Yale Class of 2018 RD Discussion Thread

<p>I was accepted to 5 of my 8 schools, my other 3 being my top three choices: Williams, Harvard (sorry) and Yale. It sucks because the last news I’ll get will be rejection letters over the course of two back-to-back days from all of my top choices… O.o</p>

<p>@LAMuniv congratulations! So far I have 6 acceptances, 2 waitlists, and 2 rejections. I’m expecting at least four more rejections this week… (Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Berkeley…)</p>

<p>I heard back from 4 of my 14 schools (2 accepts, 1 reject, 1 waitlist) and am waiting for most of my remaining decisions on Thursday. Imagine that: opening up the “admissions account” with some preliminary good news and then ending it with who knows what.</p>

<p>GOOD LUCK, EVERYONE!</p>

<p>…yeah I seriously need some luck :-S </p>

<p>@matrixsurgeon same here! I’ve been fortunately graced with 3 acceptances and 2 waitlists so far, but I know come March 27 the rejections will roll in. At least I have assurance I’m going to college. </p>

<p>and yes, good luck to everyone! may the odds be ever in your favor! </p>

<p>Hey, does anyone know when Yale will notify us? On the website, it says by April 1. Could it be earlier?</p>

<p>The wait was too real. January - April will officially be the longest four months of my life.</p>

<p>@chicagob0und
Just like Harvard’s notification time, all of the Ivy League schools have to release their decisions on the same date. That includes Yale. </p>

<p>@matrixsurgeon Do we have to check the Eli Account/Brown Portal or will they e-mail?</p>

<p>ALL IVIES RELEASE: March 27, 2014 at 5pm EDT…</p>

<p>Sorry, not trying to be rude, it’s just that on all of the Ivy threads (the ones that I applied to), this question gets asked over and over.</p>

<p>@TrinidadJames22
Decisions will be posted online onto Yale’s Eli Account and Brown’s Brown Portal. I believe that Harvard is the only Ivy League school that is sending out official decisions through an email letter rather than a link on an online portal/account of sorts (I am not sure about Princeton though). </p>

<p>@matrixsurgeon, Princeton sent an email with the link to their portal.</p>

<p>@my88keys
Thanks! I never applied to Princeton so I was not sure (I don’t know anyone that applied either). Princeton is just not a good fit for me even though it is one of the best universities in the world. </p>

<p>@jackson61 nothing but empathy coming from me - at least it wasn’t an outright rejection, right? We’ll both end up somewhere great anyway, so we should try and let it go (introducing Adele Dazeem :wink: )</p>

<p>^Can I join the waitlisted at UChicago party too? @SummerAus @jackson61</p>

<p>@SummerAus I swear “Let It Go” is my theme song for rejection, man. When I found out about UChicago I donned my headphones, listened to “Let It Go”, and cried like a baby.</p>

<p>@meghamind YES! The waitlist’s where the party’s at! ;)</p>

<p>At any rate, any comments about how I actually wrote the optional essay on the size of my nose? I am super self-conscious about it and my friend told me to write an essay over it… probs should not have experimented with Yale though</p>

<p>@meghamind I think that’s an awesome essay subject :smiley: it’s personal without being sappy or anything, and it’s certainly unique. I like it. :)</p>

<p>haha my father read it and told me I wasn’t getting in but laughed all the same because it dripped with idioms about noses… “stick my nose into” and “turning my nose up” and “counting noses.” The word nose just got so annoying by the end but I didn’t have the heart to delete anything. Thanks for the support @LAMuniv</p>

<p>@meghamind DANGIT, as a fellow with an interesting nose, I should totally have done that… Mine was just about gettin’ people in my super-STEM-oriented school interested in History. I feel inadequate now. :P</p>