<p>I was emailing a Yale admissions officer assigned to my region of Asia, but she also takes care of other regions too. Anyway, I emailed her from the account that I put on my application, so she'll know its me.</p>
<p>In one of those emails I told her I've decided I wouldn't send any supplementary recs, since the official transcripts I've sent include a one page long testimonial that is extraneous to all my teacher recs - I said I didn't want them having too much reading to do.</p>
<p>Then today while talking to my Stanford friend who's gonna write my peer recs, I got the idea that Yale would maybe like to have that rec too. argh!!! =X</p>
<p>Do you think I could send it? I did tell her I won't be sending any supplementary rec - this would seem like flip-flopping. (I really flip flop alot when it comes to stuff important to me.) Yale says:</p>
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If you do need to address a question by email to the specific admissions officer responsible for applications from the high schools in your area, you can obtain that officer's email address by using the lookup tool below. Please note that we do not keep track of these inquiries, and they do not affect our admissions decisions.
<p>But I don't think she'd forget about what I said especially when she comes across my file and finds an extra rec, and I don't believe that statement above anyway.</p>
<p>It's Nov 17 now and it'd probably be the end of the week before my friend's rec would reach Yale. That would be too late to include in my file, wouldn't it?</p>
<p>My stanford friend says if that's the case, maybe he'll save his peer rec for later, in case I get deferred at Yale. Is that a good idea in the context of my entire situation?</p>
<p>Do you have any idea how much e-mail these reps get, particularly around EA/ED time? From all the hundreds, perhaps thousands of kids from their region who want to show "interest" or have questions? Unless the e-mail is printed out and put in your file, which appears to be against policy, why in the world would you think she'd remember your inquiry? And if she did remember a kid saying he wouldn't send anything else, why do you think she'd remember it was you? </p>
<p>(And if you don't believe their stated policy, why would you believe the postings of some random strangers who probably have no more real, insider information about the Yale process than you do?)</p>
<p>If you want to send it, send it. Some people do in fact hold a few things back to send if they get deferred. How effective that is, and whether they would not have been deferred if they sent that information earlier is something no one will ever be able to tell you.</p>
<p>Actually, that's because I did ask her to add a note or correct my application some time ago - the PG year thing. Maybe when she sees the correction or note, she'd also remember that I said "no more recs". That's why I'm hesitating ask my friend to send it in.</p>
<p>Yeah, I definitely agree with what you said about I wouldn't know if it could have helped. But in my case, I'm trying to avoid taking the risk of sending a rec, while hoping that the officer doesn't have such a good memory, if the rec won't help much.</p>
<p>I'll be calling Yale (the general phone line) on monday and asking if they'd be okay with a peer rec, and a late one at that.</p>
<p>screwitlah, that policy that you quoted is precisely why I recommended on another of your threads that you send everything important by snail mail! Just because you asked her to correct your application by e-mail doesn't mean she did so, particularly given the policy.</p>
<p>It's also more than likely that she wouldn't remember anyway - you are just one of the students she deals with. She's not concentrating on you until she actually starts reading your file.</p>
<p>Don't worry what they think of you. I think they understand enough this is a crazy time for anyone(parents included), especially for any 17-year old student. Make sure you take Cheva's advice above.</p>
<p>hmm... but what if she really does remember? what would she think of me? would that adversely affect my chances? If, IF, i'm actually good enough to get in right now, and I send an extra rec when I say I shouldn't, I fear I might just be doing something excessive and stupid.</p>
<p>No one can answer that; we're not her. We don't know her or her preferences or proclivities - she may hate it, or she may think it's no big deal. She may be having a bad day when she gets it, or she may be in a really good mood. </p>
<p>You pay your money and you take your choice. You can second guess yourself from now until next June (or longer) but you'll never know what tipped the balance either way.</p>
<p>Just decide and do something - then forget it.</p>
<p>I really, really want to have it sent. Shall I tell her about my change of mind again, in case she gets offended that she wasn't notified (that is, if she remembers)?</p>