2014 SCEA hopefuls?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Yale University
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<p>I went to a fun party, lolol.</p>

<p>I feel inspired to write my essay. I’m going to start now. Pleeeeease let me work out another 100 words.</p>

<p>I think what sora meant is that schools in North America place a high emphasis on individualism and “getting to know applicants” and thus shun tradition. Many places around the world are not like this. For instance, one of my friends applied to Oxford, and her interview consisted of a test of her knowledge of the university (“In what year was the faculty of medicine founded?”) along with a number of other horrible questions, and there was really no effort to understand her as a person. Questions like “what would you do with a free afternoon?” are not the types of questions you’d ever be asked at universities abroad.</p>

<p>Yesss let’s work out the email thread.</p>

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<p>to: it’s.been.real: lol, the ENTIRE australian system is different.
we don’t even have a complicated application system like this…
i only found out that i was applying to yale about 6 months or so ago…
six months of prep. to compete with lots of crazy smarties ==;;
conclusion: i’ve never seen questions like these in my entire life. lol.
fish out of water much.</p>

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<p>rocker- any amusing details you care to share? =)</p>

<p>yup, posted my email on the wall</p>

<p>sora - :open_mouth: thats awesome, i’ve always wanted to go there! this is probably gonna sound stupid to you but um here it goes…i know there are a lot of kangaroos but how many are we talking here? like would you just see one hopping down the street on your way to school…? =D and don’t worry i’m sure you’ll do great! besides, it sounds a lot better and easier than the way youre used to, you just have to talk about yourself</p>

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<p>lol, tQ for vote of confidence, solittletime… so are we supposed to answer these questions face value, or is there a catch to these short takes?
in response to the kangaroo questio:
ROFL… well, let me put it this way…
if you come to normal, suburban sydney, you’re sure to be disillusioned?
ahahah, here at least, the closest kangaroo is the one in a zoo…
but there ARE occasional possums and kookaburras in trees…</p>

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<p>^Aww Kookaburras are cute! :P</p>

<p>Answer the questions as best you can–there’s not really a catch but they probably want to hear something about you other than you spend your free afternoons doing drugs or something like that lol (just an example…). I generally break down different facets of me that I want Yale to learn about and distribute them into different answers, so each short take will kind of reveal something different from the other, because it’s definitely another chance to show them who you really are besides the essay and such.</p>

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<p>solittletime: LOLLLLLL “so how many kangaroos are we talkin here?” that made me laugh SO much…</p>

<p>sora: same as Demi said, use the short takes to help illustrate yourself a little better, obviously don’t say anything that could be used against you, but you really don’t have to try and impress them. i.e. #1 you shouldn’t be answering “Curing cancer and catching up on my Proust” </p>

<p>Guys, this brings creepy to a whole new level, but last year I religiously observed the Yale 2013 facebook group and someone started a discussion board topic about what people put as their short takes (I guess so THEY could get to know each other :wink: ) and I copy and pasted a lot of them into a saved word doc. so I could use them as inspiration when I was filling out my application and they all had ONE thing in common. They were normal. </p>

<p>Answers to number one were like these:
Reading a book under a tree.
Cooking deserts with my 3 best friends all day.
Strumming absentmindedly on my guitar outside.
Taking a walk with my iPod. </p>

<p>SO NORMAL. So really, don’t say anything you think they want you to say because they’re royal pros at reading right through that. </p>

<p>Everyone put their e-mail addresses on the wall of the group and I’ll start the facebook thread :)</p>

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<p>oh, so no riding kangaroos to work? :frowning: wel there goes my fantasy</p>

<p>nope, no catch, just answer it. </p>

<p>i have a question for the intended major part. i’m pretty undecided. i know that it is an option do you think that’s gonna come off bad or work against me? like oh this girl doesn’t know her interests or what she wants to do with her life? should i just list one of my possibilities then?</p>

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<p>itsbeenreal : we posted at the same time =))</p>

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<p>“come off badLY” AH. The absence of adverbs KILLS ME. ;)</p>

<p>I guess we’ve all bonded so much via this thread that we’re on the same brainwaves, soon we’ll ALL be posting at the same exact time! </p>

<p>It absolutely will not affects you badly because 60% of undergrads change their intended major between matriculation and declaration come sophomore year. Don’t sweat it :)</p>

