#Yale University (2023-2024)
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Omg speech buddy!!!
i loove speech, im our team captain
Samee š«¶
yayyy
I have to give my speech as an exam tmrw
Freaking out cause itās not completely memorized cause Iāve been slacking this year š
we had 30 members come to our interest meeting and im a lil overwhelmed
I also dipped on Emory rip cause of college apps
i nearly cried cuz i remember our team of 2 at one point
Omgg woa thatās such an increase in membership yayy
Lol my speech is on tsa this year cause delta just happened to lose my info boards during nats last year and I had to forfeit š
that's terrible :(
I did expos instead and it was fun but stressful cause it was so last minute
my school refuses to pay for nsda, so i went out of my way to get myself into NIETOC
Yoo nietoc is awesome
What event btw?
H-I
Omg slay!!!
which was surprising for an underfunded school student with stress on the mind
I should compete nat circuit more but j rarely do after dĆ©motivation from the delta incident š
Best Iāve ever done was semi at Emory
oooh, thats good!
Tyy
Yea it sucks when we have to pay for everything;
My school doesnāt fund our speech and debate team very well and a lot of our tournaments are just self travel
i personally talked to Matt Heims, NIETOC chairman
and he gave me a scholarship, paying for my whole entry fee and judging fee
Woaa thatās awesome
š thatās so nice of him
no wayyyy
iām bidded for TOC in OO rn
Dis they ask you about that in your interview?
Nope
The interviewer doesnāt know anything about you when they interview
They also werenāt a stemmy person
Good to know..
Thatās what I was told by other ppl btw^^ i donāt actually know myself
I just know my interviewer didnāt have the same field of interest as me
i just talked about art with my interviewer
she was an art history major so i wanted to talk about something she was interested in
i got asked a why Yale question
Iām a stem girly but my interviewer was a history major
my interview was a public health offical so I got lucky
Sheās incredibly involved in the alumni network tho so I donāt think it was a completely random pair up
she asked me about myself, my background, my research, and if I would do study abroad programs
yeah my interviewer was one of the ASC directors for my area
my interviewer asked me about myself then we talked for an hour and a half abt art and literature
nice, my interview was only 30 mins but I heard from previous students she interviewed that she likes to keep them short
she joined the call from the backseat of her car at a parking lot š
mine was in person
We just talked more about our interests and fun things
yeah same here
i told her about the time i got locked inside of Silliman College while visiting lol
Nope
i cant afford to visit
Yeah Iām not in a situation where I can fly over and tour
have any of u guys had a bad yale interview
No tbh the part of my application that Iām most confident in is my interview š
hm i couldnāt tell if mine liked me
Iām sure they did
bc at one point he said something like āwow thatās impressive, do u have time to have fun?ā and i think it couldāve been a joke but now iām wondering if he meant it as a dig š¤
classic
wonder what that legend is doing rn
Sounds like a joke
he goes to JHU
also i saw that u went to the yale tourney!?!? what events do u do
90 minutes!
ok same same. this girl said hers was 3hrs like what
And she made her interviewer cry thre times š¤Ø
LOL YEA
oratory + DI
are u fr? those are some of my mains
are u going to emory
30 mins
same
More schools need to do this fr
!yaleea
nope
iām from northeast so we only really go to harvard pton and yale
- toc ncfl and nsda
!yaleea
!yaleea
guys I had a nightmare where I got rejected š
im worrying about this shit too much
Nahh youāre good
Just two minutes manš
This ring a bell š¤Øš
crazy i didnt know mn people were here
hi
we r polar opposites
i had a dream i got accepted and was alrdy touring campus
letsss gooo
i had a dream i was accepted and then i actually went there and i hated it
will note though that in my dream it was literally just 2 sheds and a classroom
LMFAO
bro got that 1700s college
i think i remember a river and a gold prospector or smth
definitely a possibility i was displaced in time within the dream
u saw the past

yes the past of gold prospectors in new haven
!yalerd
!yaleea
Wait, is this real?
