2014-2015 Yale University Application Thread

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MobiusEspresso said:
No, but at least I know my "call is important"...
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I am in India and can't find the number to call. Could someone PM me? Sorry to bother you. . .I'm going to try to get through, I guess.
 
Who are you all trying to call? Could you call another Yale med number (ie financial aid) and then say "oh i am sorry could you please connect me to [person]"
 
ProbablyAPenguin said:
Who are you all trying to call? Could you call another Yale med number (ie financial aid) and then say "oh i am sorry could you please connect me to [person]"
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@MobiusEspresso, thank you for the intention. (I think that the road to HEAVEN is also paved with good intentions!) I could not believe how speedily @CharMD15 and @Brunox13 got me the number. Wow, you are all so nice and responsive. I foresee lucky patients down the line!

I was able to get through after multiple tries. (I do NOT want to see the phone bill for this, even though I went through Reliance.) I waited on hold for 38 minutes and kept looking anxiously at the screen to see if I had been disconnected. I can't remember the last time I was on hold without being subjected to terrible oldies or Muzak!

As we all know, not much can really be conveyed in the conversation, because no one can predict whether there will be any movement from the waitlist from now on. Here's what I was told:
  • All 104 places in the class have been filled, and everyone has turned down all the other schools to which they had been accepted (of course.)
  • There may be students who need to defer the year that they begin. There are fewer known to be in this situation this year than in previous years.
  • There may be students who are called off the waitlist of a school they prefer to Yale. :laugh: There seem to be fewer possibilities this year, judging by the lack of movement from most waitlists so far.
  • Fewer people will come off the waitlist this year than in previous years--guaranteed. At this time last year, they were further down the list than they now are.
  • There is likely to be a flurry of activity from late June through the first week of July. Before and after that time, not much is anticipated in the way of change.
In short, while prospects are not nil, they are nil's fraternal twin. A little different, but not so much. Mr. Silverman and Veronica are so sympathetic and friendly that it made me impossibly cheered and quite sad at the same time.

Hope this helps, everybody. (Sort of like when the diagnosis of your condition is bad--but at least now you know what it is!)

I don't want to wish anything but good to the present class, which I know from my sdn experience to have some excellent and friendly folks in it. I want to wish the rest of us good luck, though, so. . .I guess I am wishing to be whisked into a parallel universe where all outcomes are happy ever after and all (noble) desires are satisfied!
 
Aw, @BengaliBrat, I want you to get off this waitlist so badly! I feel like if the Admissions Offices stalked SDN, read all your beautiful and supportive posts, and then connected the dots to figure out who you are, they would have to admit you.

It seems like you are keeping a healthy and realistic perspective on all this, and I guess I should too, but my fingers are still crossed for you!

Good luck to everyone still waiting. :luck::xf:
 
@Kelilah, thank you so much. I am a fatalist, I know, but it keeps me going. . .we will be guided to the path that we are supposed to tread. And. . . paths do converge! Even climbing up Everest (crazy behavior, from my point of view, but there you are), those attempting to summit have more than one route to the top. I know that the school seems like everything now--but it is just a beginning step. :cat:
 
Dear Bellybuttons! (I say that because some of us are Innies and some of us are Outies)

The official death knell of hope has tolled. (I am not asking for whom the bell tolled. I do know it tolled for me!) I believe that the announcement went something like this: Tick-tock
The game is locked
And nobody else can play.
Hurray! :laugh::laugh::laugh:

Best wishes to all my fellow Navels and I hope that they find a place they can stomach and nobody goes belly up. (Groan. Sorry! I just could NOT resist!)
 
