<p>Yale has started reading applications.... I wrote a note to my admissions officer about the Physics things and he mentioned soemthing like, "back to reading a ton of applications..." or something like that. :)</p>
<p>lol ooh nervewracking, but didn't someone already post about likely letters? Geez, Yale is efficient.</p>
<p>Byerly - Nevertheless, it takes two Wesleyan readers to actually determine your fate. I should think your odds of a "split-decision" would be a trifle better if read by people from two different backgrounds than with an entirely homogenous adcom. At least, then, in your words, your folder would wind up being read by someone "from the top". As Steinberg makes clear in <em>Gatekeepers</em> there are lots of redundancies in the system:</p>
<p>"As the committee broke up around five P.M. that afternoon, Greg [a senior admissions officer] and Nancy [Meishlaun, the Dean of Admissions] reatreated to the dean's office. Surrounding them were stacks of workcards, hundreds of them, each representing an applicant whose case had been considered by at least two other readers but whose fate Nancy and Greg had yet to decide. [p.184]"</p>
<p>The plain truth is that with four times the number of applicants necessary to yield a class, it's really easy deny someone admission to Wesleyan. Not as easy as at Yale (where the applicant/admit ratio is closer to seven times), but easy nonetheless.</p>
<p>Hi there, John Wesley!</p>
<p>You know, one of the "Gatekeepers" tidbits I found most offensive was the hint of horse-trading - or logrolling - among the openly biassed admissions officers: "You vote for my Native American, and I'll vote for your Latino."</p>
<p>Well, yeah. You saw that with the phone call to the Harvard-Westlake cc, where Figueroa all but admits that the brownie laced with weed eater was something of a sacrificial lamb for the rest of the Westlake prospects tha year. That's the beauty of the Steinberg book; it does give the process an all too human, if somewhat unflattering, face. Unfortunately, to make it a more interesting book he had to focus on those cases that involved a conflict of some sort. The easy admits, which probably comprise three-quarters of the incoming class, got short shrift.</p>
<p>They have started reading already. I spoke with my admissions officer on January 3 and she said that she currently had 100 RD applications to look over</p>
<p>Someone please tell me if the following was a prank - </p>
<p>I got an email from a Yale Student (formerly from my high school who had a yale.edu address) saying that he/she heard that i've already been admitted. But then I applied RD, not Early! Do you guys think the email was a fake, or was there any way for that yale student to know?</p>
<p>Strangely, that student hasn't replied.</p>
<p>Thanks guys!</p>
<p>was it from a yale.edu email?</p>
<p>I don't want to burst your bubble but it's fake. How would a yale student gain info on an admission decisions. Plus, it's mid january, there's NO WAY they have finalized decisions.</p>
<p>yep it was from a yale.edu email. Then what about Yale sending out "likely letters"?</p>
<p>likely letters can only be in letter form.</p>
<p>It might not be a prank; they were probably just misinformed (meant to email someone else, etc.)</p>
<p>i don't know whether it was a prank or a mistake, but it's not hard to fake an email. anyone who's interested in getting a mail from <em>any</em> address, just ask ;)</p>
<p>yeah, realised u can use telnet to do that right? Anyway guess it was a mistake cos i didn't apply early! </p>
<p>Btw, RD decisions are sent out officially on April 1, am I right?</p>
<p>yes they're online by email too.</p>
<p>They Email Decisions???</p>
<p>edit: that was supposed to be all capitalized</p>
<p>When the letters go out, they also post a link on the website that allows you to check your decision online. Last year the link was posted between 5 and 6 pm EST on April 1.</p>
<p>lol, any records of april fools pranks? :p</p>