<p>I know a majority of us on here are prospective students, but how did those of you who were rejected to colleges in the past (even if you are happy now) cope with the pain? </p>
<p>And what about you guys? How will you cope with a rejection, or perhaps a deferral? </p>
<p>I've come to love Yale so much, and I'm afraid if I do get rejected, I won't have the motivation to finish my other apps diligently :(</p>
<p>I feel the same way - although I really doubt that I will be rejected, I will probably get deferred (and then rejected/waitlisted in the regular pool). I won’t know what to do with my self, and I still haven’t done most of my apps!! On the one hand, I’m hoping that I will just get in on Dec 15th and won’t need to, but then I realize that if I don’t get accepted I will be a reck and will have to write another 7-ish apps.</p>
<p>^that’s true, a majority of people get deferred…</p>
<p>dan and cadillac, i have this book which i bought on amazon about college admissions which is really helpful, i know there are tonnes of them, but one piece of advice they do give for EA applicants is to have all your other apps pretty much ready to go.</p>
<p>if you finish them before december 15, in a worst-chance scenario, you will have some fantastic apps for other great schools ready to go, apps which have not been affected by any crazy emotions.
and if you get accepted, you’ll be far too happy to care about the hours you have wasted.</p>
<p>that’s what im going to do. it’s going to be crazy hard when i know nothing is going to match my one true love, but if i have almost everything written out so it only needs another check over, that would be for the best i reckon.</p>
<p>I coped with a Stanford SCEA rejection by arguing for the rest of the night (quite persuasively) about the inherent unfairness in race-based affirmative action in college admissions. It was a wonderful way to deal with it. </p>
<p>If you get rejected from your first choice, you have way more motivation to work on your apps, because you are scared of rejection other places, and want to get into a comparable school RD either for the FA or to convince yourself that the school that rejected you made a mistake in doing so. Don’t worry about rejection for that reason; there are many better ones.</p>
<p>I’m jst going to tell myself that wat ever happens will be the best thing to hav happened to me and that I will MAKE my undergrad years amazing no matter where I go.</p>
<p>… well thats the plan anyway =P</p>
<p>If I get deferred, I’d just tell myself that it’s no biggie and try to be patient 
If I’m rejected, which is equally likely, I’ll feel a bit rotten like everyone else. hehe. I’ll just call up my best friend, talk about happy things, eat a lot of junk food and get a good night’s sleep. I’ll be fine by morning because I’ll still have the rest of my apps to tackle =) Even though Yale’s a super awesome uni and all, life tends to be a pretty long thing. It’s not made or broken that easily Best of luck to all the applicants! ^^</p>
<p>Yale deferment should be viewed as a positive sign.</p>
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<p>Stanford SCEA is in some sense more final, with many fewer deferrals to the RD round. I know a senior last year who was rejected Stanford SCEA. She’s now happily a frosh at Yale. She’s a CA gal, so she chose to do Stanford SCEA over Yale SCEA although she liked them equally. So yes, work diligently on those other apps, because if you are truly in the zone for Yale but don’t get in there, you might be happily surprised at other acceptances. You’ll just have to wait a few more months for them.</p>
<p>I am expecting to be deferred come Dec. 15, but I will take either an acceptance or a rejection with a degree of indifference. Don’t get me wrong, I do love Yale…but there are a few other schools I love more (Princeton). So, while a rejection or acceptance letter could either serve to “freak me out” or give me a confidence boost, I still am gonna give my other apps my all. However, I will say that for those who get deferred, many of you will actually be accepted to Yale = D.</p>
<p>I am entirely expecting a defer>reject…I’ll be genuinely shocked if I get rejected right off the bat, but then again I guess you never know…</p>
<p>3 of my friends from different states applied yale SCEA as well and I’ll feel terrible if all of them are accepted…except me :/</p>
<p>i love how there’s already a “dealing with rejection thread”</p>
<p>haha you guys crack me up</p>
<p>i don’t know anyone in real life applying to yale scea =/</p>
<p>hey guys, what’s with this rejection talk hehe
we need to wait and have faith
ok i admit that was bs hehe but still just wait and see
if it’s a rejection then it’s not meant to be. If it’s a rejection then i guess we just have to say to ourself, there’s alot more out there. Don’t hang urself on one tree(weird i know) haha
good luck to usssssssss</p>
<p>well, we are overachievers, might as well prepare for this too! haha</p>
<p>and for our funerals too, right?</p>
<p>hahahahahaha hey umm have some faith people hehe</p>
<p>Have faith and tell myself that this process could be one of the best experiences I have so far. And then…believe that the result is already waiting for us, and that we just need to find out. I personally find the belief quite relieving. Good luck guys (and to me)!</p>
<p>nice zishuaw
that’s the attitude hehe</p>
<p>for the last 3 years yale has been taking 2-3 people from my school
but this year i’ve heard they’re cutting down on acceptances so 
fingers crossed! let’s hope for the best,ull are wonderful
and i agree with what someone said on this thread- im determined to make my undergrad years AWESOME (the way barney would say it)
but im PRAYING for yale!</p>
<p>haha, nobody’s gone to yale from my school in at least 10 years. at least one person always applies each year but they always get rejected 
And this year there are like 3 ppl including me applying…yale really hates my school lol</p>