<p>Alright, so the application is sent in, and to be honest I'm feeling scared s***less about this. I mean, I worked on this thing for three months but still feel a little sick when I think about the looming decisions.</p>
<p>I mean, my stats are within range and my essays were about as good as they're going to get. im just... scared.</p>
<p>I know I should probably just take a chill pill and relax, but I was wondering..
for those of you admitted, did you feel the same way, too? or did you guys have at least some semblance of confidence going into it?</p>
<p>Clicking submit was a rather surreal feeling. For me, it felt so insignificant and unreal to be sending in my application that I just assumed I was going to be rejected.</p>
<p>For a few weeks, I just basically tried to not think about getting accepted/deferred/denied and just went about my business. But as December 15th approached, I debated my credentials a lot with myself. I wanted to remain realistic, knowing that my chances were slim. I wanted to be prepared for the worst so I kept telling myself, I'm not getting in. That gets depressing after a while, so I then started telling myself that the worst that can happen is that I will be deferred. Then at other times, I just felt there was no way that Yale could defer/deny me (I assure you, these moments didn't last too long).</p>
<p>At a certain point, you need to realize that for the most part, it is out of your hands and there's nothing else you can do about it. Always brace yourself for the worst, but always hope for the best. Your job in the admissions process is basically over (just keep your grades up). It is now up to the admissions officer to determine whether you will be at Yale next year.</p>
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I freaked out immediately after sending it in, all the things I could have done better going over in my head.
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<p>^EXACTLY how i feel right now.
"omg i should have used a different sentence here or ended my essay this way etc etc so therefore yale is going to auto reject me bc my essays must have sucked,"
LOL</p>
<p>wow, thanks guys. it makes me feel a little better knowing you were all feeling the same way.</p>
<p>i think everyone goes through the smae motions afte rthey send in their application. I for one just tried to avoid thinking about it and refused to look at it in case I made a mistake... after being accepted SCEA I looked back and found out I spelled sophomore as sophmore.</p>
<p>I basically thought I submitted a piece of crap. Actually, I still do. My Common App essay was verbose - 800 words, and there were little mistakes throughout my app. I think the period between submission and 2 weeks before is peace before the storm. Then your fellow CCers (and you!) start posting hysterical threads/posts on here, and everyone gets riled up. So be prepared for visions of ultimate failure and envisioning the Handsome Dan screen. But in the end, it's not so bad. Wherever you go, Yale or not, you'll love it.</p>
<p>Well I pressed submit then found out that the supplement has to be submitted before the common app. So the feeling was kind of spread out over two tries I suppose...</p>
<p>i felt the same way - i submitted and then realized I made at least 4 errors. Just relax. If you're happy with the core of what you sent, you'll be fine and the decision you receive will be based on what you presented - without regard to stupid mistakes.</p>
<p>I felt really bipolar about the whole thing, lol. Excited for chances, scared of decisions, depressed because I thought I had no chance. Right after pushing the bottom, it was a moment of relief for being done with the whole process. The wait sucks, a lot. There's even more time for RD :(</p>
<p>Yeah I uploaded my essay in .docx format. Never bothered to preview, because hey, I'm me. And then it turned out that after submitted, certain words were crunched together. I was OMFGing, becauseit was writing likethis and it was really annoying ,like 6 crunched wordsper essay. Turned out that Yale didnt care. </p>
<p>UPLOAD IN PDF though - PDF's moneymaker was the fact that it never gets blotched up - my father always asks his students to not to .doc for projects.</p>
<p>Submitting for me was just a relief. It was like, my fate is no longer in my hands and there is nothing more that I can do but wait. I then had several weeks of peace until about three weeks before EA decisions. Then I was freaking out, I want to get into Yale, but there is no way they will accept me, but I have decent stats, but perfects scores have been defered/rejected so what hope do I have... I think I was on CC everyday for at least an hour reading and sharing my stress. Then, the moment came, decisions, and we couldn't log on for like an hour after they were supposed to be released.</p>
<p>Appreciate this time, there is nothing more you can do. Hope for the best, keep your grades up, and know that not getting into Yale is not the end of the world. You ARE brilliant and will find somewhere amazing, no matter where it is.</p>
<p>Yeah I keep thinking about what I could have done better.</p>
<p>But then I realize that I've done what I can, that I'm happy with what I've submitted and that it's true to myself. The only way to have made it hugely better would be to relive the last four years of my life, and I wouldn't change that for anything, even Yale. There is relief that I've done the best I can and it's out of my hands. </p>
<p>Until I realize that I'm going to get rejected, and then I immediately start thinking about what I could have done better and the cycle starts again lol!</p>
<p>I feel like I've exhausted my inner resources. Aside from lying/misrepresenting myself, there was nothing else I could've done without going back and rearranging my life. I made my choices. Yale may reject or accept me, but either way, they're making a decision about ME, not about some fake "me" that's different on paper than in person. I guess that's all you can ask for. I refuse to reread my own essays, because I'm scared to death I'll find errors, but other people have, and they say they're decent.</p>
<p>In my mind, I've got a shot (a tiny, infinitesimal, miniscule shot, but a shot nonetheless. Now I've just got to wait for 3 months :p</p>
<p>Something I did that was helpful was I read through my entire application and wrote a summary. That is what the admission officiers do, they write a summary of your entire app and then your summary is presented before the entire adcom and they vote to admit you or not [That's the way MIT does it at any rate, but at Yale it is divided by geographic region so you compete against other students from your region]. I think my summary was pretty good (I used only information that was revealed from the app). Either way, the app presented me the exact way i wanted.</p>