<p>Did you guys not see what I said??? I haven’t gotten ANY e-mail from Yale, period. I applied November 1st at like 9:00AM and they downloaded my app the next day. Any answers as to what is going on?</p>
<p>hmm, i applied about the same time, they downloaded my app on the 2nd, and i just got an email. Maybe you should check again. </p>
<p>Also, i just had my alum interview. It went well! By the end my interviewer was smiling and happy, so i think it might have helped. </p>
<p>Do we get our confirmation numbers/accounts (whatever those are…) by email or by mail?</p>
<p>Last year decisions were released at 4:30 PM EST (represent!).</p>
<p>And um I guess you guys didn’t notice this earlier but last year they held decisions until December 16th. I guess they had some last-minute changes to make. Check the EA decision thread (it’s stickied).</p>
<p>I noticed that but I just assumed they changed the date of decision release for this year. I hope they don’t push back the date again for whatever reason. And I definitely hope the notification time is earlier than 4:30 EST(represent too!..except I’m from the Midwest, and we somehow managed to go by EST). </p>
<p>Our last day of school before winter break is the 15th…so that’s good if I get rejected or deferred, but bad if I do in fact miraculously get in; no one will get to see me hyperventilating while skipping euphoriously around the school :(</p>
<p>well my winter break doesn’t start until 23 (which sux in its own respect) but people will know right away in my school. Even if I don’t tell them, I’ve got two other Yale SCEAers and they’re sure to get in</p>
<p>I really don’t know what I would do if decisions were pushed back and they didn’t tell us that they were pushing them back. Hyperventilating will only be the beginning of it.
And I agree with Theoneo, I’d buy out the whole store. 
So I just scheduled my alumn interview, it’s this Thursday. I’m so nervous. Anyone have any tips?</p>
<p>Oh no, Yale told everyone they were pushing decisions back a day. At least a week or two in advance. Haha if they delayed them without telling us and I was sitting there trying to get to my decision, I would sue for disrespecting my mental stability. Seriously.</p>
<p>Oh godddd, 4:30 EST on December 15th? That’s fifteen minutes after I get out of school for winter break. Will I wait around at school to see if I get in? Will I rush home so if I start sobbing nobody will see?</p>
<p>Oh yeah, I know. But, god, what would I do? I’d cry, just from like too much anxiety. I’d have my Yale-life crisis if decisions were pushed back.
Ah well. Can’t wait for WHATEVER date decisions are on.</p>
<p>Does anyone ever get a brief glint of a feeling that they’ll get in? But most of the time you just prepare yourself for rejection?</p>
<p>It’s called hope, siriusaboutyale. It’s best to shush that part of your brain until you get your decision. :(</p>
<p>bluetissues - I say go home first. Perhaps leave school early (you know you would). My school ends at 3, and then I’m staying after, but I’m going to leave early to go get my decision.</p>
<p>Wow, like you’re planning what you’re exactly going to do when SCEA decisions are released ONE MONTH from now.</p>
<p>More like five and a half weeks, Evil. I just counted.</p>
<p>And are we sure it’ll be online at PRECISELY 4:30? If that’s the case, I’ll be sitting in 7th period (I’m on Pacific time). I think I’ll just have my counselor call me into his office before seventh so I can check there. I won’t trust myself to drive home from school when I’m so nervous.</p>
<p>And is it weird that I haven’t gotten a call about my alumni interview yet? I’m worried.</p>
<p>… it’s quite possible that it could get posted at a different time this year, guys. In all practicality. So I wouldn’t stress out about the time so much right now. </p>
<p>Someone did bring up a good question, though – When they send out letters, do they get to us on the 15th, or do they just start sending them on the 15th? I know that your decision is online on the 15th, so I was just wondering if you would get one before the other. Personally, I’d rather read the letter than find out online [no particular reason, I just think that a computer seems way less personal], so even if decisions come out on the 15th I’ll probably wait until I get my letter. </p>
<p>You know what would be depressing? Reading a rejection statement online and then having it shoved in your face again when you get the letter in the mail…</p>
<p>I would think that they mail letters on the 15</p>
<p>It would really suck to read a rejection statement and then get the letter shoved in my face but that’s what happened to me with my SAT scores. My disappointment had worn off, and then BAM…just in case you forgot what you got, here’s an official letter</p>
<p>I still haven’t gotten contacted by my interviewer!!!</p>
<p>brune: Mailboxes are also a lot less expensive to replace than computer monitors, in case of letter-induced rage… :P</p>
<p>I try not to have hope ever, but sometimes it just attacks. I push it away pretty quickly though .
I get out of school at 2:16, so if decisions really do come out at 4:30 or so, I’ll have plenty of time to go home and anxiously wait. My friend (applied ED to Penn) and I might stay up all night before the 15th though and do something fun to keep our minds off of decisions.
37 days.
Interview tomorrow. AH!</p>
<p>This is torture, decisions are still more than a month away! I can’t wait that long. Then again, when I think there’ll be a “Class of 2011 EA Decisions Thread” I start feeling scared to get the decision.</p>
<p>PS This waiting and the high possibility of a rejection will most likely ruin Christmas. Just an afterthought.</p>
<p>Oh god, the only thing I’m dreading is Christmas with the entire extended family… Can you imagine? Its already the only thing that adults can fathom talking to me about day and night. It’ll be a whole lot worse to have to announce 17 times that I was rejected from Yale but here are the other 8 schools to which I’m applying… Gahhh I think there should be a law against asking seniors these questions. They should just let us stress in peace.</p>
<p>I agree.
I hate being asked where I’m applying. I’m proud that I’m applying to Yale, but every time I’m asked the question, I get the jitters and I hate responding. It almost sounds…stuck-up or something. Especially in my school, where most kids end up attending community colleges or very noncompetitive schools, it seems odd and out-of-place. And family and everything is just as bad. People are always like “oh i’m sure you’ll get in, you’re so smart” and blah blah blah, but obviously, it’s not true.
Oh so much stress. Just leave us all alone.</p>
<p>Potus and Sirius, I FEEL EXACTLY THE SAME WAY! I appreciate people’s confidence, but the truth is they don’t have the information to make those statements and it really just makes me feel bad as if I’ll be letting them downwhen I get rejected.</p>