<p>willact4food, I’m in the same situation- two SCEA applicants… My school has had 2 Yale acceptances in the past 4 years, and the other applicant is URM and legacy, which leaves me somewhat depressed.</p>
<p>At least, so far, my school has been doing well this year. 1 of 1 to Columbia, 1 of 1 to Dartmouth.</p>
<p>It does not matter how many kids are at your schools. ie. your school has 450 and they only have taken one in the past. It matters HOW MANY qualified and talented kids in your school apply. If you go to a school with 450 and there are only a few applications then it the 450 number means nothing.
Also, the fact that Yale might take a recruited athlete, development case or legacy from your school has no reflection on who else they might take who does not have that edge. The admissions office does not say “we already took two from that high school who were recruited athletes so we wont take any one else” There are no quotos. If only one or two were taken from ones high school in the past or just one or two it would simply mean that Yale did not think any of those applicants had what Yale was looking for.
Bear in mind that the regional rep presents each case to the committee. But recruited athletes, development cases ect are handled separately. No one tells the regional rep not to present the other applicants from high schools where athletes are already taken for example, in a bad light. Regional reps will advocate for every applicant at committee. If you have what Yale is looking for you will get in indepenedent of who else they are taking.
Bear in mind that everyone applying here including those who post are outstanding. If they get into Yale, great. If not, they will most likely get into a few other top schools and have a choice of where they want to go. One cannot predict what Yale is looking for.</p>
<p>It does not matter how many kids are at your schools. ie. your school has 450 and they only have taken one in the past. It matters HOW MANY qualified and talented kids in your school apply. If you go to a school with 450 and there are only a few applications then it the 450 number means nothing.
Also, the fact that Yale might take a recruited athlete, development case or legacy from your school has no reflection on who else they might take who does not have that edge. The admissions office does not say “we already took two from that high school who were recruited athletes so we wont take any one else” There are no quotos. If only one or two were taken from ones high school in the past or just one or two it would simply mean that Yale did not think any of those applicants had what Yale was looking for.
Bear in mind that the regional rep presents each case to the committee. But recruited athletes, development cases ect are handled separately. No one tells the regional rep not to present the other applicants from high schools where athletes are already taken for example, in a bad light. Regional reps will advocate for every applicant at committee. If you have what Yale is looking for you will get in indepenedent of who else they are taking.
Bear in mind that everyone applying here including those who post are outstanding. If they get into Yale, great. If not, they will most likely get into a few other top schools and have a choice of where they want to go. One cannot predict what Yale is looking for.</p>
<p>is there any chance that decisions might be posted early? like thursday maybe?</p>
<p>a small chance- according to someone who posted earlier, there was one situation a couple years back that the results were posted one day earlier because they finished earlier. someone else posted that because there are 500 less applicants this year, it might happen this year as well.</p>
<p>Also, another reason why my year isn’t doing so well copared to last year (besides that last year’s applicants are slightly better) is that more than a handful who got accepted early got rescinded because they just crashed afterwards. So, sucks for my year -.-.</p>
<p>how bad do you have to do to get rescinded? and what if you didn’t apply to any other schools since you already get into your first choice and then you do badly and your rescinded and have no where to go because all the RD deadlines have already passed? thats a worse case scenario, but it seems possible.</p>
<p>County it would be. 
Let’s worry about getting in first though, please.</p>
<p>Ah, my friend just got into dartmouth. I’m so happy/jealous!!!</p>
<p>Well, um. [64%</a> of my school](<a href=“http://www.samjackson.org/college/2006/12/08/sixty-four-percent-of-exonians-applied-early-in-2006/]64%”>http://www.samjackson.org/college/2006/12/08/sixty-four-percent-of-exonians-applied-early-in-2006/) applied early somewhere (up from 58% last year), I don’t know how many to Yale. Brown and Princeton I think led the pack, Princeton it is known: 17 people (they forgot to blind carbon copy a list one day ! 
) but I don’t know how far behind Yale is. spooky. Total class size: 315, but 30 are postgraduates.</p>
<p>In my class of about 400 kids, I’m the only one applying to Yale at all, nevermind just EA. </p>
<p>Six days you guys!</p>
<p>how do you guys know how many are people are applying to your school? I have no idea who is applying where except some of my friends who talk about it. i’m a junior this year, but next year when i apply i’m not telling anyone except my guidance councilor and the teachers who give me recs.</p>
<p>Gossip helps a good deal? That’s what teenagers are best at.</p>
<p>Yeah, while I know a few peopl ewho have gone your route seempand, most people are pretty up front about college decisions. I used to consider not divulging where I’m applying but I think that most everyone has been pretty supportive and occassionally withholding the info can be more trouble than its worth. Pesky people can get really nosy about it and your friends can treat it like an insult or like you don’t trust them… So I decided just telling them “Yale, so don’t expect any good news…” would be easier…</p>
<p>haha Cozmo, very true</p>
<p>seempand, I just know because most of my friends are the ones applying to Ivy League schools; my ex-boyfriend and his twin sister (she’s our valedictorian), both crazy smart, are applying to Yale. That’s why I’m able to come up with rough numbers for my class; of course, though, there are people outside my groups of friends who applied to Ivies, like the kid who got in to Columba ED :)</p>
<p>I don’t have a problem with telling people where I’m applying…I’ve been fortunate not to get the “ohh you think you’re better than us because you’re applying to an Ivy??” reaction; mostly I get flak for not applying to any California schools. And my friends are ultra-supportive; even those who haven’t applied ED/EA help me count down the days, and I know that if I didn’t get in they’d comfort me :)</p>
<p>Six days…!</p>
<p>zutsuit, that must be so weird for twins to apply to the same school and what if they get different decisions? I’ve heard Dartmouth has a twin policy where they don’t accept one without the other… I wonder if yale has something similar.</p>
<p>correction: TWO got into Dartmouth =P.</p>
<p>if people ask i’ll probably just tell them i’m not applying anyone early and then say i’m probably applying to john hopkins, brown, columbia, nyu, and university of bc in the rd round. i just really don’t think i could take the whole school knowing and then getting rejected. and a lot of my friends are really smart and they pretend like their very open minded but i’ve heard them say things like “i would love to go to dartmouth or brown or cornell, but those schools like harvard, princeton, and yale are so elitist” and then make a disgusted face. but if i actually got into yale then i think they would be very happy for me especially after i explain how cool it is. oh, and also, the smartest kid i know is appling to places like middlebury, and i would just feel strange. i don’t know, this doesn’t make any sense, and maybe next year i will end up telling people, but we’ll see.</p>
<p>my good friends know i applied early to yale, i would never dream of not telling them. a few other people know who’ve asked me, but it’s not common knowledge. hopefully there wont be too many people i have to clue in to my rejection next weekend. oy.</p>
<p>in my school, nothing is nobody’s business. it’s awful- all of the seniors know im applying to yale</p>
<p>ugh I hate it when people ask and they don’t even know you! it’s so flipping rude</p>