<p>34 ACT
750 Literature
790 U.S. History
Top 5% of class</p>
<p>Why rejected? Why not defered?</p>
<p>Holistic admissions = beyond objective statistics</p>
<p>aranyria,
I’m so sorry about your being denied. However, I’m afraid none of us can answer your question. While you’re obviously a competitive applicant number-wise, there are intangibles and the fact that they are building a class and have information that we as individuals cannot see. Please read the recent thread by a parent of a student rejected by Yale SCEA a few years ago, and how she went on to be accepted by several top schools:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/yale-university/612315-yale-people-listen-up.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/yale-university/612315-yale-people-listen-up.html</a></p>
<p>Why? One or more of the following: ECs, essays, teacher recs, interview report.</p>
<p>It was a brutal year. With your stats you should have some fine choices in April.</p>
<p>I guess.</p>
<p>My EC were great–I’ve been winning stuff at school for them.
I thought my essays were great. That’s what my English teacher told me. Though who knows.
Teacher recs–well, I guess maybe.
No interview offered.</p>
<p>I guess I was good. Yale wanted steller. Good does not equal stellar.</p>
<p>Don’t worry. If you see the Yale adcom, you can wave at them…</p>
<p>not with all five fingers though.</p>
<p>xD Haha good to see you back, OneKing!</p>
<p>I know this is a tough time, but try to really listen and digest two things:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Many questions in life don’t have an easy answer to “why”? And believe me, while college admissions can sting, there are much bigger and more painful “whys” out there.</p></li>
<li><p>What I was trying to get at in my early post was that depending on what the admissions committee is looking for this year and what the rest of the applicant pool looks like, it could be that they were looking for something “different”, rather than good vs. stellar.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>I’m back, Loving Barack, and totally dressed in Black. :)</p>
<p>hey, i have similar stats to you (OP)
and i was asking myself the same thing: why rejected, as opposed to deferred?</p>
<p>we can never know. it sucks right now. in fact, i’m leaving the Yale board after tonight.
but the decision was made…and i’m just trying to picture myself at other great schools. what else can we do? tomorrow it going to be difficult, answering to my friends (and those pesky classmates who squeezed my SCEA choice out of me). maybe I wasnt smart enough, good enough at my ECs or I didnt have the highest scores. but I did my best and if they dont want me, then that’s that. i still love the school, but i just have to beleive it wasnt meant to be.</p>
<p>sorry for this long post, but it was sort of cathartic for me to write. there was no school i have loved more than Yale, but there sure as hell WILL be another I love more. and that will be the one i attend.</p>
<p>good luck on your other apps!</p>
<p>Great post, Hlover. That was just what I needed to hear. 
I really hope I can love another school as much as I loved Yale. And I really hope I get into that school!</p>
<p>I feel bad for all of you. I have no intentions of even applying to anything near ivy level, but I do wish you all the best in your endeavors. I can only imagine how badly your dreams must be shattered at the moment.</p>
<p>Fortunately though, there are many more ivy’s to apply to. You’re bound to hit one (or a few!) and chances are it won’t be much different at all. just rework your dreams is all.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>Thanks all, I’m actually feeling a bit better.</p>