Yale c/o 2021 Applicants Thread (2017-2018) Forum

[soca_dancer]

I feel like my parents, mentors, and everyone else has a top 4 list that they constantly feel the urge to tell me about.

[ilpsm]

y'all have weird friends and family...

Retweet! Like my family and friends are lit every single time I get into a new school - even if it’s one I no longer care about.

with you here lmao my parents are honestly just glad i graduated high school

also ~ checking in! haven't submitted my app yet

[feralflamingo]

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[gayfish]

y'all have weird friends and family...

Retweet! Like my family and friends are lit every single time I get into a new school - even if it’s one I no longer care about.

with you here lmao my parents are honestly just glad i graduated high school

also ~ checking in! haven't submitted my app yet

+100 first in my family to go to grad school, and everyone is hella pumped at every acceptance. My mom Venmos me money to buy tacos every time I get in somewhere and it's the purest thing in my life
Also preemptively checking in for when I super for-realsies submit my app tonight

[dhbiv]

Based of previous years, it looks like another wave of decisions could be next week (Feb 1 or 2). Yale is one of three I'm waiting to hear back from (Stanford and Columbia). Yale (unsurprisingly) is my top choice, so once I have an answer from them, my cycle is pretty much over.

[tinycatfriend]

y'all have weird friends and family...

Retweet! Like my family and friends are lit every single time I get into a new school - even if it’s one I no longer care about.

with you here lmao my parents are honestly just glad i graduated high school

also ~ checking in! haven't submitted my app yet

+100 first in my family to go to grad school, and everyone is hella pumped at every acceptance. My mom Venmos me money to buy tacos every time I get in somewhere and it's the purest thing in my life
Also preemptively checking in for when I super for-realsies submit my app tonight

Your Mom sounds incredibly sweet - don't forget to call her today! I'm justifying my lack of submission on the fact that one of my recommenders still hasn't written...

[gotmilk332]

Went complete a couple days ago, found out two app breaking (according to Asha's blog) mistakes today
Whatever. I don't care. *crying in corner*

oh no what happened??

[feralflamingo]

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[gotmilk332]

Went complete a couple days ago, found out two app breaking (according to Asha's blog) mistakes today
Whatever. I don't care. *crying in corner*

oh no what happened??

one employer LOR and one professor LOR. It may not seem like a big deal but I just found out Asha really stresses two prof LORs. Also made a grammatical error I did not know was an error (lived in China for most my life, international schooling & some years stateside for eng). Yale was honestly a whim and I don't expect to get in, but knowing that I basically broke my application is super disheartening.

Can you quickly get another professor LOR and submit? Not sure how that process goes but I imagine it's posisble! Also if you've been out of school for a while i think it's okay

[feralflamingo]

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[H2M211]

Went complete a couple days ago, found out two app breaking (according to Asha's blog) mistakes today
Whatever. I don't care. *crying in corner*

oh no what happened??

one employer LOR and one professor LOR. It may not seem like a big deal but I just found out Asha really stresses two prof LORs. Also made a grammatical error I did not know was an error (lived in China for most my life, international schooling & some years stateside for eng). Yale was honestly a whim and I don't expect to get in, but knowing that I basically broke my application is super disheartening.

How long have you been out of school for?

[Oneanddone?]

Went complete a couple days ago, found out two app breaking (according to Asha's blog) mistakes today
Whatever. I don't care. *crying in corner*

oh no what happened??

one employer LOR and one professor LOR. It may not seem like a big deal but I just found out Asha really stresses two prof LORs. Also made a grammatical error I did not know was an error (lived in China for most my life, international schooling & some years stateside for eng). Yale was honestly a whim and I don't expect to get in, but knowing that I basically broke my application is super disheartening.

Can you quickly get another professor LOR and submit? Not sure how that process goes but I imagine it's posisble! Also if you've been out of school for a while i think it's okay

+1 to adding an LOR! I'm sure a typo won't be a deal breaker, either. Even Yale adcomms make them too.... That's in the Ask Asha blog as well!

[tinycatfriend]

Went complete a couple days ago, found out two app breaking (according to Asha's blog) mistakes today
Whatever. I don't care. *crying in corner*

oh no what happened??

one employer LOR and one professor LOR. It may not seem like a big deal but I just found out Asha really stresses two prof LORs. Also made a grammatical error I did not know was an error (lived in China for most my life, international schooling & some years stateside for eng). Yale was honestly a whim and I don't expect to get in, but knowing that I basically broke my application is super disheartening.

Can you quickly get another professor LOR and submit? Not sure how that process goes but I imagine it's posisble! Also if you've been out of school for a while i think it's okay

+1 to adding an LOR! I'm sure a typo won't be a deal breaker, either. Even Yale adcomms make them too.... That's in the Ask Asha blog as well!

Also, since you're an international, I wouldn't sweat a minor grammatical mistake - I mean, honestly, how many adcoms/applicants do you think speak/write 2+ languages fluently? You're already impressive!

[Drawingstraws]

Wave Monday?

[Oneanddone?]

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[mxhenry]

What's the quickest Yale turnaround you've heard of? As in, date completed to admitted.

[balanlebesgue]

My family still thinks I should get a PhD. My Yale app has been delayed because my professor writing my recommendation keeps trying to convince me to get a JD/PhD... she's convinced I'll be bored with a JD because I know math.

Her dad is a Nobel Prize winner and so is her husband, so I think she has a slightly skewed idea of normal.

Yo my math professor said the same thing a few years ago. Thankfully she finished my letter a long time ago, but I deffo feel you about hearing omens of "boredness" because of knowing stuff like elementary topology and lebesgue integration

[inflammatorywrit]

the idea that there might be a wave this week has given me a constant feeling that I'm about to vomit

[Saami]

I decided to say YOLO and submitted an application yesterday.

[paperworkjim]

Great to know.

[JosephFourier]

Is anyone willing to help me out with my 3rd try at a 250?

[jjs671]

Is anyone willing to help me out with my 3rd try at a 250?

PM if you still need some help!

[Idesignheartlove]

Checking in

[lsattothedome]

I'm in at Yale! I can hardly believe it. So incredible.

[lsattothedome]

I'm in at YLS. I can hardly believe it. Still hasn't fully sunk in.