<p>This is a thread for all you people who got deferred. Why do you think you got deferred? Are you unhappy and disappointed? Are you happy and grateful? How did everyone else at your school do?</p>
<p>We had 5 applicants from our school...I'd say me and my friend were the strongest ones, and the two of us got deferred. One I know got rejected, haven't heard from the other two yet.</p>
<p>I'm relatively happy I wasn't denied, but looking at the people that got in I'm a little confused because I see people that I would think I'm equal to. Oh well. It's all subjective anyways and I can't dwell on that.</p>
<p>Anyways, I've been talking to my friend who got deferred from Penn and she and I are wondering what to do now. Send in another letter of rec? Can we edit our essays? Another interview (especially since I never got an alumni one...although I did have an on-campus one)? I know some schools like Wash U ask for an appeal letter of sorts from there deferees (or so I've heard), does Yale have something similar? She e-mailed the Penn regional admissions officer to get some advice on this, I'm not sure if I should follow suit with Yale.</p>
<p>Considering 61.4% of applicants were deferred, I doubt Yale would want appeal letters from all of us...that's over 2200 letters!
For now, RD applications are more important. Yale can wait.</p>
<p>We do send our midyear reports to Yale now, right?</p>
<p>Actually, for RD apps in general, do we give our counselors the midyear forms or not? Because my semester doesn't end until February.</p>
<p>61.4% got deferred? seriously? wow... that is a lot of people... hmmm...</p>
<p>I'm really really really dissapointed. However, its weird because it goes in waves. One second I'm fine, but the next second I'm crying :-. I guess it doesn't help either that they deferred 61%, because that is a really staggering and intimidating number</p>
<p>Don't feel that badly about it. You didn't get rejected--there must be a reason for that, so you should be happy about it.
Look at it this way: It's just as though you never applied early. It's as though you're applying regular, but with the special perk of a higher admission rate (since deferred applicants get in at a higher rate than regular RD applicants). That's something to be happy about!
It's true that 61% is a huge number of people. But at least you made it to that group. Be happy about that and put your energy into your RD apps.</p>
<p>moontissues, I'm completely reacting the same way. It's less of the thought of deferral that bothers me to no end, but more of the idea that they took one out of five....
If one can't even make a 20% cutoff here, how can one be optimistic of the dismally lower percentages of RD here and elsewhere?
My one "safety" has only ~40%... I'm really scared of what will happen.</p>
<p>I've said this in a number of other threads, but it is NEVER a bad idea to send Yale a note reminding them how fantastic you are. Don't just rely on them to see your application the second time around. Make them look at it again and show them how enthusiastic you are about Yale.</p>
<p>juniorinhs, I felt the same way, and then I realized that that 20% "cutoff" is artificially high--the early pool has a higher concentration of special feeder school admits and recruited athletes. No worries.</p>
<p>I'm switch from being in awe of my deferral and expecting it. I really want to know what got be deferred, because I could have been denied on a whim. I could go on a pesimisstic rampage or an optimistic one about why Yale will/will not accept me in the Spring. It sort of shows how test scores are not everything. I didn't really expect that I was going to get accepted EA because I don't quite make the middle 50% of SAT scores of the class.</p>
<p>I'm relatively happy about being deferred, until I read that 61.4% of the applicants got deferred, that's over 2000 people. I don't feel particularly special now. It seems as if the 20% of applicants that didn't have a chance in the first place applied or something and then got rejected. Then I'm reading the couple of brave souls that got rejected and admitted that that was Yale's decision on the 2011 SCEA thread, and I'm just seriously like ***. (edit, I don't even remember what this asterisked word was, but it wasn't vulgar...) Then I start to get insecure about my chances. It's a vicious cycle.</p>
<p>I'm focusing on my RD applications now. I'm conflicted if I should modify my personal statement. I feel as if that played a part in me getting deferred. (Which could be stretched to a positive or negative light.) It was a out of the box topic, and then written by choice stylistically in a way that might drive more tradition essay readers bonkers. It's a total love or hate thing, as I've gotten many people to read it, and it's either total um, hun you need to work on this thing a lot, or heck it's totally you. I'm happy with it. My paranoia isn't. Why am I suddenly so neurotically insecure?</p>
<p>I'm slightly stressed if it's about athletics. In that case I need to end the beef with my coach. He had fun like benching me like practically all of last season.</p>
<p>Im just really nervous too in general. I am taking a year off next year, and figured that if things didn't work out this year, I would just try again next year, so I didn't really apply to all that many colleges. I only applied to six, and all except one are really selective. I have been planning for a while to go do volunteer work abroad for 6 months, but now that idea scares me a lot too. I mean, it seems like they will probably just think "this girl is only volunteering so that she can get in her second time applying (since it is the most often used cliche) that is so selfish" but thats not it at all, Ive been planning this for ages. Also, if I dont get in anywhere I really want to go this year, I will have to repeat the whole process next year, and considering how the last couple months went, that does not sound like fun (but hey, for Yale I'd say its worth it). A girl in my school got deferred from MIT EA last year and ended up getting in come spring. She sent in updates about hersself and won some competitions. However, she won huge national competitions where she won free trips and got to meet the president and everything. How can I compete with that :( My EC's generally don't even have competitions, so what can I send? The kid who sits next to me in math just got into harvard, so yeah..the conversations come monday should be fun. I am so happy for him, its just hard to stay happy when you are so sad.
