Poll: Did you get a likely letter Cornell Class of 2025?

[CC_Jon]

Hello seniors! @asdfgabjkl was curious how many people on CC got likely letters from Cornell. Word has it there are more going out this year:

Cornell RD Class of 2025

seems like more people this year got likely letters, i saw lots of people on tiktok received them lol

Have you recieved a likely letter?

• Yes I got one!
• Not yet.
• I didn’t apply to Cornell, but I’m curious about the results.

I don’t know if all the likely letters have gone out already. If you vote “not yet” today and get one later on, feel free to reply below.

[emmastylianos]

do you know if they’re released all at once?

[CC_Jon]

I don’t think they are:

Which schools send (or have sent) "likely letters" and when do (did) they send them?

Yes, likely letters go out to very competitive applicants. Each school only probably sends 200~300 likely letters, but 200~300 do make up a hefty portion of the class. Harvard sends 300 likely letters starting mid-February (not necessarily all at once), and admits around 2,000 students. That is still 15% of all admits. To my knowledge, all Ivies except for Princeton send likely letters to non-athletic applicants. Other top tier schools like Stanford, Duke, and Chicago practice likely letters as well. Most go out mid to late February, but some (like Brown) are sent during early March. Therefore, there are still likely letters waiting to go out. At 5 PM EST today, Columbia sent out its first batch of likely letters, and will send out another early March. In my opinion, the primary reason the distribution is divided like this is because they haven’t read all the applications in committee yet. Here is a sample likely letter from Brown: https://www.quora.com/What-did-Kalvin-Lam-do-to-get…

I believe some departments send out letters to students they have tagged for admission as well.

[NATE20082915]

isn’t there a difference between a likely letter and an early write?

[skieurope]

Just because it’s on Quora, or CC for that matter, does not make it accurate. Harvard sends out roughly 300 likely letters. That is accurate. But it is for the whole admissions cycle, not starting mid-Feb, but October 1. But ~200 go out in Fall to recruited athletes, with the balance going out in Spring to non-athletes.
300 ‘Likely Letters’ Sent to Class of 2015 | News | The Harvard Crimson.

[skieurope]

Early writes are done for recruited athletes, generally the summer after junior year, and are based on GPA and test scores. I don’t know what they did this year with test optional.

Early writes give the athlete some direction as to what the admissions decision may be, but it is not a guarantee. Likely Letters require a completed application.

[NATE20082915]

okay thanks!