<p>I get the vibe that reworked essays are a no, which is a shame because Yale got the worst versions of both of my essays, but I also have an additional rec letter I’d like to send in and a new award that may or may not make a difference.</p>
<p>Well, I see a lot of people are in the same situation, just wondering what everyone else did.</p>
<p>I think it truly depends on the admissions counselor. See if you can drop a message or e-mail to see if they would be willing to accept extra letters of recommendation and/or essays.</p>
<p>How can you find your regional officer contact information?</p>
<p>Ask your guidance counselor for his name and email.</p>
<p>Umm. what if your guidance counselor is pretty much more clueless than you are?</p>
<p>ah, the beauty of public schools…<br>
Okay, on your blue sheet from Yale is your ASC Director Information. Call her/him and ask what you need. Or call Admissions and ask (and know ahead they’re way overstressed right now).</p>
<p>If you were deferred, you MUST send extra stuff! A new essay, a new award and a new letter of recommendation are key! By doing so you are actually “forcing” the Adcoms to take a look at your credentials again. If you do not do so…you might as well consider your deferral a rejection. Just call the university admissions office and ask them who is your Regional Officer… They will give you that info…</p>
<p>By the way… I do believe that mid February may be a little too late for this strategy… You should have started back in the first week of January. They have already taken a first look at most of the new RD applications and yours …was not in the pile …</p>
<p>Your ASC director probably won’t be able to help you. Call the admissions office. You can get in after a deferral without additional materials. If you’ve already sent more than two recs, don’t send in another. If your new award is a meaningful one, then do let them know.</p>
<p>If we are just regular applicants, can we send in extra stuff?</p>
<p>First of all, if you read the deferral info online, it seemed to discourage more essays and recommendations, so don’t even worry about those things. I simply sent in a letter that restated my interest in Yale, explained something that I felt I had left out of my application, and just generally kept my interest alive. I also sent in an activities sheet/resume/whatever you want to call it, because I didn’t send it in at the original time. In my case, I kind of messed up the extracurricular section on my original app, so this was a good opportunity to fix it up. Will it make a big difference? I doubt it, but hey. I couldn’t hurt. It <em>is</em> getting late, so if you still want to send something in, I would strongly suggest completing it this weekend and priority mailing it. But don’t worry about not having gone crazy and called everybody at Yale you could think of–that would NOT have helped, and they made that VERY clear.</p>
<p>Also, not sending extra stuff in does not mean that you are automatically deferred…they will look at your app again no matter what.</p>
<p>Well, I really don’t have anything that major to send in, and I did see all that stuff discouraging more essays/recs, so I didn’t really hurry with that. I might just well do a letter, though, and priority mail it Monday if they say it’s ok.</p>
<p>Is it worth sending in Natl. Merit Finalist standing? They only had the Semi-Finalist award with the app. Does the Natl. Merit Corp. send this to the schools?</p>
<p>I’m not sure, but finalist over semi-finalist isn’t THAT big of a difference. I think only 1,000 out of 16,000 semi-finalists don’t get it, and with the grades that you had to have to apply to Yale I don’t think you could have possibly been in that category. Just my opinion.</p>
<p>I plan on sending a list of my accomplishments since the application process… Can I send it as a letter to the office of undergraduate admissions address?</p>
<p>Enteril, that sounds fine–just a note to keep your interest alive. </p>
<p>JP321, I think that it would be kind of weird to send in a letter that ONLY said that you were now a National Merit Finalist, especially since that is kind of assumed anyway. Colleges are not notified, though, so you would have to tell them for them to know for sure. </p>
<p>ccdano, just send your letter to the office of undergraduate admissions. Be sure to include the info–Applicant # and area code–that they ask for, though, so that you can be sure that they file your letter quickly and correctly.</p>