SAT before 13th (urban legend or true?)

Pizzagirl
Sun, 01 Dec 2013 12:05:40 +0000

"&Is it a crime to actually have Yale as your first choice? It was S’s first choice, and he was deferred SCEA. His classmate was accepted. By the time S got to school on Monday morning someone–not us–had told everyone and he had to put up with people offering sympathy. It was pretty humiliateing for him. I actually had someone stop me in the supermarket and express shock."

No, it’s not a crime to have Yale as your first choice. The idea of everyone else in town knowing these things, though, just gives the introvert in me the creeps.

I still don’t see why it was characterized as a “Yale 2003 controversy.” I expected an actual controversy - like the accepted kids were mailed out rejection letters or something.