<p>Deferred...one in 2000...nothing special.</p>
<p>What are you guys doing about this? Extra letters of recommendation? Better essays? Calling the admissions guys and asking what was weak? Transferring to a high school they've actually heard of? Crying? Giving up?</p>
<p>I just wish I knew why. Augh.</p>
<p>Don't give up...that seems wasteful.</p>
<p>i'm moving to wyoming :)</p>
<p>I am going to send them a letter sometime in february with some information about a very large thing I'm doing.</p>
<p>i want to move to south dakota. they got exactly 1 early app from there</p>
<p>Seriously guys, don't give up. Deferred students still have a really good shot at RD ~14% last year (compared to ~7% RD).</p>
<p>I was really surprised at how many students at Yale were originally deferred (I'd say half my friends at Yale were deferred early)! Keep your head up : )</p>
<p>I just talked to a friend at yale who was deferred last year. He did absolutely nothing to improve his application and cautioned me not to do anything until I'm calm and thinking rationally again (he told me to wait 3 weeks haha does he know me or what?) Of course, he was nhs president, valedictorian, and founder of a robotics team among other things...</p>
<p>hey, and look on the bright side, we're actually getting more for our application fee than anyone else. It's almost like only having to pay $35...</p>
<p>As deferred 2004 EA applicant who is now at Yale, don't give up. Here are some tips to help until April 1st.</p>
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<li>Forget about Yale until at least 12/31. </li>
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<p>You are allowed a couple of days of recuperation time to deal with deferral, but then forget about Yale. Focus on your other applications, because it is still important to make sure those are good. Look at your Yale application for things that might have been improved (I completely rewrote one of my essays and threw out the other one), but outside of that, forget about Yale. It is easy during the early round to see Yale as the only school you could ever go to. If you created a longer college list before you applied EA, take this time to remember the reasons those schools made that list. As you fill out your applications you will have to demonstrate why you want to go to each school so you better have some idea yourself.</p>
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<li>Keep Yale in the back of your head, until 4/1.</li>
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<p>I actually found this easier to do than I thought, mainly because I just started stressing about the other 7 schools I was applying to in addition to Yale so my stress wasn't so focused. There actually was a brief period around March when Yale stopped being my first choice.</p>
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<li>If Yale is still your first choice around February think about writing an update to your admissions officer. </li>
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<p>This is especially good if you have won awards or something happened that would improve your application, but really anything that you can use as an excuse would be good. Just write a brief letter why Yale is your first choice and stress that you would come if accepted. Don't send anything too extensive and try not to send more than one update. Also, if you didn't get an interview in the early round, now would be a good time to pursue it. E-mail the alumni coordinator in your area and just say you were deferred and would still like an interview if at all possible (this happened to me when my assigned interviewer never got in touch with me in the EA round). Any legitimate excuse you have to remind Yale of your existence is good, but make sure that you don't get persistent. One or two updates maximum and an interview if you didn't have one in EA.</p>
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<li>No matter what happens on 4/1, know you did your best and consider what options you do have carefully.</li>
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<p>If you do get in, while Yale is a great place, make sure that it is the best place for you. Compare Yale to the other schools you were accepted at and try your best to visit and make as informed a decision as possible. One of the best parts about being deferred EA for me was that I really forced myself to consider other schools and almost didn't choose Yale, so now I am very happy with my decision. </p>
<p>If you don't get in, hopefully you will have acceptances to other schools that you can get equally psyched about. My friends who didn't get into Yale are now very happy at schools like Columbia and Stanford and they wouldn't change that for the world. It sounds trite now, but most of you will be happy at wherever you go. The only people that aren't happy are those that can't get over the fact that the school they are at isn't Yale or Harvard or whatever school they wanted to go to.</p>
<p>Whatever you do, don't give up hope. There is a reason at Yale (unlike Harvard oftentimes) why you were deferred and not rejected. While most deferred students still won't get in, most people don't get into Yale anyways. It will be over by May for you and while that seems a long time away, once you are there it will be over.</p>
<p>Rhapsody...lol, your comment made me giggle.</p>
<p>when you wrote a letter, who did you address it to? the regional rep or yale?</p>
<p>yeah..where should we even mail it to? i know nothing.</p>
<p>As someone who was also a deferred 2004 EA applicant but who later got accepted RD...I concur wholeheartedly with studyless. Forget Yale, at least temporarily, and focus on your other applications. I virtually didn't think about Yale until 4/1 and when I got my acceptance letter, I stared at the computer screen for 5 minutes before I could believe my eye and started screaming. If come February and Yale is still your number one choice, definitely consider sending in a letter explaining to the adcom you continuing interest. I sent in, along with the letter, two extra essays and one additional recommendation. I know for sure that it was the essays that got me in - my admission officer sent me a handwritten note along with my admission letter telling me how much she loved my essays. Lesson learnt: never underestimate the power of application essays. Definitely work on those if nothing else.</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone who got deferred. As much as it hurts and as much as it might feel like the end of the world...cheer up. Use your frustration/anger/hurt as motivation to put together even better applications for your RD schools. Best of luck! :)</p>
<p>thank you studyless and cncm, that helped. someone suggested asking your regional officer for the reason of deferral.. is that advised? If yes, when should we do that?</p>
<p>how do we even get the numbers for our regional officers</p>
<p>just kidding i found the directory. well, fellow rejects/deferrees....what are yo ugoing to say in your next round of interviews if your interviewer asks "so.....where did you apply early?"....hopefully that won't get asked...</p>
<p>is it possible to ask them to ignore one of the essays and instead look at a new one?</p>
<p>Cncm, I've been deferred as well. I want to send in additional material to strengthen my chances in the RD round. However, the Yale website suggests this is not needed. Since you feel it is your essays that got you in, would you mind telling me what they were on? Also, was your recommendation by a third teacher (besides the two who write for the Common.App), or by someone outside of school?</p>
<p>Underthebelljar, I have the same question. I think one of my essays was a bit lame, and I'd prefer it if they overlooked it completely. Would they do that, though? (Aagh, the agony of being deferred!) :p</p>
<p>is it ok to call your adcom before 1/1 and ask what you could do to improve your app? Since i'm an international, my counselor and I have really no idea about what "works" and stuff, and whether my essays and recommendations and the other things my school sent are written in the right way, and it would be very handy to use this info in my Rd applications!</p>
<p>any thoughts?</p>