<p>Hi, </p>
<p>if one of you were in the Information Sessions this summer, do you know whats the name of the man that talked to us? </p>
<p>i remember he had grey hair and he was in his mid 30`s </p>
<p>DO YOU KNOW HIS NAME?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>hahaha they have so many tour guides/info session people.</p>
<p>Perhaps contact the office of admissions?</p>
<p>Are the info sessions really helpful? Like stuff you wouldnt find on their website and such?</p>
<p>I'm (most likely) applying to Yale next year but info sessions are usually quite far away so I'm not sure if it's worth the drive.</p>
<p>Was there only one?</p>
<p>@Smile614: I'm assuming your a junior? I am, and also planning on applying to Yale next year. This fall, September to be exact, I went to a Yale informational session at a local library where the regional director of admissions talked to a crowd of about 30 and I found it to be extremely helpful! There are a lot of questions you can ask that you can't find the exact answer to on the website, or if you're confused about something you've read it's a great place to ask about it. Also, I know for me, in the beginning I was a little unsure of what to ask, but since Yale is my first choice I just kind of wanted to be there simply because it had to do with Yale ;) Eventually I opened up though, and realized I had tons of unaswered questions. Before that it was just helpful even to sit and listen to the Q/A of the other people present, some of whom asked things I never would have even thought of, but was nonetheless interested in! Another benefit is that at the end there was an opportunity to go up and talk to the regional director of admissions herself. Not that she'll necessarily remember me, but it was good practice introducing myself to people affiliated with Yale, and I got to ask her some more specific questions that I didn't want to ask in front of the whole crowd. </p>
<p>All-in-all I would highly recommend it, even if, for you, it is a bit of a drive. Good luck!</p>
<p>^Thank you SO much!</p>
<p>I'm a junior..definitely applying next year and I got mail/emails about info sessions from Harvard, Yale, several other places I'm interested in but never attended thinking that everything I needed to know was on their website and what else can I do but to apply and wait? And also..all this college prep stuff seemed so far away at the beginning of the year..otherwise I would have totally gone! Hopefully there'll be one again next year..maybe it'll be closer too =] </p>
<p>But yeah, I'm really curious about who the regional director of admissions is! It would be nice to meet her.</p>
<p>Thanks for the response, once again! Good luck to you too!</p>
<p>No problem! I feel like we're all kind of in the same the boat so any information I have that others don't I like to pass on because it's kind of terrifying..this whole college thing. I agree, it seemed so far away last year, and even at the beginning of this year, but as all my senior friends are hearing back I keep thinking "Crap, that's me next!"</p>
<p>But yeah, just to reiterate what I already said, info sessions are helpful, and if you don't get anything out of them that you didn't already know, at the very least they just kind of help get you in the mood for this whole "adventure" haha</p>
<p>Oh I'm nervous for all my senior friends right now! A lot of them are scrambling to get done or just sooo anxious/nervous/scared about the results that they can't seem to enjoy their break. And I really really hope I'm not like that next year!
But it's definitely teaching me a lot about the process and how I should NOT procrastinate if I want to enjoy my CHristmas break next year..</p>
<p>Thanks again for the information..I don't get to hear much about college admissions to Ivy League schools and other top schools so it's nice to get help on CC! :)</p>
<p>SO with you there, I have a lot of really close friends who applied to top schools (not necessarily ivies, but still wicked hard schools like NYU and Stanford) and December 15 I was a mess FOR my friends...can't even imagine what I'll be like for myself next year :/ </p>
<p>I was celebrating the new year with my friends and one of them was like: "Just think, by the end of this year (2009) some of us might already by in at some colleges..." there was a a long silence after that, haha. </p>
<p>I'm vowing (now) to be one of those kids that gets the **** work, like the essays, at least 4 drafts through for every school before September, and that way I'll only have the basics to fill out through the year...but I know come September I will have wasted away my whole summer and I will be that kid who's rushing to catch the deadline!</p>
<p>Why don't you get to hear much about ivies?</p>
<p>it bleeped out my swear! that's funny :P</p>
<p>April...it's going to be scary but exciting to watch all my senior friends get acceptances/rejections. Whenever college apps come up during class where there's a lot of seniors, panic and confusion just spreads around the room.</p>
<p>Haha I made that one of my New Years resolutions..to start working on college apps and have rough drafts done for all the supplements and the common app essays that are available by the time school starts. I know I'll forget all my resolutions by...the end of this month haha and I probably won't start those apps until like the week before school starts and I'm in panic mode because I haven't done anything productive all summer! </p>
<p>Not many people in my school apply to Ivies. Only the top 10 kids or so...not really a competitive school. And very few informational sessions on top schools. Most of the kids go to the state public university and have known that they're going to go there since like elementary school..and since the requirements aren't very much, they don't see the point in trying so hard.</p>
<p>haha I didn't know CC did that..</p>
<p>That's sort of sad, I hate when people limit themselves..although I suppose it gives you personally a better chance.. inter school competition won't be as eminent for you. </p>
<p>My school is MAD competitive..although it's sort of self inflicted, not gonna lie. But there is definitely this palpable pressure to go beyond in everything you do, and sometimes it gets to me. This has already been a banner year for my school though and we're only in the ED/EA round...and it's only a public school! But we've got tons of kids in at Penn, Cornell, GWU, Tufts, Emerson, NYU, Vandy, Dartmouth..and I'm happy for them all but it's really intimidating.
It's also intimidating that 24 seniors applied to Brown ED and no one got in :/ solid deferals and rejections up the wazoo!</p>
<p>I know...there are some brilliant kids in my school, not gonna lie. People who can look at something and just know all the information on it and aces the test but they don't do their hw, don't try as long as they can pull off a 2.0 or whatever to graduate </p>
<p>The top 20 or so students are really really amazing though..but only 5 or so of them will apply to Yale or Ivies. Not many people in our school apply to 10 or more schools..
We had some accepted to Vanderbilt, Duke, NYU..but no Ivies or anything yet! (Not many applied ED probably for financial reasons) We'll have to wait until April and see..hopefully some of them will get in! </p>
<p>No competition here...just self-motivated people at the top. It's a really laid back school so I like the atmosphere. No fighting over GPAs/SATs/who's gonna be valedictorian kinda thing. But WOW! Congrats on all those acceptances! Kind of sets the standard for next year huh? Bad luck with Brown though..yikes. </p>
<p>Watching the seniors just make junior year that much more stressing..</p>