<p>NO, no countdown!! My friend has one on her computer that literally ticks away the seconds. I’d rather forget the date entirely and come back to it a week later with zero expectations.</p>
<p>@retro I feel ya</p>
<p>people in my grade are already starting to get university acceptances to Canadian universities</p>
<p>I might just schedule something really important to do during all of Dec. 14th so that I can’t check.</p>
<p>Yup i’ve scheduled a meeting with a local politician after school so I will probably not be home at 5pm</p>
<p>Cedardog, thank you, haha.</p>
<p>retrohippo, same here. If I had a countdown on my computer, I’d be even more of a wreck than I already am.</p>
<p>I have a million tests on the 14th, so I should be occupied.</p>
<p>Hello lovely prospective 2017-ers! I am a current student here at Yale, and I would be happy to answer any last minute questions or offer any kind of angst-relieving advice to anyone who needs it. So ask away! I’m always excited to hear from prospective Yalies!</p>
<p>nick, how did you check your decision? I feel like when they come out I won’t be able to bring myself to logon and check! I’m spending way to much time thinking of ways to check my decision than I should be… Just nerves I guess. </p>
<p>Hope to see you next year!</p>
<p>@Bestillandknow0:</p>
<p>Good question! Yale’s server was actually so overloaded that I initially couldn’t even get onto it. I was convinced I had been rejected to the point that I gave up. I came back an hour later only to find out to my surprise that I was actually admitted. So a couple of things: 1) please don’t be discouraged if you can’t get onto the server. It doesn’t mean anything! 2) DO NOT be discouraged if you are deferred. Yale defers the vast majority of its early applicants (I was also deferred and so were most of my Yale friends), but I swear it does work out in the end, and 3) keep yourself busy on the day you receive your decision. Being with my friends really made things better. Do anything you possibly can to distract yourself…even if in vain. And when you feel marginally ready, go for it. Although it’s incredibly nerve-wracking, this decision will not determine the rest of your life!</p>
<p>Hope that helps! Good luck and hope to see you around next year!</p>
<p>@nick, thanks for helping (: </p>
<p>I’ve been reading through past admits and SCEA results, and it seems alot of amazing students with stellar scores, grades and ECs get turned away while other students with mediocre grades, ECs and whatnot get in, many times, it seems, on their essays and recommendations. Would you say this is true?</p>
<p>redbold: Yale admitted less than 2000 people last year and rejected 27,000. The tiny sampling based on the CC SCEA results posts makes any guesses unsubstantiated.</p>
<p>@redboldx</p>
<p>There is no disguising the fact that Yale has relatively high SAT score averages for incoming students. That being said, what you are seeing are AVERAGES (that means many people have scores below those!). In addition, I know people here who came in with perfect 4.0 GPAs, and I know some people who got some C’s. If one thing is true, Yale’s admissions process is absolutely holistic, and that’s a wonderful thing. While objective statistics do convey one facet of an applicant, often people’s accomplishments and extracurricular involvements and recommendations can make up for weaknesses in objective criteria.</p>
<p>If I can give you one word of advice, it would be not to look at the SCEA admit threads. Remember that a hundreds of students are admitted every year, and what you are looking at is an infinitesimally small sample of that data. It’s not a good representation, and it’s not always accurate. The vast majority of applicants will never post on CC…ever!</p>
<p>That is good advice nickplanet400.</p>
<p>I do think there is a baseline everyone must meet, however beyond that it is completely the application and if the reader is intrigued by you as a person. I think DD did a great job on her application, however you really never know how your total application stacks up against someone else’s application. </p>
<p>I keep trying to temper her expectations for next week, but it is hard since the majority of her friends have already been accepted into college. Waiting to March/April will be brutal.</p>
<p>That really is the part I’m worried about. Even though the majority of applicants get deferred in Yale’s SCEA pool, I’d rather get either rejected or (God forbid!) accepted just for some closure.</p>
<p>No matter what happens, I know we are all great candidates and will each go to an amazing school on our list. Here’s a countdown just for fun to prevent countdown posts in the future for those obsessing over the countdown. Happy Final Stretch! [Countdown</a> to Dec 14, 2012 5:00 PM in New Haven](<a href=“Time since Dec 14, 2012 5:00 pm started in New Haven”>Time since Dec 14, 2012 5:00 pm started in New Haven)</p>
<p>This process has made me realize how foolish we humans are (at least me haha)</p>
<p>I pretty much already know I’ll be deferred yet I’m still nervous…silly silly silly</p>
<p>Just scheduled two more meetings and a fundraiser for the 14th haha</p>
<p>Haha, you’re gonna be exhausted when you get back home to check on your decision, canadian2013.</p>
<p>I think my schedule for the 14th is something along the lines of worry, worry, worry, oh better check my decision, be depressed.</p>
<p>The 14th is one of the few days these next few weeks I don’t have some orchestra or choir concert/performance, a conference, and I have an online class that day…the block leading up to 5 pm EST so I’ll be home then. lol the irony of a busy schedule clearing for December 14.</p>
<p>I have a track meet in none other than New Haven on the 14th…good or bad omen? haha</p>