<p>Y’all are getting decisions today??? Now I’m really going to be spending the rest of my day glued to my email…I’m expecting a rejection, but I did get a request for my winter quarter grades about a month ago which gave me a little hope for at least a waitlist…we will see.</p>
<p>Waitlisted. </p>
<p>Does anyone know the statistics of how many students are generally on Yale’s transfer waitlist and how many are admitted off the waitlist? I can’t imagine more than a couple would be admitted off of it when only 30 were accepted from the entire applicant pool.</p>
<p>I’m in!!! I feel like I’m dreaming. Congrats to all who got in, and best of luck to anyone who’s still making a decision. </p>
<p>@cj2017 Wow!!! Congratulations! It’s really impressive!</p>
<p>rej. congrats to the admits.</p>
<p>OK. My brain has ceased functioning. I’m done. Really. Good night. My ceaseless pain has ended. I think I need a drink. Or sleep.</p>
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<p>Dear CeaselessPain,</p>
<p>Congratulations! I am delighted to inform you that your admission to Yale College as a transfer student has been approved. Your formal admissions packet will be mailed to you tomorrow morning, and it will include the official letter of admission as well as information regarding the number of credits you have been granted. If you applied for financial aid, you will also receive a letter from the financial aid office with your admissions packet. You have until Wednesday, May 28th to respond to our offer of admission.</p>
<p>Unless you email me otherwise by 10:30 am (eastern standard time) tomorrow (5/9/2014), we will mail your admissions packet to…</p>
<p>Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. I hope to see you on campus this fall. </p>
<p>P.S. I know you are interested in studying - at Yale, so please be sure to visit the - website at…</p>
<p>Patricia Wei
Director of Admissions for the
Transfer and Eli Whitney programs
Office of Undergraduate Admissions
Yale University
203-432-9316 <a href=“http://admissions.yale.edu/”>Home | Yale College Undergraduate Admissions;
<p>rejected</p>
<p>@cj2017 and @CeaselessPain, I cannot even begin to describe how happy I am for you, or how much my candidacy to Yale meant to me. I made the biggest mistake of my life by enrolling at Liberty University and then applying as a transfer student. I really do believe I was prejudged because of my choice of school, and despite my credentials, I will suffer as a result.</p>
<p>Best of luck to all you guys. I wish you all the best.</p>
<p>@KingofSweden if I’m not mistaken you’re still waiting on some schools! Best of luck, as you still have options! I wish the best for you and anyone else waiting on schools. Even if you don’t get where you want to be this year, there’s always next year and grad school. Try not to best yourself up too much–admissions are a crapshoot! Best of luck again, sincerely. </p>
<p>Admitted as well! really shouldn’t have checked my email while trying to study for finals, though… Now I just can’t focus at all!</p>
<p>Admitted.
I am still entirely in shock, I have been rejected from so many schools this year- schools so much less than Yale. Truly demonstrates the holistic review process Yale takes- but also, it’s such a lottery and I don’t know how I got so lucky.
I have never cried of happiness, and today I cried when I got the email. WOW. It’s been my dream since I was 10, I can barely form words or speak I am so thrilled.</p>
<p>Rejected and am devastated.
I guess it’s not the right place and the right time for me.
Theres alwas grad school!</p>
<p>Do any of the accepted students like @brigitr and @tothebark mind sharing what they thought were the strong points of their application, specifically perhaps their reasons for transferring/how they conveyed that in their essays? Rejected here but would love to learn how I can improve myself, thanks!</p>
<p>Rejected…sigh…i feel like every school is rejecting me. :(</p>
<p>Rejected as well, would love to hear about the applications of those who were accepted! </p>
<p>Sure, I can try to speak a little bit about my application. I don’t know how helpful I can be, because when I say I don’t know how I got in…I TRULY am shocked- I had to check my email again this morning when I woke up to make sure it wasn’t a dream.
I’ll talk a little about my essay topics and my extracurriculars, I guess? If you’d like my stats, I can also give you those, but I promise those will not help anyone.
