<p>Decision: Deferred</p>
<p>Congrats to everyone who got in!!! I am super jealous of all of you but know you deserve it! To those rejected, I am sorry. To everyone else deferred- Keep your head up!!! Believe, it will all work out.</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown):N/A
[</em>] ACT:35
[<em>] SAT II: Math 2, Chem, World History 800’s
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): N/A
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Calc AB , Calc BC, World History, US History, Chemistry, All 5’s
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):N/A
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: Computational Physics, AP Biology, Band, AP English Lit, AP Computer Science, College Math - Multivariable Calculus and Intro to Probability and Statistics
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Siemens Semifinalist, RSI Alternate, NMSF, AP Scholar
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Research, Varsity Football, Quizbowl Team (Captain), Wikipedia Editor, Elementary School Mentor, Track and Field, Environmental club(Committee Leader), Marching Band (Section Leader), Relay for Life (Captain)
[<em>] Job/Work Experience:Lab Research
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service:Mentoring/Lab Research/Wikipedia
[<em>] Summer Activities:Lab Research, Football
[</em>] Essays:They were ok, I made a mistake and didn’t send the one that ended up being my best.
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: One was average, didn’t see others.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Waived
[<em>] Additional Rec: From Prof, didn’t see
[</em>] Interview: Was awesome, really cool, young interviewer who was relatable.
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: No
[</em>] Intended Major:Chemistry
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant):MI
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[<em>] Gender: M
[</em>] Income Bracket: 200,000+
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Got a 34 ACT in 8th Grade?
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: Test Scores, GPA, Took most rigorous courses I could
[<em>] Weaknesses: EC’s, Essays
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: Who knows? I’m proof that regular people can get in too.
[/ul]General Comments:</p>
<p>To all deferees: I’m probably not going to Yale…so one more person on the waitlist might get in! So don’t give up hope if you’re waitlisted.</p>
<p>Decision: Deferred</p>
<p>Objective:
•SAT I (breakdown):
•ACT:33
•SAT II:
•Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.96
•Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): school doesn’t rank… top 1%
•AP (place score in parenthesis): 6 5’s 1 4
•IB (place score in parenthesis):N/A
•Senior Year Course Load: lots of AP’s
•Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Intel Isef 4th award in EVS, as well as other international science awards, teen leadership awards for starting an organization
Subjective:
•Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): 3 years of research in school lab and at ucsd, president of a community service/teen leadership council, plan a day every year for county wide community service in which over 1000 people participate, founded a program called homework buddies in which we tutor economically disabled and learning dsabled students for free, president of the awkward dance club, captain of varsity tennis team for all 4 years
-•Job/Work Experience: intern and tutor
•Volunteer/Community service: see above
•Summer Activities: research and camp counselor
-•Essays: common app was pretty great, yale supplement was very emotional but could have been more substantial
•Teacher Recommendation: one said it was amazing, the other should be pretty good, haven’t read
•Counselor Rec: amazinng
•Additional Rec: N/A
•Interview: went pretty well- told me it doesnt effect decisions, except if I were to “kick him in the balls”. yeah he was only 26
Other
•Applied for Financial Aid?: Nope
•Intended Major: geophysics
•State (if domestic applicant): CA
•Country (if international applicant):
•School Type: small private
•Ethnicity: White/Jewish
•Gender: male
•Income Bracket: wealthy but not like library status
•Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): lol i wish
Reflection
•Strengths: science research and awards, community service
•Weaknesses: test score, non-competitive school
•Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: i have no clue- but the people that got in deserve it. I am very unhooked. Really wanted intel to push me through.
General Comments: Congratz to those who got in. I had a sliver of hope, but its gone now! Hopefully I’ll end up at the place I am supposed to be at, whether that’s Yale or not.</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2390, didnt send
[</em>] ACT: 36
[<em>] SAT II: 800 Math II, 790 Literature, 780 Biology
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): One B away from a 4.0<br>
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 6/307
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis):
APUSH (5)
Calc AB (5)
Biology (5)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): whats an IB? lol
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP English Lit, AP Chem, AP Calc BC, Honors Spanish IV, Foods, Band
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): um. NMSF, AP Scholar
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars:<br>
Cross Country/Track: 4 years varsity, captain, MVP, leadership award, sectional qualifier, all conference, many medals; nowhere near recruitable though
Music: Marching band, concert band, pep band, jazz band, section leader, first chair, competitions, etc. Also have played piano for 9 years (but didnt send arts supplement)
Martial arts: big one. 10 years, and Ive been a black belt/Sensei for 2 years and teach classes. Wrote my CA short answer about it.
