<p>Someone mentioned earlier that Yale didn’t get his/her “School Report”… they didn’t get mine, either! And my guidance department is in total denial, and the senior counselor wasn’t there Friday… so I guess there will be bloodshed in the office tomorrow! </p>
<p>And I don’t know what postcard you guys are talking about…</p>
<p>This seems to be the best thread to post this on. Is 1 negative (not really negative but probably not 100% glowing) rec from a teacher going to totally sink my app? I was good friends with one of my teachers (she was really young, mid-20s, and she left to teach somewhere else this year) and for a while I still saw her regularly. Then we had a pretty big falling out before she wrote my recs but way, way too late for me to ask anyone else to do it. I don’t think she’d intentionally badmouth me, but I do think she might easily write a less-than-positive rec. This is stressing me out to no end.</p>
<p>Is this going to ruin my app? UGH, and I was counting on her to write a really great rec before. My other recs are excellent (my counselor one especially is fantastic).</p>
<p>What kind of ‘big falling out’ could you have with a teacher?</p>
<p>b4nnd20- is the art contest you’re waiting to hear from NFAA? If so, what category did you enter? I entered novel writing and filmmaking.</p>
<p>I’m guessing Dec 1st is too late to notify Yale, but NFAA is a big deal, so were I to win I might call them and ask.</p>
<p>Well, that’s just the thing. She was more of a good friend than a teacher because she was so young and because I knew her outside of school before I had her as a teacher. And the falling out is a long story–just rest assured that we are not on good terms at the moment. I don’t know, maybe it’s stupid to freak out about this. I just need to have something to obsess about before decisions.</p>
<p>Why are you guys/girls asking your teachers/counselors to show the recommendation letters they wrote for you?? Personally, I would rather respect the objective/anonymous purpose of recommendations and not bother myself with one more college application element that I have no control over.</p>
<p>e<em>a</em>d, who did that?</p>
<p>jegan3(10 char)</p>
<p>Our school’s database is actually anonymous as well, I hate how they don’t keep up the database from a like the year before last, and only have the stats for the class of 2006. But since the school newspaper does a giant spread with a list of Seniors and what colleges they are going to, it’s easy to figure out the stats for the students that are going to really noteworthy places. Basically the database tells you the applicants overall GPA, a break down of their SAT score, followed by a breakdown of their GPAs in each respective subject. I do know of other schools where stats aren’t anonymous, that would irk me, yet be helpful to a certain extent. I’d always like to know who the kids that get into Columbia with just 90 averages and high 500s/low 600s are.</p>
<p>I’m having a little heart attack because I don’t have a final list of colleges I am applying to aside from Yale.
(Kind of in order, but not really)
<p>I’m conflicted with Vassar, Muhlenburg, Wesleyan, Barnard, Columbia, Brown, NYU, Emory, American, Northwestern, UMich, Lehigh and Tufts.</p>
<p>I’m feeling American and Fordham for safeties. Maybe NYU and Muhlenburg as well.</p>
<p>But I don’t know if Vassar, Wesleyan, Northwestern, Columbia, Brown, Emory, UMich, and Lehigh and Tufts are places I will get into or will go to.</p>
<p>And I’m limited to 10 apps.</p>
<h2>If I do get into Yale (after crying, celebrating, and shopping for Yalie necesities) I’m going to apply to NYU purely for hecks and see if I am artistically capable enough to get into one of the drama studios at Tisch or even the CAP21 program–which would be a miracle if I get in…especially CAP21.</h2>
<p>Does anyone else get freakishly emotional wound up and tense when you just think about your Yale application? But you don’t really admit it on face level. I’m trying to prepare myself that it’s the end of the world if I don’t get it, I tried to take the pessimistic approach but was absconded by my mother for her fear of jinxing myself, but I really sort of really want a reason to go bouncing around to all the obnoxious people I know and being equally obnoxious and declare “I got in to Yale, b*tch! I’m going to college, I get to chillax now!” Okay. I need to stop.</p>
<p>I’d like to think that I’d be able to deal with being rejected. Who else is going to sob uncontrollably? (Okay, I have a bad analogy about college applications and boys. I’m keeping that to myself.)</p>
<p>I DIDN’T ask to see them and waived my rights to request them. My other teacher and my counselor both gave me copies after they had submitted them. I was surprised that they showed me, but whatever.</p>
<p>OKAY! Well. As a little side note, I thought I’d mark the 25th day before decisions come out. It’s a nice number and seems like a decent landmark. We’ve made it this far, let’s just make it a bit farther.</p>
<p>In response to naviance: Yes, it is useful, but it can also be misleading. For example, our average for accepted yale students is a 97 GPA (we don’t do 4.0 nonsense, i like it so much better this way) and a 2210 SAT, but it’s greatly skewed by the two legacies that got in from our school in recent years. In reality, i know that an unhooked person like me needs more like a 99 average and a 23something in order to have a decent shot. Also, there are confidentiality issues for people at the top and the bottom of the spectrum. Since the top few students usually have scattergram dots in places quite distinct from the rest of the student population, it becomes very obvious which colleges the valedictorian/salutatorian did or didn’t get into.</p>
<p>You would find out in December from NFAA if you were one of the national finalists to advance to be considered a Presidential Scholar of the Arts.</p>
<p>Haha yes, my naviance shows average GPA and SATs that are perfectly in my range… but of course that average is based on the one acceptance in the past 4 years… Naviance can be misleading at a small school like mine that doesn’t really have enough data to make reasonable conclusions.</p>
<p>We have naviance and don’t even use it.
Our school is wack.
Has anyone else noticed the trend that over the past weeks since ED?EA applications were due, that the busy-ness here on CC has been slowing down? Especially here on Yale’s board. Now that everything is settled…we just wait.
Oh boy. 24 days…but who’s counting?</p>
<p>I’m counting. And I notice the lack of action, too. I did post a new thread in the Yale forum. I’m just really depressed about this whole process and I’ve gotten completely disillusioned.</p>
<p>Hey, guys, I haven’t gotten a postcard yet. Should I be worried that something didn’t get there on time?</p>
<p>There’s no reason to worry. If they haven’t called you about missing documents, then you’re fine. </p>
<p>By the way, I just got called by an interviewer (yea!) and when I asked if I should bring anything (transcript, resume, etc), the interviewer told me not to because she has been informed that nothing on my application should affect her opinion of me. Apparently, the interview is designed to unbiasedly gauge my interests and characteristics. So, I’m going barehanded. This is interesting (but logical, I guess)…For those of you who have had your interviews, were you also discouraged from bringing supplemental papers/documents?</p>
<p>i want to cry…</p>
<p>Why’s that baaboaa?</p>