<p>Is kind of a cruel date.</p>
<p>I mean, really, they tell us April Fools' Day?</p>
<p>Can you propose a better date?</p>
<p>(Incidentally, Marvin Gaye's dad shot and killed him on that day......He must have been rejected from every school....lol.....I'm sorry, Marvin.)</p>
<p>^ My 18th birthday will be this April 2.</p>
<p>There are only two possibilities:</p>
<p>The best birthday of my life OR
The worst one.</p>
<p>lol</p>
<p>Hookem168, I hope for the best for you! Actually Yale's decisions will come out on the evening of March 31st, so we are spared from the April 1st phenomena.</p>
<p>A good date for decisions? How about....January 1st? :)</p>
<p>bahahahaha. Sample e-mail inbox:</p>
<p>Message 1: Thank you for submitting your application!</p>
<p>Message 2: Your Admissions Decision</p>
<p>^ That would be so awesome! A lot less stress. Although CC would be a lot less popular.</p>
<p>Haha, here's the corrected e-mail inbox, hookem:</p>
<p>Message 1: Ehh... uhh... thanks, I guess, for applying. Your application will be <em>yawn</em> considered <em>sigh</em>... carefully... <em>falls asleep</em></p>
<p>Message 2: Your Rejection</p>
<p>Alternate Message 2: Why on EARTH did you even bother applying?!?!?!?!?!?!</p>
<p>Another Alternate Message 2: A Howler</p>
<p>LOLLLLLL. A howler. Can you even imagine what that would feel like? To get rejected via howler...</p>
<p>But then again Yale has been equated to Hogwarts on several occasions!</p>
<p>If I were so horrible that the admissions committee decided to send me a howler....</p>
<p>I would enter the admissions department with a gun, find the dean, and end myself in front of him. </p>
<p>No, that would be rash, and messy. I think I would just call him a jerk instead.</p>
<p>Excuse my ignorance, but having never read Harry Potter....what exactly is a "howler"?</p>
<p>Well you at least get one brownie point for knowing that a howler is from Harry Potter.
But basically it's a letter that upon being opened jumps out of your hand, comes to life, and screams at you its contents in the voice of the sender and then proceeds to shred itself to bits in front of you. The envelope is bright red prompting its immediate recognition. Nothing pleasant is ever found in a howler. Nothing. </p>
<p>YouTube</a> - Funny Scene From Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets
awkwarddd</p>
<p>Hahaha, Denebola, you're officially my favorite person for posting that :)</p>
<p>@ Butternut: You should read it! It's great.</p>
<p>It's amazing, I've applied to a few Ivies after getting deferred from Cornell, and the Yale forum is definitely my favorite. Whaddya know?</p>
<p>I loved the Cornell forum while waiting for my ED decision from Cornell and now I love the Yale forum... anyone smell a rejection howler?</p>
<p>i wish yale were a little bit more like hogwarts, in the sense that, you don't have to apply to get an acceptance letter. they just tell you.</p>
<p>Aww.</p>
<p>I forgot Yale releases its decisions in the evening.</p>
<p>Actually, I believe Yale's decision date for this year is March 31, 5:00pm EST.</p>
<p>Well, 5:00 isn't too bad.</p>
<p>I think I can wait that long.</p>
<p>@ChandlerBing: Which part, the explanation or the video? My pleasure either way though :) haha. I am a HUGE Potterphile (not...creepily) </p>
<p>side note: I happen to agree fully. Again, I'm only a junior, but I have perused some of the other college forums around here and Yale is
a) the most active
b) the nicest and most helpful :)
Vanderbilt wins for most AWFUL, rude, and pessimistic people ever. That forum actually completely dissuaded the 1% of me that was considering applying there..
Vassar was very nice, but not as active, although they were very nice (and I'm going down to visit in the spring) and same for GW (about the niceness/visiting thing)
Although these decisions weren't solely based on the forum...but they do give you a sense for the types of people applying/going to some of the schools and having visited Yale/knowing people who go there I can definitely say that much of this forum accurately depicts the Yale campus atmosphere. </p>
<p>This was slightly longer and more ramble-y than intended 0:)</p>
<p>Haha, both :)
Potter rules, Malfoy drools, and yes, I'm very cool.
(what nowwww?)</p>
<p>Yeah, when I visited Yale I completely fell in love with it, it was AMAZING. But I'm really trying not to get my hopes up, Yale is so ridiculous to get into.
I'd rather go to Brandeis or Tufts than Vanderbilt... Vanderbilt is definitely not what I'm looking for in a college.</p>
<p>My birthday is on April 5th. I suspect it's not going to be as exciting as I hope it is.</p>
<p>is anyone else just going to sit at their computer anxiously waiting until it's 5:00 ? I can already see myself pacing back and forth... lol ;)</p>