yes?
ohh i see
!yaleea
dont bite ur fingers off
!yaleea
this will be the longest week of my life
!yaleea
good luck future yalies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
wishing everyone a happy ābulldog bulldog bulldog bowwowow we are yaleee.ā
i really hope a miracle happens these rd supplements are killing me š
Literally thatās the only reason I want to get in atp
My college journey needs to come to an end š
exactly 
I have bad news about the next 4 years of your life
where are you guys gonna open your decisions
i think i'm gonna go sit under a secluded tree in a park
don't wanna be around anyone when i do it
Crapā¦
Ok this is indie but where I live it would be pitch black
it will be 4pm for me haha
11pm for me
I would dread waiting the entire day for it
Ig I'll open them on my phone while alone in bed and not tell anyone that I was rejected til they see my mood the next morning
Honestly no idea how I'll manage
Tbh at least u get to sleep on it
Yeah if I can fall asleep
i'm at a boarding school and i REFUSE to be on campus when i get rejected lmao
If its good news though I'll get up and celebrate
good news is i'm the only one i know
Thankfully I'm the only person here applying to the US so I'll be safe
I still canāt get over that ur from kosovo thatās so cool
Idk anything ab that place
Get out asap
Honestly there's not much to k ow about present day kosovo
We got enough history to fill volumes though
Whatās the most interesting thing about it
nah alabama is a whole vibe i like it good enough
Well its a very unique blend of albanian, Turkish, and slav culture
Nowhere else like it
Especially visible in the architecture and academia
Yugoslavian architecture has a unique cham to it that emulates Russian architecture with a sort of interesting spin on brutalism
Contrast that with the Islamic architecture scattered throughout and the albanian historical sites and it makes for a really interesting urban visage
Have you seen the prishtina public library btw
what part? iām from ms
ive been there a few times for a national air quality project i partook in, was able to get a one on one chat with the minister of education
honestly the opportunities you get from being a good student in a country full of bad students are hard to overstate
i talked to the governer of my state once but she's a total goofball
she's got some crazy commercials around youtube
this is such a cool view in person btw (obligatory not my photo)
I talked about Russian architecture in my personal statement lol
oh no way
man there are so many little things like this that i nerd over it was really hard not getting ahead of myself in the personal statement
The orthodox churches, not the the brutalism tho
Fr I talked ab way too much I thinkā¦
ah ok
ive got a weird affinity towards the soviet brutalism
it just looks so neat to me
it looks so cool but so uninhabitable to me
have you ever been around em
a large chunk of gjakova is like that and its honestly a lot better than it seems
can get a bit depressing during the winter but theres a certain charm to it
granted theyre not that well maintained anymore
there are entire city blocks that are nothing but brick khrushchevkas with the ocassional kiosk and tiny park to break the monotony round here but theyre renovating them to look more western
ok i think im spamming at this point but just real quick, this is from moscow but its the exact model of half of the buildings here (wikipedia calls em 1-335s)
those look like my momās dorm building when she was in collegeš
thatās so interesting, we just have suburban McMansions all over the place where I live
honestly though my weird affinity is probably due to nostalgia in large parts
hey I mean it made me nostalgic so I get it lol
i love that
why r they called that?
if i try to look at them objectively they look depressing af but all i can think of is going to my relatives apartments as a kid and roaming round the halls and park
i have the nostalgia thing too. i moved from downtown atl where all the houses are super old
and whenever i see those old beat up neighborhoods i love it
i think they had different model numbers ready to go for every situation or smth
the 2 main types seem to be brick and panel khrushchevkas but that distinction doesnt seem to really be consistently reflected in the naming scheme so
ĀÆ_(ć)_/ĀÆ
Omgg same
omg
i mean it makes a lot of sense to do it this way, there are likely hundreds of thousands of these identical buildings, theyre extremely cheap, and they need to fit some specs
interesting Iām wondering if some of the communist ideology influenced the two nations to develop those industrial-type housing
Bc in America we have cookie cutter houses but they arenāt like those
another alabamian?
