<p>College admission trends are so tricky. Dmouth is an ivy and wayy harder to get into that JHU or Gtown, and yet i got accepted their early. So what does a waitlist mean...youre not good enough or they they think youre better and wont take the school? </p>
<p>whats the chance of getting into a higher ivy now after a dmouth likely letter?</p>
<p>The exact same as there were before getting the likely letter :). Haha I’ve gotten a likely from Dmouth and Cornell, but really they are all independent of one another. Ahh thank you AP stat…</p>
<p>If you got accepted to Dartmouth early, how did you apply to JHU and Georgetown? Your Dartmouth admission is binding.</p>
<p>@VeryHappy: likely letter… there are several threads on here about them.</p>
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That’s not how it SHOULD be done. IF a student applies to an Early Decision school and gets in, then the high school should not have sent out said student’s transcript to any other school. A school district near me does this all the time and it is wrong because it takes the chances away from other students.</p>
<p>As has been pointed out, the OP did not apply ED. She received a likely letter during the RD round.</p>
<p>No… it said she was accepted their [sic] early.</p>
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<p>However, I think when it comes to Financial Aid decisions it may not be binding to give you a chance to compare offers perhaps. But I don’t agree Dartmouth, just beause it’s an ivy, is a lot harder to get into than Gtown or JHU. I know more than a few who were rejected from the latter and were accepted into the former – four to be exact. Selective is selective and once you have the scores and solid everything else, it’s a crapshoot unless you have a hook - legacy, URM, athlete with a specific school.</p>
<p>Of course, the confusion of likely and acceptance is an easy one to make and her brain has already gone to acceptance when she got the got the likely.</p>
<p>Ya the OP meant “early” as in he/she was notified “earlier” through a likely letter, not that they applied ED to Dartmouth.</p>
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<p>Modadunn, she said this in her original post:</p>
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okay, upon edit of your post, you said:
Indeed, a likely letter=acceptance.</p>
<p>Sure sounded like ED to me.</p>
<p>OK, let’s assume it’s a likely letter from Dartmouth. Chances of being accepted at JHU and/or Georgetown are exactly the same as before the likely letter. </p>
<p>Even w/o AP Stat, I know that.</p>
<p>Sigh. Hope that doesn’t work in a reversed manner—I was accepted at JHU…</p>
<p>But anyway, I think you have a good chance if Dartmouth already showed interest in you.</p>
<p>I got into JHU and Dartmouth, which is better for bio/premed? (not just academically but overall too)</p>