<p>I committed to an Ivy track program very late (October 30th) and applied ED on November 1st. However, I am getting skittish as I have not yet received a likely letter from the admissions office or a call despite the coach fully supporting my application and requesting a likely letter from admissions. Should I take this as a sign to again start talking with coaches at other schools? What's the latest a likely can be sent for recruits? Do recruits who don't receive likelies usually get deferred/rejected or is it still possible to be accepted?</p>
<p>I’m in the exact same situation your in (accidentally started an identical thread a couple minutes after you) and i’m totally lost on what to do. I’m still hoping for the LL but I also want to know if its time to pick up talks with other coaches.</p>
<p>Maybe the fact that you are both in the exact same situation means that you are future teammates. It could be a LL adcom meeting was postponed or delayed. I’d pick up the phone and see if the coach can give you any insight before you start reaching out to other schools</p>
<p>I emailed the coach a week ago and he said that the admissions office has to review all applications before final decisions. However, he didn’t mention anything specific regarding the likely. If I haven’t received a likely by the end of the week, I’ll take that as a sign to start looking else where :(</p>
<p>Calling and speaking with the coach is not even close to email communications. When my S went through the process, he submitted app towards the end of October and spoke with the coach weekly. The coach was able to keep him in the loop about the process. Three weeks after submission, he was told that the LL would be issued, and the actual letter arrived a week afterwards.</p>
<p>Nothing beats a phone call.</p>
<p>I don’t know about the Ivy to which you are applying, but in Ss case there was no waiting for all apps to be considered. Think about what the coach is telling you; ED apps won’t be read until next year. </p>
<p>Perhaps the school is awaiting things like recs, transcripts, etc., which are needed to make an app complete.</p>
<p>stemit, do you mean “RD applications won’t be read until next year”?</p>
<p>Ehnree, don’t take silence as a sign of anything. Make a phone call if you have a question. Commitments are being made all over the league right now. Silence could just mean the admissions committee hasn’t met this week. Silence could also mean the coach is dawdling because he has a better recruit who is trying to make up his mind. </p>
<p>The message to this coach from you should be: You are my first choice, as you know, as I’ve applied ED. I’ve put my other opportunities on hold and of course I’m really nervous as I wait for the admissions decision to issue a likely letter. I’d be happy to fax over anything that might be missing from my file if that’s the hold up. I’d really appreciate a call from you as soon as you know the status of my application." </p>
<p>I don’t think you need to open conversation with other Ivy coaches just yet: they must know you applied ED somewhere or you would be continuing to talk with them. If a coach from another Ivy calls and asks how things are going and if you’re still interested, be honest and say you’re waiting to hear from a school, and you’ll let them know immediately if you get an unfavorable read. Say you plan to be a part of this league and have had a difficult set of choices and know you would be happy and would contribute at any one of a number of schools. If theirs is your second/third choice, be particularly gracious!!</p>
<p>You really shouldn’t have applied early if you weren’t guaranteed a likely letter by the coach beforehand.
And if you were, then there should be no problem calling the coach to make sure everything is ok with admissions</p>
<p>Acceptance is not impossible. But you may have the same “chance” as other ED apps. What concerns me is that your app will be considered with all the other apps - athletic apps in some Ivys are considered by special admit committees meeting expressly for the purpose of moving the athletic apps through the process. </p>
<p>The coach said admissions had some concerns about my gpa but nothing other than that. The coach said admissions has not mentioned anything regarding issuing me a likely (don’t know if coach’s request for likely went through or not) despite full athletic support</p>
<p>I am confused, were you offered a Likely Letter by the coach in exchange for committing and applying ED, then applied ED and have not received the Likely Letter? Or did you commit, apply ED and assume or hope that you would get a Likely Letter? These are two completely different scenarios and if you were not offered a Likely Letter before you applied ED, I would keep the lines of communication open with other coaches.</p>
<p>Ehnree, some (all?) Ivies have a system where admissions will review the complete application on paper or electronic form before November 1st and give the coach a thumbs up or down on the likely letter. Then the coach calls the student before Nov 1 and tells him the LL is in the mail, which it is. Then the student can officially send the Comm App electronically before Nov 1 with full confidence that he will be admitted. Applying ED/EA is actually a formality because admissions has already agreed to let him in. </p>
<p>What you are describing sounds more like a situation where the coach is having you take all the risk, and is not really using a LL on you. He’s working on the hope that you’ll get in on your own. Offering to ask for a likely letter for you and confirming that you will accept it and attend is not the same thing as getting that agreement, going through admissions, telling you the LL is a done deal, and then having you apply.</p>
<p>It IS normal for you to see the LL as a mutual agreement, but it’s not a done deal until admissions actually offers the LL. </p>
<p>Keeping you in my thoughts. This could still have a good outcome for you. Hang in there.</p>
<p>Ehnree - so, this fall you sent in scores, transcripts, etc.
Ivy track coach offered to put you on his LL list to admissions
You accepted the offer and applied ED.</p>
<p>Now almost a month has gone by and coach is telling you admissions has concerns about your GPA? Admissions knew what your numbers were a month ago.</p>
<p>Were there some big staff changes recently, by chance?</p>
<p>…and I’ll just reiterate what everyone else has said…pick up the phone and call. Fishymom gave you a good script.
Best of luck, we can relate to how stressful this is.</p>
<p>Riverrunner: The coach definitely put in a request for one, at least he said he did. If he didn’t and expected me to just apply and walk on, that is a huge misunderstanding then because I thought I was under the same status as a “fully supported” recruit. Although I agree that having the likely in hand before applying would have been optimal, but that was not the case. </p>
<p>varska: I called very recently and he said admissions simply has not said anything. I do not even know if the request for a likely was denied or not. I’m completely in the dark. Oh well, all I can do is wait :/</p>
<p>I wanted to take a moment to thank everyone who has posted. It’s definitely a very stressful situation but I still have my fingers crossed. If I don’t end up getting in, I’ll be extremely disappointed but I still have great options! :)</p>
<p>Ehnree, it’s highly possible I’m misunderstanding.</p>
<p>Did the coach ask admissions to evaluate you for a likely letter and ask you to apply ED/EA to start that process?
Or had they already evaluated you for a likely letter and then the coach offered it to you, saying you should go ahead and apply ED/EA because you had been approved?</p>
<p>The former is a sure thing. The latter is not.</p>