<p>Many people have been getting likely letters. </p>
<p>A few have been accepted to CAS, which is the same school I applied too. </p>
<p>Should I assume rejection from CAS or wait till March 31?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Only on CC. Most accepted CAS students (2500) will find out March 31.</p>
<p>buuuuuuuuuuuuuuump</p>
<p>buuuuuuuuuuuuuump</p>
<p>there are 2500 in the cas class, but how many are really accepted? cornell doesn’t have 100% yield after all…</p>
<p>The question was answered. Many people get acceptances. Few people get likely letters.</p>
<p>And there are far fewer than 2500 in the CAS class.</p>
<p>Are you asking if you should assume you’re rejected because you didn’t get a likely letter? Is that a joke?</p>
<p>what’s the logic behind sending likely letters to some accepted students and not the others?</p>
<p>so that before they get any other acceptances, they’ll bear in their minds that they definitely have cornell… which will coax many (who might have abs. outstanding stats so they might be recruited by many others as well) to decide on cornell very early.</p>
<p>also, for the OP. ur kidding right? very few gets likely letters… CC probably contains 80% of them -_-.. (exaggeration. but it could be true) not getting a likely letter means NOTHING besides that you might not have perfect 4.0 and 2400.. relax. just wait till 31st. not getting a letter definitely does not mean you’re rejected.</p>
<p>In theory, I think Cornell probably sends likely letters to all accepted girls applying for Engineering, as we can see most of them on CC are females, who mostly do not have abs. outstanding stats.</p>
<p>I think it’s probably because Cornell wants as many girls as possible for its engineering. For males, unless they really have super stellar stats, Cornell is not deprived of qualified male applicants, and so doesn’t bother to send the accepted male applicants likely letters.</p>
<p>Just what I hypothesize.</p>
<p>Yeah…that was the question i really wanted answered</p>
<p>“what’s the logic behind sending likely letters to some accepted students and not the others?”</p>
<p>thanks for the answer.</p>
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<p>The point of likely letters is to attract students Cornell really wants (female engineers, top hockey players, high-scoring URMs, etc.) as opposed to the applicants Cornell kinda sorta wants (the 2100 SAT score Asians with 3-page laundry list EC’s…you know, the typical CCer). The likely letters are used to make these special applicants feel, well, special because they now have their decisions while their peers have to sweat it out for 3 more weeks. It makes them think, “Wow, Cornell must really love me!” and they would be 100% correct. You can see how giving everyone likely letters would essentially make likely letters obselete. Cornell might as well move up its decision date if it’s going to do that.</p>
<p>thewho123: all we can do is hope for the best on March 31st, Cornell has a new message out on its self-service system, basically it says they’ll email you, and send the steps to check it on March 31st after 5.</p>
<p>Now I have no idea why I got a likely letter. I am a male, white, Jewish prospective engineer with a 3.43 GPA and a 2320 SAT.</p>
<p>^Yea, me either. haha j/k Did your dad donate a building or something?</p>
<p>nope, no legacy whatsoever</p>
<p>i’ve been feeling the same as the person who started this thread… hearing that a bunch of applicants are receiving letters DOES makes me anxious and a bit less hopeful about the decisions at the end of this month… but yeah, i agree with norcalguy, that’s a good point.</p>
<p>if you read the acceptance threads for the last couple of years, you will see how many people hear on decision day and it is the vast majority.</p>
<p>You guys don’t freak out, i just talked to one of the high admission director, and she said they only sent out like 5% of the decisions, and we have to wait till 31st since they just adopted new technology which delayed their application reading. ^^ hopefully everybody will read this and be happy.</p>
<p>i just talked to her.. hehe
good lukc yall</p>
<p>I never got a likely letter and was accepted last year.
Don’t give up!
CORNELL ROCKS!!!</p>