I got in… guys! Thank you God…!
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Rejected -
“Stats”
Above 4.0 high school, co-enrolled in college, high school created a program for future students to tread my path afterward, captain of track and cross country
First entered a state school as a biomedical engineering major. Bombed.
Traveled the world for a few years, India being the most impactful as I chased the illuminating work documented by Louis malle and impact of Vandana Shiva. Learned under a guru.
Worked as a paralegal in a field that specialized in pros, met amazing business owners and leveraged positive knowledge. Managed an architecture firm and worked in expert witness preparation while concurrently creating new ecoscape firm dreamscapes with Mike west lead imagineer and creator of largest universal attractions. Started a small catering business to provide organic world minded food for children, volunteered as a healthy chef in underprivileged school system gardening with Michelle Obama. Struck out on my own to create a peo that would attract tech talent away from silicone valley (failed) and met an investor who offered me a position researching pre IPO opportunities. Invested in the Green Organic Dutchman in Canada just before they went full recreational. Created enough Capital to invest in my own online CBD retail business. When I settled briefly in Missouri I ran into non licensure issues locally. Began again. I started cleaning houses and leveraged my business to include property management.
I am a single mother to two beautiful children, one of whom is transgender. I gave up my life in Missouri, sold my business, and moved to Connecticut for support after my child was hospitalized several times for suicidal ideation. I have re entered school and received almost perfect scores on every assignment and my grades are all A’s thus far. I am hoping to study art history and engage in conservation of cultural heritage. I love Tim Barringer, I love Yale’s commitment toward equity. I am originally from south dakota and knew that my father’s mother’s family included a James gilifillan who lived on white earth with Ojibwe and I looked forward to engaging with the native American cultural center and learning the language as it is currently offered. I have also recently learned that on my father’s side there are many cross stitchings of hunkpapa ancestry. Again, hoping to include the native American perspective to my and cultural collective consciousness. I have remained curious, engaged, and activated my entire life. With “lots” to prove it.
My focus is not just what I could learn from Yale but also would I could have offered, and to heal the cycle of trauma I experienced when my mother died when I was a child. Afterward I had a very difficult home life and was kicked out, made homeless while in high school. That I have survived that, that I have created so many opportunities, that I can accept the many failures (I did not complete my thru hike of the Appalachian trail)… This is a sadness. For someone like me it is the difference in thriving rather than surviving. BUT, it is not a new. Poverty is not new. Self agency is not new. Nothing is new. I am okay because, well, I’ve been conditioned to be.
Good luck to you lucky ducks! I am madly jealous. Don’t get too used to it, enjoy every single moment. When you get stressed, don’t let the privilege of attending prevent you from recognizing how to care for yourself. It’s okay, it’s meant to be hard AND it can be beautiful. Doesn’t have to be one or the other. You are wonderful and I can’t wait to hear what got you in, who I might have become friends with. Much love and luck! 
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Did you guys get formal “Rejection” or waitlisted? I don’t think it’s likely they’ll accept from the waitlist but one can dream.
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Are you willing to share your stats? I’m thinking about applying next year. Thank you in advance
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You know, I think one of the best things that has worked for me in the past has not been just to work toward goals, but to immerse myself in the experience. Taking my kids to look at the beautiful gothic architecture was an amazing opportunity to talk about the history of Nathan Hale and Benedict Arnold, for example. We live in new London (Arnold famously allowed to be burnt). Experiencing both history and imagining the future in the same green is a deeply impactful experience. The three of us now have a better understanding of the libraries construction and tunnels and can breathe new insight into future application. That’s the value of attention and energy focus, when applied to real life goals. My children will remember.
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I’ll message you!
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Thank you and congratulations on your admission.
Congrats! Any chance I can get in on seeing stats?
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Hi mikmik, can you message me your stats as well? I’m really upset that I didn’t get in but so happy for you and want to try again next year
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I wonder how many Eli Whitney students were accepted this year
Anyone else wait listed…? Seems really odd that there’s a wait list for ewsp
Damn, I’m rejected too lol.
