Horror stories, anyone?

<p>Ah, this thread. So uplifting!</p>

<p>HAHaha...
Imaginary stats of cj's rejected girl --> 2380 SAT I, 800 in 3 SATII, 12 APs, all 5s, perfect recs & essays... lol</p>

<p>Worst scenario ever:
Safety college: "WT<em>f is a 2380 applying in our school? *We ain't acceptin no ppl who consider us safeties."
Yale: "WT</em>f is a 2380 applying to our school? We only accept 2400s" LOL.</p>

<p>PS: Yale turns down 3/4 of their 2300 + SAT I applicants.</p>

<p>Ahh, but that last statistic is cleverly spun to make it seem alarming!! Remember the original acceptance rate we're dealing with here is like 9%! (Anyone know what it actually is?) So for SAT scores above 2300, the acceptance rate shoots up to... 25%?! That's pretty awesome... or at least it would be if I thought I could distinguish myself in that pool. The trouble with a pool of applicants whose SAT scores are all above 2300 is that they are generally quite well qualified. Oh well.</p>

<p>the acceptance rate was 9% in 2005, it was up to 10% last year, i believe.
i honestly was so excited when i got a 2300, i thought that was like.. the end of the stress (i originally had a 2190), but that only made it worse, because i can't use sats as a legit reason for my denial, it's just that i'm not good enough :(</p>

<p>"Worst scenario ever:
Safety college: "WT<em>f is a 2380 applying in our school? *We ain't acceptin no ppl who consider us safeties."
Yale: "WT</em>f is a 2380 applying to our school? We only accept 2400s" </p>

<p>That was brilliant, Kowloon! To some extent, what you just described there is quite true.</p>

<p>The thing is, Yale's classes aren't filled to the brim with 2300+ people... and the people with less than 2300 or even 2200 aren't necessarily athletes or anything... it happens!</p>

<p>yeah fringey!
we're going to keep hoping!!</p>

<p>HELLLZZZZ YEAH!!!</p>

<p>I mean, why not? At this point, I've embraced my slim-to-none chances and am going to revel in the light of possibility rather than fear.</p>

<p>hey, you want to be really turned off? go to studentsreview.com, punch up yale, then go look over the negative commments...really made me question some things....not exactly for pulling your hopes off of yale, but at least it'll get you thinking about applying to other places...sorry if you hate me for this...</p>

<p>I am all for looking at the dark underbellies of things, even Yale, but I am confident that my own experiences there as well as anecdotes from people I know well are all I need to verify my love :-)</p>

<p>If I get flat-out rejected, I'll probably look at it to feel better, haha.</p>

<p>hahaha, one guy on that site said "it's so easy to cheat here; i cheated to get in and I'm cheating now to get the 4.0 I have" </p>

<p>amusing</p>

<p>sorry, that was students review .com (all as one word) thought i could slip it past the machine...</p>

<p>Horror story! Horror story! I knew a sixth (ish?) generation legacy who was top of his class at a Yale feeder (!). High SATs, really cool extracurriculars, the whole nine yards. Deferred EA (though ultimately accepted in the spring). The decision in December seemed completely random.</p>

<p>Horror? Psh, he still got accepted :-) at least I won't stress as much if I get deferred. Oh wait, I am not a legacy, or at the top of my class (not sure, we don't rank), but I do go to a Yale feeder.</p>

<p>I heard that's their standard protocol -- to defer legacies and pick them up in regular decision. I've heard they do a lot of recruiting for atheletes in early.</p>