My essays were all quite public service oriented- my absolute favorite essay that I wrote of all of my transfer essays went to Yale’s additional any topic essay. I wrote about growing up where I did, and the ways that it affected me- I focused on the public servants of my state, and also touched on the balance that it has instilled in me, (I am a triathlete and running a half marathon this summer) how I push myself to the limits mentally and physically nearly every day. I ended it by speaking about how I want to give back to the state that’s given me so much, and how Yale is the only school that can help me achieve that dream.
The rest of my package was very focused on what I’ve done that relates to my major (political science), and why my current school can’t fulfill that and Yale can. I looked into the department, found a few aspects that I’ve only found at Yale, and touched on those. I talked about internships, politics, public service, and my athletic “exploration”, essentially.
I also wrote an additional essay for extra comments (on the common app part) about my GPA and why it is the way it is- it felt tacky, but I tried to be as eloquent and not desperate plea to explain away bad grades as possible. I was a nontraditional high school student and so my transition to college was rough, but I made sure to stress the vast improvement I have shown since my first quarter.
Extracurriculars:
-Extremely involved in student government (committee chair in our Senate, planning student government elections, lots of committees, vice chair of a transportation committee that manages at $19 million contract)
-Tour guide
-Taught a class of 15 Honors freshmen in the fall of this year
-Interned in the Senate for my Senator last summer
-Row club crew/triathlons/running a marathon
-Competitive equestrian (especially in high school, I was a varsity athlete and worked full time for a horse trainer)
-Several other nonprofit political organization internships
-Tutored in a low-income elementary school, teaching 2-4th graders how to read (remedial reading classroom)</p>
<p>I also applied for freshman admission and was waitlisted and ultimately rejected. In my acceptance email, the final line (the “P.S.” that we all got), the Director of Admissions referenced how much she enjoyed reading my essays- and then mentioned something about working for a horse trainer, which was the focus of my freshman app package. I think they looked back over my application for first year admission and saw the passion I have conveyed for Yale. It has been my dream school since I was 10, and again, I believe that admissions to schools like this are 100% a lottery, essentially. 2% of applicants get in, and I know all of you here are extremely qualified. If you have any other questions, feel free to ask me. Sorry for that novel on my app!!!</p>
<p>I really don’t want to be one of “those” people, but does anyone have any advice? I was rejected and I really want to hold myself high and just say “that’s life” but I just haven’t been able to. If I’m perfectly honest I had a miserable freshman year. Went to one of the 2 schools I was accepted at (out of 10) and I gave it my all this year to get stuck in and make it work (my school has a ~19% acceptance rate, very academically challenging. I know that acceptance rate isn’t everything but suffice it to say that the school works its students hard).</p>
<p>The tail end of mono, clinical depression, constant struggles with a learning disability and no new friends later, I applied to Yale because I was absolutely in love with the school. After a really hard year, I told myself that no one had a the college experience I envisioned in my head as a naive high school senior and I should just deal with it. However, visiting my friend at Yale I realized I was wrong. That kind of college life does exist.</p>
<p>I threw so much time into my applications, meeting professors and talking about what yale had that my other school didnt have. And now it’s over. Rejected for the second time.</p>
<p>I think self pity is unproductive and that’s not why I posted here. I’m dissapointed, but the future is still ahead of me. I’m looking for advice. The idea of going back to my other school makes me feel ill. Does anyone have any advice for me as to what I should do next year? My only remaining option is a year off, but I don’t really know what I want to do yet professionally. Tbh I want to keep learning and taking classes, but my old school has absolutely nothing for me. Sure, it’s academics are great, but I made no friends and I just didn’t connect with the place that’s supposed to be “a great school”. I jumped into a huge number of extracurriculars and it didn’t work out.</p>
<p>TL;DR: Does anyone have advice for what I should do next year if college is off the the table? Though the thought of going through a 3rd round of applications seems almost comical, that seems to be my only option. What kind of things do you think will help me grow? How should I look at the college process the third time round? In the end, I just want to be happy at college and love where I go. </p>
