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Numbers-wise it’s a positive; the SCEA deferred applicants tend to have a few percentage points on the RD applicants when RD comes around.</p>
<p>^Do they really? I would it expect it to be the other way around.</p>
<p>Are there any reliable sources with these statistics?</p>
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<p>I don’t think the status of being SCEA deferred is a disadvantage or an advantage. They consider you in the same context as any regular applicant.</p>
<p>While I don’t have any numbers to back up ivyeic’s statement, I would think that the reason for a higher SCEA deferred acceptance rate is because the deferred applicants have already been “filtered” once, not necessarily because SCEA gives you an advantage.</p>
<p>^Yes, it’s unlikely that they look at you * more * favorably because you are a deferred candidate. Ivyeic may be correct about a higher acceptance rate, but that does not necessarily correlate with better chances.</p>
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That makes some sense, but the deferred pool also leaves out the kind of RD kids who would have gotten in outright SCEA.</p>
<p>^Proportionally, there are much fewer outright RD admits than those who are rejected.</p>
<p>9 days, painful hours, stinging minutes, and murderous seconds remaining.</p>
<p>. . . I accidentally inhaled half of my nose while trying to calm myself down.</p>
<p>Good luck to all.</p>
<p>This is too exciting :p</p>
<p>I should probably know this. But I just want to make sure.
We have to log on to Eli March 30th after what, 5pm? Or is it April 1st after 5pm? </p>
<p>I am excited WOOT! ^_^</p>
<p>"For Regular Decision Applicants to the Class of 2015
March 18, 2011</p>
<p>Decisions will be posted on our Admissions Decisions website <a href=“Application Management”>Application Management; on Wednesday, March 30th after 5 pm. Please note that you will need your Eli Account information to login to check your decision."</p>
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<p>Down to the single digits. Oh man.</p>
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<p>Ditto. It’s wretched, and I think it could easily tip me into the reject pile if I were lucky enough to be borderline.</p>
<p>I applied Yale SCEA and my supplement was pretty inferior, looking back, to my other supplements. Why Yale absolutely sucked… I talked about the architecture and crap. Gah.</p>
<p>I got into Rice today so even if I don’t get in I think I’ll be very very happy next year 
Also I just realized that all the schools I’ve gotten in to so far received the same 2 essays (which were sent to HYP as well) while the schools I haven’t gotten in to didn’t… correlation? This gives me hope…</p>
<p>The only thing that gives me slight comfort is that I used an even worse version of my supplement essay for my National Merit/Achievement essays and still managed to get a scholarship, but for all I know they focused more on my objective stats than the essay.</p>
<p>i dont think NMSC really looks at the essays (in order to advance to finalist, you really just need decent grades and you need to actually DO the stuff to get in haha)</p>
<p>I know they don’t do much for advancement to finalist, but I think they look at more to award the actual $2500.</p>
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<p>I got rejected there, too. ;)</p>
<p>Nooo Prussia now you’ve gotten my hopes up!</p>
<p>Hahaha aww sorry! But hey, you’re going to be elated or crushed that day anyway, it’s better to enjoy the days before with hope! Well, realistic hope, you know… Welllll, I mean, I don’t know, it is what it is. In the days leading up to decisions day, I just resigned myself to the likely fact that I’d see rejections across the board, and decided to be flattered by the possibility of waitlist offers.
And that pretty much was how it worked out! But, obviously, an unlikely acceptance snuck in there, and it happened to be the one with the most shocking presentation. I still have a screenshot of the singing bulldog page saved, hahaha.
But still, I think the best preparation is to prematurely “accept” that you (the general “you,” not you specifically of course, but as in anyone anxious about decision day, haha) were rejected at all the schools you haven’t heard from yet, and to truly imagine and realize where, of your acceptances, you will be happy and fit. Accept that that’s where you’ll probably be going, and be happy with it. Not fake-happy, not “oh, I’ll deal with it if it works out that way.” but really “hey, I could spend some of the best years of my life there, and I’m glad that that’s where I’ll be.” And just “give up” the schools that aren’t in your control. You can think about them, but try not to dwell on them, or forget how happy you can or will be at the school you know you can attend.
Personally, I accepted that I was going to Barnard. And I decided to be happy about it. Look into the school, the pictures, get excited about it. And I was! And it really helped; on decision day, it really did-- almost all the decisions I saw first were rejections (and I started checking with the so-called “lower tier” schools), and I was disappointed, but mostly unfazed. This was very different from many months prior, when I received my first rejection (and first college decision at all, for that matter!) from Stanford REA, with crushing disillusionment and sadness.
So STIFFEN THAT UPPER LIP, EVERYONE.</p>
<p>Sooo… Well, okay, yeah, I kind of went off there. But anyway, I don’t know; I think it’s just a personal journey everyone has to go through and deal with in their own way. Maybe some will do something similar to what I did, and react similarly, with similar or entirely different results; I’m sure many others will have a totally different plan of attack and subsequent reaction! It’s just kind of… A thing. Yep. That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it.</p>
<p>Good luck to all my potential broskis.</p>