<p>Likely letters. Recruited athletes (and some others) in the Ivy League receive Likely Letters and are admitted during the early round. Over the past few years Yale has been de-emphasizing athletics and recruiting fewer athletes - this is why you see fewer EA admits at Yale than peer schools. (No LL’s at Stanford or MIT)</p>
<p>Just for the record, Stanford does have likely letters. My sister got one last year; I think one of her friends did too. Neither were for athletic recruiting or anything though, but they should send those if they send general ones too.</p>
<p>to the ACCEPTED - congrats guys!
to rejected/deferred- am sure, ull end up in a good place for sure!! good luck
and heres my question to the all the accepted people:
so, what was ur SAT 1 score and the ECs?
also, to the international students who were accepted- what were ur stats?
i know guys, they are somewhere here itself (@the stats) but i tried reading pretty much the whole thread but alas! nothing was to be found (or maybe i skipped some pages or somehting
anyway, thanks! :)</p>
<p>I agree with you that some numbers should not be taken as face value. The same logic applies to the ranking numbers. I believe the ranking is even less reliable. It is based on so many subjective numbers. Therefore, even though Harvard and Princeton ranked 1 or 2, that don’t mean they are any better than Yale, Stanford, or MIT. Selectivity can be more objectively evaluated by class ranking, GPA, SAT, SAT II, etc. When you look at those numbers, Yale comes on top most of the time. The bottom line is that it is pointless to put a ranking on the top 4 or 5 colleges. They are pretty much the same, each has its egdes in soem areas. It is kind of a fool’s game trying to say one is better than the other. US News should just quit doing that and creating the illusion that the ranking actually means much.</p>