<p>I think that it is a very good thing that some schools let students know as soon as they are sure themselves. UTampa has done that in my D’s case as well, but they make it clear that they have a rolling admissions policy. FSU will also likely announce their decision on Dec 16th. But for all other colleges, it will likely be a long wait for my D until late March / early April. And that strikes me as rather stressful for these applicants. Yes… Yale will announce its decision at 5pm EST on 12/17, and 600-700 or so such applicants will be very happy indeed, but the remaining 3500-3700 or so applicants will then have to wait 3+ more months. So I do believe that it is a good idea to have at least one acceptance in-hand before Dec 17th…</p>
<p>Haven’t been contacted for an interview but my friend (around 30 min away) has already had hers. Is it likely that I’ll get an interview? Past students who applied from my school have gotten one, and I don’t know anyone else in my school who applied scea. Maybe the alumni left?</p>
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Not exactly. Yale will outright reject a good number whom they feel won’t be competitive in the RD round. </p>
<p>@Spool: no one can say so it’s best not to worry about something that doesn’t mean much and is out of your control.</p>
<p>T26E4, Correct… but I did not mean that the remaining 3500-3700 or so applicants who failed to gain admission to Yale via SCEA on Dec 17th will be exclusively deferred. Yes… a good number of those applicants will be rejected, and not simply deferred. My point is that around 84-86% of Yale’s SCEA applicants will be waiting until late March / early April to hear final decisions from schools. This includes schools that they applied to RD and possibly from Yale as well, if that decision had been deferred. And in reality, 95% of those applicants who were deferred by Yale will be finally rejected. The vast majority of EA/ED applicants to all elite schools will end up having to wait many months to finally discover where they may have been accepted. That is a long time, and the lengthy delay strikes me as highly stressful. I thus feel that having at least 1-2 prior acceptances from private schools with rolling admissions and/or state universities may be a very good idea (allowable alternatives that do not violate the SCEA policy). Everyone should apply to safety schools, and I recommend doing so in such a way where the results are known or may be known prior to Dec 17th in this case. My D will likely have two such acceptances in hand prior to Dec 17th, and hopefully that will be somewhat comforting to her if she is among the 84-86% (rejected/deferred) on Dec 17th versus the 14-16% accepted.</p>
<p>^T26E4 specifically corrected the numbers that you posted, they didn’t comment about the rest of your post. If you take a look at their posting history, you’ll see that there’s no need to instruct them on the college admissions process at selective colleges.</p>
<p>Can someone explain to me where it says that the decision date is December 17th? I have my eli account, but all the eli account shows me is a checklist of application requirements, not a decision date.</p>
<p>The information about the deadlines is at the very bottom of the email they sent on how to set-up the Eli account, etc.</p>
<p>Had my interview today! And it went well, mostly talked about my reading habits and favorite books. Wondering what you guys talked about in yours? Should I have stressed my extracurriculars more/treated it like a job interview?</p>
<p>^no, I think what you did was perfect. Yale can see your extracurriculars on your application, so talking about other things that make you stand out is better</p>
<p>Is there any way I can see whether Yale has contacted me for an interview? I want to make sure I didn’t miss a phone call or email. Does anyone know whether they will tell you whether anyone has contacted you if you call or email them?</p>
<p>@pilot: No it doesn’t exist. If you were assigned, an single volunteer has your info. Yale has no idea nor keeps up with this kind of info. If you don’t have an email or a phone message, you’ve not been contacted. Plz don’t stress. It’s not a requirement and indeed a notable # of applicants (some of whom will be admitted) will never be interviewed.</p>
<p>I think I said this before, but will say it again. My D was deferred Early Action, then accepted RD. She was never contacted for an interview. I think I was more concerned than she was, and kept checking to be sure she did not miss any messages!</p>
<p>I also seem much more concerned than my D. And that is likely a very good thing 
She clearly wants to go to Yale, applying SCEA, but she is being calmly fatalistic about it and in a seemingly very healthy way. Plus, she has also applied to 11 back-ups, including 3 other Ivies. Time will tell… but we are also glad that we are now within 30 days…</p>
<p>4 weeks away :)</p>
<p>awesomenerd, where in FL? We live in Tampa.</p>
<p>I sometimes wonder if my documents are somewhere in the abyss of rejection files, or cast aside for a deferral, or being presented to a committee who is dissecting every line of my essay or recs. Yikes!</p>
<p>I was finally contacted by an interviewer and at first I wasn’t sure if I wanted to reply. I’m good with people but have no experience with an interview but after some thought i decided to do it because. At the best it might help me get accepted and at the worst I was probably going to get rejected anyway haha</p>
<p>Given limited resources which precludes interviewing all applicants can anyone comment on whether being offered an interview connotes higher standing? It would seem intuitive that a school like Yale forced to allocate its limited resources would not interview those likely to be rejected or deferred. Are applicants pre-screened prior to being offered an interview? Anyone aware of the statistics regarding acceptance rates on those offered interviews vs the general SCEA pool?</p>
<p>LEPops, excellent question… curious about that as well.</p>
<p>@LEPops
I’m not even close to an expert, but I really doubt that being offered an interview means a “higher standing”. This is only anecdotal evidence, but out of four SCEA applicants at my school, only one has been offered an interview, and this person was definitely not the most qualified of the four (although still very qualified).</p>
<p>Still, it may be true; or it could be that being offered an interview means a “bubble” status–the admissions office wants to know what an interviewer thinks, while those not offered interviews are easier admits, defers, or rejects.</p>