<p>You have no idea.</p>
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</p>
<p>What is?</p>
<p>In any case, congrats to those who’ve been offered interviews. I wish there was a way to track our application and see where we are in the admissions process.</p>
<p>I think you should just call. That’s only way to see for sure.</p>
<p>This whole forum is absurd… it’s like the other forums on the internet… it’s just goes down hill…</p>
<p>Yes, well said, well said.</p>
<p>Feeling your pain…</p>
<p>Absurd… </p>
<p>Ken, just give Yale a call. From what I understand, they are very nice people. </p>
<p>THIS forum is absurd because of many things. THIS forum should serve as a lesson. Do not post your stats anywhere. Do not post your personal information. Do not post where you are in the process. It’s not a good idea. It alienates people.</p>
<p>The forum is downward bound. Ken, listen to mikel, and just call Yale. Ask them directly when decisions will be released. There is no other way to do it, if you don’t want to wait any longer. Obviously, they are making some decisions.</p>
<p>I would wait until at least the end of this week. Not much longer than that, though.</p>
<p>Pressurewave, did you get an interview too?</p>
<p>i think u and willard r the only people that have posted interview results.</p>
<p>_Ken. </p>
<p>What is the last communication you had with Yale?</p>
<p>Didn’t that other user get an interview too? Ivy_187?</p>
<p>Mikel, </p>
<p>What do you think calling would do?</p>
<p>I don’t think calling would be a problem. </p>
<p>Why does Yale have telephones? </p>
<p>You could just explain to them that you need to know for various reasons. </p>
<p>I’m not sure that calling would do any harm or help, either way. </p>
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<p>For over a month, my palms were drenched, my fists were clenched, my heart was pounding a million beats per second, and I couldnt bear to wait any longer for the decision from Cornell University. The funny thing was that it wasnt even me who had applied, but my best friend, Lindsay.</p>
<p>Finally, the morning of December 15 arrived. Cornells decision for early admissions applicants would be available online at five p.m. That felt like a long time to wait, but I had made it through three months so I figured I could make it another few hours.</p>
<p>The drive to school that morning was long and silent. Neither Lindsay nor I, nor her brother, dared to speak. To do so seemed like a jinx. We pulled into the school parking lot with ten hours to go.</p>
<p>That day at school was, hands down, the longest of my life. Whenever I saw Lindsay she had a giant smile on her face; meanwhile, I wanted to vomit. I was more nervous than she! </p>
<p>I stared at the clock in English class. There were still 20 minutes until school ended. My mind was wandering but I could hear my teacher talking excitedly about some Gatsby guy, whoever he was. Finally, the afternoon bell buzzed - only three hours until the decision. To pass the time, Lindsay and I drove around town. </p>
<p>Adam, I know Im not getting in, she said. There are so many people more qualified than me! </p>
<p>My jaw dropped. This girl is crazy, I thought.</p>
<p>How can you possibly say that? Lindsay, in my eyes, you are the most qualified applicant of everyone! You have the grades, the SAT scores, the amazing essay, the outstanding recommendations, and youre actively involved with everything in the community! The admissions people would be crazy to reject you! I told her. In my heart I really believed she would get in, but my mind kept telling me that you just never know. It was three oclock.</p>
<p>We drove back to our houses (we live next door), where her friend, Kim, joined us. We decided I would come back over at 4:45 since I had a lot of homework to do. Meanwhile, Kim would find some way to occupy Lindsay for two hours. Physics seemed like gibberish to me; all I could think about was Cornell. Finally, it was time. </p>
<p>I barely said good-bye to my mom before sprinting to Lindsays house, unable to believe that the moment was actually here. I knocked rapidly on her door and a calm Lindsay answered. It was 4:55. </p>
<p>My heart was pounding, I couldnt bear to wait any longer. We went to the basement with Lindsays mom. I still felt like I was going to be sick. Kim was clutching Lindsays arm as Lindsay typed in the URL. The page was fast to load, considering there were probably thousands of other applicants anxiously coming on for their decision. We waited until exactly five oclock and she logged on. Kim couldnt watch. </p>
