they aren’t linked yet that’s why this doesn’t work 
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I feel like admissions decisions are still being made…like the committee is actively meeting every day up until a few days before Ivy Day.
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i got “not found”
I got …
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I created and joined but the verification form is needed, which did not go through. Let us hope it starts working soon, as the day approaches.
Finally some excitement lol.
If your student is accepted, there will be Bulldog Days for accepted students. I would recommend they attend that to meet students and potential classmates.
For hotels, the Courtyard is pretty convenient, but pricing is all over the map (lot of surge pricing). During peak rates, we stay at the Village Suites. You’ll need to drive in and park, but in the past it has been $100/200 less per night.
One of the three pizza places is the to go restaurant, although I go to Yorkside for old times sake. Some of the owners/family still work there from the '80’s.
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Yorkside also has good Greek food, which can be nice if not everyone in the party wants pizza.
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Yes, according to the information from the Yale Admissions Podcasts, the process isn’t really over until after the main committee meets, and it can instruct the various regional committees to nominate candidates to either be moved out of admit or moved into admit (depending on whether the main committee thinks that regional committee ended up high or low).
So it seems like except maybe for Likely Letter folks, everyone else is not really, finally accepted, waitlisted, or rejected until the main committee is done with its work. Which I understand is mere days before the notification day, really only enough time to verify all the decisions and then stuff envelopes.
Given all that, I think it is highly unlikely that Yale is currently secretly making available a final admit/waitlist/reject list, because it would not seem it actually has such a list itself yet.
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LOL i always appreciate your insight (both on CC and Reddit), thank you 
Oh I see sorry, I’m just anxious.
I got the same…
lolol
Thanks for the hotel and pizza tips! It’ll be up to our student but, I’m definitely leaning toward a pizza lunch, followed by dinner at Sherkaan Indian Street Food. Will check out the accessibility and pricing for the Couryard and Village Suites. Thank you!
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What about deferrals? I wonder if there’s an separate committee for them or something
Following up on this…Yale mentions that a defferal means that the applicant is a good fit but they want to wait to see the rest of the pool. What type of things makes a deferred candidate stand out?
Well I know there are different tiers of deferrals. Some Yale already knows will be admitted and some Yale sees slight promise and in case of a weaker pool can reasonably admitted.
Because the Admissions Podcast officers stated the committees wanted to see the deferred applicants together with the RD applicants to see who stood out, that implies to me it would not serve Yale’s purposes to have different committees looking at the different pools.
How do you know this? Since they could easily reject?
I think that is the sort of question that has no one answer to it, and it is among the reasons why they need a committee process with different stakeholders represented (their 5-person committees apparently typically include a faculty representative and a residential college dean or other representative of the Yale College Dean’s Office). Different candidates might stand out to different committee members for different reasons, and they discuss and ultimately vote. They even described this as a checks and balances system.
And then in the first run through the SCEA applicants, the committees can vote to admit, more commonly reject, but sometimes to defer. And a deferral just means they have basically decided not to decide yet. This implies to me there had to be some support in the committee, but at least some people just were not sure yet.
And then they get reconsidered in the RD phase, and presumably at some point get a vote, and this time they can’t defer. So they discuss and then vote and something happens.
And finally, they make clear they are using the same criteria each time. So whatever Yale says in general about what they are looking for applies to RD applicants and deferred applicants equally well. There do not appear to be some special rules for being admitted after deferral, it is just the normal process was paused, and then it finally comes to a conclusion.
So if you like, they have a whole episode, Episode 13, called What Stands Out. The whole thing is really interesting, and part of the answer again is there really is no one answer. But the closest I think they come is explaining they are not really trying to judge individual merit, they are trying to create a shared experience among a relatively small group of students. And so at a high level, you stand out by in some way painting a compelling picture of why that group of students would be better off sharing that experience with you.
And so as they explain in that episode, at that point you are past the question of whether you are qualified and likely to do well, and they are really now focused on the concept of “fit”. But again fit isn’t one kind of person they want 1600 identical copies of, it is 1600 unique individuals that they think would fit well together. And so they talk about all sorts of way you can stand out as a particularly good fit, with any of academic interests, activities, essays, recommendations that explain your role in your classes and sometimes your community, overcoming adversity, just having a really interesting background, and so on.
And they also have some opinions about typical types of highly qualified students they think really would NOT fit at Yale–but those people presumably were among the many people rejected if they applied SCEA. The deferred are people who presumably did not strike them like that, but simply did not stand out enough on the first look by the committee to persuade them to be admitted right then.
Anyway, as mentioned the whole episode is interesting. But my two cents is you are never going to extract answers to this sort of question that are both simple and specific, because that is not how their process works.
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At least my understanding is if they knew they would admit someone RD, they will just admit them SCEA.
What they did say, though, was the following:
If there’s any question, though, on really either end– if we say the student is close to being admitted but we don’t know if they’re going to stand out when all those other applications come along, we’ll defer. Similarly, if we’re saying, this looks strong, but we’re not quite sure if it’s going to emerge, but listen, this student might actually stand out depending on what comes in the regular decision pool, a defer is relatively easy for us.
To me this doesn’t sound like two sharp categories, it more sounds to me like they are just describing a spectrum between being closer and being farther (but still within range) at the time of deferral. And unfortunately there is no particular way of knowing where you were in that range if deferred.
I just have to say though they were already leaning towards accepting or rejecting a deferred candidate early. It’s just a matter of I think that they want to see what comes in RD pool.
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