<p>I haven’t heard of anyone getting interviews and last year it seemed on the discussion thread that only people who got interviews were accepted…
maybe it’s not the same this year…
did you do the optional supplement? i did.</p>
<p>I’ve been following this thread for the longest time…so much anxiety! I even had a dream about getting my decisions. I’m actually incredibly busy w/ both AP and IB commitments but every second that I’m not doing something, my wanders to this haha. One friend of mine was matched to Brown last week through QuestBridge, and yesterday another got her acceptance from Washu. </p>
<p>I did apply to Yale-NUS and was offered an interview. But don’t worry! Some people are accepted w/o an interview, based on the threads I have read!
And yeah, I recall being told a date after the Yale results. I may be wrong, though.</p>
<p>Wise words from another college thread: “If I get in I’m going to be very happy for the rest of my life. If I don’t, I’ll be cranky for about two weeks. And then very happy for the rest of my life, starting New Year’s!”</p>
<p>My DD is applying to Yale RD and heard she got into Fordham a week ago. She loves Yale,Brown,and Georgetown equally and also likes Stanford. It will be interesting to see where she ends up. The only Ivy she applied EA to was Brown and she should be hearing from them on Thursday. She also applied to Gtown EA and should hear from them by 12/15. She wouldn’t apply to Yale EA. She has great stats and goes to a very competitive private HS but felt better applying to Yale RD.</p>
<p>Sk8gurl, your daughter is taking the risk that her offers could be rescinded. Brown is binding ED, not EA. Did you read the agreements, before you signed them?</p>
<p>Regarding Georgetown “students applying under the Early Action program may not apply to any binding Early Decision programs”</p>
<p>It may be too late, but try to withdraw the Gtown application or vice versa. It was your responsibility as a parent (and her responsibility as a student for pete’s sake) to know what your daughter was getting herself into.</p>
<p>According to M. Hernandez, former Dartmouth Adcom, the highly selective schools share lists of accepted EA and ED students and system technicians then cross check the lists for violations. This is done to maintain the integrity of the system.</p>
<p>Your daughter could be admitted and then have her offer rescinded at a much later date. I would contact your daughter’s Guidance Counselor ASAP to clear it up.</p>
<p>I wonder how prevalent this is? Hopefully it is a very small percentage of Early applicants who endeavor to cheat the system. Even if it was initially done inadvertently, due to a failure to read and understand the rules and certifications required to submit an application, it is hard to make it all the way to Decision Day without learning that a mistake was made. This is behavior that everyone warns against. And if such an applicant does not withdraw all but one such Early action/decision application, they should be penalized… as it is just not fair to the vast majority of Early applicants who do follow the rules as prescribed by colleges. It is especially risky behavior for anyone interested in an Ivy school, as they do routinely update each other about infractions when discovered.</p>
<p>question. if a very generous alum asks Admissions to flag the application of a qualified applicant, does anyone know if it helps?
thanks!
signed very anxious in the city</p>
<p>Years ago, when I was an applicant to college, I had met a man (friend of my father’s) who had donated over $40M to Harvard. He asked me if I wanted him to make a call and get me in. He was just that direct about it. I told him not to… and eventually I was rejected. But I did not want to go to a school that otherwise would not accept me, absent an external influence like that. I will never know if it would have influenced Harvard… but he was certainly convinced that he had pull with them in such matters.</p>
<p>And since Harvard’s library carries his family name… he is likely correct.</p>
<p>yes, i get not wanting the ‘extra help’, but the reality is that so many truly qualified applicants are denied admission because the process is so subjective and there are 3 times as many qualified applicants as there are places in the freshman class. so when my son was offered an extra ‘call’ although he was conflicted, eventually he said,‘why not’, figuring that they’re not going to accept him if he doesn’t fit.</p>
<p>Believe me, I was partially conflicted… and maybe I should have accepted the assistance, especially since I was way too over confident and only applied to 3 schools. I was rejected at Harvard, wait-listed and then finally not accepted to Yale and accepted to Johns Hopkins, my 3rd choice. Everything turned out well, but I have thought back on it many times and wondered how the assistance could have changed my fate. Good luck to your son. If he believes himself to be otherwise qualified, he should not think twice about it. Looking back, I should likely have accepted the help too :)</p>