<p>Dear Family, </p>
<p>Congratulations are in order for those lucky acceptees!! To those deferred keep up hope, I know its a long wait but it may end up being well worth it. And of course to my fellow rejectees, I know and suffer your agonies as deeply as you. To have put everything on the line and been so defeated is hard, I know. </p>
<p>I want to say that this Yale forum has been a wonderful place to blow time this last, gosh, four months and I really feel like I know all of you so well! Thank you for being such a supportive environment and for allowing me a place to share my experiences as well. </p>
<p>This is not a goodbye letter. I will be back on, but for the next week or so I will only be posting from school. In light of my decision, I need to finish my applications to other schools and get some serious work done. It will be hard, I was perfectly prepared for a deferral and this rejection hits like a ton of pointy bricks. </p>
<p>Yale was everything I wanted, it was perfect, it is perfect, but I suppose it wasn't meant to be. I offer my sincerest congratulations and my deepest empathies. I am not leaving you, merely taking a vacation. Reading the forum almost brings me to tears and I'd like to come back on and be my old convivial psycho self, not this brokenness. I'll be back in about a week... I'll be reading the forum, keeping track of its evolutions, and perhaps I'll post once or twice from school, but alas, I must dedicate my home time to finishing applications, writing new essays and preparing myself for the next round. </p>
<p>So, I will see you all later, talk to me online! :) </p>
<p>All the Best ~ </p>
<p><em>Victoria</em></p>