Maybe they’ll be like “SURPRISE. We tricked you! Here, have results 4 days early!”
But I doubt it.
@glasshours no I’m pretty sure it’s the 15th, always. Also it says it on our portals…
last year was the 16th (http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/yale-university/1686090-yale-class-of-2019-scea-discussion-thread-p84.html)
and two years ago
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/yale-university/1536587-yale-class-of-2018-scea-discussion-thread-p93.html
so we seem to be getting them early. I’m not complaining … it’s one less day to agonize
Early decisions are not all done on the same day for the Ivies. RD is the same for all though.
@glasshours in December 2013 (Class of 2018) Yale SCEA decisions came out on December 16th. Harvard’s the Friday before that.
I saw a post on the NUS thread that Yale SCEA decisions will come out of December 15th this year.
I just got an email this morning from Yale NUS confirming that. I guess NUS comes out the 10th, and Yale SCEA is indeed the 15th. It also said we would get an email telling us when the decisions were available.
My son’s acceptance to Yale '18 was beyond emotional.
I saved the December, 2013 calendar page with December 16th highlighted and taped it to the basement wall.
Maybe I’m making too much of it, but for our family, it felt better than winning the lottery. (OK, I’m guessing that it felt better, never won the lottery.)
@ElMimino - exactly!! It was great for us too. Emotional but bittersweet because my mom passed before she could learn that she had started a Yale dynasty. How many African American 80 year old women could say that both their daughter and granddaughter attended Yale? I was a fluke. My D was a calculated effort.
@ElMimino same here. My daughter quietly watched “The fault in our stars” with her best friend who held her hand as she waited. I knew the approximate time they were being released and so I nervously cleaned the kitchen. She was dead silent and finally put down the sponge to go into the living room to see if I needed to comfort her. She was looking at me in shock and very quietly said,“Im going to Yale” - she had checked her email with the sound off and did it all alone without even her BFF knowing she did it. We all went nuts and started screaming and running around the house calling family. Unfortunately she missed the bulldog music screen because she had the volume off. I wanted to video tape her reaction but she wouldn’t let me. But the silence… I will never forget my heart being so scared and the look of shock and joy on her face. Amazing moment.
I got a phone call from my son at my work. He said “I think I got into Yale.” No screaming, no yelling. I was filled with so much emotion that some leaked out my eyes. Yale was his first choice. Not because of the history, or the tradition, or the reputation, but because of the Residential College system.
One of his schoolmates was filming a table where he was seated. He has a video of the moment he learned the decision. He jumped up and down like a Jack Russel Terrier!
His high school was about 40 minutes from home, my work was about 20. I arrived home, brought some aerial fireworks from the basement, and set them to explode above our home as he got out of the car on the other side of the house. “Nice touch, Dad.”
The bittersweet aspect of this was that his grandfather passed away three weeks before the decision was announced. He would have been extremely proud.
@Tperry1982 , you’re my new “shero”!!!