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<p>Question: can you list two majors for your intended major? i would probably double major if i went to Yale.</p>

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<p>for everyone’s amusement</p>

<p>[Kookaburra</a> - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kookaburra]Kookaburra”>Kookaburra - Wikipedia)</p>

<p>:D</p>

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<p>Hey just dropping in on the kangaroo talk. They are the laziest bunch—won’t get up even when enticed with food. A former Tassie resident here.</p>

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<p>Yeah, my short answers are totally normal and honest. Like the free afternoon part, I mean I just HAD to put shopping for one of the things I’d do even though that may seem totally…not Yale-ish (according to my friend :slight_smile: haha her reaction to that was like WHAT? you can NOT put that. They’re gonna think you’re ditzy and like totally not smart. Everyone is gonna be busy helping kids in Africa and you’re gonna put SHOPPING? At least put reading a freakin long book!" hahahah). I might have to reword some of my short answers to make it less than 25 words and make it sound …not-so-ditzy? hmmm</p>

<p>itsbeenreal–Proust reminded me of that Gilmore Girls episode when Lorelai tried to read it. Just sayin. And hahah I totally read some of the stuff on the Yale 2013 fb group. reallyyy interesting haha couldn’t help myself</p>

<p>Yeah, I really want to put 2 majors too just because I’m interested in SO MANY things…I really can’t pick one (that seems to be a pretty common problem for me…haha I always like too many things). </p>

<p>I’m TOTALLY fascinated by Australia (and manyyyy other places haha) and we were talking to this foreign exchange student last year and he said that the animals there are supposedly really vicious. Like the kangaroos will bite you?? Is that true??? tthey look so cute and friendly…</p>

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<p>I know, every time I mention Proust I think of Gilmore Girls. And not just that episode, also the episode in which Chris comes with Sherry to watch Rory’s debate and they come over and Lorelai/Rory have to sacrifice their saved Halloween candy which makes Lorelai complain and this conversation ensues</p>

<p>Rory: Well, having company over is about making sacrifices.
Lorelai: Martha Stewart?
Rory: A paraphrased Proust.
Lorelai: My next guess!</p>

<p>I’m interesting in one area of study (neuro, as you guys already know), but that’s in their psychology department so I have to put that down even though I have no intention of actually majoring in psychology!</p>

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<p>Yo, I’m with you man! I’m ALL for the optimistic. And I agree, a lot of times people over exaggerate on here (and interestingly enough, this is the ONLY thread I’ve ever posted on on CC where people are down to earth and realistic, instead of creepy and out of their minds). </p>

<p>Honestly though, Yale is a crapshoot, you can’t look at someone else’s stats and use them anecdotally to reassure yourself that you’ll get in…to each his own, and for whatever reason some people get in and some people don’t. For all you know, that kid you were talking to happens to play the tuba and they really needed a tuba player in their band! Tuba! Nothing special there, but they needed him. </p>

<p>You just. Never. Know.</p>

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<p>itsbeenreal-LOVED that episode haha when rory and lorelai had to like race home. But Christopher knew exactly what they were doing! but wow, didn’t realize Proust was in that episode. I wonder if we’re gonna have to read Proust in college…I would have SO many Gilmore Girls flashbacks.</p>

<p>Yeah, like maybe they need an obsessive…I mean, professional shopper next year. Ya never know. </p>

<p>This thread and last year’s Yale thread are the only two that I can actually relate to (even though yall have done some amazing stuff =] ) haha</p>

<p>Gonna go outside and work my essays! It’s sunny and beautiful outside today so maybe that’ll knock some inspiration into me. If not, oh well. At least I’ll get a tan. Oh, life is gooood.</p>

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<p>its been real- random but TAKE ME OUT by franz ferdinand is my LIFE i looove that song!!! hahah i rock out to it all the time!</p>

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<p>I actually sort of like Proust, haha. From what little I’ve read.</p>

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<p>Yale doesn’t have a neuroscience major… [Majors</a> in Yale College | Yale College Programs of Study](<a href=“Yale College”>Yale College)</p>

<p>I guess you could concentrate on neuroscience within a psychology major, or on neurobiology within a biology major, if those are even possible, but you won’t be able to directly major in either…</p>

