<p>No Philo, you gotta stop that!
On the topic of second choice schools, I really liked Princeton, but seeing people’s playlist suggestions (on the P’ton SCEA thread), I’m rethinking it ;)</p>
<p>the ones with the shortest supplements :P</p>
<p>@retrohippo if you don’t get into Yale, you should definitely, definitely, DEFINITELY consider Princeton! Not that I’m biased cause it’s my first choice or anything…
and don’t judge based on the playlist suggestions! people suggest crazy things at crazy times (like when they’re waiting for a college decision that won’t come out till Tuesday!)</p>
<p>Hah I jest - but prospective Yalies seem to have much better taste in music. And in early schools, but hey…
I will be applying to Princeton if I don’t get into Yale. Guess I’ll just have to live with pop atrocities.</p>
<p>For people who applied to Yale-NUS by checking the box at the bottom of the Yale supplement: when do we hear about that? (Just out of curiosity; I seriously doubt that I’d get in.)</p>
<p>Can we start a list of books suggestions for the winter break? Among other genres, let me know if there are some good murder/mysteries or autobiographies you know of !</p>
<p>babykid, if you were contacted for an interview specifically for Yale-NUS (which means you were shortlisted), that means you made it past the first “cut” (per se) and will either be accepted, deferred, or rejected on December 15th (Singapore time).</p>
<p>If you were not contacted for an interview, you will hear back from them at the same time.</p>
<p>Thanks, CantConcentrate. I wasn’t contacted, so I’m probably not going to get in. Again, just out of curiosity: who is doing the Yale-NUS interviews? Yale alumni?</p>
<p>@redboldx
Reading suggestions:
Ordinary People by Judith Guest
Before I Die- Jenny Downham
A Prayer for Owen Meany- John Irving
also a autobiography I really like is Lucky Man: A Memoir by Michael J. Fox, but I’m a huge Michael J. Fox fan (I wrote about this book in my Columbia supp i think. i also like it cause my grandfather has Parkinsons)
And mystery:
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie is really good.</p>
<p>@redboldx : “The Name of the Rose” is such a classic murder mystery, though it is a bit dense at times. I enjoyed it. The only other thing about it is that Eco randomly keeps various sayings in the original Latin that the monks would’ve been speaking in. I take Latin, so this was quite alright with me, but I don’t know how it’d affect others… You could probably gloss right over the tiny Latin bits and be fine</p>
<p>Agatha Christie + Sir Arthur Conan Doyle are my go-to for light mystery/whodunit reading. I really enjoyed Patti Smith’s autobiography Just Kids, and in a totally different style, Angela’s Ashes and Teacher Man by Frank McCourt are excellent, but skip out on Tis (the second of the three).</p>
<p>ahhh these all sound really good can’t wait to check them out!</p>
<p>On other colleges, I like Columbia for a second (then H, UPenn). I like the core curriculum and the emphasis on being able to write well and stuff. Haha. “Write well and stuff”, that’s a good contradiction.</p>
<p>About books, I absolutely love “Catcher in the Rye” because I like thinking about living life from a different perspective and analyzing Holden’s behaviors.
Good thing I’m majoring in engineering :3
A lot of you probably have read it for school or something but if you haven’t it’s a good one. It’s a love-it-or-hate-it kind of book I guess.</p>
<p>Also it was many pages back but @deliciousminh that’s cool on the similar essays. I guess out of 4000 applicants some of them have to have similar applications, right?
I hope our enthusiasm and happiness get us into Yale. Crossed fingers.</p>
<p>The Duke people got their notifications. A lot of “accepted” so far…but I’m sure those are more likely to be the first people to post.</p>
<p>on a heavier note, two of my friends got rejected to Penn ED… sigh, Friday needs to come faster!</p>
<p>Just to be clear and to assuage my fears, no one’s mid year report has been received by yale right?</p>
<p>@whackymole, I feel you. My two friends who applied ED to Penn were accepted (I’m so happy for them!), but 5 students from my school applied to Brown and were either rejected or deferred. Gosh, I’m so anxious!</p>
<p>@economist13 mid year reports don’t get sent out until the end of the first trimester/semester depending on how your school does it</p>
<p>@Economist13 I called Yale Admissions and they said that they don’t use mid-years until the regular decision cycle. (I had a first quarter report sent, but it didn’t show up on my Eli Account, so I called to make sure they got it and they said they had it on file.)</p>