<p>With only 15 days left…how do you feel about your chances? Think you’ll make it…or are you ready to pay the deposit for your #2 school?</p>
<p>Or school #4…</p>
<p>ok so yea I don’t feel very confident. I know I’m not getting my hopes up but I can’t help feeling like I’m going to be devastated when I don’t get in…</p>
<p>I really want to go to Yale, but unfortunately my chances are very slim. Knowing this, I’ve got my secondary plan set out quite well. The University of Winnipeg only costs $3,000 per year and it’s ranked 4th in Canada. Sure, it’s no Yale, but it’ll be good times anyways =]</p>
<p>I feel 100% confident. Well not really, but I try. I’m less tense than I was the EA round at least.</p>
<p>ETA: Plus I got a likely to my close #2 (Dartmouth) so that has helped me a lot. If I don’t get into Yale, I am still going to have sooo much fun.</p>
<p>Today I just got accepted to my #4/5 so at least now I have a backup. Before I was sort of floating in serious fear.</p>
<p>I am very nervous about acceptance and am telling myself there is no way that I will be accepted.</p>
<p>yeah…ive pretty much succumbed to the fact that i have a better chance of getting struck by lightning. But theres always FSU! WHOO!</p>
<p>lol beechbum. i went to FSU for marching band camp. It’s pretty.</p>
<p>lol…yeah except some of the dorms…and the frat houses.</p>
<p>Yeah, I was thinking about sending in my deposit to my #5 (Amherst)as well…</p>
<p>I’m not very secure at all about my chances, but that’s ok. Lately I’ve been trying to convince myself that Yale isn’t my first choice after all. </p>
<p>It’s not really working. :(</p>
<p>At the worst, I have UNC Chapel Hill, which is definitely not a bad school. Especially in the upcoming NCAA tournament. :)</p>
<p>As much as i love yale and actually have these cruel dreams anymore that i get an acceptance letter from there and suddenly my life is complete, i’m not feeling as tense about April 1 in the negative sense b/c i’ve been accepted to Williams early write which was like #4/5 and isnt nothing to sneeze at it. like warblersrule, i’m trying to preten that it wont turn my world inside out and upside down if i end up not gettin g in tho i have this bad feeling that i will be incredibly dismayed b/c deep down i honestly cant imagine not being accepted not from a standpoint of my credentials at all, but more just b/c i’ve never imagined anythign else and i just love it so much …<em>sighs</em></p>
<p>Rocketgirl…I really agree!!! Its like you form this bond with the school…and despite all the common sense and logic you employ…you know deep down ( or not so deep down)…Yale is the place you wanna go. I envision the day I get an acceptance letter over and over again, like a song stuck on repeat. Even though I know my chances are slim, I can’t help feeling so prodigously attached to the school. <em>sigh</em> I know the name isn’t everything, but I have always worked for the best, I like being around the best, and I see myself at, nothing else, but the best. I can’t imagine going to one of my other choices…</p>
<p>For me…its gotten to the point where everytime i think about Yale…i just say, “All i wanna do is learn…” I know that sounds dorky…but i just feel like I know that Yale will be give me the BEST education in the subjects i want to study…<em>sigh</em></p>
<p>yeah, and what makes it worse is that i spent the summer past there doing a college program, rooming in TD, taking classes in the “storm shelter” which i never bothered to learn the real name of, eating in the commons, having meetings in the law school… spending free time in the bookstore, eating at gourmet heaven (prolly too much lol), relaxing with friends in the courtyard in front of the library, laying on the grass looking up ath the stars and talking and joking in the evenings at TD with my classmates, playing tag (yes, tag) in the park with the class (somehow applied to public speaking course? ) just all in all growing familiar with the campus, forming amazing memories there, and becoming irrevocably attached to it <em>sigh</em> such that i feel like it’s only natural for me to continue what i “started” there last summer.</p>
<p>man oh man…that brought back so many memories for me…thank you…OMG…my classes were in the engineering building by commons and the church…and it was sooo bland…it was like a basement!</p>
<p>Things that make me feel good about my chances: Strong interview, legacy, my first name (it’s Yale)
Things that make me feel sick about my chances: Non-1600/800/800/800 test scores, not being valedictorian, the 7 or 8 people that applied from my school… ugh especially dreamsicle!</p>
<p>I fluctuate between times of hope and despair. Good luck to everyone.</p>
<p>Things that make me feel good about my chances: nothing really. i guess the only thing i have going for my confidence right now is the fact that amherst accepted me two weeks ago. but otherwise… ehhh!</p>
<p>Things that make me feel sick about my chances: there are at least 7 other people applying to yale from my school. one was already accepted EA. another one’s name is yale (and he’s a legacy too). why couldn’t my parents have named me yale?! (haha, just kidding guys… who would want to be named yale anyway?) i’m also not eskimo, native american, african american, hispanic, underwater basketweaving champion of the world, an olympic athlete, nor do i have an IQ of 30 gazillion.</p>
<p>I <em>think</em> I might actually have a shot because I’m hispanic and all the other hispanics seem to have scrambled either for Harvard or Princeton. </p>
<p>Backup: UCLA</p>
<p>me too mzlover3, backup:ucla</p>
<p>well i applied for yale simply for the heck of it, i dont expect to be accepted anyway, so i do at the end it’d be like winning a lottery</p>
<p>I was deferred…I think I stand a pretty good chance. I had a solid app.</p>
<p>Backup: Dartmouth (likely letter)</p>