<p>I am posting this on the yale forum because I think this is the most active/opinionated one on cc</p>
<p>even thought the subject of likely letters and “early writes” is not that big with Yale (they send out fewer likelies than some of the other ivies, don’t they?)</p>
<p>anyways, i was just thinking that since so many schools notify their top applicants early about their status, why don’t they do the same for their worst applicants? Ya know, so that the instant rejects can also stop stressing? </p>
<p>Likely letters often say that “we hope now you can relax a bit, knowing that you’re in” … well, an instant reject letter could say “now you can stop holding your breath for April 1st and focus on other schools, because we don’t think you’re a good fit”</p>
<p>crazy? maybe… but why not. Cruel in some ways but also more humane than stringing people along</p>
<p>You don’t even need Yale’s letter to find out.</p>
<p>Here’s what you do:</p>
<p>If you are Asian: Take a normal dice, and roll. if you roll an odd number, consider yourself rejected. </p>
<p>If you are White: Roll a dice, if you roll a 1 or 2, you are instantly rejected.</p>
<p>If you are an URM: Go to the bookstore… buy 3 of those dungeons and dragons dice, and roll them all. If you roll the combination 1 -27 and 47^-1, then you are instantly rejected.</p>
<p>If you did not report your race: Please refer to asian.</p>
<p>I think it would be a great idea, except the cost and time it would take to send out 2 rejection letters… While college’s are institutions of learning, sometimes they still have to think like a business.</p>
<p>But honestly, I don’t think the colleges would go through all that work.</p>
<p>Plus… there’s tons of strategies in admissions to boost colleges prestige and ratings in certain areas. I’m sure it doesn’t work into the whole ‘suspense’ of Ivy Admissions haha</p>
<p>No need to make anyone feel especially bad. It would be as if you were saying “Ok, let’s be real here. We aren’t even gonna make you wait until the 31th because that would imply that you had a shot. You are most definitely not wanted.”</p>
<p>That would suck. I’d rather delude myself into thinking that I could have made it but there were too many qualified applicants than just hear that I wasn’t even good enough to receive my decision on the 31st.</p>
<p>Unfortunately Ivy universities are transitioning from fossil fuels to greener fuels like the tears of rejected students… so they need to garner every drop from every student</p>
<p>of course. the letter mentioned something about how the admissions officer who read it laughed so hard she ran down the hall to show it to all her colleagues before throwing into the fire that they throw rejected files into to keep themselves warm.</p>
<p>I always knew I liked even numbers better for some reason! I kinda agree with the OP, partially because the wait has been killing me for about 3 months now…and the anxiety is exponentially increasing with each passing day. </p>
<p>laststopforme - I’ve heard that too, and that really sucks. It’s like the admissions counselors don’t have the time or energy or money to snail mail you a letter (a letter! I’m not asking for roasted caviar here!) to tell you were most cruelly rejected, even though you have admired and loved the school for so long.</p>
<p>I’d rather have them reject me in Feb if they already know they will than make me wait till April to squash hope they could have squashed in Feb.</p>
<p>I know someone that sort of got one of these.
She applied to a fairly prestigious state school, and was called at her home.</p>
<p>She was “encouraged” to ''broaden (her) your academic horizons" by “supplementing” her high school “career” by attending a community college before re applying for admission.</p>