<p>Wow. Yale is serious about its STEM fields… Anyways congrats to all who received a LL!
You guys obviously deserved it!
Best of luck to the rest of us still in college application purgatory… :)</p>
<p>Ragdolls - I must talk to you. My DD’15 is thinking seriously about McGill 
DS got a likely phone call last night. More info on the likely letter thread.</p>
<p>Congrats to all who received likelies! See y’all at BDD!</p>
<p>Hey does anyone know the timeline for LL notifications? I seriously doubt I’m “special” enough to receive a letter, but I’m still holding on to a tiny sliver of hope. Do you think that all LL receivers have been notified by this point, or is it possible that admissions is still notifying?</p>
<p>Ivy League schools are technically allowed to send them until the 15th of March, so don’t lose hope if you didn’t get one!</p>
<p>So stressed out here…no interview or LL…AHHHHHHH!!!</p>
<p>@economistPhysics
I’m in the same boat buddy.
But</p>
<p>1) Interviews are given out randomly</p>
<p>2) LL’s are only given to about 10% of accepted students</p>
<p>so I’m not worried :D</p>
<p>Best of luck to us both!</p>
<p>Do LLs relieve stress or just increase it?</p>
<p>For recipients, it definitely relieves stress. It’s everyone else, who upon hearing about LLs (approx 100 non-athlete LLs to 29,000 applicants), it’s sadly, a source of stress for some. That’s 0.3% of applicants, folks. </p>
<p>If you’re sitting around waiting for one, your analytical skills needs some refreshing.</p>
<p>I took two more subject tests today to bring up my lowest scores. I think I’ll bring my previous 710 on Math 2 to an 800, and hopefully my ABYSMAL 590 from over a year ago on Lit will ascend to the mid-700’s.</p>
<p>Also, crazy how many applicants Yale has this year!</p>
<p>Just saw all the good news! Congrats to all the LL recipients!</p>
<p>I plan to take a gap year before I enroll to (any) college. I know Princeton has the Bridge Year Program, does Yale have anything similar to this that allows atleast semi- school-sponsored trip to some foreign country?</p>
<p>@theAkzis - I don’t know if Yale offers school-sponsored programs, but they will certainly let you defer a year. Off the top of my head, I think about 60-80 people take a gap year before matriculating to Yale.</p>
<p>@stupiddorkyidiot - Thanks for your answer! Yeah, I researched quite a bit about this and I was hoping I might have missed something. It’s just that my family doesn’t quite have the resources that would allow me to do this sort of thing without some kind of financial help from the institution I’m taking a year off from, which is what Bridge Year would do. </p>
<p>What do you think Yale would think about helping out with the expenses involved in a gap year? Hopeless fantasy or realistic possibility?</p>
<p>It was interesting. I had my Yale interview today, and I’m kind of unsure how it went. I had a lot of fun in it, but my interviewer and I basically discussed politics nearly the whole time (I’m planning on majoring in political science). And we focused mainly on statewide politics, which I’m less knowledgeable about than national politics. Regardless, I very much enjoyed it. :)</p>
<p>I was just contacted for a second Yale interview adter the first one from the SCEA round. It’s a different interviewer. Is this typical? If anything it gets me more involved in the admissions, so yay for that! Hope this one goes well!</p>
<p>^Was your first interview on-campus or with an alumni interviewer? You might want to confirm with the interviewer that they know you already had an interview for SCEA. It could be a specific request from admissions but it would be highly unusual in that many ASC regions can’t even interview everyone once.</p>
<p>I’m in one of those tucked away corners of the earth that’s seemingly free of Yale alumni, haha. A second interview may help though, so I think I’ll just take it. My first one was by Skype with an admissions director, this one is just an alumni and will be by phone.</p>
<p>I live in the 5th largest city in North America and yet I haven’t recieved an interview.
A bit hard to believe that there aren’t any alumni available.</p>
<p>@JordanSaidWhat</p>
<p>Good luck to you!</p>
<p>Just scheduled the second interview. I asked about my previous one and he said I was assigned to him as though I had yet to receive any interview at all. I went ahead and sent a confirmation email to my original interviewer who works in Yale UGA to confirm that my original evaluation was not lost.</p>