i suppose the logistics of distributing amenities made the model codes really appealing
thank god yall aint applied to harvard rea
well i think its a cost thing more than anything
Compare that to these lol
theyre really cheap and dense and you didnt really have a choice
yeah that just looks horrible to me
just no walkability
thats something i think commie blocks do really well by contrast, all the shops are either underground or on the ground floor, a lot of offices are in the building, each development has a common park
and due to the high density and cars being quite unnecessary the outside is pretty much pristine
at least development wise
Americans love the idea of buying a house for themselves š¤·āāļø
hey i mean i get it, ive never lived in an apartment myself
but man does it get lonely
as for the aesthetics, theyre really easy to modernise it seems. this is just a bit of cork and paint i think
pain
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Guys Iāve been feeling a wave of negative energy these days
Who else feels the sameš
I'm not used to things going my way so I can't even imagine a world in which I get in
fr
Honestly I'm more scared of being deferred
Man this is so real
That seems likely given my sorta unique app but not stellar-by-yale-standards test scores and whatnot
But I don't think I could take this kinda stress for another few months
i've been rebuking it. i did have an episode a couple days ago but i bounced back
Waiting 3-4 months for rd decisions seems like hell tbh
I hope youāre fine š«¶
Now I feel the decisions should be released quicker
negativity and positivity is a cycle we cannot escape
Just wanna get over jt
i hope im on the positivity cycle the day before ivyday
This is so real
HOPEFULLY
I've found that as I get further and further away from my depressive episode I'm able to catch myself being overly negative and stop the thought faster and faster with each cycle of introspection
So you've at least got that to look forward to
Been a bumpy decade so far for me
cuz like if i get rejected it will start the negative cycle and i'd rather it go postitve -> negative than negative _> even more negative LMAO
Honestly I think if you lot get in that'll soften the blow a bit for me if I don't
At least I'll have something to celebrate
So ig I'll be here counting it down next Thursday eve
im going to be anxious for you guys tbh
like i was anxious during questbridge decisions for NO REASON
i didnt even apply through questbridge
but my heart was pounding
Anyone you knew?
Honestly I wouldn't say that myself but it does have a huge lead on 2nd place for me
It's not really close
My biggest issue right now is that everyone in my life is convinced that this is gonna be extremely easy for me
Bro is too nice š
On the plus side I have been able to make some pretty good bets
Man itās gonna affect the RD appsš
Seasonal dep is going to hit and this deferral/rejection wonāt help š„²
I feel so scared whenever I think only <800 people will be accepted
Tbh I think ?? It might be easier bc rn Iām just fixated on yale
But hopefully thatās spread out more
Yes fr and to think that thereās legacies, athletes, and qb who already have taken up spots (not that thereās a quota)
same tho
and they keep bringing up the fact that i got an interview
like that doesnt mean anything š
Yes omg
My parents r like Duke is ur safety, my friends just see my test score and think that im in š
wtf
my state school is my safety
Thatās what Iām saying
My moms a statistics professor but doesnāt understand a 4% acceptance rate š
Mannnnnnnnš
somebody got an interview in my school and i didnt, am i fucked?
Not necessarily
Idk but I just legit forgot about it till mid-March
It's cause second semester senior year you have loads of fun
Same here. Another student (friend of mine) got an interview. Not sure if that is a good sign or a bad one (for either of us!).
!yaleea
yeah literally though
I legit have no hope
also fyi I think qb is a diff pool so it doesnt affect us
Everything comes from teh total number of admits -- so everything afects everything else
Same here,do you know your firend's stat? My friend has better ec than me, although his gpa is less than mine.
I think that's not good sign for me, prepared to be deffered and apply more rd schools.
really? I though qb was a diff pool
nvm then
yale rea is a shot in the dark
any rea/ed for that matter
im praying for a "Yale announces record high early admissions"
I think I am in the opposite situation. I have better ECs (I think) and slightly lower GPA/SAT.
