<p>I got rejected by all four Ivies I applied to, but I’m strangely okay with this! I’m waiting on Amherst tomorrow, but I’ll probably rejected there, meaning I’ll go to Patrick Henry College. AKA the homeschool Ivy. Where all my friends are and where I can major in Strategic Intelligence and basically be guaranteed a 100K+ income. Not too bad. :D</p>
<p>Everyone here is behaving much better than those in the Harvard thread! So, by virtue of that alone, congrats! </p>
<p>@MikeNY5 What’s going on over there?</p>
<p>Fights, pettiness, and other types of douchebagery </p>
<p>Agree about the H forum, they’ve been keeping me busy all day!</p>
<p>Kudos to all of you here: for your support of each other and your humility and grace during both good and difficult times.</p>
<p>@brokendhealed Patrick Henry? Isn’t it this crazily conservative, religious college? I’ve heard some really bad stuff about it… Though the 100K+ income thing is also true :P</p>
<p>Rejected. Congrats to everyone accepted!!!</p>
<p>@astaff95 It is conservative and religious, but not crazily so (and I’m an evangelical Christian, so I actually like that). Unfortunately it has a bad reputation. One I believed for a while until my two best friends started going there and said none of that was true. It’s a great school with a fantastic faculty, an awesome CLA core, and imcomparable job and internship opportunities. I’m excited!</p>
<p>Oh, and in case I forgot to say this already, CONGRATS to everyone accepted to Yale!</p>
<p>@brokenandhealed Right, I didn’t mean to sound offensive. It’s just that the only article I read about it (and a veeery long one) was about how people left the schools because they were bullied for not being conservative enough or after being sexually assaulted and bashed for it. But I know it’s the media, and they need to colour everything to fit their own needs 
I’ve gone to two different Catholic schools, and they were nowhere near what people imagined, so I’m sure you’ll have a great time! </p>
<p>I got waitlisted at Yale and Dartmouth but accepted at Princeton and Harvard. Obviously very odd, but I got into my top two choices anyway, so goodbye Yale. I just cleared my name from the waiting list to make room for someone else to move up, so hopefully it helps one of y’all out. Congrats to the Yale Class of 2018! You guys and gals are all wonderful for not only applying but also being accepted! </p>
<p>@astaff95 Yeah, the Homeschooler’s Anonymous one? They’re not exactly the most accurate or unbiased source. There are a few issues with the school, but overall they are great, and I’m really excited to go there!</p>
<p>Rejected at Yale. It was my number one coming in, but it’s just not for me (at this time). Good luck to everyone! :)</p>
<p>Does anyone else find it slightly hypocritical/ironic that Yale, a university committed to “Lux et Veritas” and doing good for the rest of the world, is surrounded by violent crime? Call me judgmental, but how can you even try to help the world if you can’t even help the city around you?? </p>
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OK. I will. You’re judgmental.</p>
<p>New Haven and its environs have been helped tremendously by the presence and spending power of Yale. They give enormous benefits to their employees who choose to buy a home within the city limits among many other stellar town-gown relations. The student outreach to more impoverished areas in the NH area is to be lauded. Your over-generalizing about the cause and effect of poverty and crime shows very shallow judgment in my opinion. Perhaps you’d be better served in a more bucolic setting. Yale firmly sits in the real world. Poor people are around. A brown skinned person might ask you for change. Yale students are bettered by knowing that most of the world lives like this. </p>
<p>rejecteddddd…but waitlisted at columbia! silver linings, anyone? :)</p>
<p>I read all these books by Michele Hernandez on the importance of essays, ECs, passion and the “holistic” approach to admissions. For the two girls that got into Yale from my school, they had great grades, but had virtually no ECs, no leadership, no sports, no talents, no true interests and were generally quiet in class. So what it really means is that the holistic stuff is mostly BS. Get a 4.0 and high scores from a good high school and you have the best chance, no matter how boring or uninteresting a person you are. </p>
<p>Bobby96: It goes without saying that you haven’t a clue what these two girls’ actual files looked like and what their non-school related ECs were. Your armchair quarterbacking presumes you know better than the admissions officers what’s best for Yale. that’s quite the assertion.</p>
<p>@Bobby96, I originally felt as you’ve just posted. However, during this application cycle, I’ve watched my son’s classmates get accepted, rejected, and waitlisted, and I’ve marveled at how wise the decisions have been. There have been a couple of exceptions that still have me scratching my head, but the decisions align more with the sense I’ve built up of these kids over the past 4 years than it does with their “stats.”</p>
<p>Sorry, but I think you’re wrong. I’m not a big fan of hooks, but if you discount the occasional hook anomaly, the adcoms consistently get it right.</p>
<p>@bobby96, I probably go to the most academically respected prep school in the country, and even students here cannot get into yale with grades alone. I HIGHLY doubt that those two girls lacked any compelling ECs, stories, or passions.</p>
<p>My son is hispanic (hook) but that along was not enough. Yes he had the stats, an amazing essay (trust me, he;s CA essay was a 10/10), GPA, AP and obviously SAT… Five Ivies said yes including Yale, Columbia, Penn…
He did nor cure cancer nor invented something crazy…He swam his heart out for 8 years and if anyone knows the schedule of a swimmer you’ll understand…</p>