<p>C'mon! IT'S YALE UNIVERSITY! After seeing valedictorians and 2400s rejected flat-out from Stanford, Columbia, and Dartmouth, I'm ABSOLUTELY ELATED I got deferred, rather than rejected, from Yale.</p>
<p>Who's with me?</p>
<p>Reality and numbers are starting to sink in, and im starting to also realize how lucky we deferees are...we could have just as well been rejected since they rejected more ppl then they did last year and also deffered and accepted less (around 38% rejected.....most fall under the 47% defered ..not sure if they are exact numbers)</p>
<p>so yea, i also agree we should be content at the very least (this is coming from someone who a while ago had been very bitter lol ) and hope for the best come april. Good luck to all---i sincerely mean that!</p>
<p>Its not over till its over!</p>
<p>I was upset last night, but today I feel much better. I turned in a strong application, but my SAT scores were my setback (I was under 700 on both my Subject Tests). Now that I've been deferred to RD, I can give the ACT a try!</p>
<p>If I were to get a deferral next year (assuming i apply EA), I'd be ecstatic! Especially since it would be such a long shot for me to not get automatically rejected. </p>
<p>I'd print out the page, frame it, and hang it on my wall. :) Then I'd pray that it would soon be replaced with an acceptance.</p>
<p>I was initially disappointed, but today, I'm thankful that I got deferred not rejected. I cannot understand the mentality of those who are angry for getting deferred. One guy even said if he got accepted in the RD round, he would not matriculate!</p>
<p>Would have been disappointed if everybody else at my school didn't get rejected/deferred everywhere. Our school went 2-for-20 at ivys/stanford/mit/chicago, 0-for-17 if you take out cornell.</p>
<p>^-- Same. We're 0 for 7 for Stanford, no one even got DEFERRED. As for Ivies, there was only me and one other guy. He got into Penn though.</p>
<p>I wasn't at first, but the more I think about it the happier I am. I do acknowledge it's a pretty big accomplishment to even be in the consideration for Yale, and my friends/teachers/classmates/counselors' support and kindness, as well as indignation and anger at Yale (lol) has helped a lot. Plus, we do still have a shot. A tiny one, but we do have it.</p>
<p>I was happy at first, but not anymore. It's a false hope. A false hope :(</p>
<p>I'm still not too happy about it, but I guess that will change with time. I was just hoping for (though not expecting) something a little more.</p>
<p>Anyway, I'm not giving up yet. I'm sending in extra documentation and getting my coach involved. Yale hasn't heard the last of me! ;)</p>
<p>Now to go start working on other college essay... -_-</p>
<p>I'm fine... I liked Yale a lot but it still wasn't my first choice and I would've waited for RD results regardless. So I'm glad I didn't do Stanford for sure, although I do sort of wish that I had gone with my other plan and applied to a bunch of places normal EA so I could have an acceptance or two right now. D:</p>
<p>I'm alright. I mean I DIDN'T GET REJECTED. And I'm not a valedictorian/math genius/Olympic athlete or anything. At the very least, I have a one in 20 chance, which isn't completely horrible if you think about it.</p>
<p>At the very least, I will get into a college. And a damn fine college. It may not be Yale, but I'll love it all the same.</p>
<p>Eh, I was content. Of course, it would have been nice to see an acceptance letter, but I was expecting a deferral in the first place. :P
After seeing the stats, I felt a little better -- 38% rejected? that's harsh, and I'm just glad I have a second chance. :P</p>
<p>Remember, you are pretty much assured of having a better shot than the average RD applicant, because the RD pool will include a lot of people who would have been rejected in SCEA...people who wouldn't pass the cut you've already survived.</p>
<p>^ i agree with Hunt; it'll still be hard for us "deferrees" to get in, but when compared to some who will apply RD, we'll be stronger candidates</p>
<p>and if i end up not getting in, then so be it; it wouldn't be meant to be if they reject/waitlist me; but if i get accepted, then i'll reaally have to think about going there, pending what harvard and princeton do (if they accept me along with yale, then i don't know where i'll go! lol, that'll be a hard decision -- luckily it probably won't happen, i.e. only one of them accepts me or none of them accept me)</p>
<p>Yeah, I was very disappointed at first, but after realizing some things and reading around, I feel fortunate to have been deferred rather than rejected.</p>
<p>I can't say I'm happy about deferral, but I didn't get rejected. I was expecting a rejection and maybe a deferral with a very slight hope of acceptance. Now they deferred me, so I still have a shot. And I'm sending a couple of extra things in (essay update and a music supplement with a CD), so hopefully that'll help me out this round. But in the end, whatever happens will happen. I'm just glad I have the opportunity to apply to Yale and actually have a shot at getting in.</p>
<p>i just think that deferral and rejection is pretty much the same thing. </p>
<p>except when you get deferred, you crash twice (in dec and in apr).</p>
<p>^^ What do you mean "essay update"? Are we allowed to polish up our essays and resubmit them? Or write whole new essays?</p>
<p>I applied to all my other colleges at the beginning of December, and I polished my Common App essay a little bit more before I sent the apps. They were minor changes, nothing drastic. I'm going to e-mail the guy in charge of Arkansas' applications and ask him if (1) I can e-mail him a new copy of my essay and (2) I can send in a music supplement. I've already talked with him a couple of times, and he let me e-mail him an update during the admissions process (I sent in some supplementary materials, and he let me e-mail him updated/edited versions).</p>