I am also very curious how many people they admitted.
I know they look at your finances, and your ability to pay is factored into how many “full rides” they are able to admit. All of you sound OVERLY qualified and I hate to see you not get in. Congratulations on those who got in!
At least Yale is filtering out ■■■■■■■■ like you! You’re the only one on here being rude. Good riddance.
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Received the news today that I was accepted to the EWSP. Happy to share stats with anyone looking to apply again in the future.
Good luck to everyone on the waitlist!
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At the Sunday, May 2 informational meeting with the panel of 5 current Yale Eli Whitney Students Program students, towards the opening, 4 out of the 5 current Eli Whitney students introduced themselves with an impressive list of their accomplishments.
2 of them were active members of the armed forces (thank you for your service), 1 started a software company and left the University of Chicago to do so, and the 4th student to speak I recall won a Olympic gold medal in bobsledding.
Then came time for the 5th student to speak. He started off by greeting everyone cordially, and began to ramble about his formative years in the south side of Chicago, then proceeded to disclose to everyone how he had failed 4 courses in community college, before applying to Yale’s Eli Whitney Students Program. I was stunned! I know I was not the only one here at that Zoom meeting that heard the same thing. From reading this board, I see there are many who did not even receive interviews who had very impressive stats and I want to understand what exactly Jeremiah Quinlan, Patricia Wei, and the rest of the committee were looking at when they admitted this student. I have my theories.
It’s important to note that the Department of Justice under Trump had an open investigation going on with Yale admissions for some very blatant discrimination, that the Biden administration quashed. Lots of fishy business going on in that office as of late, from letting that girl in whose father bribed the Yale soccer coach with $450,000 in the hotel room, to the countless cases of selective discrimination (in the name of diversity and equality) you don’t know about.
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I believe in you!
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You sound salty about a rejection; teetering on racist. If this line of obtuse reasoning is the best you can muster, then surely your application was running an uphill battle from the start. Do you understand what context and holistic admissions is? I’m going with no. Yale Admissions made an entire podcast. Go listen.
To all the applicants who received good news today, congrats!! It was well-earned no matter what those among us who haven’t learned how to handle disappointment have to say. The rest of us are proud of you and know you’ll make the most of the incredible opportunity.
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It’s not racist, it’s called speaking the truth and discussing the facts that were disclosed to us. I’m so sick of social justice warriors who call everything they disagree with ‘racist.’ This type of cancel culture rhetoric is very dangerous and does not belong here.
Since you brought up race though, let’s look at the factual findings by the United States Department of Justice headed by William Barr (Yale alumni). Are you going to call this ‘obtuse’ as well? The DOJ probe found overwhelming evidence of institutional racism and corruption at Yale, studying admissions records for 18 years. According to their probe it turned out that, “Asian Americans and White applicants have only one-tenth to one-fourth of the likelihood of admission as African American applicants with comparable academic credentials.” Yale didn’t even deny these findings after they were released over the summer of 2020.
For full disclosure, the Zoom meeting hosted by Yale on May 2, 2021 had a very diverse panel. It included 1 Caucasian female, 1 Caucasian male, 1 Asian American female, 1 Asian American male, and 1 African American male.
There’s nothing ‘holistic’ about a approach that rewards someone with admission into Yale who failed multiple times at a community college in Illinois. This is how societies and institutions fall. Study history.
Furthermore, this student said to us at the Zoom meeting that one of Yale’s 1 million Deans named Risa Sodi (you can look her up), advised him to start his first year by taking 3 course credits, as opposed to the customary 9 credits that an undergraduate matriculating at Yale would take, because according to him, she didn’t feel that he could handle the full course load in the beginning. Anyone at that meeting will confirm that this is all factual.
I think this needs to be transparent and out in the open for everyone to see for the future. If you have a problem with me, bring it.
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I would love a private message re your, no doubt, inspiring entrance narrative as well. 
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