<p>Hey, spur-of-the-moment essays can be the best! I have one I spent two months editing, and one I wrote in half an hour last night, and I really prefer the second one. It lets your personality shine through.</p>
<p>i think i’m honestly gonna get deferred unless the stock market goes up significantly, i make 1 billion dollars, and donate 100 million to Yale.</p>
<p>I’m just about certain that I’ll be deferred…unless I’m rejected…Honestly, if I DO get in, I’m hosting a party next year at Yale for all of my fellow CC acceptees!</p>
<p>i’ve already predicted my fate…</p>
<p>deferred then rejected…haha there are 8 million people apply to yale from my school…and usually (aka for the past like 5 years) only one gets in. so yeah. it sucks.</p>
<p>Ha! My fate is sealed! I clicked the little button and my future is now in the hands of the wise adcoms. I fully expect to be deferred; I hope I’m not flat-out rejected. If fortune is on my side, a nice ex-hippie will read my essay :)</p>
<p>Lol tkm! I wouldn’t mind an ex-hippie either.</p>
<p>why is everyone being so negative? I hope that didnt come out in ur apps because if it did I wouldn’t accept you either.</p>
<p>i guess it depends on how u see it. i think realistically, most people should be expecting a deferral (after all, the EA admit rate is 19%). Only the lucky few who have ridiculously good hooks can claim to be confident about getting in.</p>
<p>i am hoping i get deferred. yale rejects as many as it defers, doesn’t it?</p>
<p>actually, i guess they defer 47% and reject 33%, according to the yale daily news… at least if I’m deferred I’ll know I’m at least somewhat qualified…</p>
<p>if u are deferred it basically says “you will do great at yale, but let’s hold off however there is one or two things we think could be better”</p>
<p>I was thinking deferred meant “Sorry, you are not a god. You will have to battle it out with the mere mortals in January.” So darn it, if I’m deferred I’ll have to demolish those plans for the Church of Tkm256.</p>
<p>I think we’re being negative so we’re not hugely disappointed when the letters come. I know whenever I tell anyone I’m applying to Yale and they stare at me in shock, I say, “But I expect to be deferred or rejected…” just so in two months they won’t laugh at me for being stupid :(</p>
<p>me. i want to keep it QUIET. as in no one will know aside from those who HAVE to know.</p>
<p>guys, i feel like I have to share with you the greatest hook and possibly the greatest music video of all time: <a href=“http://www.mybarbarian.com/mb-web/video/unicorns_hi.mov[/url]”>http://www.mybarbarian.com/mb-web/video/unicorns_hi.mov</a></p>
<p>OH MY GAWD!!! The most horrible thing just happened. I sent my app. electronically this morning, confidant that I had proofread it a zillion times and nothing could go wrong, and I was perusing the printout again (because I’m strange) and found two giant, humongous errors. #1) There’s no grade level checked under Chess Club for the EC chart,</p>
<h1>2) the stupid Adobe Acrobat program deleted the word ‘I’ from the start of my second sentence!!! It’s on the end of a line, and you know that thing randomly cuts off at margins. So I look like a) I’m sloppy, or b) I have no concept of basic grammar principles what-so-ever.</h1>
<p>So I’m screwed. I’m totally, completely screwed. The adcoms are going to think I’m careless and did the thing in a rush, when I had started the f***ing thing in July. I swear I’d read it over and over to make sure everything was in order, and then the flipping computer does this to me. AUGGGGGGG.</p>
<p>I sent an email to my admissions representative begging for guidance: should I resend the whole thing on paper? Write an explanation to include when I send in my music CD?</p>
<p>Lesson: don’t trust technology. You stupid, stupid computer…why? Why, why why. I want to smash something. My head would be good. Look, there’s a wall. I’ll get to it.</p>
<p>dude, it’s ok.</p>
<p>if i get into an ivy league, one of my priorities is to help the admissions committee because it’s really cool to just help and be involved.</p>
<p>seriously, if you were an adcom and there is a small error will they care? prolly not, cause we’re all human.</p>
<p>tkm, i would really chill out about this. The admissions committee knows that you didn’t just fill it out in an hour and send it to them. If those are the only two mistakes on your application, you’re in great shape. Ad Coms are human too, and they want to have the best students. If you were qualified to get into Yale in the first place, they can’t afford to reject you based on a typo.</p>
<p>But this brings up another question: Is anyone feeling “lack-of-control” anxiety? I never realized, after you send in the app, then the real worrying begins, because you can’t go back and edit anything, so you just nitpick your essays and come up with things you should’ve changed. And we have two more months of this.</p>
<p>Okay, I’ve had a night of sleep and I’m not so freaked out by this. Thanks guys, I really do need to put things into perspective. Yale probably wouldn’t want a neurotic psycho who obsesses over the accidental absence of a pronoun :)</p>
<p>Yeah, it must be that “lack-of-control” anxiety. LOCA. Ooh, we should change it to ‘lack-of-control obsession,’ loco, because that’s what it is :D</p>
<p>yale is much smarter than to reject someone if they have good stuff. your essay isn’t everything…</p>
<p>but yeah, like audiophile says, it wouldn’t take an hour.</p>
<p>i’d say maybe 5000 out of the 20,000 did fill the app out in an hour cause the ivy league yale will get applicants applying only because it is yale/parents making them.</p>