National Honor Society: 2 years, President, about 60 hours last year. Mentioned service projects Ive organized. A lot of tutoring volunteering.
Academic team: 4 years varsity starter, captain, won some tournaments.
Math team: 4 years, captain, won a lot of competitions and went to state but didnt place all 3 years.
Student council: 4 years representative.
Other stuff like operation click, varsity club, culinary arts club, etc that I didnt put on my app but my counselor may have mentioned.
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: none
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: only NHS stuff
[<em>] Summer Activities: running hundreds of miles, summer school, reading, relaxing
[</em>] Essays: Common app essay was original, but I think it could have been better. Yale supplement was meh. Im a harsh critic of my own writing though.
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation:
Teacher 1: Probably awesome, great teacher who knows me really well.
Teacher 2: Favorite teacher who really likes me, but hes old and it was pretty generic.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Probably great. He loves me. However, he doesnt know much about top colleges.
[<em>] Additional Rec: none
[</em>] Interview: none
thats what happens when you submit your app on November 3rd
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
[</em>] Intended Major: Science
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): Illinois
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Lovable but underachieving suburban public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Pale white
[<em>] Gender: Female
[</em>] Income Bracket: 120k-140k
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: scores, grades, vast amount of extracurriculars
[<em>] Weaknesses: who knows what admissions officers think?
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: I dont know. I was expecting deferral.
[/ul]General Comments:
Congrats to everyone accepted and good luck to all! Everyone here looks absolutely amazing and I know youll all be accepted to great colleges.
A lot of my anxiety has been alleviated but Ive still got 7 apps to finish over break :)</p>
<p>rejected, and the reason is my essays. also I’m asian, probably overrepresented?</p>
<p>ACCEPTED! 
Reading the stats of those deferred/rejected makes me feel almost guilty in comparison. All of you please know that you’re amazing, and I am impressed by each and every one of you.</p>
<p>Decision: Deferred</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): Didn’t send
[</em>] ACT: 36 (36/36/35/36/8)
[<em>] SAT II: Didn’t send
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0 (~4.3 weighted)
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): School Doesn’t Rank
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Environmental Science (4) US History (4)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): N/a
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Music Theory, Orchestra 5H, AP Japanese, AP Literature, Gov/Econ (required courses, school doesn’t offer AP), AP Biology, Advanced Jazz Ensemble
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Semifinalist, School District Scholar of Distinction every semester since 9th grade (for straight A’s -shrug-)
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
Marching Band (Drum Major, 12; Baritone Family Leader/Leadership Team, 11), Orchestra (Switched to bass, 9; Principal bassist, 10-12), Jazz Band (""Bass, Advanced group 10-12), Track & Field (during school year & over summer, no leadership but I’m a hurdler and high jumper)
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Private bass teacher to 2 students, 11-12
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: (names of specific programs left out for identity reasons) NCL - mother-daughter philanthropy organization, 25+ hours of community service/year (have been Treasurer, Cultural Chair, VP of Activities); Volunteering at local Middle School music department, ~1 hour/week, every week of the school year; Student-run suicide-prevention organization that presents to freshman health classes at school
[<em>] Summer Activities: Family/school travel. Austria/Switzerland Germany with school orchestra; England/Norway with family; stayed home summer before Senior to take community college classes so I could take Music Theory during the school year and prepare for drum major duties
[</em>] Essays: common app long: wrote about middle school music teacher’s influence on my wanting to teach music; common app short: wrote about impact of suicide prevention organization; Yale supplement: wrote about love of puzzles and public transportation (heavily influenced by family summer travel) for long essay, short answers showed my personality
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: At least decent; they both liked me
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Glowing! She was fighting so hard for me c:
[<em>] Additional Rec: None
[</em>] Interview: Didn’t get one
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Nope (wouldn’t have gotten any)
[</em>] Intended Major: Music
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): California
[</em>] Country (if international applicant): n/a
[<em>] School Type: Super Competitive Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Hispanic (Portuguese)
[<em>] Gender: Female
[</em>] Income Bracket: 200k+
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): URM? but very little evidence of it.
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: Obvious dedication to music, Test scores
[<em>] Weaknesses: Not the highest GPA, lack of (productive) summer activities
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: It’s a total crapshoot. Just glad I wasn’t rejected.
