<p>Me, too!</p>
<p>Wish</p>
<p>momofthree,</p>
<p>You are so very kind! This thread got off on an unexpected (at least to me) tangent because so many were saying something like "Don't ask the question if you don't want to hear the answer." We WERE wanting an answer (at that time, though we have since learned the error of our ways), but it seemed that no one understood what my objection was---the adcom's overstepping his bounds, not the "answers* (NOT!) he gave my son regarding the actual Yale app.</p>
<p>We DO have a lot to look forward to....and we are SO very grateful!</p>
<p>~berurah</p>
<p>I got a rejection letter once, about 30 years ago. As a sophomore I was trying to transfer to the State U that had accepted me to their honors college as a freshman (but I went overseas instead). I was totally shocked to be rejected so I called the admissions office. They explained there was a deficiency in my high school transcript. I explained that they were reading my hs transcript incorrectly, and my rejection was turned into an acceptance. I transfered, and lived happily ever after. :) I know, it's not quite the same thing, but I don't think it ever hurts to ask.</p>
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<blockquote> <p>But I don't believe that Berurah or son were so upset about the comments as much as the panic instilled when he made his predictions about other selective schools.<<</p> </blockquote>
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<p>I can identify with the panic mode! After my D went through an EA rejection, she went from feeling that she could get into a nice college to feeling like she wouldn't get into any college at all!</p>
<p>NJres,</p>
<p>Wow! What a story! Now I don't feel nearly so foolish for allowing my son to write the rep.</p>
<p>wish,</p>
<p>Girl, I know YOU understand! xo</p>
<p>ellemenope,
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After my D went through an EA rejection, she went from feeling that she could get into a nice college to feeling like she wouldn't get into any college at all!
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Interesting you should say this. It eerily mirrors a statement my son made to me not so long ago. He said, "You know, Mom, I GROSSLY overestimated my ability to get any merit money, and, for that matter, my ability to get into college at all."</p>
<p>BTW, it has always been VERY clear to me that you understand as well! :)</p>
<p>~berurah</p>
<p>Isn't there a new book out about the mis-interpreting that goes on in social situations when women(?) mis-read the intent of the "waffling" behavior of men whom they are liking, but perhaps the men are not liking them back..</p>
<p>I haven't read the book, but I saw it yesterday at Borders and I think the intent is to help people "get" the cues of others when they are in a frame of mind such that a subtle message just isn't enough...</p>