<p>Check out the decision results. Some of it is quite sad! Very competitive applicant pool I guess?</p>
<p>“most competative applicant pool in the history of the institute.”</p>
<p>Thankfully I already got in EA and so the massacre passed me by :D</p>
<p>I saw a lot of blood on that page.
It is sad.</p>
<p>To be honest, I’m expecting a “Bulldog Bloodbath” for Yale too. ALL the top universities experienced huge increases in applications, and those necessarily come with more rejects of great students.</p>
<p>I was also very surprised at some of the people who were out-right rejected. But then again, that seems to be how all the upper tier schools were this year… didn’t they say this was (and probably forever will be) the hardest year to get into college? 
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<p>That said, good luck to all of you who are still waiting for decisions! It’s a terrible process and all the best for you.</p>
<p>I have a good friend, white male w/ 1940 SAT get in, so its not all about stats.</p>
<p>i heard this was the hardest year in history. fact? and what about next year, second hardest, or is their a major dropoff?</p>
<p>They have to admit somebody! Each one of the “elite” top 20 national universities has to admit over a thousand somebodies. Each elite LAC needs several hundred somebodies. Something is not adding up. There cannot be that many developmental/legacy/athletic admits.</p>
<p>This year has the most applicants I heard.
Schools basically have a lot of sorting to do.</p>
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<p>That, plus the huge increase in recruiting lower-income students/people who wouldn’t normally even apply to college = omg.</p>
<p>This year is the peak for number of applicants. My Penn interview was telling me how in the next few years, the applicant pool is going to significantly drop once again.</p>
<p>The Class of 09 is the most competitive I’ve seen. We’re definitely a higher caliber than, say, 4 years ago (my brother’s class). </p>
<p>Still hoping I get accepted to Yale, got in to my fallback though :)</p>
<p>Massacre is right. Good luck all Yale 2013 RD’ers and deferees!</p>
<p>Also, I think we should see a sizeable amount of reshuffling after May 1, with colleges going deep into their waitlists. If this is the most competitive year ever, and especially if kids are applying to more places at once (they are), we should see different colleges selecting many of the same kids over and over again. Unfortunately, that admitted student can only attend one, and all the others will likely have to replace him with another on their waitlist. Granted, schools do anticipate that less than 100% of their admitted students will matriculate, but I would anticipate this to be a year with unusually low yield rates among the top schools.</p>
<p>^ I agree
This sucks!</p>
<p>Haha, why is this in the Yale forum?</p>
<p>'Cuz the Yale forum is the best and we have no boundaries!!! :)</p>
<p>^
thank you very much</p>
<p>If we’re going to start with the Yale-Admissions-Catastrophe-extrapolation thing again, remember, it isn’t the “Bulldog Bloodbath.” That sounds really stupid. It is the Yale Fail, because Yale rejects are classy like that.</p>
<p>areyouserioussss
are you serious</p>
<p>Why… so… serioussss?</p>