Instead of offering these students early admissions, they receive likely letters. At Brown, approximately 1/5 of the class receives likely letter with about half sent to athletes. It's not just Ivy League schools that send out likely letters. The University of Virginia also sends out likely letters.
What schools send out likely letters?
List of top colleges that send likely letters
- Harvard.
- Yale.
- Princeton.
- Brown.
- U Penn.
- Columbia.
- Cornell.
- Dartmouth.
How likely is it to get a likely letter?
The University of Pennsylvania sent out 400 likely letters in 2015. With a little rough math, that suggests that about one out of every six admitted students in the regular applicant pool received a likely letter.
