Anonymous
10/29/2025 19:01
Subject: Likely letters
I don’t really understand likely letters but when I used to alumni interview for Yale a bunch of my URM interviewees got them.
Anonymous
10/29/2025 18:47
Subject: Likely letters
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:We're expecting one from Yale, but applied through REA
Really? We are? How is your GPA, OP?
Don't be obnoxious. "We the family that has to pay for colleges and has a child really hoping to get into Yale" is not absurd.
DP. To be fair, saying we're "expecting" a likely letter from Yale is pretty darn obnoxious...
It’s either a joke or I actually feel sorry for how ignorant this person is. No one should be expecting a LL on Oct 29.
My assumption is that this person is an athlete. Ivies can usually issue Likely Letters Oct. 1. Get your app in before or near that, you get a letter a week or two after. That way, you know you're fine. If there is some final issue then you still have time to get other EA apps in. For athletes, it's the last step - there is the informal read of GPA/test scores in order to get an "offer", then the actual pre-read (admissions review of GPA/test scores) and then, finally, the Likely Letter, which is based on the complete application (essays, LORs, etc.)
Yes I agree, but you need the LL before the ED deadline. Maybe they get it tomorrow but if not it’s too late to take door #2. And you won’t get a LL at this point from door #2.
As someone whose DC went through the Ivy athlete recruiting athlete process, I would not hold it past a Yale coach to be playing games with the kid and parent.
Anonymous
10/29/2025 18:37
Subject: Likely letters
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:We're expecting one from Yale, but applied through REA
Really? We are? How is your GPA, OP?
Don't be obnoxious. "We the family that has to pay for colleges and has a child really hoping to get into Yale" is not absurd.
DP. To be fair, saying we're "expecting" a likely letter from Yale is pretty darn obnoxious...
It’s either a joke or I actually feel sorry for how ignorant this person is. No one should be expecting a LL on Oct 29.
My assumption is that this person is an athlete. Ivies can usually issue Likely Letters Oct. 1. Get your app in before or near that, you get a letter a week or two after. That way, you know you're fine. If there is some final issue then you still have time to get other EA apps in. For athletes, it's the last step - there is the informal read of GPA/test scores in order to get an "offer", then the actual pre-read (admissions review of GPA/test scores) and then, finally, the Likely Letter, which is based on the complete application (essays, LORs, etc.)
Anonymous
10/29/2025 18:27
Subject: Likely letters
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:We're expecting one from Yale, but applied through REA
Really? We are? How is your GPA, OP?
Don't be obnoxious. "We the family that has to pay for colleges and has a child really hoping to get into Yale" is not absurd.
DP. To be fair, saying we're "expecting" a likely letter from Yale is pretty darn obnoxious...
It’s either a joke or I actually feel sorry for how ignorant this person is. No one should be expecting a LL on Oct 29.
Anonymous
10/29/2025 18:07
Subject: Likely letters
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:We're expecting one from Yale, but applied through REA
Really? We are? How is your GPA, OP?
Don't be obnoxious. "We the family that has to pay for colleges and has a child really hoping to get into Yale" is not absurd.
DP. To be fair, saying we're "expecting" a likely letter from Yale is pretty darn obnoxious...
Anonymous
10/29/2025 18:06
Subject: Likely letters
Likely letters or postcards reek of desperation.
Anonymous
10/29/2025 18:04
Subject: Likely letters
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:We're expecting one from Yale, but applied through REA
Really? We are? How is your GPA, OP?
Don't be obnoxious. "We the family that has to pay for colleges and has a child really hoping to get into Yale" is not absurd.
Anonymous
10/29/2025 17:59
Subject: Likely letters
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Likely letters are usually not issued during the RD round. When they are, it typically means that a student entered the transfer portal and decided to leave a team, or that a coach attempted to recruit someone from the portal but was unsuccessful and now needs to fill a last-minute roster spot.
Non-athletes get them in the RD round. These are kids with lots of academic options. Academic unicorns.
Makes sense! I was speaking to the athletic recruits. It's unclear which the OP is asking about.
Anonymous
10/29/2025 17:57
Subject: Likely letters
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Likely letters are usually not issued during the RD round. When they are, it typically means that a student entered the transfer portal and decided to leave a team, or that a coach attempted to recruit someone from the portal but was unsuccessful and now needs to fill a last-minute roster spot.
Non-athletes get them in the RD round. These are kids with lots of academic options. Academic unicorns.
And other kids of VIPs who want options in the RD round rather than committing to only one school.
Anonymous
10/29/2025 17:56
Subject: Likely letters
Anonymous wrote:We're expecting one from Yale, but applied through REA
Really? We are? How is your GPA, OP?
Anonymous
10/29/2025 17:54
Subject: Likely letters
Anonymous wrote:Likely letters are usually not issued during the RD round. When they are, it typically means that a student entered the transfer portal and decided to leave a team, or that a coach attempted to recruit someone from the portal but was unsuccessful and now needs to fill a last-minute roster spot.
Non-athletes get them in the RD round. These are kids with lots of academic options. Academic unicorns.
Anonymous
10/29/2025 17:54
Subject: Likely letters
Anonymous wrote:Likely letters are usually not issued during the RD round. When they are, it typically means that a student entered the transfer portal and decided to leave a team, or that a coach attempted to recruit someone from the portal but was unsuccessful and now needs to fill a last-minute roster spot.
But most athletes have likely already committed by the point RD decisions are made.
Anonymous
10/29/2025 17:52
Subject: Likely letters
Likely letters are usually not issued during the RD round. When they are, it typically means that a student entered the transfer portal and decided to leave a team, or that a coach attempted to recruit someone from the portal but was unsuccessful and now needs to fill a last-minute roster spot.
Anonymous
10/29/2025 17:51
Subject: Likely letters
I don’t see the point in getting a likely letter after the ED deadline. What benefit does that serve anyone? If it’s an ED or REA letter, it has to be well before the deadline.
Kids get them after the RD deadline. But that’s because the school knows the kid has lots of options, and the letter serves as a recruitment tool. But a LL letter after the ED/REA date is pointless.
Kids get them after the RD deadline. But that’s because the school knows the kid has lots of options, and the letter serves as a recruitment tool. But a LL letter after the ED/REA date is pointless.
Anonymous
10/29/2025 17:44
Subject: Likely letters
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:We're expecting one from Yale, but applied through REA
Odd that you don’t have it yet then. Two years ago my DC had hers at least a couple weeks before the ED deadline.
To be clear: before other schools’ ED deadlines. Typically you want the certainty before you rule out other options.