<p>Just getting things ready for Monday.</p>
<p>Thanks for that uplifting post, PS. There will be some genuine surprises Monday, just you wait and see.</p>
<p>Stay positive! Here's hoping things won't be so gruesome for you guys in the Yale forum...good luck!</p>
<p>Maybe Yale will be the opposite, and everyone is accepted. yay! lol</p>
<p>Yale's admissions always make much more "sense" on CC than Stanford's. I don't think it'll be quite as shocking but it will be pretty brutal, don't get me wrong.</p>
<p>Yale said they would defer few people this year, just like Stanford did, so if stanford accepted 700 out of 5300 and deferred a few, it will be the same for yale.. or worse.. :/</p>
<p>yeah, but it'll be less w.t.f than stanford's i think. we'll see.</p>
<p>Kudos to ProSpeaker for the catchphrase. Y words don't typically signify terror.</p>
<p>I hope Yale summons the courage to reject us outright, instead of defer us and give us a false shimmer of hope. And I also hope that Yale's decisions do make more sense than Stanford's.</p>
<p>I tried to analyze the Stanford results and make sense of the carnage. I found very few deferred (and especially rejected) students with a well-defined academic passion. Some of their essays signified intellectual vitality (in part because they were required to), but of those some, the rest of their application failed to substantiate the claim. Now, I'm sure they are all fantastic kids and will all succeed at whatever college they attend, but still: that was one of the things Stanford was looking for, and they failed to provide it.</p>
<p>Bulldog Bloodbath..now i even have a name for this feeling of dread :P</p>
<p>And also, if you are into hope, false or otherwise, Yale historically has deferred, rather than rejected, the vast majority of its EA applicants. This is an exact reversal of Stanford's philosophy. </p>
<p>So keep up the hope!</p>
<p>in past years, Yale has had close to a 18% admit rate for scea and like 60% deferral, this year I'm predicting a 12.5% admit rate, a 37.5% deferral, and 50% rejection based on what ive been hearing.</p>
<p>Historically..but i read somewhere on these forums that they plan to reject more and defer less this year</p>
<p>Bulldog Bloodbath is a terrible name. Yale fail is where it's at.</p>
<p>The hell's your problem? If you're going to be this pessimistic, what are the chances Yale wants you in to excite and enliven their campus?</p>
<p>Chill, Hiyo...we are all being pessimistic so we won't feel as bad when we do get deferred/rejected. Just mentally preparing ourselves, you know? We all do have hope inside, but we just want to minimize our hurt/depression by projecting gloom. It's a pretty useful defense mechanism, if ya know what I mean. ;)</p>
<p>I said the word "hell" and now people think I'm going crazy. Maybe CC needs to liven up a bit.</p>
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<li><p>I never said you were going crazy.</p></li>
<li><p>I was addressing the second part of your post.</p></li>
<li><p>As far as I know, people on CC don't really care about cussing, unless it is directed at one person in a malicious way. :P I don't care either.</p></li>
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<p>I know you were just trying to cheer us up, but I just don't think "what are the chances Yale wants you in" in any context is a good thing to say to already high-strung seniors who have only two more days of waiting haha ;) What you say about being pessimistic is probably true, but at this point, all we want is to mope xP</p>
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<p>just supporting my point that yale fail is far more catchy and hilarious.</p>
<p>^ LOL</p>
<p>i've been swayed, yale fail '13 is where it's at =P</p>
<p>I guess it comes down to alliteration vs. assonance...</p>
<p>But "Bulldog Bloodbath" and "Yale Fail" have MUCH better rings to them than "Stanford Slaughter." I don't know if that's a good thing...</p>