<p>As much as I appreciate the optimism of my fellow Yale EAers, it's probably best to be realistic. How are you preparing yourself for your likely deferral?</p>
<p>I'm imagining the worst case scenario - if I get deferred and the other 2 kids who applied from my school get in. It's pretty tough trying to picture how I'll say congratulations with any sincerity at all.</p>
<p>I wouldn't tell anyone anything unless I got accepted. We're on Christmas holiday at the time anyway</p>
<p>I'd cry, and congratulate the acceptees. and then submit apps to everywhere else. and then cry some more.</p>
<p>I'd be sad with a tinge of relief that I didn't get flat-out rejected. No one else at my school is applying to any Ivies so I guess that's an accomplishment :[ never hurts to try.</p>
<p>"I'd cry, and congratulate the acceptees. and then submit apps to everywhere else. and then cry some more."</p>
<p>word.</p>
<p>That's kind of the worst possible outcome for me. I've heard that your chances after getting deferred are worse than RD decisions (and I've never heard of anybody being deferred and accepted later on to any college, so that would make sense). So it would just prolong the agony of rejection.</p>
<p>Uh, that's the opposite of true...</p>
<p>A greater percentage of deferees get in RD than other applicants</p>
<p>With that said, i'm kind of expecting a deferral (I think my app is strong enough not to get rejected, but not strong enough to get in), so i would be sad, but not surprised.</p>
<p>"I've heard that your chances after getting deferred are worse than RD decisions"</p>
<p>That's true of other schools, but not of Yale. The reason being mainly that Yale will actually reject you in the early round if they don't think you have a good chance in April, while other colleges just defer the vast majority of early applicants and reject very few.</p>
<p>I don't really understand why a school would defer a bunch of likely people and then end up accepting the lot of them (or at least a good percentage of them) in the RD pool.</p>
<p>It seems so evil...and then people have to worry for another couple of months</p>
<p>posterX is correct that those who apply early typically fare better in the regular round than other applicants.</p>
<p>I'm a person who always likes to prepare for the worst, so just a reminder that Yale usually rejects around 30% of its early pool. I'm sure a lot of applicants are totally blindsided by rejections when they thought the worst that could happen was a deferral.</p>
<p>Sorry to be a downer, but this is the kind of info I'd want to remember so I'd be prepared for all outcomes.</p>
<p>euphoric_potato--Yale does reject a much higher number of early applicants than most other schools. The reason to defer applicants is because you never know what mix you'll get in the regular decision pool.</p>
<p>So according to the stats, 53% of early applicants get deferred.</p>
<p>Wow! That's a LOT.</p>
<p>At least it's better than Harvard-where they defer ABSOLUTELY everyone, except of course the applicants they accept SCEA.:)</p>
<p>I'd rather be defered, even if they defer almost everyone. It would be a great confidence booster for other colleges.</p>
<p>finish all the other applications. what else is there to do? pout? stamp my feet? okay, those too.</p>
<p>They deferred 61% of people this year, including me. I only wish I knew where I ranked in that 61%, because being in the top 1% compared to being in the 61% probably makes a huge difference. But yeah, congratulate everyone who did get in and then cry. That seems to be pretty much the routine. I am trying so hard to be happy for the kids at my school who got into their dream schools, but its really really difficult to see all the celebrating going on. Hopefully things will work out for everyone in the end.</p>
<p>In all honestly I would be in a bitter rampage at first, and eventually accept it, be a good person and wish her all the best. Except we're both in the same boat. Quite a surprise because of my all four years at my HS didn't have a single Yale acceptee. Last year was miraculous when like one person go deferred. Last year's EA applicant, had a similar GPA as I did, and higher SAT scores, but got flat out rejected.</p>