All complaining aside, I think we're just looking at a small office (it's just 2-3 people, I think) having to intensively deal with a lot of applications at one time. I've worked in admissions offices before that had a faculty review component, and it's a LOT of work to manage the paperwork and selection, especially when you're also dealing with all the questions and decisions of admitted students. Throw on top of that the need to very carefully manage yield and having no real obligation to dings, and you have most of the explanation for why things are taking a while.Olliedemars wrote: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 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 smooths out any 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.
Do I like that it's taking this long? No. Do I wish we had a bit more communication from them? Sure. But I don't think there's anything nefarious or manipulative going on.
Plus I HIGHLY doubt Asha cares what we think/know here, even if she's aware of it.
when did ya'll apply?
