<p>So today Yale called my home phone and my cell phone, but I wasn't available and had left my cell at home.</p>
<p>An admissions guy left a message on both phones telling me to call him back, so we can "discuss my application status."</p>
<p>.....what exactly is that supposed to mean? My dad seems to think it's good news, but it's still JANUARY, for heaven's sake, so I told him not to get his hopes up.</p>
<p>Anyone have any experience with this? Is there something wrong with my app? Thanks!</p>
<p>Perhaps something is missing or needs clarification. Don’t worry. Just call and find out what they need. I agree with you however: this isn’t anything to boost ones’ hopes. Now if it were late March… then that might be a good sign.</p>
<p>Someone from admissions called my son today and told him that he is a “likely” admit for 2015. They asked him to come for Yale Engineering and Science Weekend February 19-21, and they are paying for the trip. They gave him a url to a website devoted to the YES weekend . They are sending him a 2015 tea shirt. </p>
<p>Maybe they called you for the same thing.
Call them back and good luck.</p>
<p>You were right!!!
I called him back and he said I was a likely (and mentioned that special Engineering weekend, which btw sounds <em>SO</em> awesome!).</p>
<p>It was completely unexpected–I mean, three years ago, my brother applied to yale and also got a likely call…but he’s a lot smarter than me, and his call was in February and not January, so I didn’t even imagine that mine could possibly be a likely call.</p>
<p>Anyways congrats to your son! I bet he’s really excited–is he going to the weekend thing as well?</p>
<p>Wow, congrats. This is the pre-Likely Letter call that we heard about in years past. You’ll be receiving a Likely Letter soon. Congrats again to you dte and olutunde, your son.</p>
<p>As someone who worked a bit for the YES-W group in admissions, I highly recommend that you attend. You’ll get a lot of cool stuff, at the very least.</p>
<p>Thanks everyone for all the kind words! I was honestly about to freak out last night because I thought that there was something wrong with my app…luckily it turned out to be good news!</p>
<p>I’ll definitely attend the YES program–it sounds interesting! :)</p>
<p>Interesting. Since the YES program is in February and is specifically for prospective freshmen, and since presumably they need to give people at least a week notice to make plans, etc., presumably it means that the science students they really want (and whose files they have already reviewed) should be hearing in the next few weeks…</p>
<p>Or have already heard, Aniger. I’m not saying there aren’t still some calls to be made, but the majority of people probably have already been contacted, if some received mail and phone calls almost a week ago.</p>
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