<p>Our application was right up on the deadline…so that could be a factor.</p>
<p>I got contacted by a Yale alum in mid-Jan. I’m in the SF bay area. I still haven’t gotten a request from Columbia and am pretty sure none is forthcoming… it’s the only school that hasn’t contacted me, so I’m just gonna roll with it.
Edit: forgot to mention that I submitted all my apps just a few days before the deadline.</p>
<p>Bottom line: don’t stress over the interview. The interview report really doesn’t count for much in the process, and they certainly won’t penalize you for not getting an interview!</p>
<p>Thank you, guys! Still no interview from Yale, but got interview from UChicago, Penn, and USC 
Still anxiously waiting…</p>
<p>For SCEA (at Yale), I wasn’t contacted by my interviewer until a few days before the final interview report deadline (and we ended up having it that day.) So there still is time.</p>
<p>Just curious…any other legacies applying?</p>
<p>Yep I’m a legacy to University of Minnesota and St. Olaf’s College. Don’t think it’ll help at Yale though. :(</p>
<p>Another Yale legacy here. Eh, it might mean my app gets a second look, but I royally screwed up most of the supplement, so I’m not counting on much.</p>
<p>When is the final interview report deadline?</p>
<p>I think I read somewhere that Feb. 15 was the soft deadline for interviewers.</p>
<p>Alright, I thought that I would share my Yale interview experience since others have provided useful info.
We decided on meeting at a Starbucks after playing a game of telephone tag for a couple of days. She’s a neuroscientist at a research institute and I am just a lowly high school student who aspires to achieve as much as she has.
She was extremely sweet and very open about ALL the components of her Yale experience (partying included). She was super impressed by my achievements in languages and though she was a recruited athlete with near-perfect grades, she was very humble about what she had done leading up to her acceptances (Harvard and Yale)
She kept saying that I had really good questions. Some of the answers that stuck with me were that she “wouldn’t change the collegiate experience but would take classes now that she was afraid to back then (because of workload/difficulty of obtaining high grades)” and one funny one about her research experience and how she didn’t understand the significance of it at the time (she was petting mice all day :P)
I brought a few pieces of artwork to show her the result of my long-term investment in an activity that means a lot to me.
I thoroughly enjoyed myself and this interview reinforced the idea that Yalies are laid back and very normal people who don’t like to show off their intelligence, but who still embrace it to the fullest extent to achieve as much as possible (after all, this alum is only 32 and she is already head of a research lab and lectures students at UofT)</p>
<p>Hello. This is an international student applying to the undergraduate class of 2017.
Applying for financial aid/scholarhsips - Yes.</p>
<p>GCE O’level - 10A<em>'s [Pakistan Studies, Islamiyat, Urdu, English, Maths, Additional Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Computers, Statistics]
GCE AS’level - 2a’s [Physics, Chemistry]
GCE A’level - 1A</em> [Maths]
Currently taking: GCE A2’level Physics, GCE A2’level Chemistry, GCE A’level Thinking Skills, GCE A’level Further Maths.</p>
<p>Converting these grades to the US GPA scale (out of 4) - 4.0 (as told by a university)</p>
<p>Most rigorous curriculum in my school during both, O and AS/A2 level.</p>
<p>SAT Reasoning Test SUPER SCORE - 2120 [800M, 720W, 600R]
SAT Subject Tests - 2200 [Math1, Math2 (800), Chem]
TOEFL iBT - 113 [29R, 27L, 27S, 30W]</p>
<p>Sports - Cricket, Soccer, Swimming, Water Polo.</p>
<p>Student Govt (5 years, including an year that saw me become the school’s Head Boy), have remained the President/ Vice President of different clubs (English Literary Society, Urdu Literary Society, Debating Club) and also the leader of the school’s band.</p>
<p>HEAVILY involved in Parliamentary debates and Cricket.
Leader of my school’s and ex school’s parliamentary debating team. Several accomplishments at the school and regional levels. Awarded ‘The Best Debater’ by my ex school.
Have remained the captain of several cricket teams (in and out of school). Played several quarter finals, semi finals and finals. Declared a top 5 and a top 10 cricketer on two distinct occasions. Regular player of the sport in my area’s team.</p>
<p>Member of a soccer team at school. Member of a water polo team too, at my city’s Gymkhana. Active swimmer.</p>
<p>Community Service (400 hours)
Paid Work Experience (400 hours)</p>
<p>Teaching Assistant of my Maths teacher at his tuition centre.
Trained students for parliamentary debates at my previous school.</p>
<p>Top rankings in International Kangaroo Maths Competitions, with the best laying in the top 0.48% of some 8500 candidates nationwide. Just won a Maths competition at IBA, Karachi too, where I also led a delegation from my school.</p>
<p>Top 15 O’level results in my school’s network nationwide.
Top AS’level results in my school’s network citywide.</p>
<p>Best Essay Writer, Best Band Player, Best Leader - some of the titles I was awarded with by the school on official certificates.</p>
<p>LOVE reading cricket books - have a small library at home too.
Enjoy collecting foreign curreny - got an album full of awesome notes and coins.</p>
<p>Hook - Designed a computer project to transform the school’s manual record keeping system into a computerized one. My Principal LOVED it, and yes, implemented it too.</p>
<p>I guess that’s all, though, I think, I must have missed out on some little things.
Please chance me for my universities - I would highly appreciate your efforts!
Thank you. :)</p>
<p>I’m URM but I got a likely for chem engineering stuff</p>
<p>Sorry if this has already been discussed but is there anyone else who was deferred SCEA?
Did you write a letter providing more information for your application? Is it too late for me to do so? And where/how do I send it?</p>
<p>Yup, I just sent a brief email to give an update (:</p>
<p>Sent from my SGH-T959P using CC</p>
<p>I sent mine in about two weeks ago. I would do so soon.</p>
<p>@CricketFreak
Post it on the Chances Forum.</p>
<p>Thanks! I just e-mailed it in. Hopefully they’ll still review it and everything!
Best of luck to you both!</p>
<p>28 days to go. This is crazy, it’s finally under a month to go. I hope the tail end of this wait goes by faster than it started.</p>
<p>Does anyone know if we are accepted when we will receive financial aid information?</p>
<p>^Yes you will. If accepted, your FinAid info follows shortly – to allow you as much info needed to decide which school/package to accept.</p>