<p>Did you also get rejected?</p>
<p>I never got to read his essays, but apparently one was a humorous essay about some of the more eccentric members of my husband's family and the other was a more serious essay about his summer internship experience at a lab. The essays may not have been masterpieces, but he's quite a good writer. I doubt that they were the problem.</p>
<p>To be honest, we really goofed. We were under the impression that my son needed one science/math teacher and one humanities teacher to write the rec's. And unfortunately, both his junior year physics and math teachers had left the school. My son foolishly neglected to ask his drama director, a Yale alumnus, who would have given him a sterling recommendation. </p>
<p>Anyway, Yale is ancient history for us. As this drama teacher told my son, "Yale doesn't deserve you." </p>
<p>Good luck to the rest of you.</p>
<p>Ellen</p>
<p>ACCEPTED!!!! </p>
<p>Stats:
SAT: 790 CR, 800 M, 790 W
SAT IIs:770 Bio-M, 800 M-II, 760-Physics
GPA:4.0 unweighted
Rank:1 of 168
APs: 5s on Bio, Calc BC, Phys-B, and Eng Lang.</p>
<p>Other stats:
Subjective:
Essays: Original, not excellent, but strong
Teacher Recs:Very strong, prob. tipped the scales
Counselor Rec: Not sure
Hook (if any): </p>
<p>Location/Person:
State or Country:MD
School Type:Public
Ethnicity: South Asian
Gender: M</p>
<p>Other Factors:
SGA President, Academic Team Captain, County SGA Parliamentarian, selected for a Leadership course taught at local CC, participant in the 2002 National Spelling Bee.</p>
<p>General Comments: still in a state of shock- been checking the admission site hourly to make sure. Euphoric</p>
<p>Decision: DEFERRED</p>
<p>Stats:
SAT: (2270) 700M, 770CR, 800W
SAT IIs:710 Lit, 770 US, 780 French
GPA:3.97
Rank:1/62</p>
<p>Other stats: I won the National French Contest regionally 2003, 2004, 2005. In 2004 I also had first nationally. I got first place in the National Spanish Exam (bilingual section) in 2005.
Subjective:
Essays: I thought they were good.
Teacher Recs: One from a Yale alum who thinks I'm the best thing since sliced bread. The other was ok, I guess.
Counselor Rec: Probably not that great. I've only known her 4 months.
Hook (if any): I guess I didn't have one. </p>
<p>Location/Person:
State or Country: MO
School Type:Private, Catholic, all-girls
Ethnicity: Hispanic (Peruvian)
Gender: Female</p>
<p>Other Factors: I think I was counted as an International student although I've lived in the US for 12 years because I'm neither a citizen nor resident yet. Also, Peru recently sued Yale. Maybe that had something to do with it. </p>
<p>General Comments: It's too bad and I was disappointed, but life moves on. Plus, I'm not rejected.</p>
<p>*Decision: Deffered *</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] Fee Waiver Used?: no
[</em>] SAT I (by section): 2210, 770v, 730m, 710w
[<em>] SAT IIs: 780 bio e, 720 bio m, 700 math 2
[</em>] ACT: didn't take it
[<em>] APs: 5 on us hist, psych and bio
[</em>] IBs: didn't take it
[<em>] GPA, Weighted and Unweighted: 4.6 weighted, idk unweighted
[</em>] Rank: school doesn't rank. top 10-5%
[<em>] Senior Yr Courseload: all aps
[</em>] Number of Apps from Your School: 7 competitive ones i know of
[<em>] Other stats: national honor society, national merit commended scholar, lots of band competitions etc, leadership at the red cross. ap scholar... and others.
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] ECs listed on app: wind ensemble, clarinet choir, saferides/redcross, model un, and some others i forget
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: i tutor almost every day, summer jobs at offices, various other things here and there.