I guess the thing to just keep thinking, is that in a year or two, all of us will be in college having the time of our lives whether it be at Yale or elsewhere.
Its just hard to let go right now:(</p>
<p>It's true, waiting is never easy. And now not only must we wait over 100 days for acceptances, we must sit and endure while people around us get into fantastic colleges early</p>
<p>jkdjaskdjas. Dear Yale, I am impatient. Please tell me now. Even if it is the big R, so I can move on with my life and have closure. :)</p>
<p>I'm just trying to stop thinking about it. I've put my pennant back into safe keeping. I was all prepared to hang it above my computer or like even on my locker. Those blue and white lei's hanging on my wall from color war at my HS, are now just a screaming reminder of yale every time I look up from my computer screen.</p>
<p>I wanted my sweatshirt and those Yale booty shorts for the holidays. I was looking forward to senior gym/not having to wear standard issue in school stuff, and like ODing on Yale. Oh well I like my Varsity shirt. <3 <em>le sigh</em></p>
<p>I feel the need to apply to another ivy for hecks, even though Yale is where I am meant to be. The crazy Yale story on CC about the girl that was rejected and got accepted everywhere else RD keeps replaying in my mind. I need to do homework.</p>
<p>I read that the acceptance rate for ED is 16% and for RD it's 8%.</p>
<p>hahaha, willact4food, I completely agree with you. Also this board is sucking away the time I shuld be spending on my finals :-o, but yet its so addictive ;-P</p>
<p>Here are last year's official stats, just to set the record straight:
"This year, Yale College's overall acceptance rate for the Class of 2010 hit a record low of 8.6%....Yale accepted 1,823 students this year [class of 2010] from a total pool of 21,099 applicants, a pool 8.5% larger than last year's. The acceptance rate for the regular decision pool of 18,976 — which included 1,961 students deferred from early admission — was 5.8%. In the early round of admissions, 724 of 4,084 applicants were accepted for a 17.7% acceptance rate, also a record low."</p>
<p>This information was obtained from the official Yale Club of Hong Kong. I had heard the 5% RD number elsewhere and this was the first trustworthy hit I got on google when searching for a source.</p>
<p>Am I the only one who isn't feeling so great about being deferred? I mean seriously people, you said it yourself, so were over 2200 applicants. That means they've already accepted over half of their class of 2011 and they're going to receive many great applications in the next weeks. So sure, the admit rate is higher,ect,ect but the chances are still very slim. I might not be as optimistic as you are but I don't want to get my hope up again only to feel as crushed and disappointed as I am now.</p>
<p>How does that mean they accepted over half their class? They accepted 19.7% of the 3594 early applicants. That's 708 accepted applicants...There were 1823 total acceptances last year. There are like 1100 more acceptance letters left.</p>
<p>But true, being deferred is very, very crappy.</p>
<p>I was pretty excited that I wasn't rejected, especially with a 1460/2120 SAT score, but then I saw that 60% of applicants were deferred, and that just watered things down for me. I know it's still an honor to be deferred with such abysmal SAT scores, especially since I'm a white, upper-middle class male. But still, I know that I'd have to go with evelyne in saying that I don't feel so great about being deferred.</p>
<p>And I was thinking the other day, that being deferred from Yale is an indication that I will have a great shot at everywhere else I am applying, except for maybe Princeton. My SAT scores and GPA are going up, but after looking at how many people got deferred, I'm not too certain. Dartmouth I think I'll be okay at after being recruited for swimming, but Johns Hopkins, Princeton, and Duke I'm still nervous about. Anyone concerned as much as I am with their RD schools?</p>