<p>I get the vibe that reworked essays are a no, which is a shame because Yale got the worst versions of both of my essays, but I also have an additional rec letter I'd like to send in and a new award that may or may not make a difference.</p>
<p>Well, I see a lot of people are in the same situation, just wondering what everyone else did.</p>
<p>I think it truly depends on the admissions counselor. See if you can drop a message or e-mail to see if they would be willing to accept extra letters of recommendation and/or essays.</p>
<p>How can you find your regional officer contact information?</p>
<p>Ask your guidance counselor for his name and email.</p>
<p>Umm. what if your guidance counselor is pretty much more clueless than you are?</p>
<p>ah, the beauty of public schools....<br>
Okay, on your blue sheet from Yale is your ASC Director Information. Call her/him and ask what you need. Or call Admissions and ask (and know ahead they're way overstressed right now).</p>
<p>If you were deferred, you MUST send extra stuff! A new essay, a new award and a new letter of recommendation are key! By doing so you are actually "forcing" the Adcoms to take a look at your credentials again. If you do not do so.....you might as well consider your deferral a rejection. Just call the university admissions office and ask them who is your Regional Officer.. They will give you that info..</p>
<p>By the way... I do believe that mid February may be a little too late for this strategy... You should have started back in the first week of January. They have already taken a first look at most of the new RD applications and yours ...was not in the pile ....</p>
<p>Your ASC director probably won't be able to help you. Call the admissions office. You can get in after a deferral without additional materials. If you've already sent more than two recs, don't send in another. If your new award is a meaningful one, then do let them know.</p>
<p>If we are just regular applicants, can we send in extra stuff?</p>
<p>First of all, if you read the deferral info online, it seemed to discourage more essays and recommendations, so don't even worry about those things. I simply sent in a letter that restated my interest in Yale, explained something that I felt I had left out of my application, and just generally kept my interest alive. I also sent in an activities sheet/resume/whatever you want to call it, because I didn't send it in at the original time. In my case, I kind of messed up the extracurricular section on my original app, so this was a good opportunity to fix it up. Will it make a big difference? I doubt it, but hey. I couldn't hurt. It <em>is</em> getting late, so if you still want to send something in, I would strongly suggest completing it this weekend and priority mailing it. But don't worry about not having gone crazy and called everybody at Yale you could think of--that would NOT have helped, and they made that VERY clear.</p>
<p>Also, not sending extra stuff in does not mean that you are automatically deferred...they will look at your app again no matter what.</p>
<p>Well, I really don't have anything that major to send in, and I did see all that stuff discouraging more essays/recs, so I didn't really hurry with that. I might just well do a letter, though, and priority mail it Monday if they say it's ok.</p>
<p>Is it worth sending in Natl. Merit Finalist standing? They only had the Semi-Finalist award with the app. Does the Natl. Merit Corp. send this to the schools?</p>
<p>I'm not sure, but finalist over semi-finalist isn't THAT big of a difference. I think only 1,000 out of 16,000 semi-finalists don't get it, and with the grades that you had to have to apply to Yale I don't think you could have possibly been in that category. Just my opinion.</p>
<p>I plan on sending a list of my accomplishments since the application process... Can I send it as a letter to the office of undergraduate admissions address?</p>
<p>Enteril, that sounds fine--just a note to keep your interest alive. </p>
<p>JP321, I think that it would be kind of weird to send in a letter that ONLY said that you were now a National Merit Finalist, especially since that is kind of assumed anyway. Colleges are not notified, though, so you would have to tell them for them to know for sure. </p>
<p>ccdano, just send your letter to the office of undergraduate admissions. Be sure to include the info--Applicant # and area code--that they ask for, though, so that you can be sure that they file your letter quickly and correctly.</p>