect of my application: (for privacy reasons, I can’t be too specific)</p>
<p>Stanford, it seems, took interest in my funded computer research projects. They also probably took interest in my self-founded businesses. </p>
<p>Yale, from what I gleaned from my phone conversation and e-mail, valued my creative expression.</p>
<p>Harvard seemed to value my academics (good act, good sat II’s, A LOT of college credits) as well as my significant work with charity.</p>
<p>I also have to say that my recommendations were very, very strong. Also, essay was very strong as well.</p>
<p>Messrs. cardsecret and “Bigmakk” are hereby sentenced to burn at the stake for felony counts of mendacity, perjury, Likely Letter fraud and ■■■■■■■■ of the first degree.</p>
<p>Mr. cardsecret testified before this court that the HIGHLY unlikely had happened - that he had received Likely Letters from Harvard, Yale and Stanford. The only other person that corroborated Mr. cardsecret’s testimony was Mr. Bigmakk. When the prosecution implicitly questioned Mr. Bigmakk’s existence by pointing out that Mr. Bigmakk had only once posted on CC, Mr. Bigmakk retorted, “Haha yeah sorry that I only have one post, I usually just read through CC threads, never really felt compelled to make a profile [***?]. Just wanted to back up cardsecret when I saw people disbelieving the letter.” Although Mr. Bigmakk’s statement seems to imply that he has been a part of CC for some time, a simple look at Mr. Bigmakk’s information reveals that he joined CC only a day after Mr. cardsecret’s Likely Letters came into question. Therefore, this court finds that Mr. Bigmakk is indeed nonexistent; this court finds that Mr. Bigmakk was illicitly fabricated by Mr. carsecret in an attempt to spuriously substantitate his Likely Letters. </p>
<p>This court further admonishes other CCers; don’t waste your time lying to a bunch of stressed out high schoolers, for stressed high schoolers make for perspicacious lie detectors!</p>
<p>P.S. If you’re going to lie, don’t be so painfully vague - its suspicious. “Yale, from what I gleaned from my phone conversation and e-mail, valued my creative expression.” “Creative expression”? OK, Yale valued my sardonic demeanor. </p>
<p>“Harvard seemed to value my academics (good act, good sat II’s, A LOT of college credits)”. Any CCer can see the inherent problem in claiming to have received a Likely Later based on ACT and SAT performance.</p>
<p>completely agree with the act/sat/college credits… no one will get a likely letter for just those or thousands of people would be getting likelies</p>
<p>^yes, 'tis true. sorry, but i have a 34/strong SAT II/college credits and no likely here. those aren’t even distinguishing factors. something else must have differentiated you. must’ve been the work with charity and the other awesome stuff you have accomplished.</p>