Anonymous
Post 03/01/2024 09:24     Subject: What schools do likely letters?
Is it the top 5 percent of acceptances or so that get likely letters? Or fewer than that?
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2024 08:13     Subject: Re:What schools do likely letters?
Are Princeton’s out?
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2024 08:00     Subject: What schools do likely letters?
got one from Dartmouth
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2024 07:55     Subject: What schools do likely letters?
William & Mary does their cypher post cards
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2024 07:44     Subject: What schools do likely letters?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Do you mean for athletes? Are there other types of likelies?

Mine won’t qualify. But now I’m curious. 🧐


No. Candidates who are very strong, who will likely get other acceptances and that the school wants to offer now in the hopes that they will accept. The idea is that you tend to like someone (or in this case not a someone but a school) that really likes you. If the student feels special by getting this early offer ahead of the regular decision day, they will be more likely to accept and attend.

Cornell sent out early acceptances yesterday. Some schools will send out a more tentative “likely” letter and others will send actual acceptances. Yale sent out likelies a week or two ago.



What did Cornell send? Emails?
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2024 07:15     Subject: What schools do likely letters?
Colby
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2024 04:13     Subject: What schools do likely letters?
My DS received one from Middlebury but that's about it.
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2024 04:11     Subject: What schools do likely letters?
My DS’s experience: He received a likely from Swarthmore. He did not receive a likely from Williams or Bowdoin.
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2024 03:53     Subject: What schools do likely letters?
Anonymous wrote:Do you mean for athletes? Are there other types of likelies?

Mine won’t qualify. But now I’m curious. 🧐


No. Candidates who are very strong, who will likely get other acceptances and that the school wants to offer now in the hopes that they will accept. The idea is that you tend to like someone (or in this case not a someone but a school) that really likes you. If the student feels special by getting this early offer ahead of the regular decision day, they will be more likely to accept and attend.

Cornell sent out early acceptances yesterday. Some schools will send out a more tentative “likely” letter and others will send actual acceptances. Yale sent out likelies a week or two ago.
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2024 01:29     Subject: What schools do likely letters?
Do you mean for athletes? Are there other types of likelies?

Mine won’t qualify. But now I’m curious. 🧐
Anonymous
Post 02/29/2024 20:15     Subject: What schools do likely letters?
Yale. So many.
Anonymous
Post 02/29/2024 20:10     Subject: What schools do likely letters?
Yale for sure
Harvard; Stanford; Columbia; Duke; cornell

Vanderbilt has Mosaic Letters
Rice has Vision letters
Anonymous
Post 02/29/2024 19:44     Subject: What schools do likely letters?
I have seen some stellar candidates receiving likely letters on College Confidential and am wondering what schools have not sent theirs out yet. Are they common? Curious about how that process works.