<p>i’m only a junior but i feel like i need to get into this conversation.
my parents are the exact same way. i haven’t told them i want to go to yale and i’m hoping that there is a way to never tell them unless i get in, and the same with all of my friends and people at school. my parents think it would be so easy for me to get into harvard (though i don’t want to go to harvard). they don’t really care where i go to college, they just want me to be happy, but if i told them i was applying to yale they would probably start telling people that i’ll be going to yale for college since they think i would be a shoe-in. and my mom said that harvard “wanted” my sister just because they sent her some brochure her junior year and think she is so amazing because she got a 30 on the ACT. they just have a very warped view of ivy college admissions.</p>
<p>Though it has to do with Princeton and not Yale, now that were on the topic of warped ideas of college chances, everyone go rent the movie Risky Business (Tom Cruise in his first couch-hopping incident but pre-Christian Scientology). Anyway, it made me feel really great that ten years ago you could have gotten a 1000 on your SATs and curse at your interview and still have gotten into the Ivy League. I suppose, though, that’s why its a movie.</p>
<p>i love this forum because i realize that we are all in the same exact situation! i completely agree… it is hard for any one else to grasp the competitiveness of this process</p>
<p>Good luck, homie! ;)</p>
<p>I hope your interview goes well. I think mine did, which made me happy. I had mine on 1 December–now I only hope that they are able to consider the interview.</p>
<p>Everyone, I have two questions regarding interviews. Do interviewers routinely tell applicants that they will write a strong recommendation for them at the end of an interview or does this mean that the applicant has impressed the interviewer to a great degree? Also, if I had a really long interview (2 hours), does that mean that I interviewed well?</p>
<p>I have only had one interview so far, so I was wondering about that. I was wondering about the strong recommendation comment because my sibling got one of those too on his first interview, so I’m wondering if an unprompted comment like that is common from interviewers.</p>
<p>Also, this is so stupid, but I need to finish my applications this week because my school wants you to hand them the entire application so that they can send it out. I’m going to try to not have to do that, though, because I’m not finished with most of my applications. We’re all under so much stress that I’m sure some of you understand how I feel.</p>
<p>I have many friends who are basically only applying to Ivy League or top notch schools. I’m really unsure about my chances and whether I’ll get in, which sometimes gives me a disadvatage I think. But with today’s admission’s statistics and process, I don’t understand how the decisions are made at all. Honestly, just by knowing where people did and didn’t get in last year, I wouldn’t be surprised if they chose students out of a hat.</p>
<p>in case people have not received the email sent out to everyone:</p>
<p>Thank you for submitting a Single Choice Early Action application for the Yale College Class of 2011.</p>
<p>Please read the information below regarding notification procedures on your application. Most applicants will not need to contact us, but will only need to follow the instructions provided below, so please read this information in its entirety.</p>
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<p>When and how will early action decisions be made available?</p>
<p>The Yale Undergraduate Admissions Office hopes to mail decisions to all Single Choice Early Action applicants on December 15. Sometime that same evening, we will be able to open access to the online notification process. To use this process, you will should go to <a href=“http://www.yale.edu/admit[/url]”>www.yale.edu/admit</a>.
Please note that the timing of these decision announcements is subject to change. We will post any change to this schedule at <a href=“http://www.yale.edu/admit[/url]”>www.yale.edu/admit</a>.</p>
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<p>How do you check your admissions decision online?</p>
<p>In order to check your Early Action admissions decision online on or after December 15, you must have an Eli account. After receiving your application, the Undergraduate Admissions Office mailed to you a PIN number and the instructions for setting up your Eli account. If you used these instructions to set up your account and create a password, then you already have what you will need on the evening of December 15 to go to <a href=“http://www.yale.edu/admit[/url]”>www.yale.edu/admit</a> and obtain your decision.</p>
<p>[IMPORTANT NOTE: the PIN number that we sent to you by mail is not the password you will use to obtain your decision online. For security reasons, the PIN that we sent to you by mail could only be used to set up your Eli account and to establish a new password of your own. You will use the password that you chose at that time to log into the online decision site.]</p>
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<p>What should you do if you created an Eli account, but have forgotten the password that you created?</p>
<p>If you have forgotten the password that you created for your Eli account, simply go to <a href=“http://www.yale.edu/admit/onlinedecisions[/url]”>www.yale.edu/admit/onlinedecisions</a> and click on Forgot Password. You will be asked to verify your identity by answering some questions that were asked of you when you activated or last modified your account.</p>
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<p>What should you do if you have not yet created your Eli account?</p>
<p>If you have not already created your Eli account, you may still create it by going to <a href=“http://www.yale.edu/admit/onlinedecisions[/url]”>www.yale.edu/admit/onlinedecisions</a>. You will need the letter that we sent to you after receiving your application, the one that contains a username and PIN number for setting up an Eli account.
