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<p>Yes, I had originally planned to do so, but my HS uses Naviance for the recommendations, which means I can’t add the teachers directly onto the Common App account. I talked to my GC about it and he said to use Naviance, my recommenders would have to have access, which they don’t. I was confused by the whole thing, so I decided to just stick with mailing which is what my HS prefers to do, and is used to doing, anyway.</p>
<p>So are you at a disadvantage of you’re indecided about your major and career interest, or does it not particularly matter?</p>
<p>^Doesn’t matter.</p>
<p>Also submitted the CSS today! Wow, thank God my father is an accountant. That was a LOT of questions.</p>
<p>And, can anyone explain what it meant after submitting when it said additional IDOC materials were required and I would get an e-mail notification in February about when to send them? That makes no sense for SCEA applicants…do we have to send 2009 tax returns right now for SCEA?</p>
<p>Per Yale FA Website for SCEA applicants:
[Early</a> Action Application Guidelines](<a href=“Welcome | Student Financial and Administrative Services”>Welcome | Student Financial and Administrative Services)</p>
<p>If admitted, Yale will send you an estimated FA statement based on the estimated numbers you have provided on the CSS. You will need to do a revised CSS in February and submit 2010 tax forms then. Yale will give you final numbers thereafter.</p>
<p>Thank you Descartesz! I remember reading that before and I couldn’t find it.</p>
<p>So Yale won’t see our mid-year report until they’ve already made a decision, right? Because I have a class this semester that will probably be impossible for me to make an A in.</p>
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<p>True - but my counselor said that sometimes for SCEA applicants they ask for the counselor to send the most recent grades; namely, first quarter grades.</p>
<p>Anyway, you should pull up that grade - unless you are 100% certain Yale will accept you SCEA, you’ll be applying to RD schools - which WILL be looking at the midyear report.</p>
<p>Regarding the CSS, if my dad lives in another city, does that make my parents separated?</p>
<p>Hey I’m an international applying early. Yale requires Teacher Evaluation Forms to be completed by two teachers who have taught me in different subject areas if I remember correctly. Does “Science” count as a single subject area? That is, can a recommendation from a Biology teacher be accompanied by one from a Physics or Chemistry teacher? Is it recommended? Or would it be better for me (or required of me) to send a recommendation from a Mathematics or Humanities teacher along with the one from my Biology teacher?
Thank you for your time.</p>
<p>pok992 - teachers from different subject areas is best but if the two science teachers are going to give great recs, go with them.</p>
<p>I agree with splat11. Give preference to the two teachers who will write the strongest recommendations even if in the same general area (provided they are not in the same subject). One each from a quantitative and a qualitative discipline is ideal but not to be achieved at the expense of getting your two best recommendations.</p>
<p>So how bad is that one of my recommenders is a sophomore year teacher? Yale says they strongly encourage teachers from junior and senior year, but then they also say to use teachers who know you best. I’m getting conflicting answers here. I’ve been taking college classes since junior year, so it’s been harder for my teachers to get to know me since I have them a few days a week for only one semester. Therefore, my sophomore year teacher knows me best. I’m just worried that using a teacher from 10th grade will make Yale think that I can’t follow directions.</p>
<p>Hi! Im not an EA applicant but i definitely want to apply to Yale!
@nne718: hi! so i went to an open house and someone asked the same exact question, the admission officer said they prefer the recommendation to be from a 11th or 12th grade teacher and a rec from a 10th grade teacher will be looked down upon. in my opinion i would not send in a rec form a 10th grade teacher</p>
<p>^ Great… Well, too late now. It’s already been submitted.</p>
<p>Maybe I or my guidance counselor can explain why I used a sophomore year teacher?</p>
<p>Yale’s supplement asks you to report additional test scores. Is it required that you post EVERY AP score that you’ve ever received? I believe it is, but just to confirm…</p>
<p>Would a recommendation from a 10th grade teacher be looked down upon if you had the teacher for 2 years (9th and 10th grades)?</p>
<p>^They would certainly read it and take it seriously (if it was a teacher who taught you in a core class, not an elective). But they would prefer to have a recommendation from a teacher who taught you in 11th, 12th, or both, as stated on their website. So unless there are no other junior teachers willing to give you a good rec, I wouldn’t get the rec from the 9th & 10th grade teacher.</p>
<p>Has everyone already submitted the CSS Profile?</p>
<p>^ I’m working on it now. It’s taking forever.</p>
<p>Does Yale look at your Senior Year grades if you are applying SCEA (my school calls them Mid-Semester Averages)? If so, how much weight do they put on them?</p>