Yes!
like. realistically, i think i did the best i could do at my school
academically, extracurricularly
thats all one can do . I feel the same about myself..
I guess we find out in less than 6 days. Hoping to get in, but expecting not to. Like most folks here, I guess
@slim grove hopefully
Melatonin šÆ
!yaleea
its official, my ass is getting rejected
oh...
idk i donāt think this has much bearing on our admissions round
like i feel like the change will be pretty marginal
i feel like this wont be a problem for us since we applied rea
Who knows? They may have found a way to manage the crowding better this year than last. Or decided on lowring the accept rate.
Probably wont change things by much
!yaleea
Does Yale interview most of their applicants like Harvard??
I believe Harvardās based just on availability; Yale isnāt
Yale is supposedly on the need for "additional information". That could be good or bad -- this is not clear to anyone. Good bc they remain interested in you and possibly bad bc your file wasn't clear enough in the first place. If they are only interviewing to make a final "sanity" check on you before a "yes" -- that could be very good news.
!yaleea
Wonāt be reduction be universal?
Meow
woof
Words cannot explain how scared I am waiting for this decision
I feel like I made a mistake applying rea to a school like this
stop
everything happens for a reason
you'll end up where you belong
not me falling into the cliche
I know but itās like this school is so competitive idk what I was thinking I like Yale but Iām gonna be disappointed on Thursday
But yes I agree with the cliche
It will be my first disappointment š
update me on thursday :) im sure itll be good news
and if not... it wasnt meant to be
aw update me too! š„²
We got this!
@wary star I just saw that Yale has a baller grad school for public health and it has a research focus for the thing I wanna study
bro u got like 5 years until then
!yaleea
only brown is 15th? huh
hi jay (again)
LOL was up
Me too: Should have applied to an ED school. Maybe Columbia or Penn instead.
Yeah, I wish I applied ED to Penn
Feel like I wasted my early. Didnt get an interview even.
Wrong reply
Donāt worry, an interview means nothing
You probably were a really good applicant then
Thanks. Can'r see my application being an auto accept - thats the problem! I read somewhere than less than 50/100 applications overall fall in that category!
How you rat eyour chances? 50/50 at this stage?
No one can really see if their app is an auto accept
0 percent lol
True..there is some leaked info from the BF of an admissions person online somehere
re the number of autoadmits
let me find the link - one second
Thatās crazy
the BF?
If the number is that small, then Iād assume its probably most/all recruited athletes
It is a bit dated, but still
he claims the auto admit number is 20 out of 26,000
Its Pretty detailed
!yaleea
wow so it seems like being an āauto-admitā literally means having insane accomplishments like IMO
By auto admit do yāall mean no interview? Or just auto admit
Likely no interview
Of course in 2011 they were interviewing far more people, so teh auto abmit rates have probaboy changed a lot since then
One of my friends last year didnāt have an interview and got in, but he certainly didnāt have anything crazy like imo or any other huge thing like that
Is this the first year they changed up their interview policies?
Interesting..maybe some hidden ECs you wre unaware of? 
No, they supposedly had the new policy since last year.
Uhh probably but nothing extremely spectacular
I donāt come form an crazy competitive area
But it is competitive for my region
They interviewed only 9000 candidates last year -- as compared to maybe 20000+ in the past
interviews at yale are done if they have available ppl + theyre on the fence abt ur app
they dont mean a yes or a no
I wonder how many REA
ik two people from my school last year that interviewed during the rea round and got in
yeah
multiple people from my school got likely letters after getting deferred from rea
they were all stem applicants
i wouldnāt do interview astrology dude
if you get an interview it means they were interested in you and there was someone available
if you donāt it could be theyāre not or there was no one in the area
we only have to wait a couple of days anyway
yep. 5 days
i love when crazy hs seniors ignore me
Yes ^^!
dont feel motivated to work on RDs at this point
what do you mean by on the fence lol
isnāt that the majority of applicants lmao
itās cause you didnāt affirm what they wanted to hear
nah
fr
lmao im OP of the thread
š
did anyone from Florida get an interview btw
so the majority of applicants donāt get an interview?