<p>I’m pretty sure I’ll be majoring in “Ethics, Politics, and Economics” and I might take on “International Studies” as a second major. I absolutely love international politics and law. I like a bunch of other stuff, like chemistry and languages and literature, but we’ll have to see if I can mix all of that. </p>

<p>I’ve just seriously stopped paying attention to any chances crap. Nothing will guarantee admission to Yale, especially not test scores. It’s so incredibly childish. And what makes me sad is that I know so many people who fret about the SAT in the SAT forum just… won’t get into many top colleges because they’re so concerned with scores and scores alone.</p>

<p>I continued my essay last night, in bed, with a pad of paper. It’s full of scribbles, and probably 500ish words of different versions of the beginning of the same paragraph. It’s ridiculous. I think this is how I’ll proceed with the rest of my essay. I’ll write like 50 versions of every paragraph and then combine them into the best possible one. Otherwise, I write something I’m not happy with and the crappiness seeps into the rest of it. Tsk.</p>

<p>PS, I saw 15 minutes of a Gilmore Girls episode this morning, out of sheer curiosity. It was the one where the mom (don’t know the names) married who**m<a href=“mustn’t%20accept%20the%20grammar%20Nazi”>/B</a> I presume is the Yalie’s father, and then there was some sort of issue over moving “GG” into the Yalie’s room at home, then someone else’s daughter had appendicitis and there was a crazy awkward scene and just, how do you follow all of this.</p>

<p>Emily: HOW WAS YOUR INTERVIEWWW?</p>

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<p>It’s very easy to follow if you know who all the people are! Also, suggestion, if you’re ever going to legitimately give Gilmore Girls a chance never start with a random episode, and if you ABSOLUTELY must start with a random episode then never start with a random episode in the 7th season. </p>

<p>Yes! Emily, how was it?! We’re all dying over here. </p>

<p>Rocker—I thought you would trust me to know all that about the neuro program! sheesh. But anyways, yes, I am well aware of the concentration option, what I was trying to say was just that I don’t WANT to major in psychology because people in the outter world tend to judge you if you say you’re a psych major, but at Yale I would have to if I’m going to study neuro. That’s what I meant :slight_smile: You also never told us what that party was all about!</p>

<p>I like to write my essays on rainy days, sunny days make me very unfocused. “Unfortunately” there is a sunny/high 80s streak on its way in for the next WEEK!</p>

<p>I’m dying to edit some people essays here so ya’ll need to hurry up!</p>

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<p>hey yall! just got home, and just spent like 30 minutes reading through all of yalls threads haha. we should do one huge facebook message so its easy to keep up with the new ones and stuff and we always get all the messages we all send! (side note)</p>

<p>so!
My on-campus interview was… not bad. She didn’t talk much, and I kinda went on and on and on. I am pretty sure I repeated myself a lot too haha so it was kinda awkward for the first few minutes. Then we started talking about things we had in common and it became more like a conversation. It was overall good, but I am doubting myself a little bit and I think I would have done better with a different interviewer, but o well, it was still a good experience and I think I did alright!
Then I went to an information session and fell in love with yale EVEN MORE! Seriously everything they said I MELTED! haha i want to be there sooooo bad it is an absolutely PERFECT FIT FOR ME! I went on the campus tour and my tour guide was PRECIOUS and i loved him! I fell deeper and deeper in love haha.
yall they have a GOSSIP GIRL CLUB!!! AT YALE! every week they watch gossip girl together! and talk about it!!! ahahah i thought of yall :):slight_smile:
and i went to ASHLEYS ICE CREAM! where we will all meet! i got delicious strawberry ice cream and got a picture in front of the sign for yall, but I dont know how to put it on here hahaha. but yale is PERFECT AND LOVELY AND FRIENDLY and everyone I met who goes there is just like all of us!!! yaaaay! i dont want to get my hopes up but stiiiiiiill i cant help myself!
Something I thought was interesting is that each application is read and discussed about by a board of people, so admissions is INTENSE! thats good though, so its not up to just one person’s opinion
so yeah i loved it. </p>

<p>rocker- lets hear about your party! hahah
ahh kookaburras are awesome
Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree
Merry, merry king of the bush is he
Laugh kookaburra, laugh
Kookaburra gay your life must be hahah sorry it just came back to me :slight_smile:
(random)
and smile- i am taking ap environmental nnext year too! if its hard ill call you for advice</p>