<p>I'm crushed. So crushed.</p>
<p>I want to write Yale a letter asking them if they could PLEASE reconsider. </p>
<p>Have any colleges ever done that?</p>
<p>no they will not reconsider</p>
<p>I doubt it, but everyone feels your pain. Chin up! College admissions isn’t the final word on who you are, the most random people get in.</p>
<p>Dude, if they did that, they’d be deluged with letters/complaints. Do you really think that will happen? The faster you get over it, the better it will be. </p>
<p>Your life will not suck without Yale.</p>
<p>Sorry, but it’s time to move on to another great school. Since you were rejected, there are still the WL people between you and acceptance, that isn’t going to happen.</p>
<p>In a dozen years working in the industry, I’ve only ever heard of two people getting into the Ivies on appeal – and they weren’t recently. I’m very sorry for your disappointment and hope that you can find another school to fall in love with. There are many possibilities out there!</p>
<p>So it’s not impossible–it’s happened before. Can you tell me more about these cases?</p>
<p>I’ll still write the letter…I have nothing to lose, except my pride which I don’t really care about in this case.</p>
<p>So it’s not impossible–it’s happened before. Can you tell me more about these cases?</p>
<p>I’ll still write the letter…I have nothing to lose, except my pride which I don’t really care about in this case.</p>
<p>Yale people are elite and near the top of the social ladder. They need not to beg. You’re not built for Yale. You’ll be begging through your 4 years there.</p>
<p>AMGLeauge is right. Being depressed is normal, pitying is normal, but when you’re so desperate you’re willing to grovel and @$$kiss your way in then your life is pretty pathetic.</p>
<p>i got rejected. I was however, smart enough to apply to other schools that I also love. </p>
<p>Yale was my top choice… but seriously, if every one of use wrote a groveling letter in, the admissions committee would get so angry that they wouldn’t admit anybody because they wouldn’t want to set a bad precedent. Suck it up, and focus on the awesome schools you got in to.</p>
<p>Get over it, move on, and go to one of the zillions of other great colleges you undoubtedly got accepted into… </p>
<p>I got rejected as well, waitlisted and sooo many places I can count them on both hands, and in at only 3 places…and I haven’t cried one tear because I get that admissions is a crapshoot at Yale and the like. Don’t take it personally.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>Well, at least I having nothing to lose by writing the letter. Except perhaps my pride, which I may have already lost through this thread…</p>
<p>Entomom has wise words. Grieve, move on, spend the energy looking forward to where you are going. Everyone who even applies to a school that accepts under 10%, and nearly half are hooked, needs to really not take this personally.</p>
<p>Onwards and upwards</p>
<p>I sent the letter. I don’t think I have anything to lose, and if the dean completely ignores it, oh well, at least I tried. </p>
<p>And at least I can try to transfer next year, right?</p>
<p>Well I would have said you had nothing to lose unless you might hope to get anything from the admissions office in the future, but I guess I’m too late.</p>
<p>the best thing you can do is to change your views. you’ve convinced yourself that you want, that you need, Yale. but you don’t. you have to change how you think so that you are satisfied with going to a college that isn’t in the top 10 in a bs ranking. thinking that you can only be happy if you go to yale is illogical, irrational, and bad for your health.</p>
<p>Trust me, once you go to whichever other school you’re going to, you’ll forget all about a transfer.</p>
<p>OP wrote: “And at least I can try to transfer next year, right?” Where they have about a 2-3% admit rate…</p>
<p>OP, to be frank there are 769 WL offers that went out. Where does that place a person who’s been rejected. Plz consider the wise words already given. Step back a little, and ENJOY your last few months of a very very successful HS career. </p>
<p>I’ve “been there, done that”. It’s not everything. Trust me.</p>