SAME!! See you there maybee
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My son is admitted. He didnât ask for financial aid in common app. Is it permissible for him to submit fafsa and css forms after the admission?
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If admitted not really. He applied not needing financial aid and thatâs why he got accepted. Different buckets in the admissions pool.
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MmmmmâŠ. Yale is need blind.
Donât know the answer to OPs question but definitely not WHY he got accepted.
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The deadline to submit CSS was November 1. They do accept late submissions but Iâm not clear if they are allowed after the admissions decision. You should call and ask.
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Congratulations! Please take a look at the follow page. It reads, under âDeadlinesâ:
" Our goal is to provide you with a decision about financial aid at the time that you are admitted. If you miss the deadline, your provisional award information may arrive after your admissions decision. However, you are still eligible to apply for financial aid, and your award will not be reduced because of late submission. The more quickly you complete your file, the sooner you will receive your provisional financial aid decision"
I hope this helps.
https://finaid.yale.edu/applying-aid/prospective-new-students
My best wishes to your childâs journey as a bulldog.
D.
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Thank you all for your kind replies.
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What a terribly misinformed response. Yale is need blind so there are no separate buckets for admissions. One can only infer that he was accepted because he was a great candidate.
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Yes. Highly educated, well prepared and mostly wealthy students/families.
Admission rate to the school is lower than their admission rate to Ivies.
The two kids who are allegedly deemed âsmartest kids at the schoolâ by their peers with fabulous ECs and internships, both deferred. Smart Kid with a parent working at Yale. Also deferred.
I postured my theory to my kid last night that the deferred kids would be taking their ED2 elsewhere. Kid promptly said âthereâs no way these families would accept anywhere other than Ivy, Stanford or MITâ. So I think that youâre correct, and these kids will keep their deferred status at Yale and also send multiple RD apps to the remaining ivies/ivy adjacent and wait it out until March.
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Just an anecdote, but my S24 and one of his close friends at his feederish HS were both deferred by Yale, and both in the end decided not to ED2 anywhere. My S24 then ended up going to what would have been his ED2 school (WashU) after being rejected in RD by Yale, and his friend in fact ended up at Yale after being accepted.
That said, Iâm not quite sure this is the same thing as not being open minded about other colleges. My S24 was actually sort of split between universities and LACs, and his final two were actually WashU and Carleton (he also visited Vassar post-offer and decided it wasnât for him). His friend was ultimately deciding between the Morehead-Cain at UNC and Yale.
I think it was more that they had enough confidence that they would have good choices coming out of RD such that they didnât see the need to ED2 and give up a chance at Yale.
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My kids roommate at Yale did this. Have you son call the Fin Aid office and tell them that he thinks his family would qualify for need based aid and will submit the forms. Congrats to your son he will LOVE Yale
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With only 17% deferred this year, a deferred kid is going to be highly competitive just about anywhere. If it were my kid, unless the ED2 school was a close second to Yale as first choice, Iâd keep my kidâs options open through RD and not risk the âwhat ifâ scenario in an ED2 acceptance. A deferral at Harvard, Iâd be less confident of RD results since they defer just about everyone.
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Your Daughter will find her place. And it will be a great fit. I had this happen to my second kid. They ended up at another Ivy and are thriving!
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I agree. All Ivy deferrals are not equal.
Although, a Yale deferral means that a student is swimming in a smaller pool for RD but the quality of the other deferred candidates is also higher.
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I think being open minded is allowing yourself to get excited about other possibilities and imagining yourself in other places too and, but that doesnât mean giving up on the first choice.
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Deferred SCEA YALE - son is gutted
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Similar trends here.My kidâs school is a HYPS feeder school ( 30+ admits every year) Major city , fierce competition, private school .Seems to be a higher incidence of deferrals.
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but many who are deferred receive good news during the regular decision cycle. Hereâs hoping that those who were deferred get favorable results in the regular round and that those who were not accepted find joy in admissions from colleges they love even more.
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thank you so much.
That was definitely the logic the kids I know were using. It isnât the result they wanted, but it isnât nothing either. I think a Yale deferral basically confirms you are in fact a very strong applicant who is doing a good job writing up compelling applications. So if you had an application strategy that assumed those things were true, great, you really do not need to change it.
Absolutely.
I really think these are related concepts, and at the base of it all is basically believing in yourself. Believe you are a very strong candidate. Believe you can not just get accepted, but actually thrive in college. Believe that means maybe you will get accepted RD to Yale. Believe that means maybe you will get accepted to other highly selective colleges even if you are not accepted at Yale. Believe even if you are not accepted to any of the most selective colleges on your list, you can still thrive in college, and in life, at whatever undoubtedly still excellent college you choose.
And I know it is tough sometimes in the moment to stay that confident when you get unwelcome news from a college. But these kids should be that confident, because they are in fact great kids.
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Hang in there, I know itâs painful, but he has good news coming. Mine only had one school on his list that had ED2 and it was lower on his list, so he decided to ride it out knowing the deferral was a sign his application was solid. Heâs a very happy kid at Brown this year which was his other favorite.
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