<p>For those that were deferred- did any extra material (like senior year letters of recommendation, music cds, new awards etc.) need to be submitted by the jan. 4 deadline? Or since admissions doesn't usually look at the deferred applications again until after they've looked at the regular applications, can you send additional information in a little bit after the deadline?</p>
<p>Right now, the admissions office is busy filing all the forms they've gotten for RD. They never gave us any deadline for submitting materials, as far as I know. Go ahead and send in extra materials now.</p>
<p>My s is just about to send them a letter and a new recommendation. IMHO I don't think it's a problem </p>
<p>OT does anyone know when the date was that they notified RDers last year?</p>
<p>My plan is to wait a little while. I think that they will start the RD candidates, to get a picture of the overall pool. In early February, after some events in January, I plan to send a letter from me and perhaps an extra letter of reccomendation to update them.</p>
<p>--I'm a little anoyed over how my Yale app. was not as good as some of my other apps, including essays and an expanded resume. But, I guess that is canceled out by EA preference.</p>
<p>New Idea:</p>
<p>OK, so I submitted my essay on November 1st for Yale EA. Now, it is fairly good, but in the past 2 months, I have gone through a significant of activity directly relating to the essay, and made it much better written (although the writting in this post <em>sucks</em>). When I send an update letter in early February, should I just write the letter longer and include the info, or a shorter letter with the completely updated essay.</p>
<p>This could bump me up in activities and writing from defferal to acceptance,
Nickleby</p>
<p>In case it helps, this was last year's timetable for my daughter, who was deferred EA and admitted RD: Her guidance counselor spoke to Yale's regional rep around mid-January, then my daughter sent a letter to the rep via snail mail at the end of January. The letter was about a page and a half long and included updates of her activites.</p>
<p>Nickleby--I may well be wrong, but my gut feeling is that it would be better to send a longer letter and leave the essay alone. They presumably read the original version of the essay with your EA application; I suspect they're unlikely to re-read it carefully enough to spot the improvements, and may simply get a sense of deja vu. </p>
<p>Andi--RD notification was available online between 5 and 6 pm EST on April 1; the letter arrived on the following day.</p>
<p>Good point editrix,</p>
<p>What about this idea. I can place a few of the ending paragraphs from the essay (tweaked-of course) into the letter. Thus it shows the writting style, and expands on the essay without looking like I'm flooding the office with supplementary materials.</p>
<p>I SOOOO want to get into Yale, and with the exception of Princeton and perhaps a couple of others, it is without a doubt at the top of my list (and at the very least, tied for 1st). However, I really don't want a subpar November 1st app. to destroy my chances to the one school that I desire most. That is why this is so important to me.</p>
<p>Other schools will also recieve an update letter, but it is not nearly as important. The past 2 months have made me understand the point of my common-app statement almost twice as much, and I have already won some significant awards, and am hoping for another.</p>
<p>Thanks editrix. I'm imagining how exciting that must have been :) How is your daughter doing? Is she happy there?</p>
<p>Nickleby I would have to agree with editrix about the essay. Yale rejected a LOT of applicants. I really don't think they would have kept you on if your essay were that poor. I think you should probably put it behind you and look toward new activities, classes and awards. I wouldn't worry about "flooding" them with supplementary materials. Just give them an update and let them know that you're still interested.</p>
<p>Nickleby--For what it's worth, I do think you should move on from that essay; if you repeat paragraphs, they're likely to seem like old news even if they've been tweaked. And I agree with Andi--Yale deferred you in the EA round because they liked your application, not because they thought it was subpar. It sounds as if you have some terrific updates to include in your letter; I think those are more likely to seem fresh and interesting to the adcoms than reworked parts of an essay they've already read.</p>
<p>Good luck to you, and to your son, Andi. (Yes, April 1 was an amazing day for my daughter, and she truly loves Yale. She was very lucky--but other people she knows who were originally dying to go to Yale are now equally happy at other schools.)</p>
<p>Editrix, I might have asked you this already, but do you know what your d's gc said to the regional representative? I was thinking of asking my gc to do that, but then I read that the reps can't say anything, so now I don't know what to do. Thanks for the help!</p>
<p>Sara7246: I'm afraid I don't really know what my daughter's GC said to the regional rep, though I think it was basically that Yale was still my daughter's first choice and she was wondering if there was any further information that would be helpful. The rep apparently said that my daughter was a good candidate and had a significant chance in the RD round, but they may well say that to everyone. (It may even be true; Yale doesn't hesitate to reject candidates in the EA round if they're not seriously considering them.)</p>
<p>The only substantive comment the Yale rep said was that it wasn't quite clear why my daughter had put down a particular major, so my daughter included a sentence or two about that in the follow-up letter she sent to the rep. But I'm not sure how much either the call or the letter mattered in the end.</p>
<p>I doubt if most reps will say very much, if anything, about a specific applicant. To my mind, these calls are mostly a formality to reinforce the candidate's strong interest in a particular school. It probably doesn't make a real difference either way, but if the GC is willing to make the call, I'm sure that it couldn't hurt.</p>
<p>I don't know how this will work, but I sent a short letter of commitment last week and will send actual updates later.</p>
<p>What's the limit on update letters? New stuff keeps happening to me and I'm wondering if I should continuously update AdCom in like three letters, or just wait until like march and send one big letter. I've already sent a one-and-half page letter of updates already. I don't want to seem like I'm inundating them. yargh</p>