<p>Hello... my first post since last week's rejection. Today I sent my Yale t-shirt to the yale admissions office with a little note. Childish perhaps, but I thought an appropriate gesture for how I feel.</p>
<p>Anyway, since I haven't done this yet, a MAJOR congratulations to everyone who got in! Davidrune, bebere, newt, chidimma, and everyone else... you guys really do deserve this and I hope you have the best four years of your life (I'm incredibly jealous lol)! It must be the biggest relief to not only know where you're going to college, but know that its YALE.</p>
<p>Oh, I'm beginning to formulate a plan to transfer into Yale next year from wherever I am. I'm going to do something really weird that'll stand out.. idk lol.</p>
<p>why is everyone trying to stand out?
Rather than directing all of your effort in trying to stand out, you should be thinking of ways to sell yourself by means of your apps. Try to sounds like you're a caring person who will accomplish fame later in your career. What undergrad school wouldn't like to admitt someone they know will become well known and thus in turn make the school well known.</p>
<p>I really like Princeton and U Penn, but I don't know how realistic Princeton is.... we'll see. I'm re-taking SAT II's which I think was a really weak point in my application. Hopefully I'll do well on those.</p>
<p>I don't know, but I'm really tempted to go to an informational meeting next year to see if the reps use it as one of their admissions anecdotes. I so would.</p>
<p>I'm sure they get many worse displays of bitterness every year than someone simply sending in a shirt. Think about what the kid who sent in the kayak must have sent after he was rejected.</p>
<p>Anyway, his chances for transfer are as good as anyone else's (although I'm not entirely sure that transferring in would provide the same experience as entering as a freshman). I know of kids who broke their ED agreements with schools and still transferred there later with no hassle.</p>
<p>Nick, I understand being bitter. It sucks. A lot. I feel for you. However, I really hope that you end up extremely happy somewhere and don't even want to think about transferring because you're so ecstatically happy at whatever fantabulous college you end up at.</p>
<p>I can think of many gestures that would be infinitely more negative than what you did. Frankly, being in the same exact boat, I think you handled it pretty dang constructively. Not wanting to invest TOO much, I bought a really cool YALE sweatshirt on ebay--kind of retro and really pretty. My son's younger siblings voted to make it the guest at a bonfire, but despite any minor bitter feeling toward Yale, we simply could not do it. Now, it sits forlornly on the floor of my bedroom--it knows it is not needed by anyone in this home....</p>
<p>Please keep us posted on how things turn out for you--we definitely feel your pain right now. fondly, ~berurah</p>
<p>They've probably got a whole closet full of sent back t-shirts and and sweatshirts. And the parents of rejects can be worse than the kids. I talked to an MIT adcom last year, and she said that the phones start ringing off the hook as soon as the decisions go out. She said a common question from some bitter parents is a demand to know how much the adcoms earn - the implication being that someone so low-paid cannot possible sit in judgement of their child.</p>