<p>The 500 top applicants also received likely letters, I believe, so shouldn’t only likely-receivers have gotten letters etc from faculty? Or are the letters talked about in that article completely different? As one who got faculty letters, but no likely letter, I’m a bit confused, so any help is much appreciated, even if this is kind of a moot point by now :)</p>
<p>Infinity, there should be a correction to that paragraph in a future issue of the Justice I know that there was a miscommunication with multiple versions of that article and a number mix-up.<br>
Originally, there were only going to send letters to the top 500, or more exactly, they asked the top 500 if they wanted to receive letters, that didn’t meet with such success. So they decided to widen that project to all accepted students and they just send the letters without asking. It was divided up: faculty contacted about 1,200, 250 or so current students recruited by the Student Union also contacted 1,200 students. Midyear students have been contacting midyear students and alumni have been correcting students they interviewed.
Likely letters are a separate thing, I don’t know exactly how they work.
In addition, for about 3 years, Brandeis has been sending out letters from department heads that are departmentwide and not as individualized to all students who indicate those majors.</p>
But this except from an article in The Justice confused me ([Acceptance</a> rate up 8 percent - News](<a href=“http://media.www.thejusticeonline.com/media/storage/paper573/news/2009/04/07/News/Acceptance.Rate.Up.8.Percent-3700272-page3.shtml]Acceptance”>http://media.www.thejusticeonline.com/media/storage/paper573/news/2009/04/07/News/Acceptance.Rate.Up.8.Percent-3700272-page3.shtml)) :</p>