<p>Yale will only mail paper copies of decisions (for rejects, aka 19 out of every 20 RD applicants) if the applicant doesn't log on for 72 hours after decisions are posted:</p>
<p>Yale</a> Daily News - Rejection letters go paperless</p>
<p>Personally, I'd like a paper reply from my favorite school :-)</p>
<p>Haha thanks for the warning, rb3, because I want no concrete proof of rejection. None :P</p>
<p>I considered waiting to get the paper letter in the mail (after I read that on the YDN). I too would love a paper reply from Yale, but my mother's desires will probably override my own in this situation. The same article mentions that 95% of applicants check their decisions in the 72 hours following the official release. You would have to be incredibly disciplined to wait...what a challenge!</p>
<p>Aww, now I won't have a rejection letter to burn if I don't get accepted...</p>
<p>Can we request the rejection letter so that we can burn it? :D
My friends and I might be having a rejection party. wheeeeee.</p>
<p>Eh, shouldn't matter to me since I plan on being accepted.</p>
<p>/that's sarcasm for all y'all.</p>
<p>You can always print your decision, then you’ll have a paper decision! lol, sorry I just really had to say that.</p>
<p>I’d love to get a paper decision but I don’t think I can wait the 72 hours after decisions are posted AND the time it takes for the letter to arrive.</p>
<p>Guys: these are only the rejection letters. If accepted or waitlisted, you’ll get both the online notification and the actual letter.</p>
<p>two hours after the decisions come out, there’s a big chat for all the admitted students on the Yale admits website.</p>
<p>soo… if you choose to wait 72 hours to check your decision, and you WERE actually accepted, you’re gonna miss the huge cyber-celebration.</p>
<p>;)</p>
<p>I woke up today, then went to the post office to see if I they have a rejection letter from Colgate… then I went to the fedex office to see if they have an acceptance. Nothing.</p>
<p>All this for Colgate, because I just can’t wait. With Yale, I’ll probably be trying to hack into the eli accounts and check results before 5 pm EST!!!</p>
<p>I won’t be in the country by the time the letter gets here, so I’ll just suck it up and wallow at my desktop…</p>
<p>To OP, why is it 19 out of every 20 applicants rejected? 
That’s like a 5% acceptance rate…is that really the case this year?</p>
<p>Wow, I can’t believe that aren’t even sending out paper rejections if I check the online account…I spent at least $100 on the application when you include the application fee, the SAT scores, and the CSS Profile (paying for financial aid just doesnt make sense). Least they could do is spend $0.43 to mail me a letter and probably about a $1.00 to print the letter…I think I’ll try to stop myself from logging in during the 72 hour period!</p>
<p>Juliet, yes. They are accepting 1200 more students out of 23,000 RD applicants (including deferred EA apps). That comes out to 5.2%.</p>
<p>Wow that number is abysmal.</p>
<p>Alright I’ve officially lost any hope for getting in. I guess I wasn’t too off when I estimated my chance of getting in to be 1%. I can’t believe that…only 1200?! Where was this number published?</p>
<p>They accept 1900-2000 total, and around 750 people were already accepted EA…</p>
<p>^only 2000? wow. i guess they can count on the fact that most applicants would definitely go if they were admitted, but i feel like especially with this economy it would surprise me if only a few hundred turned down the acceptance… i guess that’s what the waitlist is for though, right?</p>
<p>is anyone sure of this? the recording on the admissions office phone number definitely says that decisions will be mailed on the 31st. i assume that means rejections too. i want to wait for the letter, but not if it takes 72 hours plus delivery time to get here!</p>
<p>Personally, if I get rejected online I can do without a reminder in the mail…</p>