<p>@retrohippo - Nice, small world! I’m aware of at least one guy there applying to Yale EA</p>
<p>I’ll just read it on in my room… don’t want to be around others at that moment haha. I’ll probably have some music that means a lot to me playing.</p>
<p>If I get in i’ll be ecstatic. If I don’t get in I think I will be fine though. I almost fully expect to be differed.</p>
<p>I’ll be in our dining room (where I keep my laptop), probably on the phone with my brother. Haha I’m expecting to get rejected (hope for the best, expect the worst). If I don’t get in, I won’t be heartbroken, especially since Yale isn’t my first choice, but I also really, really want to get in.</p>
<p>Ill be in the airport. Surrounded by strangers. My flight lands in DC at 4pm EST.</p>
<p>@Eeyore4 I’m almost going to be in the same boat. I’ll be reading it off a laptop in the dinning room probably, but I’ll be calling my sister, not brother. She was the only one in my family to go through any bit of Ivy League/Elite School applications (I’m included extended family, cousins, parent’s siblings) and the only one in my family who’s advice has meant anything and who I’ve sought. </p>
<p>Yeah…my dad was at the bottom of his high school class and had to take an extra year of a tech school before he could apply to college. So when he pretends to be some Harvard alumni pretending he understands everything that happens there and how packed your extra circulars and schedule has to be to become competitive or giving incorrect or horrible advice concerning applying, it is annoying -_- . He was outside a few months ago near my window telling my neighbor there was no way I could get into any of these schools since I was never good enough at sports to be recruited. Yeah, well at least one of us had the self-motivated work ethic and intelligence (that doesn’t add up with my parents and their parents abilities and transcripts…including my eldest Ivy sister as well. I don’t understand how we could be so much more academically accomplished…) to make an impact somehow on the world outside of a neighborhood sized bubble, with or without an Ivy league (:</p>
<p>I’ll read it in my house, alone. I will probably have to wait until saturday to read the decision considering how difficult it is at 5PM</p>
<p>I’m considering checking my result around 6pm and then keeping it to myself for a day or two (as my friends and family will undoubtedly be pestering me about it). Might as well have a bit of fun prolonging the suspense for other people… it’s the least I can do after all of this waiting, right? :)</p>
<p>i shall be in my room clicking refresh a billion times on my email. although i expect to be deferred as well, i really really hope that doesn’t happen. it sounds strange but i’d rather get rejected than have to wait for another 4 months. i cannot stand waiting!</p>
<p>I kind of wish that being deferred wasn’t even an option, that they just they just accepted or rejected everyone all in one time span instead of spreading it out.</p>
<p>no lucya, that’s not strange, especially since Yale admits a grand total of 2% of their deferreds… I’d also rather be rejected than deferred. Historically, is it true that the site goes down at 5pm? I could see that happening for RD decisions, but there are less SCEA applicants right?</p>
<p>Hmm. It is weird that on the freshman application status page (not the actual one on your Eli Account, but the one with links to various Eli Account pages <a href=“http://admissions.yale.edu/application-status-information[/url]”>http://admissions.yale.edu/application-status-information</a> ) they give an exact date for RD decisions but not SCEA. I know it said 12/14 in one of those emails, but I wonder if it’s possible that they’d release a few days early if they have the decisions all lined up. That’d be nice.</p>
<p>litotes, I remember reading somewhere that ~6% of deferrees get accepted later - about the same as the regular RD chances. </p>
<p>But I agree: I’d rather be rejected than deferred. Give me some closure.</p>
<p>EDIT: Found what I read earlier.
"Of the 51 pledgers who were deferred, 4 were admitted during RD and one was waitlisted. For all the 108 2012 SCEA pledgers, then, the final tally was</p>
<p>Accepted: 19.4% (21)
Waitlisted: 0.9% (1)
Rejected: 79.6% (86)"</p>
<p>This comes from, of course, the 2016 CC Results thread.</p>
<p>it’s also weird that on the freshman application status page underneath the “Early Action Decisions (available in mid-December)” thing, there’s a link for “Read more about the Single-Choice Early Action program at Yale,” but when i click on it, it says access denied</p>
<p>Honestly, it’s so much of a roll of the dice that I’d prefer being deferred - gives you a second chance to try your luck.
Those numbers are tiny. 4 of 51? :O</p>
<p>Eeyore4, that is weird…</p>
<p>4/51 is actually about 8% - close to Yale’s normal admittance rate.</p>
<p>Heh yeah. Tiny.</p>
<p>From what I’ve seen, everyone is saying stuff like they’re hoping to be deferred. ): Or are you guys just keeping your expectations low. Somehow I simply can’t keep my expectations low. I’m not saying that I expect acceptance, but I’m really hoping!</p>
<p>Also, how’s everyone doing on the other supplements? I’ve yet to be substantial progress on my ivy supplements… ): I have a feeling I’m depending way too much on Yale</p>
<p>Haha, of course I’m hoping for acceptance, but if I tell myself I’ll be deferred, I won’t crash as badly.</p>
<p>It happened to me last year, and I was pretty depressed for a week or so. It was bad.</p>
<p>I have two colleges left that I need to do supplements for; I’m in the editing process for all the other ones. I’m expecting deferral as well, but that doesn’t mean I’m not hoping for an acceptance.</p>