<p>Check your application status, the page urged. Lindsay clicked and the little bar at the bottom of the page was fast to load. Nothing. The decision was yet to be posted. We waited two minutes and tried again. This was it, the moment of truth. I could barely breathe. Lindsay clicked the link and the blue load bar at the bottom of the screen barely moved. It felt like it took hours to load. We all stared at it anxiously, and then … Congratulations appeared at the top of the screen! </p>
<p>We all screamed. She had done it! Lindsay, my best friend, had been accepted to Cornell University! It was unreal! I was so happy, and so was her mom. She must have been the proudest mother at that moment. When I saw the tears stream down Lindsays face, I thought how this could be one of the best moments of my life. I cant wait until next year when I will find out Cornells decision on my application.</p>
<p>LOL!!! </p>
<p>That’s perfect!</p>
<p>I sent my transcripts overnight (which arrived on Good Friday while they were closed, good use of my limited funds, lol!) and spoke with Marianne the following week to make sure everything had arrived</p>
<p>I’m not going to call again, I know they are busy making decisions and I’ll find out when I find out, but with the internet it would be really cool if we had an application page that updated like normal applicants :)</p>
<p>This is pretty good, too! </p>
<p>he college search season is almost over. Letters have been opened. Decisions have been made.</p>
<p>But there’s always next year, which is already this year for those trying to get into the best college . How can students and parents reduce the stress? Admissions directors, guidance counselors and other admissions veterans have many suggestions. Here are 10:</p>
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<li>Getting into an Ivy League school is like winning at roulette: It is a game of chance that has little to do with brains or talent, so stop worrying about it.</li>
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<p>Yale University accepted 8.6 percent of its applicants this year, an Ivy League low. Selective college admissions officers admit that they reject or wait-list many students who are just as good as the ones they accept. If the school is short on engineering majors or Idaho residents or piccolo players, applicants with those characteristics will be accepted. The rest will have to go elsewhere.</p>
<p>If you want to play that game, college admissions advisers say, go ahead. But, said Bethesda-based educational consultant Diane E. Epstein, “if denied admission, it is highly unlikely that there is anything wrong with you.”</p>
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<li>Don’t fret about picking the wrong school. If you find it doesn’t suit you, you can always transfer.</li>
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<p>About 20 percent of students who graduate from a four-year college actually began at a different four-year college.</p>
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<li>Treat campus visits like trips to a theme park.</li>
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<p>You are probably on vacation anyway. Why not act like it? Don’t try to write down everything. Don’t interrogate the professors. Enjoy the scenery, listen to the guide and have lunch at the student union. After you know which schools have accepted you, you can make a more careful appraisal.</p>
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<li>You need only two good extracurricular activities.</li>
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<p>Colleges want to see you follow your dreams and your passions, not show off how many clubs you joined. Pick two things you really like, and give them the time they deserve. If you are an amateur baker, enter a pie in the county fair. If singing makes you happy, join the school choir and enter some talent shows.</p>
<p>The other college entrance test, based in Iowa City and popular in the Midwest, is accepted by nearly all the same colleges and has one advantage for nervous test-takers. If you don’t like your score on an ACT test, you don’t have to show it to colleges. The SAT rule is that if you send any score to a college, you have to send them all. Most colleges promise to count only your best scores, but that rule makes some students uncomfortable.</p>
<ol>
<li>Still bothered by those tests? Apply to a college that doesn’t require them.</li>
</ol>
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<p>Elizabeth Hall leads a tour for prospective students at George Washington University. Experts suggest approaching such visits as if they are part of a vacation. (Photos By Jahi Chikwendiu – The Washington Post)
Snubbing the SAT
