<p>@BoolaBoola</p>
<p>Why would you have had a better chance as a transfer applicant?</p>
<p>Hey TJ,</p>
<p>Congrats on your admission. Just to clarify, the current President is female. The outgoing president was male and he was who you met with.</p>
<p>Eyethink–</p>
<p>That was purely facetious speculation on my part. The harsh fact of the matter is this: if Yale got 126 applications and they wanted every one of those candidates, they could have easily admitted 126 of them. Transfers are generally accepted at 2-4%. Bigger pool, more accepted…but smaller overall percentage. </p>
<p>Still…I can’t help but wonder. </p>
<p>Although the rejection letter was extraordinarily kind and the process was educational, it was still a rejection letter. It’s one thing to say, yeah, you know I didn’t fail, I gained experience…but that doesn’t change the fact that I will not be going to Yale in the Fall. I do very well at the school I’m at: Dean’s list, 4.0, etc etc… But it’s not Yale.</p>
<p>They simply did not want me. Or quite a few other people, for that matter. Applying as a transfer student wouldn’t have made a difference. For whatever reasons, my application didn’t fit. And that’s fine. </p>
<p>I did not apply to any other schools. If it’s not Yale, I’ll just create what opportunities I can at the school I’ll return to in the Fall.</p>
<p>The weird irony of this is that I am sitting in a Yale suite right now typing this. I’m here for summer school.</p>
<p>By next Fall, I’ll be a rising senior and will probably have too many credits to bother trying to apply again. Even if they accepted me the next time around–and I cannot, for the life of me, see what difference a year would make to the admissions committee–I’d probably end up a first semester sophomore. I’m not getting any younger.</p>
<p>So, no page long interview with me to look forward to in the YDN and I won’t be sitting with you in the bleachers in November cheering on Old Blue.</p>
<p>But I still love the school–strangely and unexpectedly–and if this monthlong fling is all I’ll have, then I suppose I’ll enjoy it while it lasts. </p>
<p>Congrats again to the ones who made it and best of luck to those who are daring the tempests next year.</p>
<p>Fortes fortuna adiuvat.</p>
<p>@BoolaBoola</p>
<p>Thank you for the poignant reply. I will attempt to conquer the leviathan next year. I must be a masochist because I find the daunting application and the miniscule admit rate exhilarating. I wish you many blessings in your future endeavors. </p>
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<li>eyethink</li>
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<p>Hi Deusex, thanks for the clarification.</p>
<p>Hello everyone, because of anonymity, I’ve neglected to post on this board. But now, I feel I owe everyone here–those accepted and not accepted–my story.</p>
<p>I too, was recently denied admission, but I did manage to make it to the final round. I remember sitting in a board meeting at my current school and one of the administrators asked me if I had gotten “The Call” yet. I laughed, brushed it off and said, “Nope, I don’t expect them to [Yale], I’ve already been denied from a myriad of places–Chicago, Cornell, Brown, Amherst, etc. etc.” Then, just as I was saying this, Marianne called my cell phone and said she would like to schedule me for an interview. I was in shock.</p>
<p>I had been told “no” by all of these other fine institutions, but Yale saw something in me and they wanted ME to fly out to New Haven for an interview. I was ecstatic. Unfortunately, I didn’t have enough money to make it out there. This didn’t matter. The whole school, my current community college, rallied behind me. Everyone from friends, to professors, administrators–even, strangers–gave me money to get to New Haven. I remember some random woman hearing about my story and she offered to pay for a little motel room for me in Milford. I was utmost grateful.</p>
<p>So, I went there, on commencement day–perhaps an omen I thought–and the interview went well. I still remembered to remain pragmatic about the situation. The acceptance rate is abysmally low, and I had to still expect the worse. Thank God I’m a pessimist. My spirit has not been entirely decimated. </p>
<p>I’ve fought against extreme adversity: I’ve been homeless, nearly killed, destitute, a high school drop-out, and the list goes on…But one thing I do know, I will make it. There is a ray of sunshine in this story. Despite all my rejections, I was accepted into UNC as an out-of-state transfer student with a full ride. There are advantages to this:</p>
<p>The weather’s nicer in Chapel Hill :)</p>
<p>I get to live on campus (I’m 24 and I identify as a traditional student, so I actually wasn’t looking forward to living in New Haven and being separated from the “hub”).</p>
<p>I will be matriculating as a Junior, which I doubt Yale would have accepted as many credits as unc did.</p>
<p>I heard the food is pretty awesome.</p>
<p>To all those who made it, congratulations, you deserved it. And to everyone else, let us now begin to grovel in our own despair. Because misery loves company :)</p>
<p>@tj</p>
