<p>High school is already "a symbol of utter stress". it has taken my months of sleeping at 4, about 5 nervous breakdowns, and god knows how many difficult tests to get to a 96 average. Last term it wasnt as hard and i had a 97. I wish working hard meant i would get into a College like Yale. Anyone want to be a confidence booster?</p>
<p>Maybe you should take a step back and analyze your life. It's just my opinion, but try not to look at high school as a place to be stressed out. Many nights sleeping at 4 am (meaning 4 or less hrs of sleep) and 5 nervous breakdowns? You're so young. You shouldn't feel THAT stressed out, and you should talk to someone about it. That's not healthy for you. College academics will get even harder, especially at a place like Yale (not to say you're not qualified. I'm not the judge of that; you are.)</p>
<p>Once you get wherever you're going you'll need to learn to relax. The people I spoke to at Yale were all huge overachievers in high school, but upon arrival they learn to balance academic life with... well, life.</p>
<p>It's easy to "binge" on hard work or on laziness. The hard thing (and the necessary thing) is to find the happy medium between the two.</p>
<p>Ugh, I think they need some sort of deterrant for "let me just see" applicants. It makes the whole admissions process extremely stressful for the rest of us. Perhaps implement some sort of outrageous fee that they will pay back to you if you are accepted or waitlisted. That should keep the numbers down, but it would also hurt the minority/poor applicant pool. Maybe base it on income?</p>
<p>why do the "let me just see" applicant cause you stress? if you know they have no chance at all, then it doesn't really matter how many of them apply, eh?</p>
<p>^^I agree with heyyou. The Yale admissions officers know who really wants to attend and who's just applying for the sake of applying.</p>
<p>the guy who spoke at the Yale session I went to a couple weeks ago said that if you took out legacies, whatever recruits they had, some special cases (famous people's kids, etc) , and development cases too, then the admission rate at yale comes down to 4% or slightly less than that...</p>
<p>Harvard has done way with transfers, and one can't transfer to Princeton.</p>
<p>What will this look like for students planning to transfer to Yale next year?</p>
<p>@spiralcloud:</p>
<p>...Yuck. </p>
<p>=[</p>
<p>At a Yale info session I learned that Yale admits about 18% of SCEA applicants, defers another 50% and rejects the remainder. </p>
<p>Does anyone know the acceptance rate for the subset of SCEA applicants that gets deferred? </p>
<p>Also, how does it actually work? Are the deferred applicants re-evaluated from scratch in the regular round, their essays and recommendations re-read, and discussed again in committee? That sounds like a lot of extra work. If not, then are the deferred applicants already sorted by priority in the SCEA round and just 'filed away', with the only decision being how low to go down the list in April? </p>
<p>I'm just trying to understand the logistics...</p>
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I don't think this has ever been revealed. You would think that it would still be higher than the overall RD acceptance rate, since presumably it doesn't include anybody with absolutely no chance of admission. But who knows?</p>
<p>why are they so low!? :(</p>
<p>will they ever go back up again?</p>
<p>If it's any consolation, the admission rates for people with a ghost of a dream of a prayer of admission are more like 15-20%</p>
<p>how so? that doesn't make sense.</p>
<p>When you look at the data, quite a few people apply with grades or scores so low that there is no chance they are going to be admitted. Most people posting here aren't really competing with them.</p>
<p>Although, now that I think about, my math was probably off--I would say that that the admit rate for people with any kind of chance is at least several percentage points higher than 8.3%.
For example, out of about 22,000 applicants, 2600 had SAT CR scores below 600. For those 574 with CR below 500, none was admitted, and 2.2% of those between 500 and 590 were admitted.</p>
<p>bluewater: the admit rate is # admits/# applicants. The admit number has remained constant, the no. of applicants has doubled over the last 10 years. Therefore the admit rate has been roughly halved.</p>
<p>Yale is planning on increasing the # of admits by about 10% once they expand the college (about 6-8 years I think). But by then, the # of applicants will probably still have trended upwards to keep the admit rate below 10%.</p>
<p>When I was applying the admit rate was 16% -- was was, at the time, remarkably low. Nowadays? Holy smokes...</p>
<p>oh goodness, why couldn't they have built the extra residential college now?</p>
<p>Hunt, I don't know about that. the admit rate is 8%, but when you say that in reality it's more like 15-20% it kind of feels like it's up completely to chance when its actually not. blah i get confused just thinking about it</p>
<p>When I say the "real" rate is higher than 8%, all I'm saying is that a significant number of people apply to Yale who have NO chance of being admitted. That drives down the admission rate. It has nothing to do with chance.</p>
<p>bluewater: the building of the two new residential colleges is a huge undertaking. Prelim estimates mark it at $600M, the single largest building project in the history of Connecticut. My oldest daughter will be looking at colleges by the time the two new colleges open.</p>
<p>The new residential colleges have been on the drawing board in one way or another since the mid-70s, when it became clear that women would apply in the same numbers and with the same qualifications as men. It used to be four new residential colleges that were being proposed. However, opposition from New Haven, which didn't want so much land essentially in its downtown withdrawn from the local tax base, put the project into deep freeze. </p>
<p>For my class at Yale, there were about 9,300 applications, and about 2,500 people were accepted, to fill a class that was the same size as Yale classes today. (And Yale was still, then as now, the most selective college in the country after Harvard.) Since then, the number of applications has increased about 150%, and the number of people accepted has gone down by almost 25%. So it's not just the number of additional applications that has made things so tough; it's the increasing likelihood that an admitted student will choose to enroll at Yale rather than some other college. (In my day, there were plenty of Yale-Harvard dual admits, and it wasn't considered irrational at all to turn down Yale for Dartmouth or Williams.)</p>