97 YES Scholars were called in February by AOs and offered likely letters for the class of 2027.
“According to Srere, the 97 students receiving likely letters through the YES program generally form about 40 percent of all likely recipients, as between 130 and 150 students, roughly, receive likely letters separately from this cohort.”
What is this verification thing? I can’t find it. Haha.
Ok so this is in your portal, and we think this is a positive sign?
just out of curiousity why do you think this is significant with a date of 2/22? My son’s was requested on 1/27, along with other forms. Why is the long form one significant?
I honestly do not know anymore than you do. I couldn’t tell you whether one is significant over the other.
I jsut spoke to a friend who works in a different college’s financial aid office. Check your FAFSA EFC. If there is a “*” next to the EFC number on yoUR SAR, your FAFSA has been selected for verification. Each year, the U.S. Department of Education selects a certain percentage of FAFSA applicants for verification. One in 5 applicants will be selected for verification. The Verification of Household Information is a form that colleges require to be submitted if you are selected for verfication by the federal government. So it seems this has nothing to do with decisions of admittance.
I double checked, and sure enough, there is a “*” next to our EFC.
That’s not right. I’m an international student and we don’t need to submit FAFSA but still Yale requested for the verification form.
Anyways, just like Dartmouth is having a versification form in their portal this seems to hold significance since not all have it, but again, let’s wait until decisions.
That explains a lot… thank you for this. 
Same for my son… request first appeared on 1/27… then he uploaded it… then the date changed to 2/22, which is probably the date they downloaded it from IDOC.
My EFC most definitely doesn’t have a star next to it. So that doesn’t make sense.
(Also I checked each of my add/drop school corrections- none of them have them.)
Not sure how that negates anything I said. 100 likely letters, and what is the incoming class size?
Does yours have the IRS Data Retrieval tool checked off? Or did it originally when the verification request was made? My completely unprofessional guess is that there are different ways to verify the income data, and that is just one of a few.
Yeah I have it, dated back to October. Why would it matter?
Couldnt say, then. But it seems crazy to corrolate admissions decisions based on a form needed/not needed. I think the FA office is just trying to do their job…the predictions on this thread could cause a person to go mad
Do we know what is the percentage of STEM students who get accepted each year? 
Not, IDOC, its a CSS award date that appears next to each institution applied to. It refers to the date financial aid will be provided by the institution; if accepted. From what I can tell, those dates are the same as the admission decision date.
Also got deferred, then received an interview. I have no idea what to think.
LAC day is new to me. I know Swarthmore goes at 7 pm on Friday. Carleton goes at 9 pm on Friday. Midd goes on Saturday at 8 am and Grinnell was last Friday…so the idea that the top LACs go on the same day and time is wrong.
