<p>Yale has always been my first choice for the last three years.</p>
<p>But nowadays, I think I would have been better at Columbia applying ED (Y for Yale, I think, stands for "Y did I do it?") At least in ED, the schools know the applicants are committed to their first-choice schools. It is less likely schools endorsing EA will think the same, whether it's Single-Choice Early Action or whatever other kinds there are for EA variations (probably plain EA, and even that would have been welcome than Yale's depressingly competitive EA pool). </p>
<p>*Sigh. Suffering from Post-Submission Stress, and we still have almost another month before we finally see who made it or not.</p>
<p>What depressed me more than 5500 EA applicatns was that Yale decided to cut down the accepted from the EA pool. (Again, Y? I hear the liberal voices, sure, but it is sad for us EA people who worked a month to two months ahead of RD applicants, right?)</p>
<p>I just hope Dec. 15 comes along quickly so I can be over with this stress.</p>
<p>Oh, anyone know when they first announce the acceptence/rejection prior to Dec. 15? Or is it Dec. 15, boom, and letters are sent to everywhere at the same time?</p>
<p>I'm looking forward to hearing lots of similar complaints and whinings. They do help sometimes, so speak out!</p>
<p>Have you gotten an Eli account? After submission, you should get an email that gives you your login to check your application status on the yale website. This is where you check on Dec. 15 for the decision. I think they came out 5:00 pm last year. I don't know when they send the actual letters.</p>
<p>One month goes by quickly, you'll see. And don't worry about it too much; what's going to happen is what's going to happen. You've done all you can. Hahah, maybe I should take some of my own advice! I've been freaking out quite a bit.</p>
<p>Finally. A place to complain.
I gave up sending any other apps (which i could have done to most of my schools) so i could send it to Yale. Now I have to wait until April for all of my other schools that i have a good or at least reasonable chance to get into.</p>
<p>I've almost entirely prepared myself for the rejection letter. (especially after seeing some credentials of other applicants on this website.) I'm not much worse. But usually, everyone is just one step better than me as far as applications go. Ugh. Lets just get an answer already so i can move on with my senior year.</p>
<p>By the way, i dont know the answer to your last question.</p>
<p>I keep going back and forth. Sometimes I feel really great about my chances and I look forward to the opportunities in my future.</p>
<p>But other times... man, I just can't bear the... argh. It's humiliating, too, because everyone where I am keeps telling me how I'm a lock to get in and all that. I just want December 15 to come and go so I can move on.</p>
<p>i totally agree with you, TheWerg. Sometimes, I think "yeah awesome, i should be able to get in" and then I think about all those amazing people and I don't feel so special anymore. And I hate the pressure that other people give. I guess they're trying to be friendly by saying that you're a shoo-in, but that just downplays how extremely difficult it is to get in. And even if i do get in, people are probably going to think, "oh well, i told you so." It would be such a big deal for me, but now it feels like an expectation.</p>
<p>I don't want to get too hopeful, but I don't want to assume I'll be rejected, so I have to force myself to imagine both. As in, when I'm bored in class I daydream about staring at the computer on December 15th at 5PM EST, logging in, then seeing either accepted, deferred, or denied. I do each, one at a time, and mentally prepare myself for dealing with them. Like jumping up in the air and running around and calling everyone I've ever met if I get in, shrugging and thinking "I still have a chance!" if I'm deferred, or retreating into my room and pretending I never applied to What? Yale? if I'm rejected.</p>
<p>The only thing I'm worried about is going to school the next day if I don't get in.</p>
<p>Almost 100% of my first period (differential equations) class applied early somewhere, so it's going to be a bloodbath. Either no one will do well and we'll all be depressed, or only some of us will - which will make the losers feel even more depressed. I just wish a miracle would happen so that all of us could be happy :(. (there's only 14 people in the class so it's not an unreasonable wish, right?) hehehehe</p>
<p>Guys, that whole week is going to be hell. Chances are, either you won't get in or a friend who applied early (not necessarily to Yale) won't get end. It is social meltdown waiting to happen, the stuff of modern teenage dramas.</p>
<p>I've wanted to go to Yale forever. But now that everyone has hit senior year all of a sudden so does everyone else at school...jerks. =[</p>
<p>What makes it worse is that they're taking less applicants early?! Why oh why?! ='[ (no es justo) I don't really understand the issue with taking more kids in the early round than regular.</p>
<p>I know you guys are trying to figure out exactly when Yale will post the acceptance results so that you can log in and get the news.</p>
<p>Last year December 15th fell on a Saturday. At (or a little before) 5 PM EST on Friday, December 14th, the results were available to applicants. Like you, we didn't know in the month and weeks prior, exactly when they would be released. Sometime about December 10th, the Yale site told us that the results would be posted that Friday. </p>
<p>I'm assuming they'll do the same thing this year. I think a lot depends on how the meetings go, and how quickly they can arrive at a final EA list. Since the 15th falls on Monday, maybe they will just stick with that day to post results. Don't expect to know much more for a few weeks. Just look for a definite posting date and time about a week prior to it actually happening.</p>
<p>I know this is horribly stressful and my thoughts are with each of you. Expect and plan for the worst, at this point. Filling in the blanks on a few more applications might improve your karma.</p>
<p>I just wanted to wish you all the best. To save yourself some stress please do get your other applications ready to submit. It is tough to work on apps if you're feeling down following a deferral or rejection.</p>
<p>Agh. I know the feeling. Thankfully I've been too busy to really think about the application. I've also been looking more closely at other schools in case I don't get in or am deferred.</p>
<p>I think it's really important that we don't take for granted that we are all really qualified students who could get into another great institution, and forgetting Yale for a few weeks is a good time to find those.</p>
<p>I remember last year when I was completely obsessed with TASP and scheduled my summer around it. Fortunately, I had a backup plan because I didn't get in. I ended up having the most life-changing summer experience in my own backyard (well, not literally, but you know).</p>
<p>The point is, I find it important to tell myself that a denial from Yale doesn't mean I won't have amazing experiences elsewhere.</p>
<p>Thanks, riverrunner, for the good, detailed info.
Monday, is it? Definitely not my favorite day.
Hopefully, that one Monday will be the best Monday I will have had so far.
Or worst.</p>
<p>My classes will be a mess that Tuesday. My friend who applied ED to Vanderbilt is counting down along with another friend who applied EA to another school. Not to mention my friend who applied to USC's screenwriting program, another Yale SCEA, and a Northwestern ED'er.</p>
<p>It'll be a bloodbath. It's the Tuesday right before the three days of finals start at my school!</p>
<p>I know a there will be a few people at my school who will be quite unhappy December 15-16. I don't think anyone else applied to Yale though. And no one knows I did, so I will just silently be miserable if I get rejected:)</p>