ACCEPTED! YESSS!!!
My stats
1120 SAT
3.7 GPA (weighted)
2 honors classes
Sophomore class secretary
Senior yearbook assistant editor
4H - 2nd place State Crossbreed Gilt (Swine)
Good at writing essays
Hi, congratulations on your likely letter. Any idea if Likely letters are sent only to US applicants or are also sent to international applicants?
March 26th is so far away…lucky for those who applied EA get there decisions on March 16th…uggghhhhhhh
Where did you see that it is March 16th for the EA deferred group? Everything we are seeing is still March 26th.
I’m pretty sure Yale only has SCEA and RD… SCEA came out long ago so I think it’s just RD everyone is waiting on now. Isn’t that right??
Decisions have always come out the same day, same time in the past, whether for RD applicants or SCEA applicants who were deferred.
As it will be this year. The notification date for RD applications (including for those applications deferred from SCEA/ED) is a common date for all 8 Ivy League schools and is codified in the Joint Ivy Statement on Admission Policies
https://admission.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/508_Joint%20Statement%20final%202019.pdf
My son received an interview email on Tuesday. I thought by this time all interviews would be over. Not sure what to think about that.
Can’t be bad news. Likely your S is still in contention and the AO wants another data point. Reports were due Feb 15. Could be the assigned interviewer is just really delinquent, but more likely at this late date it was requested by the AO.
@NascarFedex This cannot be bad news. Good luck!
Is there anywhere in the student portal to view Financial Aid info (documents required, documents received, etc.)? I can’t find anything, and all of the other school portals have that info.
Nope. Unfortunately, the Yale portal does not track financial aid documents.
So what do we think the odds are Bulldog Days will cancel?? Saw Harvard/MIT cancelled yesterday.
@Ohdeanor I think its very likely that they will cancel considering most universities have already cancelled their admitted students event already 
@lamdanu --I think you’re right. Have already cancelled all tours through 4/15 and any gatherings greater than 100 people. Really bummed about that. I think my student needs these visits to make final decisions. Also have a scholarship/interview weekend scheduled at another university and guessing that may cancel too. Disappointing end to senior year to miss these preview weekends.
Hi @Ohdeanor ,
Totally understand your disappointment. I know of high school kids who have practiced for a whole year and made it to state championships in their extracurricular activities and couldn’t attend.
Penn and Stanford have also canceled in-person events for admitted students.
You may already know of this incident that happened at a Yale MUN event in January.
https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2020/01/26/ymun-cut-short-amid-coronavirus-fears/
From what I remember, the event was cut short and the student turned out negative when tested for the virus.
Perhaps not a bad idea to be cautious at this time.
Good luck and stay healthy everyone!
Interesting snapshot from students who reviewed their admissions file. https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2020/02/28/why-did-yale-choose-you/
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@BKSquared --I almost posted this too. FASCINATING.
I saw this on Reddit and thought that it might be interesting:
"One of my friends at school mentioned that his SAT/ACT status in the Yale portal changed from ‘waived’ to ‘received’ and that the SAT/ACT date changed from when he originally submitted it to a new date. I don’t have a date change, so now I’m kind of confused about why it’s different.
I think there was a similar situation with Stanford or something. Does anyone have a portal change like this? Could it mean anything?"
I guess many of you know that Bulldog Days has been canceled,
and replaced by the “30 Bulldog Days of April” program.
I wonder what would admitted students like to hear, experience, and see in such a program?
I would like to hear real-time from some of their best professors and teachers, with possible Q&A sessions. Instead of squeezing everything into 3 days, now we can see and hear more, and from more people with different expertise.
Any thoughts?