<p>harvardlite, it’s larmon’s likely letter scanned into the computer so we can see that he’s legit.</p>
<p>thx. wht does it say?? anything special… (of course its special, and i wish i cud read it)</p>
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nah, how about an iTampon?</p>
<p>oh stupefy, you clever thing you.</p>
<p>seriously, larmoney, congrats on the LL. <em>sits and pines</em></p>
<p>thx. wht does it say?? anything special… (of course its special, and i wish i cud read it) ???</p>
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just stating the obvious, but thank you ;)</p>
<p>haha. I love the banter that goes on at CC sometimes 
it’s almost enough to balance out the plethora of annoying people here! :P</p>
<p>Do International Students get Likelies?</p>
<p>BTW if they post these likelies only by March, the students would probably receive the letter only after the official decisions are announced.</p>
<p>Karottu: officially they can send them out up to the middle of March but that doesn’t make much sense does it? There would be no reason for a LL to be sent in mid - March to someone who finds out their decision on April 1.</p>
<p>So are likelies sent to international students?</p>
<p>karottu: I don’t know if LLs get sent to internationals. This I do know however and I can’t stress it enough: Likely Letters are extremely rare and NO ONE besides the most recruited athletes should even THINK of receiving one. Like I first noted 200-300 LLs are sent by Yale any given year. IF half of them (and this is a stretch) went to non-athlete recruits, that equates to 100-150 LLs each season. This year, Yale rec’d approx 25800 applications.</p>
<p>That means statistically, 0.04 to 0.06% of applicants will receive a non-athlete Likely Letter. Now you tell me what person continues to ponder if they are in the .04 to .06% of a pool of applicants like Yale receives? Should ANY person pine away, seeking one of these golden tickets? Should any person waste 5 minutes of energy worrying about if he/she is the .04 to .06% of a group of 26000 top performing applicants? (I’m not talking about your high school peers, I’m talking about the applicant pool for Yale)</p>
<p>Basically, no one should be hoping for Likely letters. If you happen to get one, by all means, congratulations to you. But if you don’t, know that 1700-1800 kids get accepted without ever receiving one.</p>
<p>I guess you are right.
Being accepted by these colleges, in itself, is a difficult task. And I believe it is even more difficult for internationals.</p>
<p>But it would be funny if a person received the likely letter after the results are published online.</p>
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<p>Intl students DO get likelies, I got one very recently, and to my utter shock (considering the insane time differences) I also received a wonderful call from my area admissions officer today. </p>
<p>However, listen to T26E4 - statistically likelies are in the extreme minority, and likelies for internationals are the extreme extreme minority. I’d cite the old adage - prepare for the worst, but hope for the best.</p>
<p>And definitely don’t over-rationalise or over-strategise the college admissions process, second guessing every little thing. Its amazing to get into such fantastic colleges (or the potential of), but everyone can very well live a full, wonderful life regardless of where they go for college.</p>
<p>unlikely letters would be awful. hahaha</p>
<p>Just got a likely letter!!! I can’t believe it! 
It was in a small envelope :S, so I had no idea what it was! It’s dated march 8, but got here like on the 16… slow post offices… :D</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone on april 1st!!!</p>
<p>@Emmanuelcarro: What school was it if you don’t mind me asking? And CONRATS!!!</p>
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<p>Someone posted about his/her sister getting one from Duke last year and then getting rejected, but in 99.9999999% of cases, it’s basically guaranteed admission.</p>
<p>Unlikely letters might actually be good, imo… saves you the useless hoping xP</p>
<p>Getting a likely letter only to be rejected must be the worst feeling in the world. I literally think I would cry.</p>
<p>^ I KNOW, right? 
And imagine if you’d already told your friends/family about getting in to “X” school… and then didn’t… </p>
<p>Here is the link to the post, btw, if anyone was wondering. It’s the fifth post down, by glassesarechic: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/868297-likely-letters-3.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/868297-likely-letters-3.html</a></p>
<p>But never fear. I’m fairly sure it doesn’t happen often. Liiike, miniscule :)</p>
<p>@ fuzzyfirebunny: Thanks! From Yale :)</p>