<p>Generally, if you add up all the yields of HYSPM, you tend to get around 340 (this works very generally because these top schools tend to steal from each other because people often get into more than one of these schools - as one schools yield goes up, other goes down). So, with MIT, I would say that it should help other schools waitlists. Empirically, I know at least 5 of my friends that got into Yale that are choosing MIT (and much more including me that are turning it down for elsewhere other than MIT).</p>
<p>I keep trying to forget about Yale and just focus on where I’ve been accepted, but it’s too difficult. Anyone else having the same anxiety?</p>
<p>Just try to look for what motivates you of the other places where you got accepted, make up your mind towards that. That’s what many people say and I think they are right. Also (this is what I did) try to something that requires a lot of time and effort and makes you happy. I’m learning to play the piano and also taking private lessons on Polish language.
On another topic, does anyone know if the fin aid policy stays the same for “us” or would we get less award than the first accepted guys?</p>
<p>^Yale financial aid will remain the same whether you are accepted SCEA, RD, or via waitlist. Some years they have admitted 7% of the class through the waitlist and I cannot imagine any particular reason why taking people off the waitlist would significantly alter their anticipated FA budget. Yale is truly need blind and they are not going to cherry pick waitlist students that they anticipate will need no aid.</p>
<p>I don’t think you can infer anything about Yale’s yield based on MIT closing the waitlist. Most are expecting the yield will go up since H and P opened SCEA again but we’ll know soon enough.</p>
<p>OK thanks!! I asked because I’ve been told that this is not the case at some other colleges, but I already expected an answer like the one you just gave me, since I know that Yale has like a huge budget. It was just to be sure 
Thanks!</p>
<p>FWIW, my son was accepted from the wait llist last year and it did not affect his financial aid in any way. Yale is one of the most generous when it comes to financial aid, especially for the families under the $65K income level.</p>
<p>I too am a Yale waitlistee.</p>
<p>As far as my school goes (I know this may not reflect trends across the United States but) 5 out of 6 people accepted to Yale declined their spots. The trend seems to be that most kids opt for Stanford or MIT especially for science/engineering majors.
So if you were waitlisted on either of those niches, you may have a slight advantage over the rest of us. I know for a fact that Yale is desperate for good engineering/applied science people…but Yale probably overshot itself accepting kids who ultimately will go to Stanford/MIT or some other school with a much better engineering/science program. So there is a glimmer of hope in that…</p>
<p>I SIR’ed for Duke and am excited to attend Duke this fall but…eh nothing beats Yale.
I had a personal conflict with myself concerning whether I should keep my hopes high for Yale vs. focusing on the school I have now and being pumped up for that one.</p>
<p>Share some of your guys’ stories. I’m sure I’m not the only one with these anxieties.</p>
<p>Anyhow, let’s keep our fingers crossed and hold our breaths till June! (or whenever the things come out… does anyone know?)</p>
<p>I’m on the waitlist too! </p>
<p>I have mixed feeling about Yale though. I’ve SIR’ed at MIT but I’m not much of an engineering person. Rather, my interests is in math (very heavily in math, so MIT is great for that), economics (which is also much better at MIT than Yale…), but I intend on doing pre-med and am considering switching to bio-engineering just so it’d be easier to be pre-med (overlapped classes? Heck yes!) Course MIT’s bioeng is the best out of HYPSM… but I don’t know how much ranking really factors in for my opinions. I’ve heard great things about the Yale community (while MIT’s scare me), the dorming system, dining, people, spirit, etc, and I wouldn’t mind having happily inflated grades for pre-med (I know, bad reason, but it’s better than deflated grades by far). </p>
<p>I didn’t indicate any interest in engineering while applying to Yale though. It was all math and econ. I left my awesome Caltech engineering essay to rot… :C (I’ve done a few really cool engineering/science projects at my internship this past year) so Yale probably thinks I’m a silly math person. </p>
<p>I guess I’m not one of the anxious waitlistees. I’m just someone who knows she’s going to a great school, but isn’t sure if it’s the best one for her and she might not mind going to a slightly lower ranked school if it means she can be more at ease at her school. Perhaps it’d be easier if Yale just flat out rejects me xD 99% chance I’ll end up in Boston even if Yale takes me off the waitlist. Maybe I’m looking for closure. (please don’t hate me because of this :/)</p>
<p>Anyhow, I still anxiously checked this thread multiple times today since I recall from reading past Yale waitlist threads that some people were notified they were in around May 8th and 9th the last two years. </p>
<p>Then someone spam called my dad this afternoon from a 201 number and I was like “WHY NO 203?! D:”</p>
<p>Wow! MIT! congrats happyhappyme!</p>
<p>I am not familiar with the notification process for Yale waitlistees…
Is it via phone calls, emails, or letters?</p>
<p>Is the waitlist process on a rolling notification basis? like notifying “priority” candidates early and “less priority” candidates later?</p>