[/ul]General Comments:
Congrats to all who got in! I’m feeling a tad lost, but I’m hopeful for the future. If I had gotten in I would have only applied to one other school, so maybe this is a sign I’m meant to go somewhere else. And to any underclassmen on this forum, remember that test scores aren’t everything and that it’s all up to chance after a certain point! Fingers crossed for regular decision, but I’m still hopeful. c:</p>
<p>I planned myself for this (by not doing any of my other college essays, of course).</p>
<p>Decision: Deferred</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2390 (790 CR)
[</em>] ACT: n/a
[<em>] SAT II: 750-800 Math, Chemistry, US History, Biology, Chinese
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.93
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): ~10%
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Calculus BC, US History, Music Theory (4), Human Geography, Biology, Computer Science, Chinese
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): n/a
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: Choir, Law, AP Macroeconomics, AP Stats, AP Lit., AP Spanish, AP Chemistry
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Nothing, because I’m pretty lazy!
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): School Toastmasters (Founder), MUN (Treasurer)
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Yale lab research, Stanford clinical research
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: Caring for children in hospitals, tutoring at school
[<em>] Summer Activities: Brown summer program
[</em>] Essays: One about my interest in science, one about personal experience with death, one about creativity–all were decent, but I could write better
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: I believe one should be good, other I have no idea
[</em>] Counselor Rec: No idea
[<em>] Additional Rec: Professor from Yale; didn’t know him as well as I could have
[</em>] Interview: Almost too late because my interviewer was out of town until the Monday on the week the interview reports were due; otherwise went normal
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: No
[</em>] Intended Major: Biological sciences
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): California
[</em>] Country (if international applicant): n/a
[<em>] School Type: Public, highly-competitive
[</em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Income Bracket: 200,000+
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): n/a
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: Not much–perhaps my SAT score, my essays, and a few of my recommendations
[<em>] Weaknesses: I have no idea how some of my recommendations were (my teacher has a habit of turning them in on the day they are due), I didn’t fully like my essays, I didn’t revise my essays enough, I turned my application on the 28th, my interview was harried and nearly late (and I didn’t sleep the night before), I didn’t project myself as someone at the caliber that Yale students usually are, lack of awards (though I don’t think that that matters that much), relatively low GPA (but I did get 4.0 in junior year)
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: I wasn’t very pleased with my application overall. It needed more coherence and impact.
[/ul]General Comments: If you were accepted, deferred, or rejected, you probably know why. The only thing to do now is to rethink, reassess, and then finish with a flair! Don’t give up no matter what the results are: no one got anywhere with only hope.</p>
<p>Accepted! Stats soon.</p>
<p>So Far…
Accepted: 4
Deferred: 12
Rejected: 1
23% acceptance rate so far. MUCH lower than Harvard and Princeton
Post stats or your decision didn’t happen. I wont tally post that doesn’t show any of their stats for legitimacy reasons.</p>
<p>Interesting: the “deferreds” here have much better stats and talents than the admits over on the Harvard thread?!</p>
<p>deferred. Congrats acceptees !
I don’t do stats :)</p>
<p>Decision: Rejected
The big redness just seems so doom & gloom…</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): Low 700s.
[</em>] SAT II: 780 US History, 650 Spanish w/ Listening
[<em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.7
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): No rankings
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): Econ SL, History HL, Literature HL, Spanish SL, Physics HL, Math SL
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: Full IB.
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Ice hockey (co-captain), Feminist Union (vice pres)
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: None
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: Special Needs Hockey (coach), State Sled Hockey (co-founder, organizer)
[</em>] Summer Activities: Camp counseling, leadership seminars
[<em>] Essays: Pretty good (if I do say so myself…) One about saving our local ice rink, another about lessons I’ve learned as the sister of someone with a disability.
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: I’m sure they were nice.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: A new guy, so probably not that personal, but I imagine was okay.
[</em>] Interview: Fairly well.
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
[</em>] Intended Major: Political Science
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): West coast
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: White/Puerto Rican
[</em>] Gender: Female
[<em>] Income Bracket: Middle Class
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): URM
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Essays, recs, leadership all over the place
[</em>] Weaknesses: GPA, SAT 
[li] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: Grades and SAT. [/li][/ul]</p>
<p>Good luck to all! Very excited for the admits :D</p>
<p>Yeah… honestly
Why was the Yale pool so talented!?
