I AM GOING CRAZY: rants, raves, and reviews

selia27
Tue, 14 Dec 2004 00:54:32 +0000

A similar thing happened to a friend of mine who’s now at Brown…
She, along with a couple others, applied EA to Yale last year. Yale was her dream school, but she was deferred (along with everyone else). Then two days after the news hit, when she was just starting to get over it, her best friend (with lower grades mind you) told her that she had applied EA to Yale and got in. It was crazy…they had a fight…she had a breakdown…
And then the girl who got in went to USC.

But here’s something to (hopefully) reassure you…schools can usually tell when an applicant is not right for their school. It sounds like your friend only applied there because of the Hogwarts reference and the big name, not because she feels like it’s a school she would do well at. If she were a good match for Yale, her grades, ECs, recs, etc. would all reflect it…rest assured, the adcom will be able to tell who thinks Yale is perfect and who thinks it’s only pretty on paper.