<p>Everyone knows Yale is a great school, but if H is your first choice and you get rejected, HOW DO YOU GET EXCITED ABOUT YALE??</p>
<p>You go visit it, you look at all the amazing people who've gone there, you look at the course catalogue and think about what you might take, you think about all the awesome people you're going to meet there . . . . </p>
<p>And, maybe this one works for you: You think about all the people who were dying to go there who didn't get in.</p>
<p>And, maybe this one works for you: You think about all the people who were dying to go there who didn't get in.</p>
<p>You do echo me VeryHappy</p>
<p>Why would one apply if he or she wasn't excited about Yale anyway? It is NOT a backup to Harvard...? People should apply to schools that they like and are excited about.</p>
<p>matty...it's not that I don't want to go there...but a first choice is a first choice, do you know what I mean?</p>
<p>ABSOLUTELY ... yale is an amazing school.</p>
<p>You realize that Yale is a better place to be than Harvard. ;)</p>
<p>yeah I know what you mean. But while it will be upsetting at first, one good thing about getting into Yale is, first off, it's YALE, and second, you know that you're going to have just as an amazing experience there as you would have had at Harvard, only it will be slightly different (maybe even in a good way). </p>
<p>But my advice is worry about that when it is necessary to do so, and no sooner. And try not to look down upon Yale either (I don't mean in an "ugh Yale" way) but look positively on getting in and going there ... it'll make getting over a rejection at Harvard -- should that occur -- much easier!</p>
<p>good luck</p>
<p>you grow a brain cell</p>
<p>um hellooooo yale > harvard</p>
<p>Count yourself lucky to have gotten into one of them. Because there'll be thousands of people jealous of you, incosolable, having been rejected at both.</p>
<p>you read that long, long, LONG thread someone posted a while ago about "why i chose yale over harvard" and breathe a sigh of relief. </p>
<p>seriously :)</p>
<p>Be thankful you won't be suffering four years of buyer's remorse (as many cantabs do after visiting for the game). Stay a couple days at Harvard and Yale. You'll change your mind before decisions even come out.</p>
<p>Current Yalie here:</p>
<p>What the hells? How do you get excited about Yale?! What the hell! I need to go, wrestle you, and perhaps hurt you!</p>
<p><em>somewhat upset</em></p>
<p>Read the thread on why someone chose Yale over Harvard. As someone who got into both those schools, plus several others, Yale was the best choice. By far. Unless you want to be stressed out, disliking your campus life and looking at Yale kids having fun at the Game... then in that case, go to Harvard.</p>
<p>That said, it is still ****ING YALE. I was in my room today, I look outside, and I think about it: I'm actually at Yale.</p>
<p>ferny reyes, your posts are hilarious.</p>
<p>Ferny,</p>
<p>Not home for break?</p>
<p>Wow, I can see why getting into one of the nation's top five universties, especially when thousands of equally qualified - or better qualified - applicants were rejected, would really tear you up inside. I must say, a situation like yours tugs at my heart strings on an equal scale as "Schindler's List", the genocide in Darfur, and pictures of dead Palestinian children. I suppose your only option for ever coming to terms with this massive failure is to move past puberty. Which, judging from your post, is a higly unlikely scenario.</p>
<p>Post Script: Yes, my shriveled little heart is made of tar. And yes, I got rejected from Yale as a freshman applicant.</p>
<p>harsh, man.</p>
<p>Give the OP a break. If all you Yale fanatics were rejected at Yale and were "forced" to go to Harvard, don't you think you'd be unhappy too? Of course, if you're just in it for the name, then I don't suppose it matters which top 5 college you go to.</p>
<p>I'm not a Yale fanatic, and Yale was not my first choice either. But the OP's complete lack of gratitude deserves a computerized slap in the face in anything does. If you get into Yale, you praise your lucky stars that, of all the people who were just as qualified, you got in. If you're don't like it, buck up and transfer in a year. Don't flaunt your pseudo-sob story on the web. It's demeaning to people who would sell their soul for the opportunity to be in your position.</p>
<p>Post Script: Good luck on Princeton.</p>
<p>Yeah, I try to keep my posts funny. Haukim, yes I'm still here in New Haven. Would you happen to be around? Human contact = missing.</p>
<p>That said, in reply to the person on this page that is rather harsh on the OP:</p>
<p>We are mostly Americans. Nothing we experience in our lives will ever equate to the examples you provided. Sarcasm and exageration doesn't help the OP. I'm sorry you got into Yale, and yes, at some level, the OP's lack of excitement is irritating.</p>
<p>BUt gratitude? No. That I don't see why he has to apologize for. Most students put themselves in the position to get in or out of Yale with subtle little things. It isn't a reach in the hat thing. Being here, you see why some people got in, even if their "stats" weren't amazing.</p>
<p>Stop being so harsh to people. Treat people with kindness, respect and understanding. He didn't get what he want from the soda machine that is called College. He got pepsi instead of coke. Equally good, but he likes Coke. College is a tad more important than that.</p>
<p>I hate to be a dick in return, but perhaps the reason you didn't make it is you are spending your time on internet forums being a dick to people.</p>
<p>Oh! I did not just go there...but I did. And I apologize. I shouldn't say things like that.</p>
<p>Neither should you.</p>