<p>Shoot for the stars - when you miss and land on concrete, it will REALLY hurt.</p>
<p>I just felt like writing something random tonight. Kidding by the way</p>
<p>[YouTube</a> - Angry kid burns college rejection letters](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLYj5D0g2TY]YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLYj5D0g2TY)</p>
<p>take a look at this clip. for fun though</p>
<p>i appreciate your concern, and agree - but i think that college should be primarily a happy experience, and should be so rather naturally. for me, that is not the case, and those reasons cannot be reduced to simple explanatory data. many of them are probably unknown even to me.</p>
<p>aesthetic - it’s a deceptive word. but without going into that, simply - i think i will be actually be happy at brown. i don’t think it’s necessary for me to articulate why that is for me to justify my transferring. yes, i <em>could</em> try and shape my experience at yale into something positive…for me, that requires knowledge of what exactly isn’t working for me, and that doesn’t seem really possible. all i know is, i’m sick of new haven, and providence seems to be a fantastic place for me.</p>
<p>edit: gobackto2005, it does sound really awesome! it’s not available for transfers though. :(</p>
<p>aubeardsley, it’s awesome that you realize that all schools have their faults and that certain places can only best emphasize their comparative advantages. Yale was the founder in the movement that I’m looking at, although the most active individuals in it probably belong to Columbia. I guess my point is that when I talk about “prestige hunting,” I only wonder why people apply to such a wide spread of places without consideration of the unique benefits of each school (I guess it’s different if you emphasize one place, and just throw in an application for another). Situations where people apply to both Columbia and Dartmouth, for instance, have me scratching my head. But you’re right in saying that this phenomenon is not isolated, and it’s entirely unfair to call one specific person out for it.</p>
<p>TA, I have to say that that is rather idealistic. We oftentimes forget the impact that our environment has on us (after all, IQ is largely influenced by our environment). Lord knows how many times I’ve seen freshmen come into college with the attitude of, “My name is ____, and I’m going to revolutionize this ****!” But of course, we all know this never happens, and if there’s something that I’ve come to realize, it’s that change comes very slowly and with a lot of work (and that every step of the way is totally worth it!). For example, my school used to be a hostile place for women, but now the situation is getting better and better every year.</p>
<p>aubeard, I think you will like Brown. The physical geography was never really a factor in my decision making (much less so than the type of people who attend a particular school), but I know that Brown students are generally very chill, and not too gung-ho about certain trivialities. They are also not as grades focused as the people from my school or HYP. I think the Open Curriculum and P/F allow for that type of structure. However, Brown is also less of a forum for intellectual discourse than I would like (it is far too liberal, and oftentimes comes off as intolerant of conservative ideas) but it is also less imposing. I suppose if that floats your boat, then I wish you the very best of luck.</p>
<p>When exactly we can find out if we are accepted in Yale!
I´m sofocating hereeeeeeeeee</p>
<p>We’ll all find out on the second week of may</p>
<p>/bookmarks this thread :p</p>
<p>…iam of the belief that unless u invent wireless electricity u don’t have a chance with transfers there …but hey s-h-i-t happens if it was meant to be then it shall,take it from a person whom from the most humble of beginnings in africa now all of a sudden is poised to attend a USnews/times top 100 college come fall and thats a huge thing :D…if u dont then start taking fate and destiny as one of the forces that influence outcome coz that way no matter the end result the future has a way of always appearing promising 
for example,i grant that if david remnicks got into HBS you wouldnt have heard of the new york times same with scott mcnealy founder of sun microsystems and yes the famous warren buffet too wouldn’t be where he is today if he got into HBS,something that he himself acknowledges
…just thought i should put that out here coz statistically speaking you guys have a better shot at chewing green grass into white milk than getting in,so expect anything but dont despair as its all meant to be all for a better and bigger purpose…</p>
<p>best of luck still…</p>
<p>well said Sez. Hope you’re applying to Yale. I hope we will give testimonies of our moment of elation after receiving our admission letters</p>
<p>Hey guys - anybody that had missing documents receive confirmation from Marianne yet that their file is complete??</p>
<p>stweartudall
just call to check. my file was complete but they didnt email me. I got the confirmation after calling them. :)</p>
<p>Thanks goback - I appreciate it. Decision time is nearrrr</p>
<p>yeah, I set a countdown on my desktop. 
well good luck everybody!! no matter the notifications from yale or other great schools, I hope they will be all good news!</p>
<p>dont yale have a reputation of picking top colleges for transfer?</p>
<p>I don’t think that Yale considers your college when you are transferring. Its all about how outstanding your application is.</p>
<p>How can you make your application outstanding?</p>
<p>…go to deep springs college.</p>
<p>As you guys may well be aware,
Yale can pack its student body with kids who have perfect stats (4.0, 2400) and multiple pages of EC activities. I think, at this point, at least for transfers, it’s important how YOU will benefit Yale as a transfer applicant. Someone mentioned this in past threads, but if you could bring great publicity to Yale, that’s a plus-plus. Also, if your parents can donate money, also a plus-plus.</p>
<p>An outstanding application includes almost perfect GPA and standardized test scores. It also includes a very compelling application essay that explains why Yale would significantly benefit the applicant and the reciprocal.</p>
<p>^ what he said. college admissions is about 75% chance, in my opinion.</p>
<p>“The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose”-- Kahlil Gibran</p>
<p>Either way, Yale is sending us all flowers. optimists see the head, and others see the tail --or stem. If you can’t dare to hope to get the head, then why should you get it? There is no pessimistically justifiable answer to this question. So I guess it’s safe to say that optimists and pessimists live in different worlds. “Pessimists chose not to express hope in reality, but they are able to hope in their dreams. Optimists hope in both realms”–TransferAccepted</p>