<p>Urgh - nearly everyone in my close friend group applied SCEA. It’s going to be painful no matter what the outcome is…</p>
<p>@lalachica, i’m from canada… and the admissions process here is SO MUCH EASIER than in the us. all my friends have to do is fill out basic information on an online system and click a link… no standardized testing, ECs, or essays to deal with :(</p>
<p>^Haha, I was about to say - the dollar sign kinda led me to think Canada…your admissions process sounds awesome. Are they mostly public universities or private ones?</p>
<p>@ canarybird- I know what you are saying. My mentor last summer is from France and it took him awhile to realize how hard it is to get into Yale.</p>
<p>My friend sent me this article on what to and not to do leading up to decisions coming out written for Brown’s blog. It specifically says to stay off of cc 
[What</a> not to do 24 hours before early decisions come out — BlogDailyHerald](<a href=“http://blogdailyherald.com/2011/12/12/what-not-to-do-24-hours-before-early-decisions-come-out/]What”>http://blogdailyherald.com/2011/12/12/what-not-to-do-24-hours-before-early-decisions-come-out/)</p>
<p>^ That’s a great post, ender. If only I could bring myself to obey it!</p>
<p>I will definitely be turning off my phone, though…and I might actually take my sister to a movie or something.</p>
<p>@Galavantian, our admissions process is awesome to some extent… but it can also be detrimental. McGill, for example, doesn’t look at anything but marks - you just send them your transcript and they see whether you meet their standard. It sort of sucks if you have a lot of extracurriculars or other passions, because they don’t get to see that side of you. </p>
<p>Our universities are mostly public, we don’t have the cult of the “private university” like in the US…</p>
<p>yes yes i know, the admission procedure for uk schools are the same as well, basically with my eyes closed i can get into ANY of the top uk or Canadian schools save for perhaps oxford and Cambridge. I know this because i far exceed the minimum requirements. A bunch of my friends have already gotten conditional acceptances from top UK schools already and i’m dying- not because I’m jealous or anything but because I’ve committed myself to this incredibly excruciating, up-in-the-air, no-guarantees American admissions game. ughhhhhhhhh my being, my emotional and mental well-being and stability is rapidly disintegrating by the minute…ahhhhhh</p>
<p>We do things the hard way here in the colonies. XD</p>
<p>I’m sort of just reconciled myself to being deferred/rejected at this point, and it’s sort of awesome. I’m sure I’m probably just building myself up for a mental breakdown of epic proportions on Friday at 4:55 pm though…</p>
<p>Lolololol ^</p>
<p>@ canarybird- decisions come out on Thursday…</p>
<p>lol. I love how the trolls come out this time of year</p>
<p>Hey guys! I’ve been creeping on this board for a couple months now, and finally registered…</p>
<p>I completely understand all of the annoyance with the “you’re going to get in, don’t worry!” On one hand, it’s so sweet, but it’s still impossible to deal with. One of my friends has made her yoga mantra “The grass is green, the sky is blue, and (my name) is going to Yale” x) I came up with a counter-message that I repeat every time, to balance it out- does anyone else do this? Make sure to also imagine rejection when you imagine acceptance, etc.?</p>
<p>What will be everyone’s biggest frustration if they don’t get in? For me, it’s going to be that I live in an itty bitty Texas town where no one has ever even applied to an Ivy for at least 20 years. I hold all of the school academic records and have been in almost every club, so if/when I don’t get in it’ll kind of be like I never stood a chance, you know?</p>
<p>@ender94, lol i guess the stress is getting to me… let me just go crawl in a hole and die now</p>
<p>@madasahatter: hooray for awkwardly creeping and finally registering! :)</p>
<p>I know what you mean… I feel like people who aren’t in the application process don’t understand that good scores and grades aren’t necessarily an instant Ivy admissions ticket 
My biggest frustration will probably be that I’ll feel like I wasted my best efforts on the application-- I really think my Yale app was my best. Also, I applied EA partially because my family wants to know what our demonstrated need is, and if I’m rejected I’ll still have no concept of that for my other schools…</p>
<p>On the other hand, my boyfriend and I have a bet going: he has to buy me Pringles if I’m deferred or rejected, and I have to buy him Pringles if I’m accepted. So at least I get a small reward for a big disappointment. :)</p>
<p>@ermsypermsy: haha yes forever awkward. </p>
<p>Ooh, that’s really hard. I hope everything works out for you. Having to factor in money while looking at colleges is the worst; I wish every school had Ivy level endowments…</p>
<p>Cute! If I get in, my friends and I are going to waffle house Friday evening (we’re classy). If not, they’re brining me breakfast on this “you are special today” plate we found at a garage sale, haha.</p>
<p>@ermsypermsy my boyfriend and I have a bet going too! Except it’s for $15 xD because that way if I get in, I’ll be so happy I won’t care about surrendering $15 to him, and if I don’t, I’ll have enough money for several pints of consolation ice cream :)</p>
<p>ahhhhh less than two days!! ahhhhh</p>
<p>@ohreally and madasahatter:
Hooray for Yale admission bets! 
Well, hopefully on Thursday you’ll be [respectively] fifteen dollars poorer and full of classy waffles. And yeah, I want to go out of state for college (I’m from Georgia), just it’s so much more expensive that way but it seems to me from Yale’s calculator that it shouldn’t be a problem… I’m crossing my fingers. The last thing I would want is to be accepted to Yale SCEA and still not be able to go if I decide to.</p>
<p>PROTIP: Don’t look back at the 2015 SCEA Results for Yale… <em>shudders</em> It’ll make you so very depressed about your chances. </p>
<p>Anyway… </p>
<p>Less than 2 days away.</p>
<p>Aaah I’m EA to Yale too!</p>
<p>But I’m about 99% sure I’m not going to be accepted because most of the other schools I applied to offered me interviews, but Yale didn’t (and I definitely don’t have any super advantages just from my app. I’ve been relying on interviews to give me that extra edge!)… 
I’m kind of hoping I get deferred… but at the same time, rejection is a much cleaner break! Haha</p>
<p>Anyone else concerned because they didn’t get an interview?
I’m in Florida if that means anything.</p>
<p>And I’m sorry if someone asked this already, but I didn’t have time to read through 43 pages of posts haha.</p>