Yale c/o 2019 Applicants (2015-2016) Forum

[dizzystpizzy]

Long sighs, clear annoyance, and then promptly being hung up on after I was told that my update was received.

Asha how could you turn on us

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[clovis]

I was gonna send out dings until I got high
I was gonna finalize the WL but then I got high
Now everybody’s mad and I know why
’cause I got high [repeat 3X]

[mdnyc]

[Insert witty way of saying we haven't heard from New Haven in a while here.]

[oliverb]

Because clearly Asha & staff don't have their shit together.
Every other T14 school is done, but the prescious snowflakes at YLS can't
be bothered to take 10 secs. to tweet when we might hear something.
Or to actually tell us something.
Oh yeah I forgot. We're supposed to be humble supplicants at their altar.

[oliverb]

I have a suggestion, Asha:

1. Take all remaining apps and throw them in a big pile in the middle of the floor.
2. Hire some monkeys to sort them randomly into two piles.
3. Call one pile "Rejects," hire smarter monkeys to put together the "Rejects" email list.
Tell monkeys to hit Send button.
4. Call the other pile "Waitlist," instruct the smarter monkeys to complie "Waitlist" email list.
Tell monkeys to hit Send button.

DONE, welcome Class of 2019, now you can go to Cancun for a few weeks and sip frozen Margaritas.

[hopeful94]

I would also be fine with the stair method. Just take the remaining applications, throw them down a flight of stairs, and email us a decision based on which step our application lands on. Or they could continue keeping us in the dark as deadlines approach and being incredibly discourteous when we have the nerve to email/call.

[pterodactyls]

Because clearly Asha & staff don't have their shit together.
Every other T14 school is done, but the prescious snowflakes at YLS can't
be bothered to take 10 secs. to tweet when we might hear something.
Or to actually tell us something.
Oh yeah I forgot. We're supposed to be humble supplicants at their altar.

There are several other T14s that aren't done.

[mdnyc]

Because clearly Asha & staff don't have their shit together.
Every other T14 school is done, but the prescious snowflakes at YLS can't
be bothered to take 10 secs. to tweet when we might hear something.
Or to actually tell us something.
Oh yeah I forgot. We're supposed to be humble supplicants at their altar.

There are several other T14s that aren't done.

Yeah, the folks over in the Stanford thread are in the same position. We may be going crazy in our information vacuum, but at least we're going crazy with other people.

[SuperAverageJoe]

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[schocolate]

Because clearly Asha & staff don't have their shit together.
Every other T14 school is done, but the prescious snowflakes at YLS can't
be bothered to take 10 secs. to tweet when we might hear something.
Or to actually tell us something.
Oh yeah I forgot. We're supposed to be humble supplicants at their altar.

There are several other T14s that aren't done.

Yeah, the folks over in the Stanford thread are in the same position. We may be going crazy in our information vacuum, but at least we're going crazy with other people.

No way, dude, the Stanford folks have it way better. Some are still waiting, but SLS sent out waitlists last weekend.

[mdnyc]

There are several other T14s that aren't done.

Yeah, the folks over in the Stanford thread are in the same position. We may be going crazy in our information vacuum, but at least we're going crazy with other people.

No way, dude, the Stanford folks have it way better. Some are still waiting, but SLS sent out waitlists last weekend.

Yeah, you're right. I'm just trying to see some bright side here, haha.

[mesnggirl]

Do y'all think that there's any way that those of us who haven't heard a response yet will be accepted? I'm like 98% sure that's I'll be wait-listed or dinged, but I've been waiting to hear back from YLS before I deposit elsewhere and the clock is running out.

[mdnyc]

Do y'all think that there's any way that those of us who haven't heard a response yet will be accepted? I'm like 98% sure that's I'll be wait-listed or dinged, but I've been waiting to hear back from YLS before I deposit elsewhere and the clock is running out.

When did you go complete? If it's before January, I'd say the chances are more like 99.9% that you're waitlisted or dinged. If after, your 98% estimate is probably right.

[gamerish]

Do y'all think that there's any way that those of us who haven't heard a response yet will be accepted? I'm like 98% sure that's I'll be wait-listed or dinged, but I've been waiting to hear back from YLS before I deposit elsewhere and the clock is running out.

There are way too many of us for that to even be possible on a general scale. Certainly there could be room for a few of us, but I can't seeing it being true for more than that.

[GrayGamut]

Do y'all think that there's any way that those of us who haven't heard a response yet will be accepted? I'm like 98% sure that's I'll be wait-listed or dinged, but I've been waiting to hear back from YLS before I deposit elsewhere and the clock is running out.

I'm still holding out for your acceptance, mesnggirl. Don't lose hope on New Haven yet!

[clovis]

It already feels like we're on the WL.

[schocolate]

Yale decisions: accept, deny, waitlist, purgatory.

[gamerish]

If I'm fortunate enough to get a WL I'll just like cut off my limbs or something and write an inspiring LOCI about overcoming the challenges of being a quadriplegic.

[hopeful94]

If I'm fortunate enough to get a WL I'll just like cut off my limbs or something and write an inspiring LOCI about overcoming the challenges of being a quadriplegic.

That sounds like a healthy response...

[Olliedemars]

If I'm fortunate enough to get a WL I'll just like cut off my limbs or something and write an inspiring LOCI about overcoming the challenges of being a quadriplegic.

Laughed aloud at this. Definitely going to hell now.

[mdnyc]

If I'm fortunate enough to get a WL I'll just like cut off my limbs or something and write an inspiring LOCI about overcoming the challenges of being a quadriplegic.

Laughed aloud at this. Definitely going to hell now.

In this case, better than purgatory.

[clovis]

If I'm fortunate enough to get a WL I'll just like cut off my limbs or something and write an inspiring LOCI about overcoming the challenges of being a quadriplegic.

Yes! No legs = no Bad Idea Jeans

[mesnggirl]

Do y'all think that there's any way that those of us who haven't heard a response yet will be accepted? I'm like 98% sure that's I'll be wait-listed or dinged, but I've been waiting to hear back from YLS before I deposit elsewhere and the clock is running out.

I'm still holding out for your acceptance, mesnggirl. Don't lose hope on New Haven yet!

I'm glad that the good juju is flowing.

[schocolate]

I will be super amused if this becomes the subject of one her blog posts in the future.

[Olliedemars]

Okay, I'm going to float a conspiracy theory: the reason YLS has only had 1 rejection wave is because AdComm doesn't want it to be detectable 1. who made it to faculty review, and 2. who likely made it to FR but wasn't admitted. By releasing (nearly) all decisions at once, it's impossible to suss out, through Internet chatter, who never made it to FR and who did, but unsuccessfully.

This lack of transparency might be useful if, say, FR tends to result in more males than women getting 11s/12s, or not enough URMs, or it turns out there's a faculty bias for folks from South Dakota, or Tauruses, or whatever. Even the appearance of any sort of preference is definitely to be avoided, and the 'all-in-one' rejection wave means there's little evidence to form conjecture as to the type of applicant that makes it to FR, makes it through FR, etc.

I don't necessarily believe this myself, but it's getting very difficult to come up with a logical reason for the radio silence. Their office must be getting inundated with bratty 'I got into Harvard and Columbia and don't you know that the deadlines' blah blah e-mails, and that seems reason enough to send out most decisions.