BengaliBrat said:
Dear Bellybuttons! (I say that because some of us are Innies and some of us are Outies)

The official death knell of hope has tolled. (I am not asking for whom the bell tolled. I do know it tolled for me!) I believe that the announcement went something like this: Tick-tock
The game is locked
And nobody else can play.
Hurray! :laugh::laugh::laugh:

Best wishes to all my fellow Navels and I hope that they find a place they can stomach and nobody goes belly up. (Groan. Sorry! I just could NOT resist!)
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hate to be daft and ask for a translation, but what do you mean by that? you got an email releasing you from the wait list?
 
carriemathison said:
hate to be daft and ask for a translation, but what do you mean by that? you got an email releasing you from the wait list?
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Full Disclosure: I seem to be the only person who interpreted the recent email as I did, judging from the responses I got. Was I too pessimistic? I was not released individually from the waitlist. I read that call-in consultations were cancelled, that the class was full with 102 (? or 104? the email is not handy right now) committed students, that although movement is not impossible, it is unlikely. Was I too pessimistic? Did my email say something different from those that others received? I apologize if I was misleading. . . but I took the message as a gentle and diplomatic way of saying "It's okay to sign the lease for the apartment in the other town." Unexpected events might occur, I know. Someone might defer who had not anticipated deferring. There might be an illness or other emergency, God forbid. However, I understood the email as a kindly notice that, barring such unexpected events, the waitlist was not likely to move much.

Again--the email was a form email. Perhaps I just read too much into it. If so, many apologies. I hope that those of you hoping are correct!
 
BengaliBrat said:
Full Disclosure: I seem to be the only person who interpreted the recent email as I did, judging from the responses I got. Was I too pessimistic? I was not released individually from the waitlist. I read that call-in consultations were cancelled, that the class was full with 102 (? or 104? the email is not handy right now) committed students, that although movement is not impossible, it is unlikely. Was I too pessimistic? Did my email say something different from those that others received? I apologize if I was misleading. . . but I took the message as a gentle and diplomatic way of saying "It's okay to sign the lease for the apartment in the other town." Unexpected events might occur, I know. Someone might defer who had not anticipated deferring. There might be an illness or other emergency, God forbid. However, I understood the email as a kindly notice that, barring such unexpected events, the waitlist was not likely to move much.

Again--the email was a form email. Perhaps I just read too much into it. If so, many apologies. I hope that those of you hoping are correct!
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What's a form email?
 
smooki said:
What's a form email?
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One that is not personalized to the recipient. One that gives an identical message to everyone. Never received one?

Here is one definition from the Web

Non-Personalized Bulk Email
Non-personalized mode allows to send one message to the list of addresses. This does not mean that every recipient will see the addresses of the whole list. It means that the text of the message needs to be transferred to the server only once, which gives huge gain in speed.

According to our bulk email speed tests, non-personalized email may be sent 15 to 250 times faster than personalized email.

The gain in speed is more dramatic when you have a slow modem connection, but even at fastest connection speeds, non-personalized mailing is still 15 times faster than personalized one.

Spam filters may throw away all non-personalized messages, and therefore it is safer to use personalized message.
 
BengaliBrat said:
One that is not personalized to the recipient. One that gives an identical message to everyone. Never received one?

Here is one definition from the Web

Non-Personalized Bulk Email
Non-personalized mode allows to send one message to the list of addresses. This does not mean that every recipient will see the addresses of the whole list. It means that the text of the message needs to be transferred to the server only once, which gives huge gain in speed.

According to our bulk email speed tests, non-personalized email may be sent 15 to 250 times faster than personalized email.

The gain in speed is more dramatic when you have a slow modem connection, but even at fastest connection speeds, non-personalized mailing is still 15 times faster than personalized one.

Spam filters may throw away all non-personalized messages, and therefore it is safer to use personalized message.
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Ohhh I see. I thought it was something specific to Yale or something lol whoops
 
Are there any travel grants to help with the costs of traveling to SLW?
 
V8Mustang said:
Are there any travel grants to help with the costs of traveling to SLW?
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Currently that's only for those who are on the AMCAS Fee Assistance Program. Wait, you are posting on last year's thread.
 
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