<p>5 pm on December 15.</p>
<p>Thanks, Hparent! GL everyone! :)</p>
<p>Hi guys… I have a question. I’m applying to the University of Michigan EA and am considering applying to Yale SCEA. I’ve completed just about all of Yale’s supplement but I’m not sure whether I should wait for RD or go for it now. I feel like with a 33 ACT score I’m in the ballpark, but I do realize EVERYONE applying SCEA has that or better and a 4 point and all that jazz. I have a lacking 3.7. I do have a very unique characteristic in that I was born in Bolivia and have spent half of my life there (including sophomore year of HS in which I had to take online classes and homeschool myself to keep up). I’ve taken the max honors and AP classes my HS offers, and I’m taking 3 AP classes this semester. My question is whether I should apply SCEA or wait to bump my GPA up a bit with a 4.0 fall semester with a rigorous courseload. For what its worth, I feel like I’ve written outstanding essays, but then again, so do a lot of people. Any advice is appreciated, thanks! :)</p>
<p>This is most likely a question I should email Yale about, but what if my name doesn’t fit on the supplemental application portion? My middle name is quite long (two names and a total of seventeen characters) and the last two letters are cut off. Is this in any way significant? My full name fits on the information section of the common app, and is reflected in my signature, but it bothers me that I cannot squeeze it into the supplement. Also, is it rude/unwise to have both my common app essay and supplemental in the 550 word ballpark? I have cut down the common app from 700, and am afraid of losing significance by cutting more. As far as the other essay, I’d love some input on what to edit out, since it’s more of a personal story and I cannot objectively assess the relevance of one detail over another.</p>
<p>@twentyseven27 - you can trim it to 500 words or under. you can ALWAYS cut stuff. honestly, you dont even have to cut information, just work on synthesizing your sentences together and stuff like that and you’ll be fine, that’s what i did and i feel pretty great about my essays. i dont know what to do about your name tho…</p>
<p>@UM32194 - wait it out for a semester, they will likely defer you EA because of your grades, so you might as well bring it up and give them some confidence</p>
<p>SO EXCITED ABOUT APPLYING TO YALE! (I really hope I get in…) Honestly, do y’all think Yale would deny me on the basis of a 2260 SAT score? Thats about a 34 on the ACT I think… it’s just that that is the only thing i’m dissatisfied with in my application. my ECs are excellent (at least i think so…) and i <3 my essays, and i have a 4.0 with the hardest classes offered. etc… does anybody know specifically how Yale treats SAT scores?</p>
<p>I’m applying early too!
and @twentyseven2, likewise, i have 560-ish words, and i’ve already created these phrases and everything and i don’t really want to cut down even more.</p>
<p>and i can’t believe some people have already turned in their apps? i still got a while… eeks.</p>
<p>I am applying early to Yale as well…and it definitely is my top choice…I will commit the day after, if I get in.</p>
<p>Guys, have you seen the bugs on the electronic Yale Supplement, which can be submitted through the Common Application website?
I can’t find the major I want to apply for - Global Affairs. Anyone having the same problem? If you look carefully some other majors are also missing. I checked the Yale College website - the majors exist there, I checked the .pdf Yale Supplement - they exist on it, too; however, when you open the electronic version they are gone…I emailed Yale and didn’t get an adequate answer. I explained what the whole issue was, asking when/ whether it will be fixed, and got a response, saying that they have updated my file…but I don’t even have a file because I haven’t submitted my application yet. Urghhh…I am so confused.</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone, though… :)))</p>
<p>@AnonymousStudent</p>
<p>i really doubt that yale would turn you down just because of the 2260 sat score. i personally think a 2260 is a great score, and i’ve seen people on cc that have gotten into yale with scores lower than 2260, and although a score is part of the application, i don’t think any university, even yale, would reject an applicant simply because of their sat score:)</p>
<p>that doesn’t mean that a good sat score helps, or a bad sat score doesn’t hurt
just saying one test score that’s not perfect won’t deny admission just as a perfect sat score doesn’t guarantee it.</p>
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I think the CA essay is fine because that’s more of a guideline than a hard limit. But for the supplement, Yale says, “Please limit your essay to fewer than 500 words.” So I would try to keep that one under.</p>
<p>from Yale admission site:
I think your 50 extra words are just fine.</p>
<p>Thanks for the input…though I’m still at a loss as far as my name goes. I asked a teacher to read my essay, and she found several sentences to cut that do not contribute to the message. Now I’m slightly under 500 
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<p>Is a title necessary/expected?</p>
<p>Hi guys! I just sent in my Yale SCEA application. Potential major in Economics/Mathematics. When I visited, I thought the campus was beautiful and the ‘sketchiness’ of New Haven didn’t really bother me.
I know that this was kind of crapshoot, but hey, you never know, right?
Good luck to everyone else on the thread! Hopefully we’ll all be happy by the time mid-December rolls around :)</p>
<p>I also submitted my application and now I’m really worried … do you know that feeling that where you come from, you are the best in most things but suddenly, when it comes to SCEA you feel like you’re not even close to all the others? I mean, I was pretty sure that my essay is interesting and funny and everything but now I just think that there will be essays that are so much better. Also, I come from Germany where applying for an US College is really special but it now comes to me that there is so much competition …</p>
<p>I was wondering the same thing. Is a title expected?</p>
<p>Do you guys know if we could send the scores for the SAT subject tests after the Nov. 1 deadline? I’m taking a Subject test in Nov.</p>
<p>Hey guys, for my winter drumline performance last year I wrote the battery parts (drumline parts) for a transcription of Power Rangers. This was my only real composition and, while not exactly drum corps material, was pretty tough to play for my group and introduced them to a much harder piece of music, which actually made me feel great as they really wouldn’t have experienced anything with that rigor otherwise. Should I include this in my application or would it hurt me since I’ve never really composed before that or after that and since it isn’t exactly “truly outstanding for a high school musician [or] a strong and important part of [my] application?”</p>
<p>Do you guys know if we could send the scores for the SAT subject tests after the Nov. 1 deadline? I’m taking a Subject test in Nov. </p>
<p>Yes, most schools (including HYP) accept the Nov. SAT results for their EA/ED. So, you should be fine.</p>
<p>A title isn’t expected. I wouldn’t suggest adding one unless you have a very good idea for it…probably something funny/ironic/witty/otherwise profound that doesn’t cheapen your opening.</p>
<p>Wrote my CA and Yale supp, fairly happy with both… but debating whether I should switch them around. Very happy with October SAT scores.</p>
<p>The title is the first impression the reader will get from you essay…it should be there. 
Unless you are intentionally not putting it.</p>
<p>Anyone wanna share some stats? I’ll start.
White. female. 3.9 (well let’s just wait for those B’s first marking period). SAT 2280.
6 APs all 5’s. 3 SAT IIs 800s except 760 in Math II. Major: Undecided. Plays cellos (not good enough for supp though) Essays: fair Recs: should be good but flunked a test in one of the teacher’s classes so @__@</p>