<p>what sport are you guys? track here.
really? .005%? i'm pretty sure that means 1 person would get it out of 20000. check my math.
they actually didn't tell me anything about a likely letter on my visit. the coach had mentioned it before, but it really became a possibility after i started getting football offers. i had a pretty good season (conference champs, all conference, allstar game blah blah blah), and i don't think he wanted to lose me to some lowly football coach (he never would have though).</p>
<p>Anyone out there who isn't an athlete and got a likely letter? If so, why do you think you got one?</p>
<p>hey, swimmer over here. </p>
<p>ya, having other D1 offers (especially non-ivy) helps tremendously when you're trying to secure a likely letter. </p>
<p>btw, 0.005 is around 100 letters for 20000 applicants. sometimes it can be even fewer than that.</p>
<p>The likely letters have also been increased this year for athletes because in order to be competitive with schools that have early action the coaches have to be able to follow the same timeline the other schools do. If a recruit can get an offer from Yale or Brown in the fall it would completely hamstring the Harvard coaches if they couldn't make an offer until the spring.</p>
<p>Also, I don't know about Harvard specifically sending out non-athletic likely letters, but I got a likely letter from Yale for non-athletic reasons even though I applied to them regular (I got into Harvard early, but this was back in 2005, I'm class of 2009). Yale told me they send them to 100 students annually (not including student-athletes), so I would imagine Harvard would have similar numbers.</p>
<p>h-bomber, why do you think you received a likely letter from Yale?</p>
<p>i got recruited for women's crew.
where are you guys all from?</p>
<p>I think what was typed, "(<0.005% of all applicants -most being atheltes)," was a change of thought during typing the sentence for "0.005 of all applicants." Add the percent sign adds two more decimal places, which is why token89 (and I) were startled by the number. But surely it was just a typo, rather like the "know" for "no" that I sometimes put into online messages.</p>
<p>tokenadult is right, sorry for the confusion everyone</p>
<p>the figure should be 0.5%</p>
<p>i keep hearing that harvard sends likely letters to nonathletes, but i still haven't heard of anyone who has ever gotten one. there must be some out there...</p>
<p>There were some nonathlete likely letters reported last year on CC, but they came after the turn of the year.</p>
<p>A good friend of mine got a likely letter from Harvard last year. She wasn't an athlete; but she WAS insanely smart and had great leadership.</p>
<p>She also got likely letters from MIT, Stanford, and Penn.</p>
<p>Best part: she had a 2200 SAT score. Just goes to show you that SAT scores aren't everything.</p>
<p>stanford and Penn give out likely to non-athletes?</p>
<p>Ivies give out likely letters to athletes mostly but also to non-athletes too.</p>
<p>I've been told that MIT does not give out likely letters.</p>
<p>I got recruited for crew</p>
<p>Oh for athletics they do. ItsAllJibberish said that her friend was nonathletic though.</p>
<p>MIT is not in the Ivy League. </p>
<p>My daughter received a phone call from the Harvard admissions office last night, followed by an email, saying that she is admitted to Harvard and will be receiving her likely letter in a couple of days. She is not an athlete.</p>
<p>CONGRATS!! Wow, the first on CC so far this year who is non-athlete.</p>
<p>congrats!!! please can you list her stats?</p>