<p>I like healthy confidence with a dash of appropriate humility.</p>
<p>I’ll also be applying to Yale, but I have’t decided if I’m applying SCEA or not :/</p>
<p>Ah, the memories. Last year, I was deferred SCEA from Yale, but then accepted. Also accepted to Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, MIT. Chose Princeton. If you’re deferred, keep your head up.</p>
<p>Thanks calculus. I feel like if I got deferred I would sit around for 4 months feeling terrible, thinking that 100% rejections are headed my way. A bit over the top on my part lol.</p>
<p>Then again, iCalculus, you had a 2400. :D</p>
<p>(Before someone pounces on me, no, I’m not insinuating that test scores are everything. But are test scores important? Yes. Did you get the highest possible score you can humanly get? Yes.)</p>
<p>Can you guys please stop taking this so seriously? A rejection is not that big of a deal. If we get rejected, we’ll thrive at a different college/university. All of this melodrama is a little irritating.</p>
<p>Ha yea. Like i don’t see how kids with 4.0/2400s ruin it for themselves and get rejected everywhere. Like… You have such an advantage, don’t think u can just blow off your essays ECs and interviews. All that hard work wasted.</p>
<p>Everybody will ignore this because it was the last post on the last page, so I’ll repeat myself: </p>
<p>Can you guys please stop taking this so seriously? A rejection is not that big of a deal. If we get rejected, we’ll thrive at a different college/university. All of this melodrama is a little irritating.</p>
<p>I feed on drama. ^.^</p>
<p>Oh, and to clarify: on page 22, I was referring to silverturtle’s Hispanic heritage.</p>
<p>^OH who would have guessed xD beans suddenly became a part of one long extended supposedly racist metaphor</p>
<p>Haha… is it bad that I’m actually hoping to get deferred when I apply SCEA? Because then there’s at least a chance of acceptance :)</p>
<p>^ Yale defers the majority of SCEA applicants, so your chance is good.</p>
<p>I thought they were cutting back on deferrals to prevent false hope for unqualified students.</p>
<p>^Where did you hear that from?</p>
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<p>Where did you hear that? Stanford practices that, but I have not heard that Yale is going to change its practice.</p>
<p>(I should note, though, that Yale already rejects all unqualified applicants SCEA.)</p>
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<p>Wow iCalculus!! What were major awards or ECs? Congratulations!!! That’s very incredible!!</p>
<p>^ Here is what he wrote in the Ivy comparison thread:</p>
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<p>It looks like, if his self-assessment is accurate, his strong academics played a large part in his admissions success.</p>
<p>^Thanks silverturtle!! Interesting…
I’m from PA too :)</p>
<p>Anyway, I read some article about admissions, Im pretty sure it came from Yale. They said their scea deferral rate was much lower than in previous years because they wanted to give students who would get deferred/rejected time to focus on other applications, rather than waiting for yales decision. The guy said it was “merciful.”</p>
<p>[Yale</a> Daily News - Early admit rate rises slightly](<a href=“http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/university-news/2009/12/15/early-admits/]Yale”>http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/university-news/2009/12/15/early-admits/)</p>
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