<p>I don’t think this is Yale purposely confusing anyone. They make it perfectly clear that they have thousands of qualified applicants applying and they can only accept a small percent of them. They tell you what they look for, that the admissions process isn’t a science but an art, and that having the qualities that they look for won’t automatically get you in.</p>
<p>We have all come to believe that having that “perfect GPA and SAT scores” will automatically get us in. “I got a 4.0, 2400. So, I deserve, perhaps am entitled, to get into Yale.” Know that that’s not the case at all. You got the 4.0/2400 so you are now qualified to apply to Yale… qualified to apply, that is all. You are not entitled to be accepted for no reason. I think this is a larger cultural problem, not a Yale-created or -encouraged phenomenon.</p>