<p>@twentyseventeen hopefully that doesn’t mean what I think it means? The date is still set for this friday, right?</p>
<p>It’ll be this Friday.</p>
<p>Still set for this Friday! This just appeared at the top of the Yale website. </p>
<p>“EarlyAction applicants to the Class of 2017: Decisions will be available on our website the evening of Friday, December 14. Please note that you will need your Eli Account information to login tocheck your decision.”</p>
<p>I’m so worried now. I have this sinking feeling that if we have teacher’s names replacing the teacher rec part of the status page that our decisions have already been made: for better or for worse. And that just stresses me out.</p>
<p>This’ll be a long week.</p>
<p>amen to that, the closer the day gets the more I’m expecting deferral</p>
<p>@CantConcentrate I think that it means that your teacher submitted their recs online, cause me and a couple other people who submitted their teacher recs by paper still have just “Teacher Recommendation” on ELI.</p>
<p>Ok so all you people that are expecting deferral: what if you get flat out rejected?
Idk it just seems like you should keep that possibility in mind.</p>
<p>@Eeyore4 I think we’re all trying to shrug away that possibility in order to keep our own sanities in check haha. I think it’s ok to be at least a little bit optimistic; if we were expecting a rejection right off the bat, most of us would have applied elsewhere for SCEA. It’s definitely a possibility though, and hopefully none of us here have to go through that! Good luck to all of us 
you guys are great</p>
<p>New notice on Yale App News:
[Freshman</a> Application Process News and Notes | Yale College Admissions](<a href=“http://admissions.yale.edu/news-and-notes]Freshman”>http://admissions.yale.edu/news-and-notes)</p>
<p>If I’m rejected I’m rejected. It won’t stop me from applying to other Ivy Leagues. Many people are rejected at some Ivy’s and accepted at others- I’ve even heard rejected at SCEA and then accepted in RD at another. The odds are against us all and to be rejected over deferred does not indicate we do not have a strong application, the pool is just huge with limit spaces.</p>
<p>I wish the new notice would have consisted of actually new information.</p>
<p>They’re teasing us and they know it. >.<</p>
<p>@Cedardog that’s a really good point. People who do admissions have even said that sometimes it just depends on your luck/their mood that day.
@Philovitist I totally feel you! We’ve waited this long, whats another 4 days 2 hours 51 minutes 35 seconds? (Actually these are gonna be the longest 4 days of my life…)</p>
<p>I agree with Cedardog in principle that our decisions on friday are not final in anyway. However, they are telling in a strong sense. While I do not wish to be mean, I find this fatalist attitude that there are too many qualified applicants for them to fill while true annoying. This is true but the people who get in, get in for a reason. It is lucky but it is also because they are better in some way than those who get rejected</p>
<p>Yeah, I know that I’ve done absolutely all that I possibly could’ve done. If that’s not good enough for Yale, then I’m destined for another great school :)</p>
<p>I disagree. Accepted students are not “better” - Yale has a class to fill up and priorities in filling that class. When the applicants are of this calibre, it’s incredibly difficult to distinguish between them. Maybe there were just too many would-be pre-meds one year; a rejection is not determinant in any way of an applicant’s worth.</p>
<p>I am not saying anything about a person’s worth as a human being. Certainly there are people who are perfectly qualified that do not get in at no fault of there own. However, I think people should take some responsibility and not blame it on everyone else ironically which lemming101 is doing. The average accepted applicant is better than the average rejected applicant obviously which is not to say rejected students couldnt be accepted just that it is not as random a process as people are making it out to be.</p>
<p>@lucya01995 my brother currently attends UVA, so I agree that the in-state tuition is very nice! And yes, I was offered an interview by an alumnus who currently teaches at W&M. Were you able to secure an interview?</p>
<p>Oh I’m not blaming everyone who gets in, I’m just saying that if I don’t get in there’s a good reason for it, but I know that my application was how I wanted it to be when I sent it off - it reflected who I am etc, so if I get rejected I know that it’s because Yale wasn’t meant to be and wasn’t going to be the best school for me. </p>
<p>I think that I ‘deserve’ to get in, I don’t have PERFECT scores etc, but I did all that I could without completely burning out…</p>
<p>Once you pass a benchmark, though, it’s not about earning anything. It’s about being the right person at the right time.</p>
<p>let’s be honest, we wouldn’t be applying to Yale if weren’t awesome in some way or another… yale is not the be all and end all of schools (i say, telling myself this everyday)</p>