Haven’t got a Yale interview yet even though all my friends have. I’m a little nervous, does this mean I was automatically rejected?
@MangoLover11223 Although I’m not in the process of applying to college yet (doing that next year) I have done enough research to know that no, just because you haven’t gotten an interview does NOT mean you’ve been rejected. Interviews are a pretty insignifcant part in the application process that doesn’t have as much impact as the essays and the stats do. If anything they barely have any impact. It’s just simply there for the purpose of getting an opportunity to learn more about the university or for the admissions officers to learn a little bit more about who you are, especially if that doesn’t necessarily come across in your application as much as it could have. That’s it. In no way form or shape does it determine which person has a better chance of getting it than another applicant. There are multiple people who have gotten into Ivies without having gone through an Interview process. And since these are mainly alumni interviews not getting an interview could mean that there aren’t as many alumni’s in your area or maybe the admissions officers have gotten a good enough picture of who you are that they don’t think you need an interview. In short, no it doesn’t mean you’ve gotten rejected. Absolutely not. No.
My D has been accepted through early decision NUS but is suddenly getting cold feet, any tips on how to avoid her jumping ship??
What are her reasons?
Likely letters have been sent! Congrats to everybody for working your butts off
(A kid in my school got one)
I did not receive a likely letter…bummed 
Does Yale only send LL to certain applicants (based on intended major, geography, etc.)
Also, from my knowledge on my school’s history, Yale has not taken a single student - not that many applied anyways. The issue is, however, that Yale accepts students from a neighboring school every now and then. Even though this other high school is similar in student size, it dominates my school is AP, DE, honors, etc. offerings.
Q: Does applying from a school where no student has been accepted a good or bad thing?
Q: Does Yale tend to cap accepted students from certain geographic regions?
Congratulations to all of you that got accepted! Kindly share any advice for next year applicants. I have GPA, lot of school clubs, leadership positions, good SAT/PSAT scores. I know this is just the minimal requirement.
@David5700044 , I don’t think there is any particular advantage or disadvantage. The student will be judged based on his or her accomplishments in the context of the programs offered at his/her school. Where there may be a slight disadvantage relative to schools in the same region which have a track record of consistently sending students to elite institutions is that the GC’s may be better versed in navigating students through the process and the AO may have more confidence as to the quality and rigor of the academics of the “known” school. I think though that is easily overcome with high test scores, SAT/ACT, SAT2’s and AP’s.
I am not aware of any soft quota’s related to regions, but the first reader is assigned to a specific geographic region. I am pretty sure high density areas will have more readers relative to lower density parts of the country so that the work load is more evenly distributed. It would be human nature for the first readers to “rank” their applicants, so I have always been of the belief that it is advantageous to be from a low density area. Even assuming the readers each have an initial pile of 1,000 to 1,500 applications to sort through, it may be easier to stand out if you are from some small town in Montana vs a kid from the Bay Area where there will be many, many similar applications. As a whole, there will be many more kids accepted from the Bay Area than Montana because there are just more qualified applicants from there, but as an individual, I’d rather be from Montana.
No likely letter lol but I finally received an invitation for an interview.
@BKSquared Would you say Minnesota is a pretty dense area when it comes to applying to the Ivy Leagues, most specifically Yale? It’s honestly something I’ve been curious about for a while. My school barely, if not never, sends people off to Ivy League schools. One senior applied to Harvard last year in my school but he didn’t get in. One girl in my school though got into Yale this year but she’s a D1 athlete and though I’m sure her grades and application were really good and she worked hard I feel like that really boosted her into getting in.
My take on the above article: If your high school is not currently sending a number of students each year to the ivies – no matter if that high school is in Minnesota, Michigan or Missouri – that does not bode well for your chances at any ivy league school.
Wow. That’s encouraging… >.<
And pretty skewed if you ask me. So if I have good EC’s, good testscores and strong essays I’d still get rejected just because I didn’t go to a top public/private school???
^^ Sorry, but that’s the reality. If your high school is not a feeder school to the ivies, your overall chances even with good EC’s, test scores and strong essays are not great.
@Lunarlitgend I would not be as pessimistic as @gibby. Certainly there are “feeder” schools that send proportionately more kids to top schools each year, but those schools also have a proportionately higher number of super achieving students with many hooked applicants, especially legacies and donors . We live in a relatively “sparse” part of flyover land and my kid’s public 1500+ student HS might send a kid a year to an HYPSM or other selective highly school (most kids that go to college go to one of the state universities or CC). The “magnet” school in town might send 2-4 each year (usually different schools). That school had not sent anyone to H in years, but they got 2 unhooked kids in a couple of years ago. Applicants chances are low because of the general level of competition for a very limited number of seats. What school you graduate from ranks pretty low in the factors IMO unless you come from a feeder school where there is relationship between the GC and the AO.
As to Minnesota, it falls generally in the middle in terms of state representation, 15-20 freshmen matriculates a year. I am guessing there is some density from the Twin Cities area. What you see though is that a few states dominate (CA, NY, CT, NJ) and then you have another tier of populous states and then the rest with single digits. https://oir.yale.edu/sites/default/files/w026_fresh_bystate.pdf Latest I could find.
@BKSquared Thank you so much! That was way more helpful! And I guess it makes sense as well. Yeah the Twin Cities is a pretty full area with some prestigious schools here and there unlike the suburbs that are just full of normal public schools instead.
@Lunarlitgend on the same topic, I would ask you not worry. I’m the FIRST kid from my school every APPLYING to a top tier university. I’m an international, and last year I saw many people from my country get into top tier schools (specifically Harvard and Duke) though they were the first from their school. If you’re awesome, don’t worry about the things we can’t control.
@cat111111000 Oh wow, That’s amazing! 
LOL, thank you a lot for the motivation I really appreciate it and it makes me a lot more hopeful! 