<p>I’m sorry if I’m coming off as that whiny rejectee. I just know that you all understand the discomfort of being at a school that you don’t like, and seem to share my passion for Yale. I value any input you all have, and thanks for reading my whiny novel length post. I wish you all the best. </p>
<p>@unsureugrad, I am so sorry you’re feeling that way. I know exactly how you feel. My advice would be to work very hard to put yourself out there and meet new people. I’m not sure what type of people you’re looking for, but think of what you like and what that type of person would like and go do/seek out those things. Be active in creating and maintaining friendships, and don’t be afraid to be the initiator of hanging out. Good friends will make a world of difference. Also, if you can’t find extracurriculars you like, start one! I started a book club and had a great time. Put up flyers and let people know. </p>
<p>I will say that I don’t necessarily think that dropping out of school is the best option unless you have something good to do in the time off. If you plan to reapply next year that doesn’t look great. Also, interviews for jobs and whatnot will ask you what you did with your time off. Personally, I would try to change your mindset about your current school and dig in. If you really hate it, try study abroad. Then, if you’re still miserable after putting the thought of Yale behind you, you might want to reapply next year as a transfer to a host of schools, not just one. The admissions game really is a crap shoot. </p>
<p>Also, I might not be reading this correctly, but if you’re worried about your school being too academically challenging, then you would probably feel the same about Yale. If your school doesn’t have good classes for your major, that’s one thing, but if you just haven’t found the right fit with classes yet, don’t worry! Try to shop around until you find something you like. </p>
<p>Anyway I hope this has been helpful. If not, that’s just my two cents. Best of luck to you. </p>
<p>@cj2017 Hi! Thank you very very much for your advice. It’s really calming to hear someone to give such a level headed opinion on my situation. Just for the record, (I don’t think I did a great job explaining it) I haven’t found my current school too challenging. I actually have found the academics quite comfortable and I’ve made some fantastic connections with my professors, but because I’ve been so uncomfortable/unhappy there I don’t think I’ve actually done as well as I could have. Talking to my friends at Cornell, Yale and Brown, it seems like I’m doing pretty similar amounts of work to them, so I think I’m academically prepared for any school I look into (my grades have been mostly As with a few exceptions related to health issues). Unfortunately those exceptions may look like a big deal to an admissions officer.</p>
<p>I was concerned writing about my depression and aspects of my learning disability because I thought the admissions committees might see mental illness as a reason to turn me away (I guess it didn’t end up working out either way). I’ve been told that trying to explain away bad grades is not a good thing, but maybe that’s what I should’ve done.</p>
<p>I think your perspective seems really reasonable. I just really hated my last school. It’s internationally known and many would consider it very prestigious, and a lot of people think that I should like it there. It checks a lot of academic boxes, but honestly I’m miserable there and the people who go there just seem interested in getting a prestigious degree so they can make a lot of money, they don’t seem to love learning or academically exploring, which is what I think undergrad school is all about (which is why I loved Yale). I also tried to start a club and the club board at my school said a flat no, so that was a shame.</p>
<p>As for applications, I spent a ton of time looking at schools this year, but I only applied to 2 (Harvard and Yale) because they were the only 2 that I thought I would be happy at. They seemed to really value a liberal arts education without sacrificing things like engineering classes and graduate research (thinks that I haven’t found at liberal arts colleges). I just found out I got rejected from Harvard (not really that surprised).</p>
<p>However, I think your study abroad suggestion is a really really good one, something I hadn’t been thinking about. (Although I’m terrible at languages and like a lot of math and science so I’m not sure if that’ll work) Ultimately, I want to keep learning and taking classes, it’s just that for the sake of my own sanity I don’t think I could keep going to my current school. I want to keep working and taking hard courses to show that I can handle difficult course loads. Ultimately, I just want to have a good social group. Unfortunately because I have a learning disability that makes me a pretty weak socialite, maybe that’s why I had a hard time. Either way, I just want to learn and explore while being happy. Thanks again for your response. I wish you the best of luck!</p>
<p>Congrats to all that were accepted! I got rejected;/</p>