<p>lol…i dont think i will…though it may be awkward to still have dreams about yale and be studying at William and Mary…</p>
<p>wait</p>
<p>lol…i dont think i will…though it may be awkward to still have dreams about yale and be studying at Florida State…</p>
<p>this board is making me nervous</p>
<p>lol…dont be nervous…</p>
<p>lol great advice
impossible to follow though.</p>
<p>I’ve actually become a lot more well-adjusted. I think I was a lot more nervous about ED but now I’ll probably be happy with whatever I get.</p>
<p>For EA, within a few days of December 15, at the Yale admissions website (<a href=“http://www.yale.edu/admit/[/url]”>http://www.yale.edu/admit/</a>) there was a link in the middle of the page to something of the tune of “EA Online Notification Information.” In it, it stated quite clearly that decisions would be available on December 15 at 5:00 PM from that same page.</p>
<p>On December 14th, the entire page at the aforementioned link became a simply HTML document with two links. One said, “Go to normal admissions web site,” and the other said, “EA Decisions Now Available.”</p>
<p>‘PIN Information
In order to be able to check your admissions decision online in April, you are required to set up an account using the username and the PIN sent to you in the mail by the Undergraduate Admissions office.’</p>
<p>Does that mean we won’t get our decisions at 5.00 pm ESTon 31st March?</p>
<p>guys… lets just stop worrying about the itty-bitty details of this. Lets move on with life and enjoy it while we’re still young. Go out and party, get drunk, play poker, watch movies, wtvr. But, worrying about college is not the way to be spending the best years of our lives.</p>
<p>i’ll do that this summer in europe…I’m touring europe with a bunch of my friends and my hs english teacher for 5 weeks, it is going to be AMAZING</p>
<p>No, no. It just means you have to sign in to get it using the info they send you. They should have already sent it (or it’ll be coming shortly). You’ll get the info and then have to set up an account with a username and password. That way, you’ll be ready on the 31st at 5:00.</p>
<p>I got my ID and PIN after a zillion telephone calls and emails. After they finally managed to send it to me by email (my letter was lost in transit) they sent loads of emails telling me that my app was complete and that I’d set up my account successfully and that there was nothing to worry about. I thoroughly enjoyed all the drama :)</p>
<p>Haha I had to do nothing, except drop a line about it, in an email about something else.</p>
<p>Within 2 hours I had my ID/PIN.</p>
<p>Yale wants me 
</p>
<p>Yeah, the EA decisions were on a few days earlier than was reported they would be, so you best darn believe I’m checking the Yale site regularly. I just want to know already; i’ve never been known for my patience, but this tops all. agonizing. 21 days…ugh</p>
<p>Waiting is all mental. I unfortunately are failing their little test of patience right now. I just wanna know, NOW!!! I am a deferred EA person though so I have been in limbo so long that I don’t think I will know what to do when I actually find out.</p>
<p>ditto, laurenemma. oh i have a question for anyone who might know…so yeah I applied EA and my French teacher - who adores me to the point of it actually embarassing me a bit - informed me that (prior to the early action decisions) a Yale admissions officer had contacted her asking for her to expound on her recommendation. And given how much she adores me, they couldnt have asked a better person, ya know, and i just know whatever she said to them was absolutely and totally incredible. So she talked with them, and then I was deferred. I was just wondering how common it is for admissions officers to call on a student, with so many applicants, can i take it as a sign of strong interest/potential, or is actually relatively commonplace and I ought not let it get my hopes up?</p>
<p>I figure I don’t need to check the site regularly because someone on CC will definitely post when they get their decision. And then I can go check :)</p>
<p>rockettgerl22: It isn’t commonplace for admissions officers to call up your recommenders or counselors to get more information about you. So when they did call up your teacher, they must have had above average interest in you. But then some part of your app must have put some sort of doubt in their minds. I think you have atleast a slightly better chance than most other deferees, probably more if you wrote a winning deferral letter.</p>
<p>thanks for the response, bruno. what do you mean by a winning deferral letter?</p>
<p>When a college defers you, a lot of people write a follow-up letter telling them what’s going on, why they still want to go, how X school is still their first choice.</p>
<p>see i’ve read that a few places about sending a follow up letter indicating one’s intention to attend the school if accepted, etc and I was going to but then i thought about and figured in the case of Yale…(esp since i applied ea)…that it’s pretty much a given that it’s a deferree’s first choice making such a letter moot. dont you think? I mean, if not, i’ll get all over that letter but I would be saying "If extended an offer of admission I would attend Yale " , which goes without sayin, no? And nothing big has developed since then in terms of accomplishments, so I cant use that as an excuse really and then make mention of my intentions.</p>
<p>I think it’s too late to send a letter. </p>
<p>Traditionally only a few students sent the letter, and it made them stand out in the RD round. However, nowadays it has become common practice, so in sense, it doesn’t help you, but it can hurt you if the college thinks you’ve lost interest (many people do start liking another school better).</p>