FairTest, a nonprofit group that opposes overemphasis on testing, reports that 23 of the top 101 liberal arts schools ranked by U.S. News & World Report do not use SAT or ACT scores for admitting substantial numbers of students. Here they are, with their ranks. All but Bowdoin are tied with other…
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<p>The National Center for Fair and Open Testing (FairTest) has a list of hundreds of colleges and universities where the SAT or ACT is optional. Twenty-three of the top 101 liberal arts colleges ranked by U.S. News & World Report often don’t use the tests. Many of those schools, FairTest spokesman Robert A. Schaeffer said, “think the testing requirement excludes talented kids who don’t do well on multiple-choice standardized tests, particularly kids of color and those from low-income or first-generation college-going families. Their message is: You are more than your score.”</p>
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<li>Have fun with your essay.</li>
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<p>A little humor, particularly if it is self-deprecating, often works. Don’t overdo it, and keep it light. Something like: “As I stepped to the plate, my teammates said they were praying the pitcher would hit me with the ball. There was no other way, they said, that I could get on base.” Or: “I began to read the poem that I thought was so like e.e. cummings, but I could tell my teacher thought I had copied it off a cereal box.”</p>
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<li>Get off the résumé-building treadmill and do something normal.</li>
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<p>William R. Fitzsimmons, Harvard University dean of admissions and financial aid, advises “summer school warriors,” high school students who feel every vacation must be academically significant, to try an ordinary job instead, and maybe even have fun.</p>
<p>“I have met people who are 35 years old and look like burned-out survivors of some kind of achievement boot camp,” Fitzsimmons said. “They said they never had a chance to step back and ask themselves if that was what they really wanted.”</p>
<p>A summer job might even help some applications. Bruce J. Jones, an assistant admissions director for Whitman College in Walla Walla, Wash., said he would love to read an essay about “what they’ve learned about themselves and others as a supermarket checker. After one reading season, I am sick and tired of what [someone] learned about diversity on the class trip to build a shack for poor Peruvians.”</p>
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<li>Look for a place that fits you, and remember that many colleges can meet your needs.</li>
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<p>Mary Ann Willis, college counselor at Bayside Academy in Daphne, Ala., said: “Stop fueling the hype by believing there is a perfect college for any given field or student. If anyone told you that shirts were only available in one-size-fits-all and three colors, H [heliotrope], Y [yellow] and P [purple], you’d be incensed and find a way to see what options were really out there.”</p>
<p>While students are surveying a range of choices, Jones of Whitman College advises parents to “avoid conversations with peers whose superstar sons and daughters are applying to all the ‘best’ places.”</p>
<ol>
<li>Remember: It is your character, not the name of your college, that is likely to bring success.</li>
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<p>A study by researchers Stacey Berg Dale and Alan Krueger found that character traits, such as persistence, humor and warmth, appeared to have more influence on incomes 20 years later than the selectivity of the colleges people attend.</p>
<p>Rafe Esquith, an award-winning fifth-grade teacher in inner-city Los Angeles who often helps his former students apply to college, said a principal once asked him how so many of his kids got into big-name schools. Esquith said he was just as happy when his students were admitted to California state schools. “Why do they have to go to the Ivy League?” he asked.</p>
<p>“Because those schools are the best,” the principal said.</p>
<p>Responded Esquith: “Then why are you coming to a UCLA guy for all this advice?”</p>
<p>See the full article here below. </p>
<p>[10</a> Antidotes to College-Application Anxiety - washingtonpost.com](<a href=“http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/24/AR2006042401264_2.html]10”>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/24/AR2006042401264_2.html)</p>
<p>NYT Article. </p>
<p>IF you are friend or kin to one of Connecticut’s 47,018 public and private high school seniors, pause a moment to take this humane little quiz. If, over the next two and a half months, you encounter this young person, how might you greet him or her?</p>
