Princeton Likely Letter!

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<p>What's your hook? URM? Recruited athlete?</p>

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<p>They send them? An admissions counselor from Princeton that I talked to said that they didn't.</p>

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<p>Princeton INVENTED the "likely letter"!</p>

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<p>I'm a recruited athlete</p>

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<p>I got one from Penn</p>

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<p>congrats!</p>

<p>which school did you apply to</p>

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<p><a href="http://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=6807%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=6807&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>I know absolutely nothing about sports, especially college sports, but it still seems to me like an article that's more than eight years old is probably not a good or current source of information...</p>

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<p>Are you kidding? There are 3-5 times as many "likelies" sent now - depending on the school.</p>

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<p>I agree with you there... but Princeton Athletics, in my opinion, are a notch above Yale's... :-P</p>

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<p>I don't think Yalies would argue strenuously about that. Yale has better a capella groups, however.</p>

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<p>i dont know enough about that to argue... i'll take your word for it</p>

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<p>It's great to see all you Princeton 09ers coming home for break and livening up the board. It's been pretty dull here without you. How is everyone doing? Is it anything like you thought it would be?</p>

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<p>omigosh...i never knew they sent out likely letters!! hmm.. how much credence does a likely letter stand? like who makes the decision to send out a likely letter?</p>

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<p>The same people who send out the admissions letters. Recipients are notified that they are "likely" (wink-wink) to be admitted.</p>

<p>For athletes, this allows them to safely turn down an athletic scholarship offer from a school granting such - which needs to be accepted or declined within a small window in the late Fall.</p>

<p>The device has, in recent years, been adapted to woo desirable URMs, and, indeed, desirable applicants of all kinds. Dartmouth, for example, sent out more than 500 "likelies" last year, with only a minor fraction going to athletes.</p>

<p>The thought is that by being the first to tell the kid that you love them you gain a recruiting advantage over other schools whose first contact comes on April 1.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.collegejournal.com/aidadmissions/newstrends/20030127-chaker.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.collegejournal.com/aidadmissions/newstrends/20030127-chaker.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p><a href="http://www.thedartmouth.com/article.php?aid=2005022401040%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.thedartmouth.com/article.php?aid=2005022401040&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>REally???? What did it say??</p>