<p>^ I like your pyramid/haystack analogy. Makes sense :)</p>
<p>My CC office says that they arent automatically informed of your acceptances - they dont know until you tell them for the schools that my GC doesnt have a relationship with.</p>
<p>Is this student informed about Yale decision? or other school ?</p>
<p>Nobody seems to be informed "rejected" by Yale on Thursday. Are you sure this story is Yale?</p>
<p>I can solidly confirm this. Year on year, our CC has known in advance who is in and not before the actual time.</p>
<p>What do you mean? Do CC know in advance or not?</p>
<p>I don't know about Yale, but for Dartmouth, a GC at my school called my friend's mom and my friend's mom called my friend telling her about the GC call and that it sounded like the GC wanted the family to brace themselves for some negative news (this sentence was rather convoluted). She later got deferred.</p>
<p>This GC is really close with someone really high up in the Dartmouth Admissions Office, I think the Dean or something. Anecdotal evidence, though.</p>
<p>The consensus seems that some GCs/CCs have personal relationships with admissions officers and are sometimes given heads up by them about certain applicants. This includes schools like Yale, and others. </p>
<p>So, not all CCs/GCs know in advance, but some might.</p>
<p>Yeah. A friend of mine coaxed her rejection out of her counselor. She's at a very well-connected private - as we've established, more likely than not, this is not the norm.</p>
<p>Our CC wouldn't give me a hint :( oh well</p>
<p>Then my CC said If it wasn't yale, I can go to other colleges as well......Mean that~~~~</p>
<p>SOME colleges inform school counselors of admissions decisions, but in the case of Yale, I say "No way."</p>
<p>victoriage, your CC probably doesn't know but is trying to reassure you just in case you get deferred/rejected. he/she maybe knows you want Yale very much and doesn't want you to be too disappointed if that's the case.</p>
<p>but hopefully, that's not the case! Good luck!</p>