omg GTA6 state
iām a bit confused lmao
i only know orlando bcs universal studios
so is getting an interview a bad thing š
lil bro
its neither good nor bad
bruh
No and I wouldnāt read that much into it š
do u really think u can be an autoadmit
For sure..I epxect the number this year will be less than 9000 out of maybe 60000 applicants
all of you guys are worrying lmao
Bruh
LOL
*worrying me
š
is a late interview a good sign tho
ah
NOTHING IS A GOOD OR BAD SIGN
JUST WAIT FOR THE
that means they're still considering you, right?
The real question is how many succesful applicants di dnot get an interview
why would they send me an interview today if they autorejected me
It means ur being considered breh
^
Not necessarily acceptance
i talked about my rap career in my interview am i an auto accept???
consider these NUTS!!!!!!!
š
dude
whats ur fave rapper
Tee Grzzley for me
i didnāt talk about it during my interview but i did write a supp about it š
yall are real downers u know that right
How š??
"hey i got an acceptance letter is that a good sign"
"NOTHING IS A GOOD SIGN THEY ARE CONSIDERING YOU EVERYONE GETS THAT"
bud an interview is not a sign of anything just wait for ur acceptance or rejection in the mail
this!
impatient mf
?????
an acceptance letter isnt the same thing as an interview
I am going in cycles of confidence and crashing self esteem
yall are weird
iām the only one from my school that got an interview though
idk bruh iām just doing app astrology rn
!penn
University of Pennsylvania ED decisions come out <t:1702598400:F> in your local time
5 days, 3 hours and 13 minutes until the decision date
!yaleea
(same time
Oops
2 hours apart !!
dec 14 is going to be a stressful day lmao
My friend who did Penn wants me to wait 2 hours to open together
iām singing at NYC the next day as well
Iām too impatient for that
Excitinggg
Tell me 
if u dont cry for me ill be disappointed
Do you want me to set up camp in #āØ-celebration-station or #šŖ-chad-rejects š
#šŖ-chad-rejects
On the fence is misleading, the interview wonāt get you on or off that fence
which is why it is puzzling: why bother with interviews then?
I mean why not
Itās another piece of the puzzle that AOs can use to advocate for you in committee
if it is not going to add or subtract..?
If you had a stellar interview but not so great recs, they can sort of balance out
I c
Would they even bother with an interview if you had no so great recs
or bother to continue to consider you
Which is why holistic admissions is a thing, if your overall app is strong but there may be a few pause factors then they need pieces of evidence to still back u up
ig
I may not be Mason, but the answer to this question is obviously Bob Dylan
objectively
I won't explain
Bob Dylan unironically almost collaborated with Post Malone
this is not a joke
Why are you stalking people
I am quite flabbergasted at the comments made in this thread
Everything I see here, it vexes me
bruh thats given for people that just dont have alumni availability it literally says that in the email that yale sends to them

Bro is too paranoid š

!yaleea
what are you talking abt lmao
for the senior interview
yale sends an interview request to those people and they mention that its with a senior due to availability reasons
Please donāt post chance me posts here! Thank you
hey my earlier post re the admissions portal seems to have been deleted..did the mods do this?
!yaleea
I think it mightāve fallen under portal astrology
Stawp.. what happened
Yeah, I mentioned something like that. Is that forbidden?
#š-rules
āDon't discuss chance-mes, lying/cheating, portal astrology, or affirmative action. If you don't know what any of these are, you can double check their meaning in #š-rules. Mods may ask you to change the topic at any time, even if a topic isn't listed here.
got it
there was a post on chanceme with a yale rea profile that kinda looked like urs lol (based on what youve said here)
Not allowed either
i c
!yaleea
!yaleea
i honestly just like
can't believe the results are coming this thursday like
APART OF ME JUST REALLY DOES NOT WANT TO KNOW LOLOLOLOLOL
LIKE
its gonna be so embarassing if I get rejected knowing I like REALLLYYYYY worked hard on this application
Its awful. LOL.