[</em>] Essays (subject and responses): i thought they were pretty good, one was on solidarity found at a concert venue, the other was finding the house my grandfather built 30 yrs ago
[<em>] Teacher Recs: probably excellent, i didn't read it but both my teachers loved me
[</em>] Counselor Rec: probably also very good, she used to be an admissions officer at BC, so she knows what they're looking for
[<em>] Interview (feel and general location): the house of the interviewer. i thought it was a good interview and knew he would write me a good one since he's my dad's friend.
[</em>] Hook (if any): double legacy- with brother currently attending. but i didn't cure cancer or anything. dedicated to instruments. (but who isnt)
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: connecticut
[</em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): large public school, um. pretty competitive in the upper echelons
[<em>] Ethnicity: asian american
[</em>] Income Bracket: middle
[<em>] Gender: female
[</em>] Hooks: see above
[<em>] Strengths/Weaknesses: um, i don't know. i view myself as a strong candidate and do everything i can to make my application as strong as possible. maybe the essays, but it's hard to say what makes a good essay.
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: only 6 people have been accepted to yale from my school in the past 4 years
[/ul]Other Factors: um. none, i have no idea
General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc:
one girl got in at our school, and the rest got deffered. i have no idea why she was chosen out of all the others, but honestly, we are all qualified. oh well. 4 more months...</p>
<p>What school cellardoor? loom?</p>
<p>loomis chaffee? no... public school in so. western ct.</p>
<p>uh... sorry i meant loomiere holt, it's public in southern ct (i think). so obviosly not.</p>
<p> Decision: DEFFERED :( (SOMEBODY HELP)</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: Old: 1540/1600 (740CR, 800M)
[</em>] SAT IIs: 2400/2400 (800Phy, 800 Maths2C, 800 Writing)
[<em>] Rank: top 1% out of 969 students
[</em>] Other stats: Class grades: 91% in grade 10th, 88% in 11th
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: Good ( I think)
[</em>] Teacher Recs: V Good
[li] Counselor Rec: V Good</p>[/li]
<p>[<em>] ECs: Published AUTHOR, National YMCA REPRESENTATIVE, school EDITOR, class monitor (3 grades), lots of social service and more
[</em>] Work experience: (Summer only) Programmer/Animator with a software company, Sales assistant in comp showroom
[<em>] Hooks: LEGECY
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] INTERNATIONAL Applicant
[<em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[</em>] Gender: M
[/ul]Other Factors:
General Comments: Gheez, I mean what are they looking for? A girl from my school got in with much lower grades n scores.</p>
<p>for those familiar with the Long Island area--</p>
<p>6 got in EA from Ward Melville (not sure how many applied though)</p>
<p>does anyone know how many got in EA from california?</p>
<p>97 +/- 3 or so in case I counted a few kids twice.</p>
<p>Yeah, I got 99.</p>
<p>i just wanna go to yale. </p>
<p>haha i have dreams about yale everyday since i was deferred. its kinda sick actually. i dreamt last night that i didnt get in becuase i didnt submit a supplememtal essay. and then in the next part of my dream i did a clown collage with a caption saying " im a beleiver" or something and i got in. i got excited for a while but then i realized in my dream that i was dreaming...</p>
<p>haha i have to face like 8 other applications now.... :(</p>
<p>Yeah, I'm confused, I live on Long Island but the blue marble only lists 1 or 2 people from Ward Melville. I thought it would list all acceptees and then just call the ones who never set up a profile "admitted student". I guess it only lists people who have visited the website? But even that doesn't make sense. Wouldn't everyone that was accepted visit the site at least once?</p>
<p>the website lists 5 kids from ward melville...</p>
<p>Idk well mine doesn't. I have one person whose name is given and then 2 admitted students who could go there cause the distances are similar.</p>
<p>Edit: They only listed 25 people within 100 miles of me, maybe they select those 25 randomly.</p>
<p>Yeah the same for me when I search Yalies in my hometown I don't get all of them, but when I search manually, I see all eight bajillion. :D</p>
<p>Ok it's settled. I thought it would be common sense to list the 25 people that live CLOSEST to you. Apparenty the Larned proffessors at Yale are too smart for that.</p>
<p>hahahah. That whole Larned thing threw me through a loop.</p>