<p>I remember reading this post from coureur last year when my D was deferred from Yale. I did appreciate it at the time and I do appreciate it now, but honestly it only helps up to a point. Getting deferred or rejected in the early round still sucks because you have to spend time and effort getting more applications in and you have to wait for a few more months to find out.</p>
<p>What comforted my D through her long wait between Dec 15 and Apr 1 was the knowledge that she had a very carefully made list of colleges with varying levels of competitiveness. She knew she would get into at least a few of them, and she knew she would be happy at any of them. In her case it all worked out- she was admitted to most of her colleges in the RD round, including Yale, where she is now extremely happy.</p>
<p>coureur - a much-needed post for the many nervous Yale applicants out there (including me). Thanks for taking your time to reassure us that a deferral/rejection on Wednesday is not the end of the world.</p>
<p>A few years ago I remeber reading coureur’s post as my daughter was in the next room soppping and sure that her world had come to an end. I took great comfort from it, so like coureur I would like to repost her story:</p>
<p>My d. applied SCEA to Yale. She was sure it was her first choice. If Yale accepted her she planned to matriculate immediately and not explore any other schools and what they might have to offer. Well come December she found out she was deferred and like coureur’s daughter she was sure that this was an omen of even worse things to come. She was convinced that she would be rejected everywhere that she applied. EA had been her best shot, she told herself, and now her applications were doomed. It was a long winter here and not a whole lot of fun.</p>
<p>Then came spring. . .Yale’s deferral became an outright rejection. But that was her only rejection, she was accepted at Brown, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, and a slew of other schools. Brown’s acceptance included acceptance into their PLME BA/MD program. Things really did work out for the best for her, she ended up with choices and options that she would never have had if Yale had accepted her early. If December brings unhappy news for any of you, please trust that things really will work out for the best. I am not saying that everyone who is deferred or rejected in Yale’s SCEA round will end up with a Harvard acceptance, I know that is not the case, but I am saying that if you find yourself with bad news, you will have good news in the spring and choices that you might not have otherwise explored. Please have faith and best of luck to all of you!</p>