<p>I was wondering how many Yale likely letters eventually end up getting accepted into Harvard. Is there a correlation between the two?</p>
<p>There may be a correlation in the general sense that both schools are looking for highly-qualified applicants, but there is certainly no direct connection. There are plenty of kids who get into Y but are rejected by H or vice versa.</p>
<p>But supposedly likely letter recipients are top few in the Yale applicant pool. Don't you think the Yale and Harvard applicant pools overlap by a large portion?</p>
<p>The end is inevitable.</p>
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But supposedly likely letter recipients are top few in the Yale applicant pool. Don't you think the Yale and Harvard applicant pools overlap by a large portion?
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<p>Sure, but it doesn't guarantee anything. As scipio said, there are plenty of kids who get into yale but are rejected by harvard or vice versa.</p>
<p>I don't think you can predict a Harvard acceptance from a Yale likely. </p>
<p>Not worth pondering, IMO.</p>
<p>A Yale likely is certainly more likely than a Yale EA reject to get into H, but that doesn't mean that it cannot happen that a Yale likely gets rejected by H and a Yale reject gets accepted by H.</p>
<p>If it's the same as it was my year (class of 2009), Yale only gives a likely letter to their 100 top candidates. I had already gotten into Harvard EA, so it was nothing more than a nice surprise, but I can't imagine Yale's committee rating someone in the top 100 and Harvard putting them below 1600...</p>
<p>The chances are probably slim to none. Harvard will find out that you applied to Yale and will reject you as a result!</p>
<p>no correlation. period.</p>
<p>no correlation. I went through two interviews with Harvard and none with Yale. Although I think Harvard was still impress with me, it doesn't mean anything. Plus, I didn't even mention my Yale acceptance and frankly they shouldn't care more or less. A kid who is a fit for Yale might not be the same at Harvard. That's why people emphasize going to visit the campus so that you know you will be a fit. Frankly speaking, if you fit at Harvard go to Harvard, if you don't fit there, the prestige means nothing because 4 years of social boredom is a too high of a price to pay just for job opportunities which other colleges that might be a fit could also offer. It's important to know that you will be successful there before you make a decision regarding where you will go because in terms of job opportunities, if that is one of the major factors, HYPW won't differ much. It's your individual talents and strengths that decides truly where you will go to work and in what career you will succeed. The prestige factor is minimized if you go to HYPW because they are all well-reputed to produce wonderful students.</p>
<p>QuixoticRick: That's certainly wrong.</p>
<p>AY8888: I agree, going to big H just for the prestige is ridiculous and just not worth it. Yet, Harvard, just like most great colleges, make it actually very easy to fit in. They offer so many opportunities that almost everyone finds a place to fit in. The question is just: where do you fit in BEST.</p>
<p>I maintain that a student valued in the top 100 at Yale would certainly be valued within the 1600-2000 students at Harvard. Think about it, there are different values emphasized at both universities, but if not to the tune of an entire order of magnitude devaluation.</p>
<p>Dr. Avrah, you're hilarious for taking me seriously.</p>
<p>However, I do think that there may be some correlation between getting a likely letter at Yale and being accepted at Harvard. They're both top tier schools that select the best students in the world. Being in the top tier or calibur at Yale must mean you would fare well at Harvard too.</p>
<p>Correlation: Yes</p>
<p>However, correlation doesn't necessarily mean causation.</p>
<p>^Lol, stat joke.</p>
<p>Too bad it didn't make any sense in context. :P</p>
<p>haha i got it too. funny but didn't make sense. love stat.</p>
<p>You need some Bayes Theorem.
P (Get into Harvard | Got Yale Likely Letter)</p>
<p>(except good luck determining P(B|A) and P(B))</p>
<p>Besides which these probabilities aren't random events. The 0.09 rate of acceptance is applied to an entire applicant pool which isn't significant to the single applicant. :) oh stats</p>
<p>In 2006, there was at least one poster on CC (maybe more) who got a non-athletic likely from Yale, and was not admitted to Harvard. Had lots of national awards, too.</p>
<p>There are probably many more, and visa-versa.</p>
<p>So...the logic that H-bomber wants to use hasn't always worked.</p>