True
bruh iām just worried about all of the extra supps
no literally like can they just keep it to themselves atp itās haunting me
guys if ur struggling to find motivation to start supps please please please just sit down and copy and paste the prompts and plan out your essays so you know what ur gonna do. it helped me sm
i could not find the motivation so i copied and pasted all the prompts last week and last night i went back to the doc and edited a few old supps and boom i finished vanderbilt and barnard in 30 minutes just do it
This helped me so much. Also realizing how comp Yale is, especially early made me think that my future at a college would be somewhere else
yeah it helps u prepare for the worst. whenever i start getting anxiety about my yale decision i just go work on other schools
I do that and think about other things
Did you get an interview?
yep, i'm not yale ea but i already made a gigantic color-coded spreadsheet
yet i'm still procrastinating actually writing anything š
yeah i did, hbu
itās ok the most overwhelming part is organizing ur thoughts, now that u have done that everything else wonāt b that bad
Yeah
Yk the funny thing?
How I paused RD apps š
A rejection is gonna take away Christmas and my mental health š
for me my birthday too 
I hate my birth-mas

I paused rd apps for almost a month lol but Iād really recommend yāall make a dent in those supps
im just having trouble getting as excited about other colleges as i was about yale
i dont have an issue with writing essays when im interested but thats just not happening
You just have to learn a lot more about other schools, over time youāll forget about Yale
yeah its a little hard without being able to visit or having any alumni i know
After my yale interview Iāve finally stopped obsessing over specific schools
Now I just wanna get into one of the schools I apply to š
me too š
i just keep telling myself its ok if i get rejected rea bc i can always try for postgrad
this is so true 
I canāt find a single con about it
i cant find a single con about it that isnt shared by other schools
that or theyre way worse in different aspects
precisely
and its not like i have many options as an international with an efc of 0
the only con really is New Haven but thatās not a concern for me
honestly i hear its gotten way better recently
and im not the type to be out and about at 1 am outside campus anyway
I was there for YMUN last winter and there was an incident where someone pushed me into the street
not exactly reassuring but Iāve kinda ignored it
huh
agreed the location is definitely the worst aspect of yale
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ive had ppl try and push me onto the subway tracks in nyc, i dont think thats an everyday occurence in new haven
prob not yea
guys my idoc documents havenāt been processed by the college for a month what do I dooo
I talked to fin aid and they said itās fine but this is crazy
when did you submit
Like mid November
yea dw about it since it was after 11/1 fa will be a little bit later I think
!yaleea
!yaleea
I have been shot by an air soft gun in a drive by early freshman year
ok nvm then š
how important r the interviews ?
like r u more likely to get in if u got an interview
nope
just means they need more info
oh ok fine
!yaleea days left
!yaleea
!yaleea
!yaleea
Carl is getting worked to death let him rest
fr
I havenāt thought about yale that much this wknd
Iāve come to terms with the inevitable I think
Yeah I havenāt either, just doing other things to get my mind off of decisions
Itās almost like I never applied
I hate these supps
yeah it's weird, I thought about decisions way more last weekend than this weekend
yeah same
I think we are just realizing that the chances to get rejected are huge lol
so its not worth worrying over
I have so much RD essays to do
š
literally
How much weight does legacy hold if your parent didnāt donate much?
still holds some weight
Ok cool
What about a letter from someone at the school, like a professor giving a letter of support?
Legacy isnāt a guarantee tho, I think 11% of legacies get admitted
Oh wow ok
No, 11 percent of the enrolled students are legacies. The admit rates for legacies is much higher. 20-25 percent at least.
Thank you
Yale profs this year were specifically asked to not write letters of support by the provost (in an email sent campus wide). apparently it had become too much of a racket
I think it was a former professor
Sorry, Iām asking on behalf of someone.
