Yale Class of 2017 SCEA Discussion thread

<p>redboldx, it was a witty, super-descriptive narration of a short amount of time in first person.</p>

<p>They are taunting us. They posted a pic on the FB page about the wait almost over for decisions</p>

<p>My common app essay is about my trip to the North/South Korean border and how it backed up my desire to study international relations and work in foreign policy. I know that “my cool foreign trip” essays are cliche at the point, but I think this topic is pretty distinct. </p>

<p>The supplement was about TASP and how it was such a breath of fresh air after being stuck in the stale AP curriculum/testing box.</p>

<p>Cedardog: Which practically means that they already know everything :confused: This is killing me…</p>

<p>watchmesoar, was TASP fun??</p>

<p><em>And yay! 1300 posts!</em></p>

<p>Ah ok gotcha Eeyore. Well that’s nice to have a little less invested in the decision on Friday than those of us for whom Yale is #1… makes it a lot scarier (but high risk high reward is how I like to think of it.)</p>

<p>@stageseeker77, I’m with you for Why Yale. I didn’t want to talk about the community because frankly I just haven’t attended Yale yet and don’t have an honest sense for the community. So I talked specifics about the two departments I want to study in as well as two extracurriculars that are special at Yale.</p>

<p>@CantConcentrate It was a bundle of things, some of which were contradictory…but yes, fun was one of those things.</p>

<p>what did you guys talk about for the blurb about “what would you do with a free afternoon tomorrow”?</p>

<p>I think I talked about riding my bike and thinking anxiously about my answer to that very question.</p>

<p>Eek wow these topics are so GOOD… My Common App was about a time in the middle of a competition when, the night before the competition, one of our key members got super sick, and we were scrambling around like mad to fix the problem. My supplement was about art, and how I use art to relieve stress, but I wrote it kind of like I was painting a picture. Not… the best topics, I guess</p>

<p>Also, what is a pledge?</p>

<p>Pledge=when decisions get released, you post your decision along with your stats.</p>

<p>I believe I talked about sitting down in my room and singing aloud to covers of pop music.</p>

<p>@mangofloat your essay about art and the way in which you wrote it sounds really cool</p>

<p>I said more or less that I would find someplace quiet, listen to jazz and read poetry</p>

<p>I’ve constantly been on this thread for a week or two now so I finally decided to make an account :stuck_out_tongue: has anyone else been freaking out and comparing themselves to the admits from last years SCEA thread? I keep trying to find some sort of pattern even though i know there isn’t one. It just makes me feel better to think that there’s some sort of order to the way they make their decisions</p>

<p>@cantconcentrate how do you pledge? and I do the same exact thing! except probably off-tune >_> </p>

<p>@redboldx thanks! but… everyone else’s is so much more unique, haha. mellowing out, huh?</p>

<p>wow how did y’all fit all of that into that short little box for the why yale? very impressive! one of the worst things about these applications was the word limits! i wrote about ice skating with my best friend and reminiscing about high school since it’s senior year and all. i didn’t want to make it too serious but now i’m worried that it wasn’t serious enough!</p>

<p>67 hours left.</p>

<p>Doesn’tseemtoobadrite?</p>

<p>Right…</p>

<p>Oh, well, lucya, I used my supplement essay to write Why Yale.</p>

<p>Hey guys, I’ve been pretty uptight (as I know most of you are as well!) and being an astronomy guy, I went to my go-to, Carl Sagan for advice. This quote kind of puts things in perspective, and the video on youtube (search pale blue dot) is even better. </p>

<p>“Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam." </p>

<p>Keep it in perspective.</p>

<p>I’m applying to Yale regular, but melt your stress away with this: </p>

<p>[Great</a> BIG Indie Playlist by Nora Tan on Spotify](<a href=“http://open.spotify.com/user/122900468/playlist/08NHSHG1AKrAZkfnhuhvXO]Great”>Great BIG Indie Playlist - playlist by Nora | Spotify)</p>

<p>Nothing like a thesis of cosmic nihilism to keep the nerves at bay, eh?</p>

<p>My vice, Philo. Everything is so big. The cool thing is, since I’m also religious I get to constantly reaffirm that though we are small on the cosmic scale, God is bigger than everything, being infinite. It’s strangely alienating and comforting simultaneously.</p>

<p>@smurfinator23 Me too! I finally had to create an account…</p>

<p>I called undergrad admissions today to check that they had received part of my application. The secretary I spoke with said: “Good luck.” Would she have seen my decision? If so, would that imply I am going to be (or already have been, depending on how you look at it) deferred?</p>