<p>okay…heres the deal…last year for the first time in atleast 5 years yale accepted people from my school…2 kids out of a class of 140ish which is a lot considering its yale… they both turned yale down…one for mit and one for princeton…then someone said o yale isnt gonna take anyone from our school anymore cuz we ****ed them off by rejecting them… is this a valid statement? it never occured to me before but i got really freaked out after oi heard… i really hope its not cuz i absolutley love yale!</p>
<p>It’s really hard to say, but at least where I live it’s pretty clear Yale has ‘high priority’ schools and ‘low priority’ schools because at my daughter’s school, people accepted at Harvard and Stanford are routinely WL or denied at Yale, and they have admitted no one in 5 years (the last admitted student turned them down.) I wouldn’t draw a strict correlation, but I do believe ours is a low-priority school for them, hence the dismal outcomes.</p>
<p>My daughter has applied, but this is one outcome I am about 99% certain will be a deny or eternal WL - I rate her odds higher at all her other schools, simply because of the history.</p>
<p>yale finally admitted one student last year out of hundreds who have applied in the past ten years from my school, and that was for football.</p>
<p>That’s consistent with what I hear from parents at other schools - of the group of Harvard, Yale, MIT, Stanford & Princeton, Yale does seem to be the only one to focus only on certain schools and more or less blacklist many others. I don’t see this effect with the other 4 schools.</p>