What should you do if you have lost or never received the letter providing your username and PIN number?</p>
<p>If you have lost the information required to set up your Eli account, or if you never received our letter containing this information, the Admissions Office has resent this information a few moments ago to the email address that you provided in your application. Please be sure to activate your account as soon as possible at <a href=“http://www.yale.edu/admit/onlinedecisions[/url]”>www.yale.edu/admit/onlinedecisions</a> to ensure that you can check your decision on the evening of December 15th.</p>
<p>Please do not telephone our office to obtain this information. Due to the number of applications received and the fact that all admissions staff are working to evaluate files and produce decision letters, we regret that we cannot answer telephone calls about setting up Eli accounts or about replacing PIN numbers. If for any reason you cannot access the online notification system, you will still receive your decision letter by mail within a few days of December 15.</p>
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<p>What should you do if you cannot access the online notification system on December 15 and you do not receive a notification letter within a few days following December 15?</p>
<p>If for any reason you cannot obtain your decision online and you also do not receive a notification letter by December 20, you may call the Office of Undergraduate Admissions on or after December 21 to receive an admissions decision.</p>
<p>Thank you for your interest in Yale, and we wish you the best of success with your plans for college!
Sincerely,
The Yale Admissions Office</p>
<p>Office of Undergraduate Admissions
Yale University
P.O. Box 208234, New Haven CT 06520
<a href=“http://www.yale.edu/admit[/url]”>www.yale.edu/admit</a></p>
<p>Do you know if anything will happen if you didn’t receive this e-mail? I sent in my application on November 1st in the afternoon, I’ve received all the account, PIN, interview, notification things, but I don’t recall being referred to as an EA applicant. However, my common app does say so… Sorry I’m rambling. Should I be worried?</p>
<p>Perhaps they have your email address wrong.</p>
<p>Yale sent me the initial confirmation e-mail and I too don’t recall being referred to as a SCEA applicant, at least via the e-mail the sent me, but the letter that came in the mail with my Eli Account information did indicate that.</p>
<p>Good luck everyone.</p>
<p>I am in the class of 2010 and I am just waiting to see the results for the Class of 2011.</p>
<p>Shawshank you must be having a rather great time looking back on this process as opposed to living it… Kind of like how I look at all the sleep-deprived juniors in my school!</p>
<p>That email made my heart STOP when I saw the first half of the subject “Decision Announcements for Early Action Applicants”… I was like “Crud I’m not mentally prepared for this!” But then I read further and felt better…</p>
<p>Wow, freak out attack!</p>
<p>and im in the class of 2012, a sleep deprived junior AND anxious for these results (because they will foreshadow my results next year)</p>
<p>I’m thinking that next year, a lot more people will be admitted early because of H and P dropping early admissions.</p>
<p>Really? I think they would expect fewer SCEA admits to attend because many of those whose first choice was H or P will apply early to Yale, even though it’s not their first choice yet.</p>
<p>i agree - a lot less people will be admitted SCEA, and a lot will be waitlisted even in RD, because they dont have their SCEA pool to fall back on</p>
<p>it wuld make more sense to do ED for yale given this situation then</p>
<p>Why would Yale not want more applicants early? That way they can pick and choose what they think is the best–first, while before, Princeton could claim them through ED.
ED would lower the numbers for early, and as it seems, would be discouraging for economically-disadvantaged applicants. Even though as of now, there has been little to no evidence that Harvard and Princeton’s approach would do anything to relieve that situation, Yale probably would not choose to exacerbate it.</p>
<p>Yale would get more applicants early, but the reason is so that they can get more people who plan to attend. if the princeton/harvard wanna-attends apply to Yale SCEA, which I believe they will do, there is a high probably they will not attend Yale because they had their sights on the HP. This would mean worse numbers for Yale, and Yale wuldn’t want that. ED would ensure those who wanted to apply for real only apply.</p>
<p>Isn’t Yale going to release their statement on their early policy in February or something? They may drop it as well.</p>