<p>Rejection beats deferral.</p>
<p>I still think deferral beats rejection. At least then you have the chance of getting in later on.</p>
<p>These three weeks did NOT go that quickly. IMO at least. 23 days to go!!</p>
<p>I’d rather be deferred. I’ll have plenty of updates (significant awards/achievements etc.) to give them.</p>
<p>Oh speaking of updates, how do i update my Stanford and Princeton apps?</p>
<p>^Did you already send them in?</p>
<p>I submitted the common app not the supplements.</p>
<p>If it’s something important you can probably email them (at whatever address they gave you).</p>
<p>I would definitely think that deferral beats rejection…At least deferral means that the admissions officers have seen potential for you to get into the school with a little bit of more work and polishing…</p>
<p>did any of you guys apply to Yale SCEA through Questbridge? High 5 for getting replies two weeks than other EA/EDs!</p>
<p>If I want to send updates/corrections for SCEA, is it still possible?</p>
<p>^yeah, u can do that.</p>
<p>another 3 weeks…I’m gonna die of the wait…</p>
<p>Eiswein - my interviewer did the same thing to me last Saturday. He was a doctor and I am looking at international politics, so we had exactly ZERO in common, but he did enjoy the fact my father went to Yale and discussed the Yale/Harvard game for several minutes (as I sat, nodding). He mentioned how he though Yale fit my needs and then spent a good 6 or 7 minutes discussing how terribly competitive the Early Action pool is over the regular decision. He emphasized how difficult it is to get in and said, “you look like you’re in good shape, keep up the good work. You’ve got a nice set of colleges here [glancing down at the schools I am applying to]”. So he definitely made a point in saying that I shouldn’t be disappointed if I don’t get in EA because they have to turn away so many qualified applicants. </p>
<p>That being said, it still made me nervous :P</p>
<p>Some of you are lying to yourselves. Deferral always beats rejection period.</p>
<p>Getting deferred means that Yale thinks you are a worthy applicant. Getting rejected, on the other hand, means you are the bottom 35% of the pool. It would tell you that you are not THAT competitive at Yale, and might be an indication of how you will fare at your other choices. I know Yale defers 50% of its SCEA applicants and yes you have a very high chance of rejection, but it still means you are better than the 35% rejectees.</p>
<p>When you get deferred, just consider yourself rejected and you will either be pleasantly surprised or get something you expected all along. How is that worse than getting flat out rejected?</p>
<p>If you still think that deferral is worse than a rejection than why don’t you just withdraw your application right after you get deferred? that’s the same thing as a rejection, but you just get another option to maybe get accepted in the future.</p>
<p>^Completely agree with everything here. If I were to get outright rejected rather than deferred, I would be sooo depressed during the wait for RD decisions.</p>
<p>impetuous: you offer sage advice. I’m sure it’s just people’s nerves showing their insecurities.</p>
<p>I guess it’s not so much that I would rather be rejected than deferred, but that I wish Yale would take an approach that was more like Stanford’s</p>
<p>^Good point. My whole worry with getting deferred is that I’ll hang on to a faint hope for the next 3.5 months. Stanford does its best to eliminate that (and the avg person deferred there should have a better chance than SCEA applicants).</p>
<p>I just got my SAT IIs back!!
720 Math II, 700 Literature
Not bad, considering I got a 710 on CR and a 730 on Math on the Reasoning test.</p>
<p>But it doesn’t matter anyway for Yale… just for Princeton and CMU.
I sent my ACT. :D</p>
<p>^Mine are in too… but I’m not going to look at them until after Thanksgiving break is over. I refuse to let them ruin this glorious holiday.</p>
<p>jaimeleschevaux: I feel much better now others have explained what they thought the ambiguous thing my interviewer said at the end…Think of it this way…He said “you look like you’re in good shape, keep up the good work.” That is a compliment :). Keep thinking about it and u’ll feel better!</p>
<p>hey im kinda worried cuz my SAT scores still dont show as having been received on my Eli…but i havent been contacted by Yale asking for my scores…any1 else in a similar situation?</p>