<p>I was deferred and comparing my Yale SCEA app to my RD apps from the more experienced app-er, i'm thinking now that i rushed into SCEA. </p>
<p>i haven't got any new awards or anything, but i have rewritten my common app essay and a new essay that would have been good for the supplemental. do you guys know if we are allowed to send in new essays?<br>
also, i did not do a written activity resume (big mistake!) and i am planning on sending one for all of my other apps. could i send that to yale too?</p>
<p>could i possibly mail them in tomorrow with a note? or if all that is not allowed, what CAN i do?</p>
<p>Ahh, I'm in the exact same boat as you, looeypie. Only, I'm going to hold off on sending new essays (one of mine sucked originally and I replaced it with a great one for Harvard, but I don't want to overwhelm them), and wait to send an activities resume until later in January--my guidance counselor recommended waiting to send new material, because they'll be swamped with RD stuff at this time of the year. Plus, I'm planning on calling admissions to see, essentially, why I was deferred a week into January.</p>
<p>so we can ignore the jan. 1 deadline? </p>
<p>thanks!</p>
<p>Deferred EA applicants can ignore the 1/1 deadline. I think mid to late January is the optimal time to send in new materials.</p>
<p>Sending in your activity resume is fine because it sounds like it might provide information you didn't give before, but I think that you are stuck with the essays you initially wrote. Obviously, you can send it in, but I don't think it's the type of thing admissions officers want to see for deferrees.</p>
<p>sphairistic--Will you let the board know if the admissions office gives you any info on why you were deferred? I'm under the impression that they won't (they discourage alumni interviewers from inquiring and apparently only give very broad explanations to them), but it would be good for future deferees to know whether such a call is worthwhile.</p>
<p>Mm, my guidance counselor advised me to just make one phone call, ask to speak to the admissions officer covering my area, and if I can speak to him/her, simply ask what he/she thinks I could add to strengthen my application. She also said if I don't get to speak to someone the first time I call, not to call back.</p>
<p>And, yes, I'll let people here know how it works out for me. xD</p>
<p>By all means, send in whatever additional materials will help the admissions reviewers know you better. If your new essays help them know you better, send them in. A friend of my D (she is a freshman at Yale) who is now a sophomore was deferred initially, but sent in ALL kinds of information including supplemental recommendations, re-worked essays, even a composition he wrote. Send them in. It cannot hurt and may help. BUT, it won't correct low or marginal grades or test scores.</p>
<p>thanks, quiltguru!</p>
<p>should this be incorporated into a letter to yale specifically? or just separately?</p>
<p>I emailed the Yale admissions office last week asking them if they would take updated or new essays, and they said that they would not accept any reworked essays, they would only take new awards or honors.</p>
<p>so that brings up the question: what sort of awards? how significant should they be to make it work while to send them in?</p>
<p>how do you even find your admissions person's email address or phone number? i can't find mine anywhere!</p>
<p>I emailed <a href="mailto:student.questions@yale.edu">student.questions@yale.edu</a> or something like that--they don't have regional person emails or anything...look closely on the website</p>