<p>Grats on Duke sudaney--that's awesome! I got into UNC-CH but if I don't get into any of my Ivy League choices I'm probably going to UF</p>
<p>Man, I just received a Ph.D.. A Pessimist Hatin' Degree. Go buy some optimism will you?</p>
<p>Hope for the best, prepare for the worst?</p>
<p>I haven't even been visiting the Yale thread for fear of the Killer Stats.</p>
<p>lol the "Killer Stats" I love that</p>
<p>I guess that means my stats are the "Fluffy Bunny Stats"</p>
<p>haha..my stats suck too: 2190 for a Canadian in China( which means my file is in the super scary Asian pool)</p>
<p>Hehe Mallomar, yay for us lazy deferrals! I didn't send in anything new and focused on my other apps instead. In the last few months, Princeton and Penn have been climbing up my list, which means Yale is going down. Oh well. I really don't know how I'll react if I get in because I've stopped caring altogether.</p>
<p>Yeah Cornell and Dartmouth are the schools I'm really hoping for now...although it would be awesome to get into Yale, there was obviously something not so amazing in my app if I got deferred in the first place :)</p>
<p>If not Cornell or Dartmouth, UF is the way to go for me-(Bright Futures is amazing)</p>
<p>I applied to Yale RD thinking why not, Now that I know I dont have a shot at HYP , I have avoided their web sites and concentrate more on UVA and UMD (honors college) I never thought I came to this.</p>
<p>Would anyone say if a 2020 on SAT or a 31 ACT is too low?</p>
<p>My friend got into Harvard last year with a 31 ACT. Typical middle-class Asian, took the SAT 5 times as well. Worked pretty well for him. I hate to use anecdotes, but <em>shrug</em> it's what I know.
For more general, reliable stats: go to collegeboard.com and check out Yale's accepted applicant SAT/ACT ranges. Apparently, the middle 50% ACT range for accepted applicants who submitted the ACT was 31-34. So that's not too bad.</p>
<p>I applied to Yale. Expecting rejection. Actually I'm expecting rejection from 7 out of the 12 schools I applied to. :( So Yale's not too special for me in that regard. :p</p>
<p>It's all good lhDC. Really. You will get a good education at a good college. Is a rejection from Yale going to compromise your ability to do that? No, of course not. It's a great school but it's one of many.</p>
<p>i applied to yale too...and if it makes any of you feel any better, i wrote a poem for my second essay...i like poetry and its a huge risk that'll either burn and die or flourish...in any case, i'm just the average candidate.....so i'm expectin' a rejectshun as well</p>
<p>well, PipingHotTofu, I love poetry too, and I took a huge risk with my app. too. I wrote about my name ( yeah, a really common topic) and how my Chinese name is linked to the story of my Grandma growing up in "old China". I feel that people really loved or hated it....all I can hope for is that they liked some part of my app.
Good luck to everyone waiting on RD results!!</p>
<p>happyjane that sounds really interesting!</p>
<p>Current Yalie here:</p>
<p>Don't let yourself get beat up on not getting in. Admissions do not determine your worth as an individual, nor your greatness. </p>
<p>That said, Yale is amazing :) Getting in is feasible. I'm not a super-stats person. I know many people who aren't super-stats people here at Yale. However, they each do something amazing in a way that is unique to them.</p>
<p>Have fun guys, and chills out.</p>
<p>Mallomar Cookie - that is not necessarily the case. It is not that they saw something in your application early that they did not like or was not strong enough and that they will view you the same because nothing changed. The fact is that you may have very well been a very compelling candidate, and there may have been absolutely no reason why they did not take you. You really don't know the reason so it is hard to speculate. It could very well be that after taking recruited athletes, development admits, connected legacies, who tend to apply early - and after taking some under represented minorities that there were a lot of compelling candidates that they just could not take early and that you were one of them. You could be someone who they marked on their application. I do believe that those who are deferred and later accepted are applicants who they realized they should have taken early but did not. I dont recall what your extra curriculars are, but I do also have a theory that those who have certain talents that are unique or could enhance the school community are often taken in the regular decision pool as the class is rounded out so that it has an interesting composition.
Do not think you do not have a chance because you never know how they originally viewed you.</p>
<p>That makes sense, collegebound. Anyway, we'll see in 15 days, whatever ;)</p>
<p>Yeah us deferrees still have a chance. Although there were about 60% of us, we weren't in the bottom 20% that were rejected. So there's still hope :)</p>
<p>I know i'll be rejected. Even worse is being waitlisted because then there is that false hope.</p>