Many people offer excessively deep advice, which may not always reflect good intentions towards others… I believe many people wish to share their curiosity here but feel discouraged by sarcastic responses at times.
I’m deferred and my FA portal updated a few days ago… when do they start to look at deferral candidates?
This is a great resource with current calendar for most if not all college decisions. Hopefully this helps. This is updated as dates are announced.
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Nice, looks like it giving you rolling admissions data too?
I disagree, one could also be a strong enough candidate in terms of what Yale is looking for that they don’t need an interview. Students still get admitted without. Maybe this was corrected someplace else, and if so please disregard!
But yes, if you do not get interviewed it may mean you were extremely admissible/thrown out in the initial reading stage, or there were no available interviewers!
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Without interview, that is most strong candidate. I corrected
Ok. You are correct
still no interview im cooked
Well, based on what you typed before this comment, you imply that. My own sister and I (as well as several of my friends at other schools last year) got into Yale last year without an interview. Please do not spread paranoia.
**and I was also in a very strong region to where people were getting interviews!
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Please do not flag a post and then reply to it. If there is an issue, flag it for moderator attention then move on. Thanks for your understanding.
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My two cents is in general there is no useful predictive information in whether or not Yale invites you for an interview. But could you try to extract more information in certain specific types cases? Possibly, although I think it is too speculative to be reliable on an individual level.
For example, the main pro to being interviewed is it implies you likely passed the initial review. But what if given your numbers in context and other factors you could be pretty confident you would pass the initial review? Then being asked to interview doesn’t really add new positive information about getting past the initial screen, and it leaves you with just the negative information that someone flagged you as not quite satisfying them on fit questions based on your written application.
Conversely, though, say you had good reason to believe Yale was likely to have fit questions anyway given the nature of your applicant type. Then getting an interview invite might imply no new negative information, only the positive information you likely passed the initial review.
So what MIGHT be cases of the second kind? Well, MAYBE if you were someone with a narrow but these-days-popular intended major that is not exactly Yale’s strongest area, like say CS or engineering. Or MAYBE if you were an international coming from a secondary school system where kids are already specialized by this point and usually do not go on to US-style liberal arts traditional undergrads. Or so on. You could speculate Yale might want to interview as many applicants of these types as it could who get past the initial review so it could figure out which would actually be a good fit for Yale, such that if you are an applicant of that type that does not get interviewed that might be a negative indicator.
I note, though, in cases like that it may be that most interviews do not end up satisfying Yale anyway. Which would be consistent with Yale explaining most interviews do not move the needle, change the result, and so on.
In any event, look how speculative all that is! And I am sure there are always individual exceptions to any rules of thumb like this anyway, people who between recommendations and activities and supplemental essays and so on stand out as being great fits for Yale notwithstanding their type of applicant.
Long story short, I personally would not worry about this. If you sincerely believe you are a good fit for Yale, and wrote an application that conveyed why you believe that, then I think you should not be concerned about this issue. Conversely if you suspect deep down you are maybe not a good fit for Yale, and are worried they will see that, frankly you should not be overly confident an interview will change that possible perception.
But either way, we are back to the interview probably not really giving you useful information on the individual level.
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Shockingly, the posts above made by the other moderator were apparently too subtle to be grasped by Yale applicants. So let me rephrase:
Believe what you want about the value of interviews and what it means to get or not get one. But stop debating the issue here.
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Does anyone know if they look at deferred candidates before the RD or after? Thanks
So what they have said in general about deferred candidates is they want to compare them alongside the RD applicants to see who ends up really standing out.
That implies to me they would not look at them strictly before or strictly after, but exactly when they look at them again I do not know.
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Any other deferrals have changed to FA portal? I had one small change but doubt it means Anything.
The day after decisions my portal changed and all of my documents were received. I doubt this theory means anything.
I had one like last week. I don’t know if it means anything at all.
Then they started moving my documents around
I have a question.
Yale receives all idocs which we submitted in idoc for all applicants. Am i wrong?