<p>My sister felt the need to tell EVERYONE that I applied to Yale. The mailwoman? Yes. Her coworkers? Mmmhmm. Her ex-boyfriend? Check. Our 2nd cousins, etc. etc. etc. etc. I like to keep these things really private. It’s not her future in concern, it’s mine, and I think that it’s disrespectful of her to do this when I have asked her repeatedly not to. Am I overreacting here? I don’t want to deal with 40 people calling me on the 16th, especially if I’m rejected.</p>
<p>Anyways, my crazy aunt called me up today because she “thought the Yale decisions were already out”. I told her that they weren’t yet and she asked if I was nervous. “Eeehhh no, I mean, my heart isn’t reallllly set on Yale. I mean, there are other places I would be happy at.” </p>
<p>Her response? “Darling, if you’re accepted to Yale, you simply MUST attend there or Harvard. I know that before you were really interested in Brown…but their rankings have been slipping very egregiously…you don’t want to attend school there.”</p>
<p>Hello, snob.</p>
<p>Anyways…do you guys have stories of similarly obnoxious family members? How do you deal with them? I try to politely ignore it or just brush it off with a, “yeah I don’t know…we’ll see”–it doesn’t work. I have the most persistant family in the world. </p>
<p>I know exactly how you feel. My mom told the whole world about it. I have people whose names I don’t know wishing me luck. I think just abut anyone, from her hair stylist, to the doormen of all nearby buildings know that I have applied. I asked her a million times to keep her mouth shut about it, but of course she didn’t pay any attention.
How I deal with it? There’s no way to deal with it. Just grit your teeth and smile politely. Good luck with that.</p>
<p>Someone in Nashua, NH a couple of weeks ago was bragging about how his son was actively recruited by Yale Graduate School all the way from a small college in the Midwest. I said, “Well, good for him.” Parents are allowed to embellish. It’s called parents’ pride.</p>
<p>i live in a really competative area…so to brag to other parents is pointless when we have like 30-40 kids applying early to Ivies and regularly send atleast that amount.</p>
<p>OMG OMG, I have the most perfect story to tell about this! Ok, so I gave my journalism teacher a plethora of envelopes for his teacher recommendations. I like to keep my list of colleges private, especially since many of them are like elite and I just feel pretentious applying to them all. I also attend a rather large high school, and word of mouth just travels so quickly…having random people I barely know come up to me and ask, “Ooh, you’re applying to Yale?” is just plain aggravating! Anyways, he addresses the rest of the journalism class and is like, “Do y’all want to hear the LINE-UP?” I’m from the South, so the “y’all” is necessary. Anyways, he starts reading off every single one of my schools, and people chuckled and gasped…it was just unnecessary. I’ll save you the details, but ARRRRRRRRRRGHHH.</p>
<p>He’s not a family member, but you get the drift.</p>
<p>I currently do not see any of the professors I asked for recs, I emailed them and then mailed them all the required forms and stamps and envelopes. It’s so much easier for me. I wouldn’t want to have to see them every day and such.</p>
<p>Anyways, that’s tactless behavior on his part.</p>
<p>For me, its not so much family members as it is friends. I told some of my closest friends a few months ago that I was sending my stuff off to Yale Early Action. Of course, I forgot to mention that I’d rather keep that fact private, at least until after I get my decisions. So now, every single day for the past two weeks, I get at least five people asking me “When are you finding out? Did you get in? How many more days until decisions come out?”
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It’s gonna suck if I have to tell all of them that I was rejected.</p>
<p>I can completely relate to you guys. I have random kids walking up to me asking whether I’m applying to Harvard, Yale, or whatnot. I only told one person, but apparently that’s all it takes :/</p>
<p>yeah, i was proud that i was applying to yale, but now everyone (even those who are like ‘the name of the school doesn’t matter’) is like ‘you HAVE to go to yale if you get in. i mean, it’s YALE’. honestly, it isn’t my absolute number one choice anymore. I think i’d rather be at william and mary. but, hey. i just have to be accepted first.</p>
<p>PS everyone thinks i’m applying to like harvard and all the other ivies too. i’m like, no, just yale. arg!</p>
<p>yeah, I have a cousin who’s a month and a day older than me and has very similar stats (we both play french horn, we both are really into English and politics, extremely similar test scores etc.). She’s applying to yale (RD though, thank god) and her dad has always kinda competed her against me. They will be here for christmas, so things could be a bit interesting depending on what happens tomorrow or friday.</p>
<p>haha…although I love my freinds, they’ve definetley been the obnoxious one’s…one of my friends yelled out at the top of her lungs “Ozzie got into Yale” , and I was like “omg… are you kidding me?thanks for jinxiing all my chances to Yale” …lol. ah well.</p>
<p>Haha, Ozzie, that reminds me of one of my friends. We were at another school for a interschool event and I was like, “I’m cold…” She YELLS at the top of her lungs, “Omg, you’re cold now? You’re going to YALE!” (We’re walking in a crowd, btw…) Needless to say, quite a few people turned around. Gotta love your friends.</p>