Decision Time

Colleges and Universities A-Z Yale University
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<p>Hey guys.</p>

<p>I just wanted to start a new thread for 2 reasons. One, to once again wish you all luck for Tuesday!! 2 more days until Ivy Day, and for most of you this whole process will be over!!</p>

<p>Also, I just wanted to give you all a heads up that on the admitted students website they have a countdown until RD decisions are out. It seems that decisions will be online at 7 p.m., not 5 p.m. as has previously been thought. Just thought to let you guys know so that you don't freak out on Tuesday if they're not out at 5.</p>

<p>Once again, Good luck!! And can't wait to meet all of you RDers who will join the Yale Class of 2013!</p>

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<p>^ aww, really? :(</p>

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<p>how do you know?</p>

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<p>Seriously? Ugh.</p>

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<p>That's about how it was for SCEA (they pushed it back from 5 until the "evening," which turned out to be 6 instead)</p>

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<p>Thanks for the heads up. Gluck to everyone else as well, even though it's still two days away.</p>

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<p>Dear Yale,</p>

<p>Since being deferred on that fateful December day, my mind has wandered away from you. Some may even say I moved on. I researched my regular decision schools and fell in love with most of them one by one, spurning the ones with which I did not. I wrote more essays (though none quite so sweet as the ones I wrote for you) and answered many questions that started with "Why?"</p>

<p>In the time of our separation, I worked harder than ever. I joined a city council, almost earned an A in Calculus, and finally won that outstanding delegation award. I fought off senioritis and learned how to make challah instead of steamed buns. I sent you a letter, casting it into the sea of mail I know you receive each day, hoping you would hear me.</p>

<p>In February, I was accepted to my safety school and but then waitlisted by my 6th choice school. For a moment, I thought I was not enough. And then last week, I was accepted by my second choice school. Yale, at that point, I had almost forgotten why I was so enamored with you--why Harkness's bells seemed to resonate so sultrily with my soul and why I thought the Branford swing would let me go anywhere.</p>

<p>I once saw this on a Bumper Sticker: Behind every woman is a man who did her wrong and made her strong.</p>

<p>Yale, you are that man to me.</p>

<p>I love you. And coming back to you this last time, I remember our softer moments. I remember sitting inside on a rainy day with the fire at my feet and your viewbook in my arms. I remember the old rush of reading about the Sustainable Food Project and FOOT. And even now, I remember the way thirty Asian tourists surged out of a bus on my very first visit to you.</p>

<p>No matter what happens, what we shared should be kept in the Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscripts library. Because there can be no love quite like it again.</p>

<p>That is, unless, you reciprocate my feelings.
Please reply quickly. Before the USPS lays off more workers.</p>

<p>Sincerely,
Me</p>

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<p>^well done, asiantofu</p>

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<p>asiantofu, that is brilliant.
on my very first visit to yale, a group of asian tourists thought that my friends and i were actual yalies and proceeded to take many not-so-discreet pictures of us.</p>

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<p>Bah...</p>

<p>I don't like this.</p>

<p>It's just prolonging the agony. And probably bad for cross-admits. </p>

<p>But mostly a prolonging, because, really, if statement b applies to me, I'll probably go into shock.</p>

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<p>asiantofu - That's amazing! I almost cried...</p>

<p>natalia6228 - The countdown on the admits site puts the time at around 7:00. Plus, EA decisions didn't come out at 5 either, but like 6:15ish, so I don't think 5 makes much sense anyways.</p>

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<p>^yeah, i remember SCEA decisions... from 5 until about 6:15 i was checking the site every 5 minutes or so; then I got deferred... :(</p>

<p>tuesday is the last shot!!!! (gah!)</p>

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<p>Yeah, I remember the agony for that hour. I was just about to take a nap when they came out.</p>

<p>Good luck Peytoncline!! I hope you get in and join us next year!!</p>

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<p>Guess I won't be refreshing 3 windows continuously at 5pm (Email for Harvard, status sites for Yale and Columbia). lol.</p>

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<p>I dunno, the site's been saying the "evening" of March 31st. That could be as early as 5 pm and as late as, um.. say 9 pm. Oh well, I'm still going to keep checking at 5!</p>

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<p>ahh SCEA decisions were terrible...i sat in front of my computer for like an hour hitting refresh and freaking out...and then i was deferred so i have to do the whole thing over again on tuesday. i'm telling myself i'm gonna try and keep myself busy tuesday and not check decisions til around 7...but i know i'm gonna end up sitting in front of the computer at 5 just like i did in december.</p>

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<p>i was deferred too :confused: hopefully yale sees something in me!</p>