<p>Hmmm… May 8 and 9th for last two years… Looks like we’ll be hearing back from some of us soon!</p>
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Well I can tell you by my son’s experience that this is a myth. He is a rising sophomore and has yet to get an A in a single pre-med class (out of six). This is from someone who never had below an A- back in sixth grade (his only grade below an A in 12 years) and who scored a 35 on his ACT. This was a big blow to his ego. I don’t know where this belief came from and may be for for SS or Humanities majors, but not science. :o</p>
<p>Thanks lienad 
And congratz to you with Duke! </p>
<p>From the obsessing I’ve done over the older wailist threads, I’m pretty sure they call first and then send the corresponding letters (probably switch the account online too). I hear financial aid comes within the week and you’ll have a bit more than a week to respond? This is all I know from cc though…</p>
<p>Supposedly yield is supposed to go up everywhere so Yale probably is going to take far less than the 100 they took off the waitlist one recent year but hopefully they’ll notify us soon. Does anyone know where we can ask them? I don’t have time to call from the west coast…</p>
<p>Um, I’m assuming they contact everyone they want at first, see how those people respond and if the class is filled, then maybe ask more? I have no idea really.</p>
<p>Kdog, just silly clarifying question, but your son at Yale, right? Hmm… that’s quite interesting. And a bit discouraging maybe xD I would be taking my first four classes first semester, all general institute requirements and also pre-med reqs, under a pass/no-record system… Nah nothing is about grade grubbing. Just need to learn as much as possible when given the chance :)</p>
<p>Yes, he is at Yale and you can’t take pre-med classes P/F (at least if you want to go to med school) so that strategy wouldn’t work.</p>
<p>I hadn’t thought about that–that MIT is P/F for first term of fr year. Premeds generally take some requirements the first semester–so what does MIT or AMCAS do for grades for those classes??</p>
<p>Oh? Well, most people take at least three of math, chemistry, biology, and physics first semester and they are all requirements, even if only the most basic…</p>
<p>MIT indicates that classes taken P/F during fall of freshman year are accepted by medical schools but all other classes must be taken for grade. I don’t know if I would want to take a chance unless all the MS’s you are applying would take them. Here is what Rice says about P/F.</p>
<p>Q: Is it discouraged to take a class pass/fail?
Yes. Not only is it discouraged, we strongly recommend that medical school-bound students (professional school) take all courses for a grade, that includes courses that are not included in the pre-med requirements.There are a number of reasons for this stance.Many medical schools will not consider any pass/fail courses as fulfilling premedical requirements. Even in cases where there is no absolute prohibition, it is very inadvisable to take courses pass/fail.A “D” counts as a “Pass” in a pass/fail course, and a “D” is probably what skeptical admissions committee members will assume you deserved in the course.</p>
<p>Sorry to digress from the topic of this thread. :o</p>
<p>Did anyone hear of any calls yet?</p>
<p>I went to Swarthmore, and Swarthmore, like MIT, has P/F first semester for all freshman. I know plenty of people from Swat who got into some of the best medical schools in the country. A med school is hardly going to hold it against you if the school’s policy is that first semester is P/F. That would be ridiculous.</p>
<p>I would not make such a blanket statement. There may be SOME schools that will take courses P/F but there are MANY that will not and I would not take that chance. Here is an excerpt from U of L and I’m sure you can find many more SOM’s just like it:</p>
<p>A year is defined as a minimum of 32 weeks. All science courses applied to the premedical requirements must include laboratory work. Applicants must receive a letter grade for all courses required; reporting pass/fail is not acceptable.</p>
<p><a href=“http://louisville.edu/medschool/admissions/application-process/pre-med-requirements.html[/url]”>http://louisville.edu/medschool/admissions/application-process/pre-med-requirements.html</a></p>
<p>Also, here is what Harvard says ( a pretty decent MS):</p>
<p>Pass/Fail:
Required premedical courses should never be taken pass/fail. It is perfectly acceptable, however, to take a few other courses pass/fail.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.ocs.fas.harvard.edu/students/careers/medicine/premedguide11.pdf[/url]”>http://www.ocs.fas.harvard.edu/students/careers/medicine/premedguide11.pdf</a></p>
<p>P.S. I would recommend posing the question on the Pre-med forum and see what responses you get regarding P/F.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/pre-med-topics/[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/pre-med-topics/</a></p>
<p>This is directly from Swarthmore’s pre-med advising website:</p>
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<p>It is likely OK to do P/F if it is a first semester institutional requirement.</p>
<p>Aparently last year they began calling on the 9th… GOOD LUCK TO EVERYONE!!! I am sure that, whatever happens in these two months, THAT will be the best for al of us and we should make the best out of what was given to us. A huge hug and may the odds be ever in our favor.</p>