<p>Congrats!!!</p>
<p>Congratulations! Just one question: How do they know how many credits you are allowed to transfer? Did you send your course description?</p>
<p>Thanks for all the congratulations. I’ll be sure not to let my admission go to waste.
Also, regarding credit, you’re supposed to send them your transcript as a part of your application. In my case, there wasn’t much to interpret as far as classes go. I suppose that given the lack of course description required, someone must’ve either spent a lot of time on my school’s class catalog or decided that lower division stuff is pretty much equivalent at the level I took it.
The last possibility is that none of my classes actually transfer. I wouldn’t really mind, though, as I intend on retaking a number of them to benefit from the education Yale has to offer to me anyway.</p>
<p>transcripts yes. But don’t they need the course content and description for knowing if the courses match?</p>
<p>oh ok…
Still, what about the courses you have taken currently. Are they reflected in the transcripts you sent. If no, then how do they know what courses you have taken this semester? I wish you the best if you are in, but some how this the credit thing seems weird.</p>
<p>^ I know someone who transferred in a couple of years ago, and she said that you can send in new transcripts with the link to the course catalog and they’ll give you credit for this semester’s classes also.</p>
<p>Oh, yeah, I forgot to explaain this. While the classes that you mentioned in your common app are evaluated by Yale, they have no way to know what you took in between your application and your acceptance. They state on the admissions website that credits obtained after the application will be reviewed later on. But everything before that is apparently in the admissions package.</p>
<p>oh ok… great! congrats!</p>
<p>How many hours for the decisions?</p>
<p>Rejected. (7:54AM email)</p>
<p>Rejected as well. It seemed as though they were genuinely sorry to have to turn so many people down, though, which is at least nicer than Harvard’s letter. Oh well, at least I got into Penn yesterday/ there’s still Brown and Columbia to hear from! 100% Rationalizing here, but at least I won’t have to live in New Haven! Congrats to acceptees… p.s. were people’s theories right, or did anyone get an acceptance email today?</p>
<p>rejected! sad…</p>
<p>Rejected. I literally dreamed about Yale last night. I’m pitiful.</p>
<p>Current School: New York University
Current Year: Sophomore
Accepted:
Waitlist: Harvard
Rejected: Yale
Pending decisions: Swarthmore
College GPA: 3.978
SAT: 2310 (CR: 800, M: 720, W: 790)
APs: 14 AP Exams (twelve 5s, two 4s)
High School GPA: 94.3
High School Rank: 56/578
Demographics: White Male</p>
<p>College Extracurriculars: Policy Debate Team (President), Teach debate and public speaking skills in a major NYC prison, Roosevelt Institute, College Democrats</p>
<p>Work Experience: Coach top-5 high school debate team, Founded (and am vice-president of) a nonprofit organization that provides free debate education to students at economically struggling schools, lecture at multiple summer debate institutes, summer internship at congressmans office, summer internship at marketing agency</p>
<p>High School Extracurriculars: Debate Team (Captain), Literary Magazine, Mu Alpha Theta Math Honors Society, National Honor Society</p>
<p>College Awards: Deans List, University Leadership Honors Course, Degree of Distinction - National Forensic League (Coach), Merit Scholarship</p>
<p>High School Awards: National Council of Teachers of English Achievement Award in Writing, National Merit Finalist, Degree of Outstanding Distinction - National Forensic League (Competitor), AP Scholar with Distinction</p>
<p>Recommendations: One is amazingthe best possible recommendation I could have wished for, and the other is very good.</p>
<p>Essays: My essays for why I want to transfer are excellent. My personal essays are less superb Im not very good at writing really personal papers. Theyre not bad… theyre just not amazing.</p>
<p>Other: Received interview for Harvard.</p>
<p>Can some accepted people please post stats?</p>
<p>I still haven’t received any email from Yale. :S Anyone in a similar situation?</p>
<p>I doubt they were significantly more impressive than yours, outhere. Your profile looks extremely comparable to nvilla’s, who was accepted last year.</p>
<p>Also rejected, but does anyone find it interesting that the size of Yale’s applicant pool went from 811, down to 704, then back up to 1040? Anyone else think Harvard’s reinstatement of its transfer program carried some straphangers in its tailwind?</p>
<p>Out of curiosity, does Yale have a transfer waitlist? While it’s presumptuous to assume anything about this admissions game, I was really hoping to be at least waitlisted, given other applicants’ stats and my Harvard waitlist.</p>
<p>I have no idea why it went up so sharply this year. Perhaps the Harvard theory makes sense? I’ll see if I can think of any other hypothesis… maybe something involving money at the start of the recession? But I doubt it.</p>
<p>According to last year’s thread, I think Yale does have a transfer waitlist.</p>
<p>Whatever. No use being bitter. Even though I probably will be… for a long time.</p>