Your academics definitely have a check next to them. You seem to do a lot outside the classroom. But you have to remember, no one can guarantee you anything here. There’s a lot we don’t see, like your essays, recommendations, etc that also factor into this process.
Good luck with your interview!
@Cariar I’m in Southern CA.
Side-note: One of my friends from my school also applied EA for Yale, same school, same day. I got my interview email just a few hours earlier than her. My interview is going to be over Skype with an alumni on the East Coast while hers is going to be at our local Corner Bakery. How they split the interviews is weird, all of you who haven’t gotten yours yet don’t freak out 
My interview is next Friday, at Bryant Park’s Winter Village in Manhattan. The venue is beautiful, and it’s somewhere I’ve been many times before. They have an annual poetry festival, which I was invited to perform at through a creative writing program in 8th grade, through being NYC Youth Poet Ambassador as a freshman, and have tried to go to annually since with an old writing teacher of mine. (Hopefully this should provide nice fodder for conversation!)
I’m a bit concerned that it may be difficult for us to locate each other (though I have looked up my interviewer on Facebook, so I know what he looks like, and I provided him with my phone number). Also, since Bryant Park is obviously outside, I hope the weather cooperates.
I’m just glad that my interviewer emailed me back! He first contacted me on Thursday, and I replied to him just a few hours later, but then I didn’t hear anything back. If he hadn’t emailed me an hour ago, I was going to follow up with him tomorrow.
@BKSquared I know what you’re saying is true but were the 10 applicants you interviewed overseas randomized? I’m guessing no. Why do I have this opinion? All the applicants who were deferred or rejected in the EA round from India did not get an INTERVIEW. While those accepted, and rarely deferred, rejected received an interview. There is an correlation here in India at least.
Hi guys! I submitted my common application on Oct 31 Morning and recieved my status-portal login within 5 minutes, but the portal doesnt show a green tick on the common application and mid year report rows till date. Should I email Yale about this?
Thanks!
BKSquared was literally an interviewer…What are you? A high school student. Why are you correcting him on information that he has first-hand knowledge about?
@microgel When you mouse over where the green check should be, does it say something like “document received?” That’s what mine says (the icon is like a mini-document instead of a green check).
@microgel if you are not applying SCEA, there will not be a green check next to the mid year report because your counselor will (in December likely) have to upload your “mid year report” (aka first semester grades) after your first semester of senior year is over. If you applied SCEA then the mid year report row should not appear at all.
For the application itself, there will be a mini document icon next to the Common App row (which for me is at the bottom) I think, indicating that they received your application. Up top it should have a green check next to “application”.
Live in Chicago area. Submitted SCEA 1 week before deadline. Received portal link. But have heard nothing about an interview. Are people in the Chicago area starting to hear?
Meh. No need to pull rank…I actually find @whartonboy14’s perspective interesting. Sure, it’s anecdotal, but it’s interesting.
I’ve been a Yale alumni interviewer for a few years now, and while I am not the local coordinator responsible for assigning students to alumni, I wouldn’t be surprised if there was non-zero correlation in the international pool between interview recipients and people Yale is interested in.
You’d be surprised how much initiative Yale admissions can take…I personally know of a regional admissions officer who recently called a school to inquire in-detail about a student’s record and could quote passages from the application.
Im an SCEA applicant and and my School Report(High School Transcript) is still being awaited. However, my Guidance Counselor sent the transcript on 10/31/17. What should I do?
My interview was awesome. We had freakishly similar interests and plenty to talk about. Fingers crossed :bz
Would you mind going more in depth on what kind of things they asked you? @nicknick567
@dreamsofbrown YES! It looks something like a document but i thought it is a not-found image or something of that sort. There is a small pop up which says doc received. Thankyou so much. I was dying of anxiety.
@tripledouble2000 Thankyou!
I got a interview, but I know I have 0 chance of getting accepted anyway so I’m conflicted.
@Arwen1 Thanks! By saying that admissions office takes initiative, do you mean almost every new school would get a call from the office and be asked questions about a student’s essays?
Nope. Definitely not every student. I’m just making the point that admissions officers will take the time to reach out to schools to inquire about specific students in some cases.
I live in a relatively small city, so is it generally the same one interviewer for your region and school?
^It can be all over the map. There tend to be higher concentrations of alums in bigger urban areas, and I suspect more on the 2 coasts. If you live in a college town, there is probably a better chance that there will be multiple alums. We are not segregated by school but by geographic area.