Urhg I’d managed to put most thought about my US apps (Im from the UK and got accepted to all the unis I applied to here) out of my mind, convincing myself I had no chance at any of them. Until Friday, when I heard back from Uchicago (accepted with merit award) and now I’m soooooo anxious to hear back from everywhere else.
@elaras congrats! Where did you apply in the UK?
@fizzy110 cambridge, durham, ediburgh, exeter, bristol (we can only apply to five here! it’s so odd for me to see people who applied to like 34 colleges on here)
@menefrega I can attest to you that it is EXACTLY that random. I see the volunteer list assignments for my area. At one HS, 4/4 kids might be interviewed. Another 1/5. Another 0/3. etc. The reason? Likely it’s the proximity of a volunteer to that area or when the ASC director was given the applicant’s name. We know almost NOTHING about the students.
And I can guarantee you that NO ONE in your area knew this unless the athlete was tagged as a recruit and NCAA rules needed to be heeded.
To add to T26’s explanation, maybe one student checks his/her email account frequently and looks at his/her junk mail and sees an invitation to interview and the other student does neither and misses an offered opportunity.
@elaras, haha i know! lol UCAS. Wow your UK prospects are awesome! Best of luck with Yale, is it your top choice in the US?
16 More Days!
How’s everybody taking the wait?
@PoisonIvy20 Pretty good! I’ve mostly been distracted by all the other decisions coming out.
Well… my most stressful was right before SCEA decisions. I’m stressed now, but not nearly as badly.
Lol tell me about that SCEA wait. December seems like AGES ago. But I’m more calm now, I guess more because I have other choices aka I don’t have to cry thinking no school wants me 
Gosh I really do hate that new stick out tongue face… irked
@AdmissionsAddict - 10 of 11 colleges she applied to interviewed her. One of the schools flew her out to the campus. Not checking her email? Not likely the cause.
I can see how this could come to be. Application was submitted 11/14/2014, well before deadlines. The interviewed applicant submitted between Christmas 2014 and New Years Day 2015. Not a big deal but it would be nice to know the method in the madness.
Menefrega, I think that T26E4’s point is that for interviews (with the exception of NCAA / other legal requirements) there is no method in the madness.
The adcomms have general systems in place to help them get through the pile of applications, but they are not as exact or systematic as we (parents/students) often think. Parents and students are all desperate for some way to read the tea leaves- what does X mean? what does Y mean? and very often it genuinely means nothing that has anything to do with our student’s application.
It is clear that you/your D are angsting over who got an interview because you perceive it to mean something about how Yale sees your daughter compared to her classmate and it seems unfair to you. When you compare the two you can’t see an objective reason for the other applicant being chosen over your daughter (unless it is those darn athletes being preferred over highbrow debaters…). Even your last post, when you note that your D got her application in early and point out that the other student did it at the last minute, implies that to you an objective comparison shows your D as ‘better’ than the interviewed applicant. And yet, probably none of that had/has even occurred to the adcomms.
How do I say, take a deep breath and let it go without sounding mean, cliche or naive?
Be happy for your daughter that she is a viable candidate for top-tier university: b/c whether she goes to Yale or not, she clearly has the smarts, the drive and the organizational skills to put a strong application together, so she has everything she needs to succeed in whatever life she builds for herself.
Decision notifications are most likely out late next week. How is everyone doing?
On a side note: I was just going through the Yale SCEA Decisions and at first glance I can see no difference between deferred, rejected and accepted students. I guess it really comes down to the less “quantifiable” things: essays, recs, and passion.
But good luck everyone 
The next few days are nervewracking knowing my chances.
@menefrega I was the chair of another top school’s alumni interviewers committee years ago, and I would receive a list of applicants and their contact information. I would then assign the applicants to interviewers. Back then, there weren’t nearly as many applicants as there are today, but even then I tended to just make my way down the list. If I were doing this today and had a list of, say, 200 applicants and maybe 20 interviewers, there’s a good chance many of the applicants wouldn’t get interviewed, and it might well be because their last names came later in the alphabet and I hadn’t reached them yet on the list. The names on my lists were never prioritized by the admissions committee. So I really don’t think you should worry about this at all. In the vast majority of cases, the interview makes no difference. It’s mainly a way to do a quick check to see that the applicant is who he or she appears to be—and to keep alumni involved (and, hopefully, donating).
Hey All! What’s the date this year (still March 31st…)? How likely is it that they’ll release next Friday (March 27th, I believe)? I heard all the Ivy’s come out on a set date collectively… is that correct? x
Yes I have the same question- there seems to be no clarity from the schools what the release date is… Anyone know?
@petitetee @Hersheybar315 I believe ivy day is the 31st - that’s what it said on the Yale email, and also the Brown portal.
yes, that’s the date. Unlike other universities who say the date is April 1 and then release earlier, the ivies have traditionally stuck to their calendar.
@bsalum, that sounds good, i like “ivies stuck to their calendar”, otherwise, we were like ants on a hot spot, it’s torture.