<p>aww-- i know you don't want to hear this, BUT nothing was pointless. you are going to get into an awesome school no matter what! besides- who cares what other people think? this is all about you. your hard work and studying WILL pay off- just not in the way you anticipated. you may even find that you like this paying off EVEN BETTER! good luck with your rd applications, and keep all of us deferrees who will be hanging around here for awhile up to date on everything! don't leave us :)</p>
<p>oh no iplayoboe. dont worry about it, we all know ur a cool cat. whoever gets you will be lucky. theres gotta be some good in going to a school that wants you more than you want them.</p>
<p>deferred... although I wasn't rejected, I feel terrible for those of you who were, I'm certainly not getting my hopes up at this point in the game. Well, at least we all gave it our best shot, and seriously we will end up where we belong. I wish you all the best.</p>
<p>Iplayoboe... I feel everything you're feeling. I'm going to have to tell so many people over and over again that I got rejected... I feel like I won't be happy anywhere else.... at least deferral wouldn't have been so final...so insulting. This is it... I'm not going to Yale.</p>
<p>iplayoboe -
there's a girl at my school who applied ea who also plays oboe. i'm not sure how she fared, but somehow i think you had a better chance than she did. well, looks like it's time for more apps!</p>
<p>ugg deferral</p>
<p>I am in absolute shock. :(</p>
<p>Yale was my only thought with every breath.</p>
<p>Let's hope April is more beautiful than December..</p>
<p>I envy those who were deferred... at least you have another shot.</p>
<p>Argh, I can't make myself look.</p>
<p>You mean you haven't checked alreayd? come on, you have to find out!!!</p>
<p>nickleby, keep waiting! I'm holding out for the mail. :)</p>
<p>Just a thought. They still accept 14.4% deferred EA applicants in the regular pool. This means that those students are still above average. Maybe only the elite of the elite get in, and all those who are deferred are still quite good, great all-around kids can make it regular, and mostly Nobel prize winners get in early. Just a thought.</p>
<p>haha elite of elite, yea right, im definitely not one of those... and im definitely not a nobel price winner, but i still got in somehow...</p>
<p>h2olex, did you have some kind of hook?</p>
<p>I think she was a recruited swimmer.</p>
<p>Dear Ms. Nengding Wang:</p>
<p>The Admissions Committee has met and concluded its evaluation of candidates for Yale under the Early Action program. The Committee was not able to take action on your application because your file is not yet complete. The sheet enclosed with the letter you will receive from our office indicates the items that are still missing. Assuming that your application is complete when the Committee reconvenes in February, you will receive a final decision in early April.</p>
<p>I am sorry I cannot give you a firm response, because it means another period of uncertainty for you. At the same time, it seems better to keep your status open and wait for the arrival of the information we do not have than to deactivate your file.</p>
<p>In the meantime, I wish you success in your studies or in whatever you are pursuing this year.</p>
<p>Sincerely,</p>
<p>Richard H. Shaw
Dean of Undergraduate Admissions and Financial Aid</p>
<p>this was what i got. i was in complete shock. at least give me a definite decision!!!
i asked them tons of times before if my file was complete. they either asked me to wait or say my file is already active. no one ever told me that my file was incomplete. should i do something about this??
is this a deferral? can i see what a deferral letter looks like?</p>
<p>That's not a deferral. That means your file is incomplete. I'd get on finding out what is missing ASAP and get it in before February.</p>
<p>My deferral letter (I was actually sort of amused by how nice they were trying to be. I guess they don't want mass suicide of deferred students... And they're already getting ready to let us down come April):</p>
<p>Dear Ms. JM:</p>
<p>The Yale Admissions Committee has completed its evaluation of this years Single Choice Early Action candidates and has voted to defer action on your application. We will review your file again in the spring, and I will inform you of the final outcome in early April. I realize this decision may come as a disappointment to you, especially given the strong interest in Yale you conveyed to us by applying early.</p>
<p>The good news is that a deferral reflects our continued interest in your candidacy. We are fully aware of your strengths as a student and potential contributor to residential college life at Yale, but we prefer to render a decision only after seeing how those strengths look to us in the context of the larger Regular Action pool. The difficult news is that you face an additional period of uncertainty. It is hard to give you a meaningful estimate of your chances for admission in April. Let me say this, though. The rate of admission for the entire applicant pool last year was 9.9%, and the rate for students deferred in Early Action who were eventually admitted during the Regular Action cycle was 14.4%. Perhaps you can use those numbers as a rough gauge.</p>
<p>If we require information in addition to the Midyear Report, the admissions officer in charge of your area will write or call. In turn, please keep us informed of new information you would like us to consider. Understand that to have received such serious review at Yale means that you should be a strong candidate at many other colleges. You have much to look forward to.</p>
<p>Best wishes,</p>
<p>etc.</p>
<p>In general, I feel almost guilty by not being disappointed by my deferral. I didn't really think I would've been rejected, and I know I had very little chance at being accepted. I pretty much looked, nodded, and decided to go to sleep for a few hours. Congratulations to all the new Yalies!</p>
<p>To be honest, I didn't see rejection as an option... I thought for sure I would get deferred.</p>
<p>I'm basically lost, now.</p>
<p>yeah i got a little upset about my deferral. i mean i ran every scenario in my head multiple times, but you know, maybe its my character, or maybe it was put best by this guy on the harvard board, that being the guy that everyone says "wow youre applying where?!" made me feel a little worse about not getting in. its almost like i had a duty to my classmates or something. yeah i thought about it a little much, i was basically sitting around my house for the next few hours, so i had plenty of time to think about it. whatever, theres always RD i suppose.</p>
<p>well, at least you all got something definite. i don't know what my decision is. it's almost laughable.</p>