<p>Yeah, 500? Like on purpose? That would be a huge misestimate if it were by accident…</p>
<p>But then again, spectravoid seems to be a pretty legit poster who’s been on CC for a long time. </p>
<p>I don’t even know what to think.</p>
<p>you don’t have to believe me</p>
<p>i initially wasn’t going to tell anybody on this site, but i go find so many people complaining/flipping out on this forum about their deferral, so i decided it would be nice to say what happened, especially regarding the deferrals of qualified people i felt i kind of should tell you guys. I’m not going to force you to trust me, i just came to help, but it seems as if it backfired.</p>
<p>The thing that happened:
Counselor at High Tech [4th best high school in like the nation] called Yale asking “why did you defer our best students [#1 and his girlfriend who was like #3 or 4.” The admissions officer proceeded to tell them that they probably were accepted, but since so many students were qualified, it turned out that they accepted far too many for an early action round. so they moved 500 acceptances to deferrals. But those 500 are kind of guaranteed admissions spots come regular decision announcements</p>
<p>I don’t go to high tech, but at my school [public school #1 in south jersey, but like 60th in NJ], 2 were accepted, 4 were deferred. One of the deferees asked his friend at high tech if he got in. His friend said that he got deferred, but his friend then proceeded to tell him that after the counselor of the school found out about the 2 deferrals at high tech, she called yale and asked why.</p>
<p>Believe me if you want, i just came to help. it’s nice to know that i get shut down if i come provide some insight that many of you guys probably dont know
Good day</p>
<p>even though I know this is probably a joke, I am praying to God that this guy is telling the truth. how amazing that would be :D</p>
<p>If this were to be true, don’t get your hopes up. In the second round the competition is stiffer, and the reevaluation of the deferred might not end in our favor. (Granted that we are in that 500, of course.)
Still, it’s somewhat reassuring, even though I’m moved on from Yale.</p>
<p>^ Actually, the competition is stiffer in the early round. In the regular round, there are tooons and tons of apps that aren’t objectively competitive in the admissions office of a school like Yale. This isn’t the case with early apps, when students put a lot of careful thought into where to apply early. The choice to go with Yale EA is often an educated one, so don’t count on the second round being tougher.</p>
<p>nothing personal, spectravoid, but you did hear this through the grapevine. anyway, if this is true, it looks like the regular round will be VERY competitive (which it is anyway). i’m inclined to believe that yale probably has some idea of which deferees it will accept regular to begin with, but i’m not convinced about the 500 being moved from acceptance to deferral.</p>
<p>^ I don’t know if they know which deferees they’ll admit later. I mean, why not just reject those they supposedly aren’t seriously considering?</p>
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I didn’t know that, that’s interesting. (Why did I apply early to Yale again? o_O’')</p>
<p>My counselor did tell me that each year Yale will accept some people EA but then decide to cut them last minute. But he also told me that this didn’t happen often.</p>
<p>I recall reading a post on CC a few months ago about the admissions process at Harvard, and it referred to an article that was written in some newspaper (I’m sorry I don’t remember more…) and apparently the admissions committee there always opts to admit many more students than it can take, and a few weeks are spent whittling down the number of acceptances.</p>
<p>Also: <a href=“http://www.yale.edu/admit/freshmen/application/eafaq.html[/url]”>http://www.yale.edu/admit/freshmen/application/eafaq.html</a></p>
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<p>while we have no incredible verifiable sources, spectravoid’s statements have some plausibility to them. yale EA is so competitive that, sometimes, there isn’t much to distinguish between those who were accepted and those who were deferred. it seems logical for yale to “accept” a bunch of apps (or, pick out the best 1200 in the EA glance) and then narrow them down to 730 or so.</p>
<p>Also since Harvard and Princeton no longer have early programs and Yale EA is non-binding I’d be willing to bet that a lot of people who would’ve applied to either Harvard or Princeton Early (because it’d be their first choice) decided to “throw their hat in the ring” at Yale, hoping to get an acceptance and therefore not have to write so many ****ing essays for safety schools. This makes the Yale EA pool inflated, at least compared to years past.</p>
<p>If this is true, then I’m not so sure I have reason to be hopeful lol. If there really were 500 likelies from the Yale deferree pool, that means ~800 more acceptances in the remaining 20,000 applications Yale will receive RD since Yale is only looking to admit ~2000 students… that’s 4% LOL</p>
<p>GAH. seriously guys. WAKE UP!!! why would Yale “accept” 1200 students this year when historically it knows it caps at around 700ish?? do you reallyyyy think we’re that much better than every other year, to the point where yale would accept 500 more of us? and there’s no WAY they would just move random applications to the deferred pile. what if that pile had contained somebody with huuuge hooks/legacy?</p>
<p>deferred people, you have as good a shot as the next person in RD. but I wouldnt believe this 500 extra people thing if I were you.</p>
<p>^ They did end up capping it at 700…AFTER removing 500 applicants that they had already accepted, not knowing that they were already over the limit</p>
<p>ok, well it wasn’t random,</p>
<p>the students who actually had good hooks{i’m not considering URM here}/legacy/amazing accomplishments were automatically in</p>
<p>I think the rest were twiddled away probably based off of SAT scores. Think about it this way, a 2400 deferee probably wouldn’t have been the one to get in early</p>
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<p>wow, Yale’s admissions office must be incredibly uncoordinated. why didnt any other top college (Stanford, MIT, Caltech, etc) make this mistake?</p>
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<p>that makes no sense. according to you, the 1200 were all in the accepted pile, which would have included students with good hooks as well. and where’s the proof that it wasn’t random, as you’re now claiming? ie, why did you say random before if it really wasn’t? cough, moving target, cough.</p>
<p>and again, I don’t believe that Yale would have told your guidance counselor anyways, because if this had gotten out to the media, it wouldve caused a huge commotion. why risk bad publicity?</p>
<p>i mean i’m not going to bother arguing with you. if you don’t believe me its on you. Don’t have the time to fight over something that doesn’t even pertain to me because I’m not even applying to Yale. I just thought it would be a nice to share this info with you guys.</p>
<p>congrats on yale anyway fuzzyfirebunny, but if it can make you sleep better at night, just assume my post was all wrong</p>
<p>I’m sorry; I’m not trying to be antagonistic or pick a fight or anything. I just think it’s fair to warn deferees that there’s a possbility (a big one, in my personal opinion) that this isn’t true, and to not get their hopes up too much.</p>
<p>Thanks for the congrats- and good luck to wherever you’re applying :)</p>
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Not always true. My friend is an internationally acclaimed musician, but she was deferred from Yale. Yale accepted her in the end.</p>
<p>^maybe that wasn’t a hook to them</p>
<p>fuzzyfirebunny- why did you get so hostile all of a sudden? OP is either joking, in which case you need to lighten up, or he actually believes what he is saying, in which case you should say that you disagree, but you shouldn’t go so far as to make sarcastic and rude comments. OP’s story may not seem plausible to you, but you don’t know any more about the admissions process than he does. to be honest, I’ve lost all faith in admissions at this point. it’s a freaking crapshoot, its unfair, and theres nothing anyone can do about it. all I can say to try to comfort myself and the others is that in the end, if you are talented and driven, you WILL succeed in the real world no matter what your freaking alma mater is</p>