<p>I just got this email this morning:</p>
<p>Attention Early Action Applicants:
This email provides information and instructions about obtaining our decision on your application. Most applicants will not need to respond to this email, but will only need to follow the instructions provided. If you believe you need to ask a question, please read the email in its entirety before sending us a message.</p>
<p>When and how will early action decisions be made available?</p>
<p>The Yale Undergraduate Admissions Office hopes to mail decisions to all Single Choice Early Action applicants on Friday, December 16th. Sometime that same evening, we will be able to open access to the online notification process. To use this process, you will go to <a href="http://www.yale.edu/admit%5B/url%5D">www.yale.edu/admit</a>. Please note that the timing of these decision announcements is subject to change. We will post any change to this schedule at <a href="http://www.yale.edu/admit%5B/url%5D">www.yale.edu/admit</a>. </p>
<p>How do you check your admissions decision online?</p>
<p>In order to check your Early Action admissions decision online on or after December 16th, you must have an Eli account. After receiving your application, Yale Undergraduate Admissions mailed to you a username, a PIN number and the instructions for setting up your Eli account. If you used these instructions to set up your account and create a password, then you already have what you will need on the evening of December 16 to go to <a href="http://www.yale.edu/admit%5B/url%5D">www.yale.edu/admit</a> and obtain your decision.</p>
<p>[IMPORTANT NOTE: the PIN number that we sent to you by mail is not the password you will use to obtain your decision online. For security reasons, the PIN that we sent to you by mail could only be used to set up your Eli account and to establish a new password of your own. You will use the password that you chose at that time to log into the online decision site.]</p>
<p>What should you do if you created an Eli account, but have forgotten the password that you created?</p>
<p>If you have forgotten the password that you created for your Eli account, simply go to <a href="http://www.yale.edu/admit/onlinedecisions%5B/url%5D">www.yale.edu/admit/onlinedecisions</a> and click on Forgot Password. You will be asked to verify your identity by answering some questions that were asked of you when you activated or last modified your account.</p>
<p>What should you do if you have not yet created your Eli account? </p>
<p>If you have not already created your Eli account, you may still create it by going to <a href="http://www.yale.edu/admit/onlinedecisions%5B/url%5D">www.yale.edu/admit/onlinedecisions</a>. You will need the letter that we sent to you after receiving your application, the one that contains a username and PIN number for setting up an Eli account.</p>
<p>What should you do if have lost or never received the letter providing your username and PIN number?</p>
<p>If you have lost the information required to set up your Eli account, or if you never received our letter containing this information, you may send an email now to <a href="mailto:online.decisions@yale.edu">online.decisions@yale.edu</a> with your full legal name and date of birth. Note the following: 1) Your message should be sent from the same email address that you provided in your application. 2) Please be sure to write PIN REQUEST in the subject line. 3) Remember that you do not need to send us this request if you have already created an Eli account or if you have the letter in which we originally provided you with your username and PIN number.</p>
<p>We will try to respond to requests for lost usernames and PINs as quickly as possible. Please do not telephone our offices to obtain this information. Due to the number of applications received and the fact that all admissions staff are working to evaluate files and produce decision letters, we regret that we cannot answer telephone calls about setting up Eli accounts or about replacing PIN numbers. If for any reason you cannot access the online notification system, you will still receive your decision letter by mail within a few days of December 16.</p>
<p>What should you do if you cannot access the online notification system on December 16 and you do not receive a notification letter within a few days following December 16?</p>
<p>If for any reason you cannot obtain your decision online and you also do not receive a notification letter by December 21, you may call the Office of Undergraduate Admissions on or after December 22. </p>
<p>Thank you for your interest in Yale, and we wish you the best of success with your plans for college!</p>
<p>Office of Undergraduate Admissions, Yale University
P.O. Box 208234, New Haven CT 06520<br>
<a href="http://www.yale.edu/admit%5B/url%5D">www.yale.edu/admit</a></p>
<p>Arrrggghhh, I'm just mad that they haven't given us an exact time. Do you guys still think that decisions will be online on the 15th? Obviously they will know by then if they are going to mail out decisions on the 16th</p>