<p>I just received the following email from Yale:
Dear (my name),</p>
<p>My name is (her name), and Im the Texas admissions officer for Yale. Im writing to ask if you can have your counselor fax to Yale (203-777-6120) your first semester senior year grades. Your counselor submitted the Mid-Year School Report to us, but the report did not have your mid-term grades. We need this document as soon as possible, but no later than Tuesday, March 23. Would you be able to talk to your counselor by then? </p>
<p>Thanks,</p>
<p>(her name)</p>
<p>That means I'm still in the running, right?? I'm not trying to be obnoxious, but they wouldn't ask for stuff this late in the game if I wasn't a serious consideration, right?</p>
<p>not necessarily, maybe they plan on rejecting you but want to make you feel like they gave your application full consideration…but honestly you shouldn’t take this as a good or bad sign</p>
<p>Hahahahah thanks for being so frank. You’re probably right. It’s ridiculous how the wait is putting me on edge, and making me analyze even the smallest thing.</p>
<p>I got a similar email saying they got my teacher recommendation letter from [teacher’s name] but not from a second teacher. It made me excited that they were actually looking at my application and didn’t just throw it out the window at the sight of my SAT scores or gpa or something haha. But I doubt it’s anything to be extra hopeful about. Anyways…</p>
<p>I wouldn’t say bad, because something about you impressed them enough for them to want to see more. If they planned to just deny you would they really waste their time to see your mid-term grades?</p>
<p>Normally this just means that you or your counselor messed up. It’s just a formality that all admissions people go through. It should not be taken as a positive in any way. In fact, as an admissions officer, it is often frustrating to have to collect information from students, which sheds a negative light on the student, most of the time unfairly.</p>