<p>I was rejected Yale SCEA, and ended up applying to HPSC later. I have heard of Yale rejects getting accepted to another top school, but my confidence level is so minuscule that the chance of that is in the negatives. The fact is that Yale rejects only constituted about the bottom 35% of the pool of SCEAers. My question is, will HPSC probably reject me, since Yale rejected me? Do the decisions from school relate to other school's decisions? That bottom 35% just keeps on killing my confidence........</p>
<p>Well, I don’t understand the whole 35% thing. But no, schools don’t collaborate or anything. Each decision is made independently. And there are many threads on here that talk about people who got rejected by one ivy and accepted by another.</p>
<p>Sorry for confusing the 35%. Out of the 5000+ applicants who applied SCEA, about 65% were deferred or accepted and only 35% were flat out rejected. The fact that I wasn’t even deferred when more than 50% of applicants were deferred, really depresses me. </p>
<p>Getting rejected RD from Yale( over 90%) and accepted another school makes sense to me, but when the rejection rate for SCEA ( 35%) is so low, I feel like there’s no chance for any other school</p>
<p>The question I would ask is how hard did you work on your Yale application? Was it of the highest quality? If not, were your other applications better?</p>
<p>It could always be Yale rejected you because of their needs, not yours. Maybe they had other applicants who fulfilled the same criteria, and were accepted/deferred over you. This might not necessarily be true for other schools.</p>
<p>What does the C in HPSC stand for? Cornell?</p>
<p>Sorry, Columbia! I also applied to a LOT of safeties, but HPSC would be my top choices of course. </p>
<p>@rainbowcandy, my applications to my other schools really didn’t change at all, besides my essays. I was rejected on the 15th of Dec. and the rest of my apps were due Jan. 1st so I didn’t have any proofreading done for my improved essays. ( Everyone was on vacation!)</p>
<p>Thanks for consolation, I like to think I was rejected because I’m not the right “fit” for the school, but most people I know have all been cross- admits to top schools. I’m really hoping that my application was somewhat better to my other schools!</p>
<p>I don’t know.</p>
<p>A friend of my high school English and history teacher was rejected at Oberlin and accepted at Harvard. Apparently a good portion of the admission process is somewhat random. You have a chance.</p>
<p>You seem to be more upset by when you were rejected by Yale than by the rejection itself. </p>
<p>HYPSCY all have 10% or lower acceptance rates. Limited supply and an excess of demand make it very likely that there are spectacularly qualified candidates among the 90%+ “rejects”. </p>
<p>Admissions decisions are independent; there is no correlation between the actions. Just because you got rejected by Yale doesn’t mean you have no chance at your other HYPSC choices. Assuming you are a qualified candidate, you still have “a chance” at all the others. The problem is that such low acceptance rates makes the entire selection process seem essentially random.</p>
<p>In all honesty, there is no doubt that the Yale rejection gives you a read on how you’ll do at similarly selective schools. Fit is overrated from a school’s perspective. They got a look at the whole package, including the essays and essays, which are big differentiators at the very top schools.</p>
<p>That said, many rejected will get into a peer school.</p>
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<p>The main reason I’m upset is because I was arrogant enough to think that the worst that could happen was a deferral. When the rejection letter actually hit me, I was just so surprised. I look back on it and I just feel so conceited for believing I actually had a chance. it’s really the numbers that hurt the most. If it was stanford, where almost everyone is rejected if not accepted, then i would be less depressed. But this was a 65% chance of being deferred or accepted.</p>
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<p>Sorry, I just don’t get it. Being rejected in December is somehow worse than being rejected in April? You were counting on “deferred” to make you feel better? What percentage of deferreds eventually get accepted? At the schools where I’ve seen the stats, deferreds have an ultimately lower acceptance rate than RD, so if anything Yale did you a favor by hitting you with the news early. This seems to be all about your ego. You wanted to be able to say that you were at least almost good enough for Yale, but that’s been taken from you. With a 90+% rejection rate you’re going to have lots of company.</p>
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<p>Obviously you haven’t taken a Statistics class because you never had a 65% “chance” at deferral or acceptance. 65% isn’t set in stone, all the EA names aren’t put into as box and the first 65 out of a 100 get an accept or deferred letter. Maybe this year the EA percentages will be 50% accepted/deferred, maybe they’ll be 75%. Most likely as the EA apps are reviewed, those that are obviously qualified get accepted, regardless of the percentages. Then those that are close based on historical trends are set aside as possible admits depending on the quality of the overall pool. Then those that won’t realistically be accepted are given the bad news. The results aren’t random. It’s not that you were in the 66th%-tile or the 98th that matters; you were either good enough, possibly good enough or “not Yale material”, past percentages are irrelevant.</p>
<p>Equally irrelevant is the belief that somehow Yale’s decision has an impact on other schools. You may well be rejected by all of HYPSC or you may get some acceptances, but that result will not be affected by Yale’s actions. But look on the bright side, given your insistence on being depressed about Yale, at least you’ll be surprised if one of them does come through. Elite college admissions is a cold, harsh world, it’s time to grow a realistic set of expectations.</p>