<p>If one receives a likely letter now, what does it mean in terms of competitiveness? </p>
<p>Were they in the top 1% of the D applicant pool? Top 5%? </p>
<p>Do most end up accepted at HYP?</p>
<p>a likely letter could be for a number of reasons...theyre an athlete, great achievements, great essays.</p>
<p>whatever it is, they were deemed one of the top 500 applicants.</p>
<p>and although many probably do get into HYP, the numbers cant be found on that.</p>
<p>So basically, those who receive a likely letter are judged by the adcoms to be a cut above the rest?</p>
<p>yes...in some fashion dartmouth feels like they especially want this applicant.</p>
<p>its not only based on academcis...it could be someone who is recruited or something like that as well.</p>
<p>But isn't that slightly demeaning for the rest of those notifed in April... I mean, it seems like you're telling them, "Alright, so you're not good enough for our top 500, but fortunately we have more space so we're letting you in too."</p>
<p>well keep in mind that dartmouth's yield is below 50%...so many of those top 500 kids wont even go to dartmouth.</p>
<p>i mean, i guess you could look at it like that, but i mean if you get into dartmouth, you get into dartmouth. youre still one of the top 15% or so of applicants to an ivy league school.</p>
<p>In addition, it doesn't really matter once you get in. From what I know about likely letters, students who receive them aren't benefited by the college more than students who don't receive them. Like, there's no extra money that's given to a likely letter student than a regular accepted kid.</p>
<p>Yeah, I suppose if one was to get accepted, one would be too busy celebrating to mind not receiving a likely letter...</p>
<p>Anonymous is right. Once students decide that they are going to attend, they never talk about likely letters, stats, grades, ec's etc. At the end of the day it won't matter if you got in ED, if you got a likely or if you had to wait until april 1st. IF you decide to attend you will all be members of the class of 2010.</p>
<p>Let's try and get some rather concrete numbers. i believe there were 14000 RD applicants. were 500 likely letters sent out now? I had thought that 500 were sent out across 3 separate mailings, meaning about 200 applicants received them now. Or it is 500 each time?</p>
<p>500 total.</p>
<p>so approx 160-200 recieved them now.</p>
<p>so would it be accurate to say that people who received likely letters were in the top 1.5% of RD applicants? (200/14000)</p>
<p>..................</p>
<p>ok. dartmouth has approx 1,050 slots to fill. there were 399 ED acceptances. so now there are 651 slots to fill. dartmouth expects a 40% yield from their RD class. so they will likely accept 1,367 RD.</p>
<p>so there will be approx. 867 acceptees who will not get a likely letter.</p>
<p>Bobb,</p>
<p>Not quite.</p>
<p>Dartmouth will offer admission to to almost 2200 students (2171 last year including 397 admitted ED)) to yeild a class of approximately 1075 students (remember that every one who is accepted will not chose to attend for one reason or another).</p>
<p><a href="http://www.dartmouth.edu/%7Eoir/pdfs/CDS2005_2006.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.dartmouth.edu/~oir/pdfs/CDS2005_2006.pdf</a> </p>
<p>IF Dartmouth offers the same number of acceptances </p>
<p>399 ED
500 likely</p>
<p>899</p>
<p>2171 -899 = 1272 students who will be admitted without getting a likely letter.</p>
<p>I know that it is a rough 6 weeks until april 1, but you have already tossed your hat (which is half the battle), so all you ca do is wait and let the process play itself out. In the end you will end up where you need to be and one year from now it will all be a distant memory.</p>
<p>what the hell? so their yield is way below 40% then for RD?</p>
<p>weird.</p>
<p>The overal yeild is 49.5% 1075/2171</p>
<p>The people who do enrollment management already know that during RD students will have multiple admits (my D was admitted every where she applied). </p>
<p>They also know that students chose other schools for various reasons; some attend other ivies or schools because that school was their first choice and did not have the luxury of applying ED, some after they get the package find that they can't afford it so they attend other schools, others go with merit money at other schools, some find Hanover to be too small and want a different kind of experience.</p>
<p>yea i understand that part...man i guess i just suck at math...which is well documented.</p>