<p>Wouldn't it be lovely to be waitlisted?</p>
<p>Just kidding. How has the long (and unexpected...grrr) wait been wearing on everyone? Is Yale still #1, or has the letdown turned you onto other schools (especially those nice enough to send likelies or admission letters early)?</p>
<p>Personally, I'm still hoping for an admission and good money at Yale, but the clock's a-tickin', and other schools are looking mighty attractive.</p>
<p>I'm with you on that one. Yale's still #1, but other schools keep creeping up the radar, and now I've got two really close #2s. The wait's been nauseating, but it will all be over soon. Yes, let us hope we are waitlisted.</p>
<p>I'm sure it's rare, but I wonder if anyone ever is deferred early, waitlisted, and accepted and the very last moment.</p>
<p>heyyy, love the topic title, because it's sure felt like that. and that would be sheer brutality to have made us wait this long then turn and waitlist us for the summer . But yeah, it's been an agonizing, obsessive 3 months for me waiting and for some reason still planning a life at Yale (looking up & picking courses/extracurriculars, finding people already accepted, perusing the whole of this Yale message board and just about everything else i could get my hands on about life there etc). Yale is my #1 yet, but an early write at Williams has me feeling a bit better about the fact that I feel like I'm in limbo.</p>
<p>haha at first it seemed like i'd never make it to the ea decision day, but i did (obviously). then i kind of forgot about colleges until i heard from one in february...and since then the colleges have been lurking in my mind.</p>
<p>yale is still definitely my first choice, but i am definitely intrigued by some other schools who sent me stuff after the EA deferral. i would absolutely hate to be waitlisted though; if they don't want me, they better just reject me because i don't think i could stand the uncertainty.</p>
<p>if you guys were deferred and then waitlisted, would you stay on the waitlist?</p>
<p>i love yale, but personally, i'm not sure i'd want to go to a school that just "wasn't sure" if it wanted me, you know?</p>
<p>seriously though, if they waitlist me (i was deferred in december) that's it. the end. haha</p>
<p>I am totally AHHHHHH!!!
My second choice has definitely been creeping up as the coach wants me at my second choice more than Yale does.
If I get waitlisted at Yale and not into my second choice I will most definitely stay on the waitlist. If I get into my second choice and waitlisted at Yale it will be a bit question.</p>
<p>pathetic as this may be - yeah, i'd wait. my aunt and uncle (practically my parents) live right outside of New Haven, i have a lot of hs friends in the area who will be coming home for breaks, i have roots down there already, a familiarity/attachment to the place, and a crapload of memories there. So as much of a blow as it would be, i'd wait.</p>
<p>Being deferred really sucks.</p>
<p>Don't have to tell me...</p>
<p>Ugh. Yeah, the waiting is really terrible. I just want to know. </p>
<p>Yale has always (and by "always" I mean since the end of my junior year) been my absolute number one choice, but I think I'd handle rejection pretty well. I mean, when I got deferred, I didn't cry or pout or anything... I was over it in a day. My major problem would be that, if I got rejected, I wouldn't have a clear second choice. Brown, Wesleyan, Haverford, Vassar, Amherst, Bowdoin... if I got into all of them (very unlikely, though), I'd have a hell of a time figuring out which one to go to. I like all the schools I applied to, but Yale was my only clear-cut winner.</p>
<p>hmm. i certainly hope that i don't get waitlisted after getting deferred early, but i'm not sure which i would prefer - rejection or waitlist. i think i'd probably prefer a waitlist because then it means that they still kind of like me...but i'm not sure. ah. oh well. it's not up to me, haha.</p>
<p>Fuck censorship!</p>
<p>Uhoh, now I'm in some serious shit!</p>
<p>grrr yale. if they waitlist me, i'm going to be ANGRY. deferrment was PAINFUL, but waitlisting, that would be just plain evil. right now, I'm loving Wash U, cause they told me that i am in. if yale is mean, perhaps i'll be in st louis instead!</p>
<p>you can format read post number 14</p>
<p>Did anyone do anything special to try to boost their chances of being accepted RD?</p>
<p>oh i didn't read the entire thread. just glanced thro and that word caught my attention..:D</p>
<p>I am a recruit and I lowered my times in hopes that the coach would push me more. But other than that I didn't submit any letters, extra essays or supplementary material. If your application expresses who you are there is no need to send any thing else.</p>
<p>I think I went overboard in terms of sending them extre stuff, but I guess I figured it couldn't hurt. I sent two additional rec letters (one from my English teacher after winning a script contest and another from my Russian professor), an update letter (outlining the things I had been doing, I was still very interested in Yale, etc), and a copy of the script I won afforementioned contest with. Overkill? Definately yes, but I just figured, "Eh, whatever and what the hay..."</p>
<p>In the end, it probably didn't help either way. :)</p>