<p>Dear tokenadult,
My D and I attended an info session last night in Milwaukee and your post is very reflective of our experience. Thank you for taking the time to share with CC, we had to drive 3 hours to Milwaukee and if we had not been able to attend, your post would have really given us all the information we needed. It is a very kind (time consuming) thing to share. I don’t know you, but I like you!
I thought Debra Johns was excellent, especially given how new she is new to Yale. She did say that she is the reader for one county in New Jersey and Minn, Wisc plus a small piece of either Illinois or Indiana (for the ccers in Ill and Indiana sorry my notes are bad!) She said that the one county in New Jersey has more applications than the combined three Midwestern states she reads.
My only other comment is that I believe she is wrong about applying to the University of Wisconsin Madison if you apply Yale SCEA. She told the group that they must receive their decision after Jan 1 so they need to time their application carefully. I believe that the University of Wisconsin - Madison is a “normal” rolling school and that applying now (or already) should not jeopardize SCEA as I read the Yale website. My D is not applying to Madison so I will not pursue further, but if you or your child is applying to Yale SCEA and to UW Madison rolling, I would call Yale before deciding to delay (revoke?) my UW Madison application, because I think Ms. Johns was not quite right on this issue. Overall though she appeared to be very knowledgeable, bright and engaging. I am glad we attended.</p>