<p>Yale scea-ears, how do you guys think geographic location plays in the admissions process?</p>
<p>Whoops…excuse my grammar mush puddle…
“How large a factor is geographic location in college admissions?”</p>
<p>I’m from the Midwest, and I’m hoping that that’ll help me somehow-- while I’m sure there are a fair amount of kids on east + west coast with resumes similar to mine, I think I compare pretty well to everyone in the surrounding area of the city I live near</p>
<p>I just had my interview… The interviewer said she had no idea why it was so late relative to when decisions will be released. So nothing to corroborate any theories. :/</p>
<p>I heard a rumor that you really only compete with people in your area.</p>
<p>^ how was it outside of that though? (:</p>
<p>Also i’m from a big city i feel like that probably isn’t great. They mostly compare you to people from your school though right?</p>
<p>@canadian2013 i think it has to do with more general geographic area than school. i mean they definitely look at your school broad picture but i don’t think they compare you to individual students. then again my school doesn’t do class rank so maybe that’s what you’re talking about</p>
<p>@litotes. Same here! I’m hoping that being from a notoriously dingy city in CA will help somehow.</p>
<p>Haha that’s probably gonna be one of my sole salvation in yale admissions based on all you incredible scea-ers:)! </p>
<p>@cant concentrate boy, maybe it’s a teacher conspiracy lol… Good luck on your tests!</p>
<p>I think they compare you to, not just people from your school, but (subconsciously) past applicants from your school along with current applicants from your general region.</p>
<p>this is super late, but my music during D-day will be deferred or rejected: Imagine Dragons: It’s Time and the Beatles: Across the Universe! which I will be listening to while staring at my Big Bang Theory Poster! but I was just on fb and saw a Yale Undergraduate Admission post which said, “Congratulations to all …” and my initial reaction was that decisions were released, I am pretty sure I just had a minor heart attack! However, good luck to everyone, in one way or another, all of us must be amazing to even apply to a great school like Yale :]</p>
<p>Oh yikes. Not only does the website say: Early Action 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 to check your decision, as previously noted, now there’s a huge dummy link “EA Admissions Decisions”. When you click it, nothing really happens but it’s there… It’s there…</p>
<p>I was contacted to have a Skype interview with the Assistant Director of UGA at Yale on 12/04, which was held on 12/05. Living in near-Texas, rural New Mexico, there were no alumni in my region. By the way my interviewer made it sound, it seemed as though that interview would still be used for my SCEA decision. It is a truly terrifying thought to think that they already deferred me and that was just a RD interview. It was an absolutely amazing interview though and I could not have asked for better! </p>
<p>As far as competing within your region-- again, from the Southwest over here we only make up like 5.6% of Yale I think? Not many applicants from 'round this side of the rodeo, y’all!</p>
<p>phew ok those theories help me a lot. I compare well to my classmates, or so I’m told, and we have a very strong class this year (The councilors wrote on the school report something to the effect of “This was one of the most academically talented classes in 15 years”). And I think our school is definitely the most competitive in the greater city area-- our NMSF ratio was crazy high, for the area at least.</p>
<p>So based on all that I feel pretty great about my standing in the region… but then I think about all the ridiculous Long Island or NYC kids and the Bay Area and SoCal kids… and I cry a little bit inside</p>
<p>Lucky post #1000! hahah. Earlier today I had made it a point that I would try to get the 1000th post as a lucky omen… and then it happened without me even noticing or trying</p>
<p>Yay congrats litotes haha. As for me… all 8 students applying for my school are qualified for Yale, honestly. My county is also super competitive, and so… ~cry~</p>
<p>I live in the Bay and I’m almost positive I’m the only person from my school applying to Yale at all this year. Most kids are going for Stanford.</p>
<p>My district has only one applicant… me O_O</p>
<p>JordanSaidWhat, so wait. You were still interviewed for SCEA right? Glad to hear it went well!</p>
<p>Pretty sure I’m the only person applying from my school, at least for early action. Our first graduating class was in '09, so there’s not much of an alumni history to look at. Very few people really try for the ultra-selective schools.</p>
<p>On friday I’ll be at school for an event, and they will be selling cake-pops, can anyone guess what I’ll be doing if I’m deferred or rejected?</p>
<p>parent butting in here–D got called for interview yesterday and will do it tomorrow night. Others in D’s school applying both EA and RD were interviewed 1-2 weeks ago, including her cousin. But not the same interviewer. Fact is (from an alum interviewer in another city I know), some names were sent very late. Sounds like it wasn’t just a few based on the late ones listed here. Don’t read anything in to it; may have been a mess up from Sandy. We’re at the tail end of the alphabet–could it be that simple?</p>