Peter Brooks, I believe he was a professor or something
the connection has to be REAL, not just a chaarcter reference
a character reference from POTUS even prolly woudn't mean much
sure. You applying this year?
No, my girlfriend is.
ok
I applied early to Cornell.
cool
Yale, in particular, strongly dioscourages additional LORs unless they are extremely substantial.
you can check their website
Oop
š
ro listen to the admissions podcast
Iāve told her to but she doesnāt listen to me
I hope she gets in but we both think she wonāt
Substantial, she took two of his classes, meets with him a lot, heās a great writer
oh well - thats good then
I only sent an additional rec but that was through the research supplement
yeah -w a research mentor I am guessing, right?
Iām not into the Yale stuff, Iām like this but with Cornell. Thank you for your help again though.
sure
Iām guessing youāre applying early?
Good luck!!
thanks and to you too
Will you post your results here?
which school in Cornell?
I will unlessI go into deep hiberanation after teh expected rejection
hospitality!
Stay strong, fall in love with your TD choices
cool
thats the only way to go
Yeah I love hospitality! Iām really excited for Thursday honestly
good luck!!
Thanks
yeah
this is so random but i love your grammar
it's so refreshing seeing proper capitalization and punctuations
I usually forget end punctuation but I like to have somewhat readable sentences.
Thank you!
bro forgot the comma
live laugh love fanboys
act prep trauma
REAL
erica meltzer
she is the best
me in the eurorail this summer studying from my phone
that was ptsd
W
i hate this college
Why are you in here
Im so nervous guys
Thatās too much š
I have those for usps for my daily mail
They donāt even tell you until day of
Not worth
Just wait tbh
Sometimes you canāt even tell who the sender is
You can just tell smthās coming
Also you have to verify your address and as a non homeowner it might not let you
Like it might have to be your parents that do it
And do you really wanna bother your parents over this
bro if ur worrying that much you will have a rude awakening when opening ur decision
just expect the worst
lol I set it up š whatās the harm tbhh
Broo šš
Oh ok
maybe they ship stuff out earlier that day
Lmao I still have stuff that needs to be delivered from Black Friday shopping
š
I donāt want false notifications freaking me out š
I got my record player in the mail yesterday from Black Friday š
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Omg slayy
i got the blonde vinyl coming in š
omg I copped it last year
itās beautiful
upgrade
Tbh it would ruin the surprise
I wonder when they got the notification
They donāt allow additional LORs unless itās STEM supplement LOR
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Nooo haha
I know but I wasnāt shocked when I saw that
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It does
Iām deleting that bc itās kinda false as someone who uses it for non decision reasons
Most notice I get is day of
If that
Also you have to verify your address
So some of you would have to go through your parents
You canāt
Your parents have to
I think they have to mail smth in
Saying they live there
ATP youād probably get the mail received by the time decisions happen
Thatās not what I meant
You usually have to verify your address with the post so they donāt send package verification to a random person
And that usually takes time
Yknow I think I'm fine till thursday
You probably are tbh
does applying test optional make ur application much worse ?
what does that mean
If youāre between 25-75th percentile you should submit
ohh
yeh i think i was just under so i didnāt
if ur regular tests (IB) grades r good does that make it better
sorry last minute stresses
oh fine i mean im international so donāt rlly have a gpa but fine thatās good
sat bane of my existence
damn where
Gpa bane of my existence
procrastinating rd supplementals
same so unprepared didnāt listen to any of this š
how much do they weigh interviews
doesnt matter
if ur going test optional spend spend time on ur essays
oh right
interesting
do they prefer IB to AP?
iām from UK so kinda just applying as a what if
so iām REACHINGGF
thatās me with schools in the uk HAHA
omg iām the opposite i was STRESSING ab oxford interviews but with yale interview I didnāt gaf
history ! wbu
aren't oxford interviews typically more rigorous
i had one great interview and one that reallyyyy couldāve gone better
like they're an actual job-interview type shit
english and modern languages!
