<p>Yale says it accepted 30 out of more than 770 transfer applicants this year.</p>
<p>accepted students all received emails?</p>
<p>congrats, frrph~! that is an amazing accomplishment.</p>
<p>I'm hoping only international students receive e-mails. But it could be either.</p>
<p>yale is lame!!</p>
<p>Congrats frrrph! That is seriously one of the greatest accomplishments for any transfer student and you really fought the odds: low acceptance rate, international student, AND a mom that has never heard of Yale! I'm sure they discovered that when they did research on your family, but it's cool they overlooked it. </p>
<p>LOL. :)</p>
<p>Mid-May: Decisions mailed to applicants. Letters will be mailed to the address which you provide under Home Address on Form 1.
<a href="http://www.yale.edu/admit/other/transfer/timeline.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.yale.edu/admit/other/transfer/timeline.html</a></p>
<p>so why are people getting emails and phone calls?</p>
<p>got my rejection in the mail today in CA</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure that they only e-mail if it's international. As for the phone calls, they called Yale; Yale didn't call them.</p>
<p>I am an international student and I didn't receive an e-mail. Does this mean that I am rejected?</p>
<p>laneb, I live in the United States. I wish I could tell you why they decided to e-mail me before sending the admit packet, my best guess would be they went by the list of other colleges I'm applying to and realized I was close to the deadlines for accepting these other schools. I honestly don't know.</p>
<p>Hey thanks, brand_182! I was completely and utterly prepared to get rejected. I almost dropped out of high school, am transferring in from a community college and had no EC's to speak of. Part of me wants to call them back and tell them they're crazy; it just feels amazing to have come so far from the kind of neighborhood and attitude I grew up around, I guess.</p>
<p>Yeah congrats Frrph!
This is a MAJOR accomplishment. </p>
<p>So are you all psyched up to get YALE gear?</p>
<p>frrrph, congrats! Do you have any idea how you pulled it off? Can you give any advice to students like you who might want to apply next year?</p>
<p>I had amazing professors that really, really pushed me to apply and believe in myself. That's the key thing. </p>
<p>Beyond that, I'm guessing my life experience (raised in a war zone, then lived in a very segregated country before getting to the US on my own) and essay helped a lot. I decided it was a crapshoot anyway and so ended up experimenting with the "tell us about yourself" essay and just do whatever artistic I wanted. I'm extremely proud of how it turned out, it was no way close to traditional essay format but really had a lot of me in it.</p>
<p>My highschool grades were maybe 70% "excellent" and 20% "fail" because of all the skipping, but getting straight A's after coming to a new country and adjusting to a third language was something my professors told me would count in my favor as an upward trend. </p>
<p>The topic of my "why Yale" essay dealt with why I'd been sceptic towards school for so long, and now realized I'd need it and actually thrived when getting challenged. It was simple and honest.</p>
<p>As for the recommendations, my teachers made me look like an academic second coming, they've briefly summarized the recs (the most awkward, embarrassing thing ever to listen to!). They also had the president of my college meet up with me and ending up writing a personal letter, and he's been getting in touch with me over the results ever since. </p>
<p>Really -- this could never have happened without the amazing people at my little cc. They genuinely care and believe. Which made me believe in myself when writing those apps.</p>
<p><em>sniff</em> haha sorry for the mushyness. I guess my only advice would be, be brutally honest with yourself on why you want to go there. I think my not really caring about the prestige per se shone through - I knew my reasons for transferring spot on, and could convey them in a genuine way. It's true that I have many "hooks" as some kids call it beyond that, but for someone with an ACT of 27 and no EC's, it simply gotta have been my professors' believing in me as special and the 2 essays standing out. </p>
<p>I see so many kids on here with ridiculous 4.7 gpa's, vice presidents of ping-pong anime club, etc. I just chose not to go that route. It wasn't me. I spent all my passion reading stuff within my field and excelling in that field, not chasing admission stats. I really, really encourage people to do the same - or college will start making even less sense than it already does.</p>
<p>[/rant over!]</p>
<p>omg omg omg @@!... rejected...
since im an international student as well, i only applied to harvard and yale (need-blind). so 50% of my transfer hopes have just evaporated...</p>
<p>Are you guys finding out from letters?</p>
<p>rejected (is that redundant?)</p>
<p>via mail</p>
<p>Hey,
So I just talked to my friend from Amherst, who's also a Yale applicant, and apparently Yale told her that this was only the first round of the selection process. Many of us haven't been decided on yet. So those of you who got the "moratorium" message may simply be still up in the air. That said, best of luck to all.</p>
<p>Who would wanna leave Amherst for Yale? Do you know what her reasons are?</p>