<p>The ASC has just released their latest newsletter... In it you will find such information as:
[ul]
[<em>]An analysis of EA results
[</em>]Calendar
[<em>]A Yale interviewer survey
[</em>]An article on "The role of the ASC interview in the committee process"
[<em>]Three applicant case studies
[</em>]Yale news
[li]A speech by Richard Shaw[/li][/ul]</p>
<p>Have Fun!</p>
<p>That is really cool! I love how they said this year was possibly the strongest EA pool ever. :)</p>
<p>The interview reports were very interesting. Newt, you're are such a sleuth with these kinds of things.</p>
<p>the stuff about deferred applicants was encouraging! :)</p>
<p>You know....i try to see if I can match any of the people that are accepted and i just cant. I feel like an oddball.</p>
<p>Should I email my admissions officer just to introduce myself?</p>
<p>thx newt .</p>
<p>If you send your admissions officer an email now, you'll get an immediate form reply saying that he/she's really busy reading applications, so you won't get a quick response.</p>
<p>that's not true. I've been communicationg with mine recently. He never takes more than a 12 hours to respond (I send them late at night and I get a response in the morning). hehe and thanks newt for always keeping us updated.</p>
<p>p. 8: "Our officers and student employees are already engaging these [deferred EA] students as part of a recruitment follow-up plan."</p>
<p>Does this mean if you haven't heard from them, you're SOL?</p>
<p>Makes you wonder why they didn't bother to interview strong candidates in areas where there is an established local committed.</p>
<p>What do you mean, bandit-tx?</p>
<p>D received the name of the local ASC head for EA interviewing, but was never contacted for an interview. Two girls from her school applied EA. The lower rated candidate was taken. Just has to make you wonder how and if they made up their mind ahead of time. In this case, it's pretty well documented that personal influence works, and the National Merit Scholar with tons of leadership and ECs was deferred without an interview.</p>
<p>bianchi23 I hate to say this but my interpretation of that statement in the article was that they were referring to the admitted EA applicants, not the deferred ones. sorry.</p>
<p>What's SOL? </p>
<p>And yea, newt, thanks for all the insider info.</p>
<p>don't know what SOL is either, but they're not recruiting the deferred candidates, they're after the accepted ones.</p>
<p>"SOL...well its s***t outta luck"
the laramie project</p>
<p>andi,</p>
<p>I like your interpretation better than mine! (and on re-reading, I think you're right: the previous paragraph on p. 1 ends w/ discussion of deferred EA's admitted RD, but then they do switch at top p. 8 to "select few studensts whom we were able to offer admission")</p>
<p>Thanks for clarifying!</p>
<p>It wasn't the most well written paragraph I've ever read so I can see why you thought that. Had to re-read a couple of times myself. </p>
<p>yet another acronym learned on cc...</p>
<p>The interview case histories are very revealing. This knowledge will help me tune up for the up-coming alumni interviews. Thanks.</p>