<p>now that you know you are formally admitted, congratulations again</p>
<p>i am not confused
you had inappropriate information mr. hotdogs</p>
<p>the rumor is the candidates were good this year
though i cannot confirm any affiliation to yale i appreciate everyone that applied because it is a learning experience for new applicants on this board</p>
<p>good luck in the future and hopefully see you next admissions cycle</p>
<p>@chemisteli</p>
<p>Are there years when candidates aren’t good? ;-)</p>
<p>im sure there are years where the candidates are beyond exceptional</p>
<p>No chemisteli, you have wrong information. </p>
<p>Since you cannot “confirm your affiliation with Yale” (something you feel the need to mention almost every post) and I can indeed confirm that I was not only affiliated with Yale but a former EW student that served in an administrative capacity with the WSA, I can write with confidence that the WSA president for this year was a man; I have had several correspondences with him this year. I do not know who was elected president for the coming academic year. Patricia Wei is the director for EW admissions and conducts many if not most of the interviews. The WSA president obviously does not serve in that capacity.</p>
<p>The applicant pool has always been very high quality given the self-selective nature of the program. Statistical changes in admissions rates do not affect this nor do they directly reflect quality.</p>
<p>sorry milkbaba
though i cannot confirm any affiliation to yale…</p>
<p>perhaps youre correct
i will check but the last i heard the president is a female
it does not matter
i apologize to tj for referencing his admission before he knew about it, lucky guess out of pure confusion
obviously you are a more qualified affiliate to talk, not me</p>
<p>you live, you learn </p>
<p>hopefully ill see you all around next admissions cycle</p>
<p>The President for last year was male, the president for this year (beginning at the end of spring term) is female…</p>
<p>Chemisteli, </p>
<p>no worries and thanks. </p>
<p>-Mr. Hotdogs</p>
<p>Condolences to Babytitain on Yale, but congrats on UNC-Chapel Hill! </p>
<p>TJ: by the time you get here, Mory’s will be open again. Have a cup or three for those of us who didn’t make it.</p>
<p><strong>I cannot confirm any affiliation with Rudy’s, Black Bear, BAR, Sullivan’s, The Bar With No Name, Louis’ Lunch, or any of the other excellent establishments in this fair city.</strong></p>
<p>^^^ lol…oh, the ambiguity of it all!</p>
<p>Thanks for the condolences, and to you as well.</p>
<p>I suppose it<code>s probably too late to ask if any other lurkers out there were accepted to the program, and I can</code>t imagine that any of those lurkers would have a reason to post here now that the whole process is finished; however, the EWSP, in its entirety, is so incredibly mysterious that I can<code>t stop thinking about it. I really hate to throw the word out there because of its negative connotation, but “obsessed” really seems to describe many of the posters on this board, including myself. I have to say that I definitely wouldn</code>t object to a little more transparency, but perhaps transparency would detract from the program`s mystique. </p>
<p>As for me, I think I might go down in EW history as the unluckiest applicant ever: interviewed twice and rejected as many times. Naturally, I will move on and be well. There are many other things I can obsess over (iphone 4g). It<code>s just that, well, as much as I want to get up, brush-off my shoulders, and move on to the next big challenge, I have come to realize that, despite my best efforts, I failed; Henry Longfellow</code>s conception of perserverance, as the lucky hotdog vendor turned Yalie so elequently quoted in his consolatory response to the manic depressant<code>s admission of failure, is no more valid than Henny Penny</code>s conception of cosmology. </p>
<p>For future applicants:</p>
<p>The ambiguity of the admissions process in light of the whole Hashmi/Taliban controversy and subsequent restructuring of EWSP makes it impossible to know exactly what the adcom wants, so don<code>t bother trying to guess. Figure out how you benefit from going to Yale (easy). Figure out how Yale benefits from admitting you (not so easy). Figure out why Yale is the right place for you (as opposed to, say, Penn). If you are at a school already, figure out why that school cannot meet your needs. Once you figure all those things out, everything else is easy–everything, that is, except gaining admittance. Consequently, the most important thing you should figure out is where else you can attend, because with a 4% admittance rate that drowns in ambiguity your chances of matriculation simply aren</code>t promising.</p>
<p>TJ, congratulations. I<code>ve never had a hotdog in Conneticut, but I imagine they suck. You should bring your own stock. The pizza over there, however, is delicious. You probably shouldn</code>t pack any of your own.</p>
<p>I just started a new thread for 2011 Eli Whitney Applicants:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=1048440&referrerid=436463[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=1048440&referrerid=436463</a></p>