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<p>Me too. I’m sort of wishing I’d EA-d to Chicago; I obviously have a better shot there and it’d be nice to just have one in the bag, you know?</p>
<p>@ silverturtle. I feel I must be coming across in a way other than in which I’d hoped. It doesn’t bother me in the slightest that people procrastinated, I’m just expressing the opinion that it’s a very odd to decision to make on something as important as this. </p>
<p>And while I’m certain that both “pressure makes you write faster” and “500 words isn’t very much” are quite true, these truths have little relevance to anything but a speed writing competition!</p>
<p>But, in all seriousness, this isn’t a dig at any of the procrastinators…</p>
<p>@silverturtle, correct me if I am wrong, did you not recently post in a different thread that you are unhappy with your essays for the SCEA Yale app? Do you feel your dissatisfaction with them is at all related to the time you had available to write them? Just curious, as this thread may give future essay writers a rosier picture of the consequences of waiting too long to begin such a crucial component of the application than is in fact the reality.</p>
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<p>I assume that you mean “likely” in that it will probably happen to someone, which is a statistic that has little bearing on an individual. </p>
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<p>On the contrary, you seem to have misinterpreted what I meant by “narrow perspective.” Here is the text that I was referring to:</p>
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<p>You said the idea that technological malfunction or bad weather could make last-second application preparation turn out very negatively and then claimed that, from that perspective, my point about the brevity of college essays was irrelevant to an argument about the feasibility of completing applications at the last second. I characterized this stance as narrow in that it disregards the idea that weather and problems with technology do not occur in every situation, which would be the requirement for the negation of my point by their presence. </p>
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<p>I believe that, whenever possible, students should make an effort to begin and/or complete their essays as soon as they can while still producing a quality product. My main point is not to advocate for the validity of procrastination as a technique, but to oppose the meddling imposition that I saw as inherent in many of the criticisms that were directed at my initial comments; in other words, I was being defensive. </p>
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<p>Yes, those aren’t the points that I would use. </p>
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<p>I believe that I stated that there were things that I would change about them. </p>
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<p>Absolutely; I was very rushed and my proofreads and reflection were cursory. This does not mean, however, that I would have written a better essay if I had started sooner; I very possibly may have produced a less compelling though better polished work (the Bernstein quote comes to mind: To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time").</p>
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<p>Thank you for your clarification. I actually already understood what you meant. Just to clarify, my point was that no matter how many ideas you get by procrastinating or how short the essays were, when the events that I described occur those advantages would be pointless.</p>
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<p>A point well made. In my opinion, such a direction should be one most people head toward when approaching the college application process. This is why I expressed my point of view.</p>
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<p>But because that occurs only sometimes, it is narrow; so I’m not sure why you told me not to call it narrow even though you “already understood” what I meant. Ah well, in any case, I believe we’ve come to an agreement on the issue. :)</p>
<p>“I very possibly may have produced a less compelling though better polished work (the Bernstein quote comes to mind: ‘To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time’)”</p>
<p>huh. I never thought about it that way… and I like the quote.</p>
<p>To a certain degree I have stopped caring.
what? 15 accept/65 deferral/20 reject for me</p>
<p>Sure, Yale is haunting the back of my every thought, but like everybody keeps reminding me there are factors beyond anybody’s control, and it’s not just limited to quotas or legacy statuses or being in a sport. I just need to remind myself that if and when I get rejected/accepted/deferred the people who do get accepted are the same as me. They are, for the most part, great and deserving teenagers. And going to Yale or not will never change that. </p>
<p>So good luck fellas.</p>
<p>10% accept, 40% deferral, 50% rejection</p>
<p>I cannot be practical and optimistic without having to compromise one for the other. Ever since I decided to apply EA to Yale rather than Stanford (even though Stanford was once my first choice) I have been growing more and more convinced that Yale would be a great fit for me. The last thing I want to do right now is become completely attached to Yale because if things don’t work out I’ll be devastated. I haven’t been very confident about my chances of getting in and can only hope that the admissions officers see something in me that I frankly cannot see in myself.</p>
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<p>Thanks for your candidness.</p>
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<p>So one cannot produce a piece that is both compelling and well polished?</p>
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<p>It’s always nice to have a brilliant musician back you up on your decisions.</p>
<p>I really like you silverturtle, you’re a force to be reckoned with. AND I learned how to make box quotes just so I could communicate with you in your preferred style ;)</p>
<p>I’ve still not learned. Somebody please tell me how to make box quotes?:)</p>
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<p>okay, now I’m just showing off…
kaira, what quomodo showed me is you have to type the word “quote” in brackets (no quotation marks though) like this: [ quote ] but with No spaces between the brackets and the word quote.</p>
<p>next you put in the words/sentences you’re quoting with NO SPACE after the second bracket.</p>
<p>then you type this:
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in other words end of quote- also with NO SPACES between the end of the quote and the first bracket.</p>
<p>I had to put in spaces in my instructions to you otherwise my instructions would have come out as one big quote, ha ha :)</p>
<p>If you post in the advance reply box you can preview your post and see if you did it right.</p>
<p>Hope that helps.</p>
<p>By the way, silverturtle, how do you get the “originally posted by so and so” to show up in your quote boxes?</p>
<p>@Silverturtle: have you ever been contacted for an interview?</p>
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<p>It’s certainly possible to do so. </p>
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<p>Nope. It’s possible that there aren’t any willing Yale College alumni in my area.</p>
<p>^Thanks silverturtle!</p>
<p>Is it possible that an applicant is so good that Yale specifically tells the regional admissions officer not to assign an alumni interviewer for him/her?</p>
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<p>I don’t think so.</p>
<p>holee **** USAMO?</p>
<p>I’ve reassessed my chances and I’m going for a 48% accepted 48% rejected and a token 4% deferred. I think the adcoms will either read my file, really take to my ECs and essays and think “this guy is a defo” or not be impressed at all and reject me. I can’t see myself being deferred really as I think my app is a bit like Marmite.</p>