yeh theyāre so intense
bc they donāt care ab you or ur hobbies like america do they literally only care how ur brain works
so I struggledddss writing personal essays for america bc england is soooo stiff compared
i only had one and it was so short but the deadline to be pooled has passed š
damn really only one?? š that seems like it doesnāt really give u much leeway to show what you can do
i feel like they should give everyone at least 2..
real š
like writing 50 word essays on what inspires me was hell
exactly š« š«
is the international student acceptance rate the same for domestic applicants
for yale
oh is it lower
2 interviews? definitely not
a mid interview wont hurt you
a bad one will only hurt if u did smth insane
like u were racist
or said u hated yale
anyone get a likely letter?
no i think they were talking ab oxford
for what reason do they send someone a likely letter ?
When was oxford app due
october 16
if a student is very competitive and a shoe-in and they dont want to lose them to other colleges
as long as they maintain that they get accepted iirc
all so stressful
what would be your nr2 pick after yale anyway
im thinking bowdoin myself but as much as it appeals to me on paper and from testimonies i just cant get as excited
oh yeah i was talking abt oxford š
probs columbia
was gonna apply there early but bc itās rd i couldnāt apply in england so i had to choose a school w rea
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hi
good morning, cute cat
yes thank you
that's generally all true
They arenāt more job-based (situational or behavioural), more based on ur course/subject u applying for. For example I applied for chemistry and I had 3 interviews (organic, inorganic and physical) and they have u there actually solving questions in front of them and then they challenge u to use ur common sense and the knowledge u already have to go a step further
Sometimes they even ask u funny questions like āwhy dont fishes freezeā ātell me how many people are currently drinking coffee in Londonā and etc
the application fees cover them lol
silly me
whatās the acceptance rate for rea
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Does Yale count a A- as a 3.7?
10 percent
for admissions
I think my counselor told me that schools self-calculate it
so I was wondering how yale viewed them
i think they self calculate it based on the information that your counselor provides on difficulty and whatnot
although it may be different for APs and the like
at least thats what it said on my counselor's commonapp page
10 percent but the number is mixed with legacies and athletes
a lot less
Last-minute anxiety: what if I got perfect pre-IB and IB scores in every semester except for the last one of my junior year (and it was really bad in Yale standards, I believe) due to medical situations (which should have been explained in the counselor LoR). OK, I know nobody knows... Just ranting
Yale iirc does not recalculate
closer to 5 or less really
5 percent is crazy š¦
barely anyone gets in
i think u just dont submit then its fine
cause the report only covers 1 year
Yup take the 770 early accepts from last year (which was about 10 percent) minus 250 athletes minus 150+ legacies and minus 70 QB and you have about 300 left
Yeah but our school doesnāt report a GPA
so 300/7500 is 4 percent. Not all athletes/legacies are in EA, so bump that up to 5 percent
no dont count QB
Our school is like sending all term grades... So I'll probably seem like the opposite of an "academically progressing" student (if I just can't get in the AOs' review pool) lol
qb is a diff pool
Doesn't matter.
Oh really, I did not know that
So I wonder how an A- will be viewed as
in context of your school
at mine ex. they only flat grade
so an a is an a
really? u can just ask them to fill out only senior year form. how could that happens
but my high school doesnt so its different
Yes, you are probably right. So, yes, 4-6 percent dpending on unknowns
Don't know if that's some IB problem... Never heard of our school sending only senior year form
Seriously, dont worry about an A-.
Alright then
i think depends HOW bad is bad
It was in a math class and all STeM classes in my school are highly rigorous so it should be fine
That will literally NOT be the deciding factor on anything. At Yale or anywhere else.
well u just need to talk to ur counselor. only if yale asks to provide them otherwise u dont have to submit it
probs >40
I would say a 40/42 is already not that much promising if you got 3 HLs?
wait wdum
does yale accept students with several b's? i got an interview and had 3 in freshman yr and 2 in soph yr
My case is that our school allows 6 HLs despite your IB exam registration - and presumably, it should matter
ph we didnāt have that