<p>No one from my school had gotten into an Ivy League since last year. Well we’ve had people get into Cornell, but not HYP. Last year we had a girl get into HYS. I hope to follow in her footsteps. :)</p>
<p>@ sillyaardvark and rockermcr: I constantly reference Hamlet. I memorized about 240 lines, so I’m always pulling them out. I had to stop doing it around my friends, because they started to get really annoyed. But I <3 Hammy. I mean, he is the glass of fashion and the mold of form. Hawt.</p>
<p>i heard that ivy’s cant “officially” decide until april 1st. Why is that rule there?</p>
<p>I think it’s so that the Ivies can’t compete against each other (not that they don’t already). Like, if say Harvard notifies 3 days earlier than Yale, then Yale will most likely get fewer people who choose to enroll. Or the other way around.</p>
<p>@ ayeeeconnie its also because the ivy league want to be prestigious… and that means keeping people on their toes (for some dumb reason)</p>
<p>they want to make sure that everyone who applies there is carefully reviewed before choosing yes or no to certain students… as well, considering the overwhelming amount of people who apply to ivies each year (often over 20,000 PER school), they need that much time just to weed through the applications</p>
<p>and also what @ anonymous93 said, if one ivy gets to send stuff earlier, then its that many days earlier to the student who may choose the school who gets there first…</p>
<p>you guys realize that yale has probably already decided who’s in and who’s not? right now, they’re probably just printing the decision letters and stuffing them in envelopes. And maybe inputting the data into their computer system for us to check. And waiting for april 1st.</p>
<p>They’ve made the vast majority, but not all, of the decisions, according to what my admissions officer told me from the previous year.</p>
<p>amciw, are you sure?</p>
<p>They’re not completely done deciding who’s in and who’s out at Yale.</p>
<p>whn will thy be “completely done deciding who’s in and who’s out at Yale”???</p>
<p>I’m guessing by the time they release decisions. (April1.)</p>
<p>I remember reading something on Harvard’s website, either in the Herald or in the Crimson, that stated that all admissions decisions are typically made by March 25, and the rest of the time is spent just double-checking everything. So, if we assume that the process is similar at Yale, they should be done pretty soon… I mean, either way, I highly doubt that any decisions are made on April 1.</p>
<p>Yeah, proof that they’re not completely done, though: My area admissions officer (or whatever the position is called) emailed me on Friday asking me to provide a few more documents regarding what I wrote on my application (graduated early, studying music in Europe, etc.) If they were done with everything, that wouldn’t have happened, now, would it?</p>
<p>^ I don’t think anyone’s saying that they’re ALL done with everything. Everyone seems to agree, though, that the vast majority of decisions have been made.</p>
<p>Well, that I agree with. Otherwise they’d be in a lot of trouble trying to finish on time. :)</p>
<p>five more days left…</p>
<p>Yeah. Our master said on Monday that they are at the final stage where they are cutting down the final few hundred from the pool. Whoever makes those final cuts are going accepted to the Class of 2014.</p>
<p>I won’t be checking Yale first, as I’m saving my most reachy/hoped for schools for the end. In fact, Yale is the exact last one I’ll be checking.
Reason being, if you were accepted to one of your tippy top top toppest schools before knowing about the others, I don’t think you’d be able to appreciate acceptances from the “lesser” ranked schools as much when you check them afterward. You’d have already hit the peak of joy/excitement, so the only way to go is down.
I’d rather appreciate and savor each acceptance for the thrill it would be, as if it were the best option I have. So, I’ll be checking from most likely to least likely (or “least” wanted to most wanted).
At least, that’s my logic. :)</p>
<p>
Um, no. This is not true.</p>
<p>I totally agree with Handala92 and Prussia!. I’ll be checking Cornell, Penn, Princeton, Brown, Yale, Columbia in that order. Least wanted->most wanted. The way I see it, if I get into Cornell/Penn/etc. and don’t get into my Columbia or Yale (my first choices), I’ll be fine because I will have been accepted to another amazing school. If I don’t get into Columbia/Yale and I check them first, I’ll be praying that I at least got into Penn/Cornell/etc. </p>
<p>Really I would prefer the Ivies not releasing their decisions on the same day. 6 of my top choices at one time is waaay too stressful.</p>