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<p>B. So, having a blast your senior year?</p>
<p>C. Anything but A or B.</p>
<p>If you answered C, you may count yourself compassionate and wise. Clearly, you understand that though senior year should be an upbeat, optimistic time of life, for many ‘tis truly the winter of their discontent — or at least high anxiety — as they wait to hear from the colleges to which they applied. In mid-December, they rejoiced or commiserated with classmates who had applied for early decision or early action. And now the long wait for the regular and the deferred-until-spring decisions sets in.</p>
<p>What you may not know is that January through mid-March are the cruelest of months — worse this year because seniors face an unusual demographic convergence. The majority of the class of 2008 was born in its generation’s peak birth year, 1990, making them the largest graduating class in two decades. They are also going on to higher education in record numbers.</p>
<p>“Some institutions are accommodating the bulge with slightly larger freshman classes,” says Tom Murphy, a spokesman for the Connecticut Department of Education. “But the very selective schools don’t budge. With the combination of these population and application factors — well, the skies have to open or something.”</p>
<p>Folks on both sides of the application process are praying for a miracle. Some of the state’s busiest admissions offices are in overdrive and runnin’ on Dunkin’, having worked through the holiday break, which brought massive “mail dumps” of applications. They are hiring extra experienced reviewers and putting in overtime on evenings and weekends.</p>
<p>“Oh, if you could see what I see,” said Joan Mohr, vice president and dean of admissions at Quinnipiac University, where applications rose 20 percent over last year. “All this paper. It’s a tactical nightmare.”</p>
<p>Ms. Mohr’s staff is working to winnow an expected 15,000 applicants to fill 1,350 places. “It’s gotten nutty,” she said of the number of colleges many students now apply to. “The rise in applications only increases the competition. But I understand that they feel they need to increase their options.”</p>
<p>Just how jittery are students and parents? Karen Pellegrino, director of undergraduate admissions at Fairfield University, who has 22 years’ experience in the field, the last four at Fairfield, called the anxiety level this season “extraordinary.”</p>
<p>Case in point: One parent desperate for information called the university mail room and asked workers to locate the school’s reply to an early-action application. “They wanted to know whether the envelope was fat or thin,” Ms. Pellegrino said.</p>
<p>The mailroom politely declined the request. But compassionate admissions is a goal at Fairfield. Ms. Pellegrino says the school now posts admissions decisions online on weekends only.</p>
<p>“We heard from the high school guidance counselors that doing it during the week wreaks havoc in the classrooms,” she said. “And it is better that they get the news — good or not so good — at home, with the comfort of family.”</p>
<p>Despite his department’s struggle beneath a pile of an estimated 22,000 applications — more than double the amount of a decade ago — M. Dolan Evanovich, the University of Connecticut’s vice provost for enrollment management, declared cheerily: “It’s an exciting time to be a Huskie. We’re a hot school. We’ve moved up from a back-up safety to first choice for many top students, in-state and out.”</p>
<p>He credits the State Assembly’s approval of a $2 billion, 20-year commitment to improving the main Storrs campus and five regional ones. A decade into the campaign, entering students’ average SAT scores are up 70 points, to 1192, and their grade point averages up from 3.3 to 3.5. With tuition and fees holding steady at $16,000 for in-state students, a fleet of shuttle buses now accommodates bargain-hunting families on campus tours.</p>
<p>“We are adding seats in a lot of introductory classes to accommodate this year’s bulge,” Mr. Evanovich said. He has also hired more readers, mainly “professional admissions counselors,” to help decide who gets the 10,000 to 11,000 fat “welcome” envelopes, which are expected to yield a freshman class of 3,250 at Storrs and another 1,000 at all the regional campuses. Asked if a straight B student may no longer comfortably expect a place on the main campus of the state university, Mr. Evanovich said, “We have a wonderful state system of other schools that can accommodate those students.”</p>
<p>why’s everyone always forget about dre? </p>
<p>i got an interview.</p>