<p>waaahhh! No interview here yet :(</p>
<p>Hope everything went well, vegangirl! </p>
<p>CAC and Sohni–It’s a bit odd that you guys haven’t been contacted for interviews yet, unless you live in extremely remote areas of the country/overseas. The ASC director in my area said that interviews should definitely be taken care of by early December if possible, and seeing how Thanksgiving is coming up and people are traveling and whatnot, I would try and contact my ASC director if I were you. Good luck! </p>
<p>thisismyusername–In response to your comment about other applications, I don’t know about everyone else, but I personally have 11 more applications in mind just because I realize that while it would be beyond amazing to get into Yale early, the odds are stacked against most applicants. I know I’ll be too upset to work on applications if I get deferred/rejected from Yale early, so I’m finishing the majority of my applications before December 15. If I do miraculously happen to get into Yale, I will rescind the ones I’ve sent out and not send the ones I’ve nearly completed, with the exception of my top 4 choices after Yale. I’m sure I don’t speak for everyone on this thread, but I personally just felt the need to have a solid backup plan; that’s my reasoning behind sending out multiple applications.</p>
<p>“YALE EARLY APPLICATIONS DROP BY 13 PERCENT THIS YEAR!!!”
~Yale Daily News</p>
<p>What do you guys think about this latest news??? Is this good or bad??? Did you guys/girls notice a drop in the number of early applicants from your respective schools??? Does this mean there will be more deferred applicants???</p>
<p>koena07 your app plan is solid and i admire your preperation… im working in a similar fashion</p>
<p>i from the new haven area and there are a lot of high powered independent schools in my area i suppose there are just a lot of aplicants in my area and i guess (i hope) that is why i havent been contacted yet…eagerly waitng</p>
<p>I’m from an area where there shouldn’t be too many applicants (maybe 50 or so) and even less EA applicants. So I am kinda puzzled as to why I haven’t been contacted.</p>
<p>If I don’t hear anything by Tuesday, I’ll probably (nervously) call my ASC director.</p>
<p>Thanks, CAC :)</p>
<p>Good luck to both of you, it must be really nerve-wracking to not have had an interview yet, but hopefully things will work out!</p>
<p>EAD, 3 people in my school applied early this year, which is 3 more than usual, so I just assumed that the number of early applicants increased this year, as seems to be the trend from years past. While I want to be happy with this drop-off in early apps, however, I don’t know what it means that there are roughly 500 less applicants than usual. As someone on another thread pointed out, this might just mean that weaker applicants were intimidated and decided not to apply, which might create a more concentrated pool of better applicants from which essentially the same old people are accepted. Besides that cautionary speculation, however, it seems likely that your predictions could come true, classof1986, and hopefully this will be a good year for Yale EA applicants. :)</p>
<p>dont we all hope so! :)</p>
<p>hrm…they already know the number of early apps but they have not yet confirmed my application.</p>
<p>im nervous.</p>
<p>Homeslice, what kind of confirmation are you looking for? Does the common app page say “Downloaded” for both the supplement and the regular common app? That should be enough, as long as you sent scores and confirmed with the people at your high school</p>
<p>I think Yale will be slightly more concerned with yield this year. And perhaps the early admissions rate and how it affects the decisions of RD applicants as to whether to apply or not. Which can only mean good things for us early applicants… :)</p>
<p>True, it can’t be BAD news…</p>
<p>but wait…</p>
<p>what if people really did get scared away? then the EA pool will be more concentrated with really good people…then i’ll be up against tougher people…crap</p>
<p>It’s bad to overthink these things.</p>
<p>However it affects us, I hope it’s in a good way.
And I guess we’ll find out in 27 days.</p>
<p>How is everyone preparing for rejection? What are your daydreams about the moment you find out?
What will you do if accepted?
If deferred/rejected?</p>
<p>Still no interview for me in MD…you’d think that there’d be enough alumni around D.C. to cover most applicants…I guess I’ll wait</p>
<p>b4nnd20: I prefer not to think about the decision. I guess this is how I deal with the anxiety</p>
<p>If accepted, I might either dance or cry, or jump up and down for joy. Maybe I’ll scream. </p>
<p>But since acception is not likely, when rejected I might stare at the computer listlessly. There’s really no way to predict how I’ll feel, although I think I’ll be able to cop with it. Deferral might be a little bit happier, but immediately, it will suck. In the long run, I’ll be happy with a deferral, because then I’ll at least have a shot at Yale. But then getting rejected the second time around would be like two rejections practically, and that won’t be fun.
We’ll see.</p>
<p>If I get rejected, I’ll just figure that I did something critically wrong in my app and try not to do that for my other schools. I wouldn’t even consider the possibility that my accomplishments are so egregiously bad that they wouldn’t consider me again. I’d probably just change all my essays for the schools I won’t have already applied to.</p>
<p>If I get deferred, I’ll be like “yeah, whatever.”</p>
<p>If I get accepted, I honestly don’t know what I would do.</p>
<p>accepted: promptly faint… followed by excessive happiness, and trying to find a navy and white outfit for the next day</p>
<p>deferred: shrug, but secretly be really excited</p>
<p>rejected: shrug, but secretly be really upset, and wonder why I had ever thought I could get in</p>
<p>I’m just glad we’re getting decisions on a Friday so that everyone may not remember to ask whether you got in the next day in school!</p>
<p>Theo, oh my god, you are so right! I didn’t even think of it that way. We have 2 whole days to prepare to face our classmates. And that leaves Friday and Saturday night to drown our sorrows.</p>
<p>Haha yeah, but then April 1 is a Sunday, which means Monday is going to be HELL!</p>