<p>[Yale</a> Daily News - Early action applications up 36 percent](<a href=“http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/22425]Yale”>http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/22425)</p>
<p>mmmmmmyesssss… dang.</p>
<p>The dean they interviewed is my dean… I must bug her tomorrow</p>
<p>Haha 36 isnt that bad…esp with H+P eliminating their early programs</p>
<p>yes i’m just afraid some Princeton or (shudder) Harvard lover will make me look bad, take my spot, then not even matriculate. Boo Crimson Tigers. YAY BULLDOGS!</p>
<p>At the bottom of the article, it says December 14th, not 15th…</p>
<p>Yeah, they do it on a Friday I believe and the 15th is a Saturday.</p>
<p>Maybe they want to keep the release date a Friday… I was hoping it WOULD be a Saturday. Less mayhem at school</p>
<p>IMO I think it’ll probs be Dec. 14th. Cause the 15th is a Saturday, and thats just an awkward day =P</p>
<p>I remember Dec. 15th last year… Hoooooo boy. Dramz</p>
<p>Haha I’m not checking until I get home.</p>
<p>It’d be awful to get rejected when checking in the school library with everyone around you =(.</p>
<p>The sympathy that would ensue is probs the worst part.</p>
<p>Yeah, I don’t want to be “that girl” wandering around with mascara streaked everywhere and people hovering around with condolences. Ick. I have witnessed it many a time</p>
<p>akiiriah, we don’t sleep much. and we like the same threads, haha</p>
<p>So it is released in friday morning?</p>
<p>I thought it was 5pm EST on the 15th but now i would assume 5pm on the 14th.</p>
<p>36% increase. wow that is all I need to calm my nerves!</p>
<p>I agree with Fringey323. I’m in love with Yale because of the school that it is and the excitement that it elicits in me when I visit, not because of the prestige associated with it. I know that there are loads of high-powered applicants out there who simply want to get into the best possible school as early as possible, but I’m not comfortable with these people who I KNOW aren’t as necessarily infatuated with or focused on getting into Yale creating an early action applicant pool that is simply a smaller reflection of the regular applicant pool. I would like to think that as an early action applicant, I am being compared to other students who are as ardent about Yale as I am and would thus make an even better environment at Yale, full of students who really want to be there because it is Yale, not because it is a top university. In my opinion, the only real way to fix this would be to make REA a binding program which, unfortunately, would alienate the people who need to wait until April to compare Yale’s financial package with those of other schools. I’m just a regular high school senior who wants nothing more than to go to Yale and is offering his opinion, but man do I have an opinion haha</p>
<p>I agree with you 100%… I want to be evaluated against people for whom Yale is their first choice. It makes me really sad to think that I may very well lose a spot to someone who is granted, a great candidate, but will end up going to Harvard or Princeton. I’m just a regular high-school senior as well, not a superstar but special enough and dedicated to Yale ALREADY. I love Yale so so so so much and really wish their early program was binding :-(</p>
<p>I am kind of scared by this number, but well… we have expected it haven’t we?
I still hope my essay will stand out. I hope I’m different enough, in the right way</p>
<p>“I want to be evaluated against people for whom Yale is their first choice”</p>
<p>The problem with that is that many students might not necessarily have Yale as their first choice right now, but after they are admitted and visit in the spring, they will decide that Yale is the place to be.</p>
<p>i am applying to only one ivy that is Yale. i agree with you guys . I have a poor chance but still i am praying day and night. i have great school academic record but average standarized stuff. this has put me on backfoot. but lets hope guys MIRACLE happens. met you in Yale</p>