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Anonymous wrote:Yale's likely letters are almost always sent to first gen and/or low income kids and most are for STEM. The stats are high but nothing more remarkable than any other strong applicant. And sometimes they're even pretty low--1400s SAT, etc. It's the FGLI status that triggers the letters.

They very, very rarely send them to the typical DCUM demographic.

Do they offer money on the call or likely letters? Just because they are nice and welcoming wont magically make the $90k tuition more doable for these FGLI

Yale has quite generous financial aid. I’d guess that, in part, it might be to give the prospective students more specific information about things like financial aid, 1st Gen support programs, and the opportunity to make more personal connections with people at the school as they make their decisions. Many of these kids might not have visited the schools they’ve applied to, so it’s also a heads up that the school is seriously interested in them and worth the investment and —possibly sacrifice — involved to visit the school so that they can make more informed decisions.

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Anonymous wrote:We're at a private HS in nyc and several kids get likely letters every year from Ivy League schools. These kids are opposite of FGLI. I think you guys are coping if you think it's only FGLI. It wasn't my kid, but that wasn't because they were FGLI lol!

This board and forum survive solely on the idea that everyone else is gaming the system and they’re the only honest players. That’s how they cope with their children not getting what they want.

this is correct. 1 out of every 20 almost all academically qualified kids get into HYP. imagine who they pull out of the select group to send likely letters. they are kids they want, they know will have other offers. Most kids in America are FG or LI and many are both. DCUM think admissions committees say, Oh look! a son of a Jamaican nanny from Brooklyn with a 1500 SAT - send him a likely letter." That's not it, people. There are many many qualified kids, even qualified FGLI, who get no likely letter and no acceptance letter at all. Get real

Anonymous wrote:We're at a private HS in nyc and several kids get likely letters every year from Ivy League schools. These kids are opposite of FGLI. I think you guys are coping if you think it's only FGLI. It wasn't my kid, but that wasn't because they were FGLI lol!

This board and forum survive solely on the idea that everyone else is gaming the system and they’re the only honest players. That’s how they cope with their children not getting what they want.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC got one from Emory.

Stats?

She’s 5’4”, 115, blond, blue eyes, and 34 24 35

We're at a private HS in nyc and several kids get likely letters every year from Ivy League schools. These kids are opposite of FGLI. I think you guys are coping if you think it's only FGLI. It wasn't my kid, but that wasn't because they were FGLI lol!

Anonymous wrote:Yale's likely letters are almost always sent to first gen and/or low income kids and most are for STEM. The stats are high but nothing more remarkable than any other strong applicant. And sometimes they're even pretty low--1400s SAT, etc. It's the FGLI status that triggers the letters.

They very, very rarely send them to the typical DCUM demographic.

Yup, first gen/low income kid from our school got one a few years ago. Test optional, but their score was in 1200's.

Anonymous wrote:DC got one from Emory.

Stats?

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Anonymous wrote:My kid got one from Dartmouth last year.

I've never heard of Dartmouth likely letters to non-athletes. When did your kid receive one? Where did they choose to matriculate?

Last year! But no, ended up elsewhere. Def not an athlete. Aren't they the last people who need them - the whole process is a likely letter of sorts.

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Anonymous wrote:My kid got one from Dartmouth last year.

FGLI?

No. And there are always kid who get them at our HS and they're not FGLl. Not sure where that one poster is getting that

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Anonymous wrote:When I interviewed for Yale some of my African American applicants got them. Not sure about current practice of course.

I never witnessed even the most outstanding non minority applicants get one.

Ymmv

I know a bunch of Asian kids that received Yale STEM likely letters (approximately 100 are sent) last cycle. I think some of them are first generation (but not low income) and a few were definitely not first gen. The thing they had in common were science research and/or prestigious STEM summer programs.

Interesting!! I think my understanding was antiquated.

Anonymous wrote:When I interviewed for Yale some of my African American applicants got them. Not sure about current practice of course.

I never witnessed even the most outstanding non minority applicants get one.

Ymmv

I know a bunch of Asian kids that received Yale STEM likely letters (approximately 100 are sent) last cycle. I think some of them are first generation (but not low income) and a few were definitely not first gen. The thing they had in common were science research and/or prestigious STEM summer programs.

When I interviewed for Yale some of my African American applicants got them. Not sure about current practice of course.

I never witnessed even the most outstanding non minority applicants get one.

Ymmv

lol...a likely letter from Emory. The ultimate poseur move.