<p>@awesomenerd I am the same way. Just counting down the days…</p>
<p>@EricMetubiev2 I sort of know how you feel - I’m so busy with stuff that I hardly have time to think about decisions, but whenever I remember I get really nervous… I wasn’t at all these past few weeks though. Also, the fact that one of my close friends was just accepted to Stanford (QB) a few days ago is making me even more anxious. He’s literally all set, and I won’t be until April, which seems so far away at this point.</p>
<p>:D i feel you guys…i am so busy but every once in a while i’ll remember and then get so nervous…</p>
<p>thelemonisinplay: You’re welcome. </p>
<p>Rejections are just a fact of life. The key is likely to off-set such with more “raffle tickets” so to speak. Most people in my generation that I know well, who went to college, look back with a similar reflection… they wish that they would have applied to 2-3 more schools, so that they would have had more options. </p>
<p>So that would be my advice to all applicants this year. Take a look at your total list and speculate on what it would mean if 1/2 or up to 3/4th of all of your prospective schools failed to accept you. Are you fully content with the 1/4th to 1/2 remaining? or would you be better prepared having a couple more fall-back options available? </p>
<p>If you look at the link provided by arwarw above, just try to put yourself into that unfortunate situation. I would hate to see that happen to any quality applicant… having to take a gap year off just because they applied to too few schools. Just a thought…</p>
<p>Of course getting into Yale SCEA changes all that…</p>
<p>I’m gonna turn my volume off before I enter the website on the 17th. Don’t want it to ruin the surprise.</p>
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<p>milkweed, I agree with your assertion that those are reaches for anyone due to their low acceptance rates.</p>
<p>I would concur that applicants should be conservative in their approach and assume that a low acceptance rate is a strong indicator that you may not find success applying there, regardless of your individual credentials or whether you Match well with them. When I was using the terms Reach, Match and Safety… I was echoing the definitions I had read on “Princeton Review”… but a Match school in no way implies that you can predict acceptance there. And this is why, to a degree, my D has applied to more than the norm.</p>
<p>Here below is the “Princeton Review” description, in case you are interested:</p>
<p>"As your list takes shape, include schools that fall into one of the following three categories: match, reach and safety. A match school is one where your academic credentials fall well within (or even exceed) the school’s range for the average freshman. "</p>
<p>Anyone else out there got finals Dec 17? =(</p>
<p>yep i have finals 16th-18th :(</p>
<p>My D has applied to 10 other schools besides Yale SCEA; her top 3 choices are Yale, Brown and Tufts. She’s all ready accepted to Tulane (safety,) and has apps in at Bowdoin, Middlebury, Northwestern, Oberlin, U Penn, Vassar and Williams.</p>
<p>She visited Yale 3 times and interviewed on campus over the summer, but we are not expecting an admittance (based on reviewing past acceptance threads and the randomness of it all.)<br>
She loves Yale but will not be upset as we come from a small public school where only a handful have ever applied; this time last year Yale was not even on her radar.</p>
<p>@awesomenerd: lol sigh i really wish the results came out the 15th like all the other skools but oh well =D</p>
<p>picktails: I’ve noticed a trend here… maybe you have noticed the same thing. It seems that female applicants apply to a larger # of schools on average than males. I’m not sure what that indicates, but it does appear to be the case 
Our Ds have applied to 4 of the same schools. Good Luck to her…</p>
<p>University of Michigan comes out Friday the 13th supposedly hahaha</p>
<p>Does anyone know when the decisions are finalized— that is, when do the committee meetings (to finalize acceptance/rejection/deferrals for borderline applicants) officially end? There’s a good chance that my decision is already set in stone but I was just wondering. I invested so much energy into Yale that I honestly would be especially saddened if I were to be rejected. My interviewer was shocked (in a pleasant way) that I knew so much about the activities at Yale, its summer abroad internships, campus traditions (such as the infamous running around naked in the libraries throwing candy during midterms), courses in specific departments, New Haven and its restaurants, and the student body. I even named off all 12 residential colleges for her and described how they looked! It sucks, however, that interviews don’t matter and that they really don’t give a rat’s fart about how interested you are. 
T-minus 12 days…</p>
<p>I’m keeping (extremely) busy and have already scheduled something to do the evening of D-Day so that I won’t be stressing about it the whole day, but still… I can’t help this niggling feeling that all I’ll see on the 17th is a big fat ‘rejected’.</p>
<p>It’s amazing how many people pledged for the SCEA round this year though (on a somewhat brighter note) :)</p>
<p>WWWard, it seems that the conventional wisdom is that highly selective schools should be treated as reach schools. Here is a Princeton Review (not that they are any sort of final authority) blog on the subject:</p>
<p>[When</a> It Comes to Highly Selective Colleges, Even a ?Match? Can Be a ?Reach? - In - Your Guide to College Admissions from The Princeton Review](<a href=“http://in.princetonreview.com/in/2013/04/when-it-comes-to-highly-selective-colleges-even-a-match-can-be-a-reach.html]When”>http://in.princetonreview.com/in/2013/04/when-it-comes-to-highly-selective-colleges-even-a-match-can-be-a-reach.html)</p>
<p>“counselors usually advise their students to apply to a good selection of “safety,” “match,” and “reach” colleges.
However, excellent students—those whose “matches” (based on their academic credentials) are highly selective colleges—would be wise to modify this approach.”</p>
<p>WWWard, just a suggestion, but on your east coast trip you might persuade your daughter to look at a couple of true match schools. After all, she has already applied to the long shots and you can always visit those schools post-acceptance. We’ve been road tripping now since the end of my daughter’s sophomore year, and there are some wonderful gems on the east coast outside of the top twenty schools. </p>
<p>On the other, hand if your daughter is truly excited about her safety schools, I suppose there is no need to explore the middle.</p>
<p>Just my opinion and probably worth what you paid for it.</p>
<p>arwarw: In my D’s case, if even her 7 Matches should really be viewed as Reaches due to their selectivity… and if she is ultimately denied admission to all 11 of the Reach/Match schools that she is truly interested in attending, she has stated that she would prefer to simply stay in Florida and choose among her 3 safeties. She has identified 11 schools that she would really be interested in attending, but she is also taking a very fatalistic approach and does not want to go to a school that does not in the end also want her. She has stated that she also does not want to attend a school that merely approximates what she is looking for in a college. I have encouraged her to even go beyond the 14 and also possibly apply to Rice, Emory, Vanderbilt, UVirginia or Pomona, but she is thus far not interested. Maybe you are right… and maybe the road trip can take in another school that inspires her… or maybe a peer can convince her. Her public high school did send on students to Harvard and Penn last year who seemed to have equivalent credentials, so she seems confident that one of the 11 will accept her. If not… I guess she’ll stay close to home…</p>
<p>For those of you who are actual SCEA Yale applicants, would a Deferral decision on Dec 17th in any way change your feelings toward Yale? Would you still be hoping for an Acceptance via the RD round… and be eager to commit there? Or would a Deferral have tempered your enthusiasm in a significant manner?</p>
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<p>@WWW re: deferrals. The emotions run the whole gamut. Some people are so put off, they emotionally can’t come back to the starting line even if they are accepted in March. It’s an example of the “sunk cost fallacy” however.</p>