<p>So.
A few hours ago we all clicked on the link that said "Get your early action decision online now!" We logged into our eli accounts and closed our eyes in anticipation of a singing bulldog.
And what happened?
4 more months of waiting, waiting, and more waiting!</p>
<p>What do you guys think? Is yale still your number one or are you moving onto other schools?</p>
<p>it’s still my number one for now. but who knows what i’ll feel 4 months from now when I get yale’s final decision along with 5 others?</p>
<p>I still like Yale, but kind of preferring Princeton now, since I didn’t have a clear choice between those two before. </p>
<p>I was depressed at first, then kind of in denial, and now, frankly, I’m a bit angry. That probably sounds really severe, but I just feel like my 17 years of hard work failed to amount to anything tonight. </p>
<p>Plus, was anybody else confused on how to get to the decisions page? At first I thought the thing that said “Early Action Applicants, etc” would become a link, but it didn’t. Then I tried my Eli account, which didn’t work. When I did find the correct one, I didn’t expect it to be so the deferral really just came out of the blue. :(</p>
<p>We already have a support thread.</p>
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<p>hahah…I feel terrible for everybody 
You guys all wanted this soo badly and were all so frigging deserving, I don’t know how anybody picked.</p>
<p>You will all end up at great schools, as for me, I’m debating doing a Brown app</p>
<p>I can’t believe how almost all of us, the prominent posters on the SCEA thread, were deferred. It’s insane.</p>
<p>Hey guys! I know exactly how you are feeling right now–I was feeling the same way a year ago! Right now I’m at Yale finishing up my final exams. There’s hope!</p>
<p>haha i love how there’s a support group for us. I feel like I’m in rehab. Honestly. I’m just POed that I have to do this whole thing until April. seriously, I woke up today hoping I had an answer, and now nothing has changed. Whatever. I just hope that the 13.9% of people that were accepted were all athletes, super amazing/nationally acclaimed/ famous or donated a building haha. Then maybe a normal person like me may have a chance.</p>
<p>I feel like a lot of you guys are taking a deferral as some kind of personal insult.</p>
<p>Please realise that this is NOT TERRIBLE.</p>
<p>You were always aware that having superb scores did not mean a definite acceptance, and while I appreciate that you’re disappointed - and understandably so - you have done the best you possibly could. And that’s something to be proud of. You haven’t lost, you’re still in for Regular Decision. So you could still get accepted.</p>
<p>I know you probably hate me for saying this, but it’s not the end of the world. I promise.</p>
<p>Whats annoying is that it seems like they’re deferring everyone.
Like three other people from my school SCEA-ed to Yale, and they all got deferred.
And I am pretty certain I’m the strongest of us four.
So I really dont know what kind of a chance I have in the RD since the range is relatively wide.</p>
<p>Ugh I had really hoped that acceptance to Yale would eliminate some of my essays I have to do for the RDs. Just more confusion and uncertainty!</p>
<p>HAhah…but I like how in Yale’s letter, they like tell us they know its going to be more uncertainty. At least they try to empathize.</p>
<p>^yeah I definitely hate how the range for deferrals is so wide…makes it impossible to even fathom my chances in the RD round…and writing 8 essays in two weeks will not be fun :[ there goes my christmas break.</p>
<p>This pretty much ruined my birthday. I slept through it, really. It was a lot like being dumped. It wasn’t until about an hour ago until I realized that, as someone said, it really isn’t the end of the world. In fact, I wasn’t dumped. Yale and I are on an on a break. He has to figure things out first. Rest assured, he’ll come back to me =)</p>
<p>this group sounds like the perfect place for me - yale is still my top choice.</p>
<p>yeah I have a similar feeling with icantwait. Why the **** would they defer 50% of the applicant pool. That seems absurd to me.</p>
<p>I guess Yale is still my first choice. Before, I kept saying to myself that I would rather get rejected than deferred so I could move on (the only downside of that being that my application sucked). And this deferral (and the crazy rate of deferral) just confirms it. I know that the chance of getting in now is almost impossible to gauge, but I’m basically taking it as a rejection.</p>
<p>although our chances of admission may be significantly decreased in the RD round with the extra 20000 applicants…
in April, if yale rejects us, okay fine that sucks. here’s the bright side: we’ll probably have several letters of acceptance to look forward to from other schools. that’s the bad thing about being rejected EA - all you have is one rejection hanging over your head for 4 months. even if we don’t make it in RD [and I hope we do!], it won’t be as bad as it would’ve been tonight.</p>
<p>I was actually ok with my deferral tonight. I was disappointed, but I was able to shrug it off. But then I found out the other EA applicant from my school got accepted…</p>
<p>I would assume that a perfect admissions process would have a quota, say 2000, and subtract EA acceptances from that. Then they would defer the remainder, and replace them as Regular decision applicants arrive. Just theoretically, of course.</p>
<p>Yale is still #1! I’m a little disappointed but I feel lucky to have made it this far… I mean realistically we did apply to Yale… they have one of the lowest acceptance rates around. We can’t all get in early. And yeah the waiting will suck, but hey, at least we get to wait! I have two friends who have to take finals knowing they were flat out denied acceptance to their first choice. Basically I’ll take being deferred to being rejected any day! :)</p>
<p>I just feel like being deferred at a rate of 50% is a little annoying, it’s like alright kids you can apply SCEA, but only 1 of every 2 applicants will actually receive an answer…the rest will just get a decision in march.</p>
<p>My question is if Yale really read all early applications and then chose to defer 50%, or if they simply didn’t get to read all the applicants and decided to defer the ones they didn’t read. Why would Yale defer 50% of the early applicants and create more work for themselves in the regular round?</p>