Just kidding - I love you all…
/deferredapplicant</p>
<p>Deferred… don’t feel like posting up all my stats in format, but basically 2290 SAT 800 and 740 for subject tests, 4.0 (Rank 1/400), Asian Male, AP Scholar with Distinction/National Commended, for ECs basically a lot of state level orchestra/solo stuff, nuclear fusion reactor work, semifinalist in a national essay contest, plus Key Club/NHS</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:
•SAT I (breakdown):2380 (780CR,800M,800W)
•ACT:35
•SAT II: 800,790,780 : math2, chem, bio
•Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.91, 4.21 wtd
•Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): DNR
•AP (place score in parenthesis): 5 AP classes with all 5s (Eng lang, span, AB, chem, bio)
•IB (place score in parenthesis):N/A
•Senior Year Course Load: AP Eng Lit, AP Calc BC, AP Physics, English, Creative Writing, Ethics, Film Production, Acting, Dance
•Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): NMSF, AP Scholar with Distinction, Gold Medal Level 4 national spanish exam, gold medal level 3 national spanish exam
Subjective:
•Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): a ton, but only listed a few on the app: plays/musicals - actor, director; film production; dance; spirit squad; video journalism
•Job/Work Experience: Production assistant at a Commerical Production Company; Acting instuctor at Summer Acting Camp; paid acting role
•Volunteer/Community service: Taught English in China
•Summer Activities:Advanced Film Production course; plus items above
•Essays:Wrote in narrative style rather than analytical style: 1 on abandonment and independence, 1 on inspirations and ideas for films
•Teacher Recommendation: 1 from english, 1 from spanish; didn’t see
•Counselor Rec:
•Additional Rec: 1 from teacher of many classes of acting, film history, musicals, spirit squad; also submitted an arts supplement of a short film that I made.
•Interview: good match up; was a writer for TV
Other
•Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
•Intended Major:Theater Studies
•State (if domestic applicant):CA
•Country (if international applicant):
•School Type: Small private in Los Angeles area, sends 25% to ivies,S,MIT,Caltech, 20% of my class are NMSF
•Ethnicity: not URM
•Gender: F
•Income Bracket: >200,000
•Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none
•Strengths: critical thinking and analysis are my strengths, but creativity is my passion
•Weaknesses: lack of leadership (except director of plays)
•Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: known private school that sends strong students to Yale; limited my laundry list of ECs to keep it focused on creative endeavors
General Comments:</p>
<p>How did Snipersas not get accepted? It is so wrong.</p>
<p>Decision: Deferred
Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): First: 2060 (CR690, M660, W710) Second: 2230 (CR710, M790, W730)
[</em>] ACT: First: 32 (E29/M30/R33/S36/E10) Second: 34 (E36/M33/R36/S31/E11)
[<em>] SAT II: 720 Math I, 710 Bio M
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.13
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 2/278
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): World History - 3
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): All being taken in May
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: Band, IB Eng A1 HL, IB Bio SL, IB Span B HL, IB Math SL, IB ToK, IB HoA HL, IB Music SL, IB Mentoring, Economics
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Hispanic Scholar and National Merit Commended (first in my school in A WHILE).
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): (Drumline and all percussion endeavors in the Band), (Mu Alpha Theta Founder and Pres), History Club, Model UN, NHS, Interact Club
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Some with family business
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: 100+
[<em>] Summer Activities: Duke TiP from 2007 - 2010, Minority Introduction to Engineering and Science (MITES) in 2011, Dartmouth Bound in 2011
[</em>] Essays: Loved the first one. About my father and unique circumstances. Very bold and emotional in my eyes. My second was pretty great (my favorite but liked less than the other). Why Yale was great I think. I liked all but one of my Short Takes.
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Amazing from English (probably all bests based on previous recs. Old Bio teacher may have been excellent as well. IDK for sure, I didn’t see them.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: I don’t know. No clue in the slightest.
[<em>] Additional Rec: N/A
[</em>] Interview:
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
[</em>] Intended Major: Biology: Cellular, Molecular, and Developmental
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): TX
[</em>] School Type: Inner-city Public in an underfunded and “Academically Unacceptable” (according to TEA) campus
[<em>] Ethnicity: Hispanic, roots from Mexico
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] Income Bracket: Under the cutoff for full aid.
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): URM, First in a TRUE college (Dad dropped out and mom has a license but not a degree)
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Writing, scores relative to location, doing as much as I can in my school, summer programs.
[</em>] Weaknesses: Lack of EC and leadership positions, “low scores” in the applicant pool imo
[li] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: terrible sat ii, terrible person? etc[/li][/ul]General Comments:
I’m so hurt. All my friends got in early to Yale and Harvard and not me. People with lower scores got in and not me. Why?
I’m so hurt it doesn’t even make sense.</p>
<p>I got in!!! Will do the stats later, I’m so happy for everyone that didn’t get in: good luck in the RD! remember, this is somewhat of a lottery</p>
<p>Deferred.</p>
<p>Congrats to all who got in.</p>