Yale Class of 2016 Calling all applicants!

The blog has been around for awhile. You can read all the posts here:
https://som.yale.edu/our-programs/full-t ... unity-blog

cp, what makes you think it wasn't around last year? Do you notice it more this year?




Some people on these forums put in their own personal email addresses so they could get the recommendation questions to send. Beware: Systems are school specific and may not let you change the email address afterwards. These people on GC had to call or email adcoms last year to explain why the email address for their recommender was incorrect, which depending on what you say/how you handle it, could be an awkward conversation. You can try this method if you wish, but your miles may vary.



To those of you coming to Explore Diversity Day today and tomorrow, welcome to campus & hope to see you around! Make sure to ask whatever's on your mind!

Its been 10 days since the last update for any Indian applicants receiving an invite.. I think all hope is lost for now

Hey all! Wanted to highlight these reports on Clear Admit on Yale SOM video interview questions:

https://blog.clearadmit.com/2013/10/yale ... terview-2/
https://blog.clearadmit.com/2013/10/yale ... interview/

The Einstein quote is, "Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand."

Completed my interview on Tuesday with Mr. Anjani Jain. Such a humble person and very helpful. The questions were all straightforward and the interview was more like a conversation between friends. Difficult to form any conclusions about it, since almost everyone had a similar experience with him. Hoping for the best and good luck to all the rest

same here!!!
Congrats

A waitlist decision is always possible for people who have not received interviews yet. It's not over until Bruce DelMonico says so.

Don't worry about receiving a Thank You or not. There are so many instances on GC where people received great thank yous and then were dinged and others who received nothing and were accepted (and vice versa, of course). There's no rhyme or reason -- some people like to be personal and respond, others are just busy and might look at the Thank You as routine and expected.

One thing to note though: DO write your Thank You, regardless. It's good form to do so, whether or not the person responds.

Good luck waiting for the result, blueser. Only a few more weeks left!

My interviewer actually beat me to writing a thank you email (while traveling back home). He was nice enough to write and thank me for preparing and taking the time to interview. Regardless, I thought it was a very very classy move. Yale is the only school where such a nice gesture has happened.

Thought it said a lot about the interviewers and the process itself. So I wouldn't worry about responses or anything. They are all good at helping applicants getting the best app experience they can.

Anyone in India receiving invites? Seems it is too too late now.

Aerien, thanks for the advice. I'm a R1 applicant and I've already interviewed, and I logically know that I won't hear anything for another 2 weeks, but I've just become conditioned to obsessively checking this site.

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone celebrating today!!

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From last year's thread, it appears that all GMATClub calls were received on the 12/13/12 decision date (+ or - 12 hours for international applicants). Also, for those wondering, it would appear that the New Haven area code is "203."

Actually according to this article https://poetsandquants.com/2013/09/05/th ... agement/4/ Yale interviews between "a quarter to a third of the pool". Crunching the numbers based on their class size, yield, and total number of applicants, anywhere from 66-87% of interviewed applicants are accepted. These numbers definitely seem high, but it is backed up by the fact that Bruce Delmonico is quoted in the article as saying that Yale tries to interview fewer rather than more applicants. It's an interesting read if you haven't already taken a look at it. Definitely encouraging for those who interviewed.

For those of you who have a vague idea of what living in New Haven is like (read: you've heard it's scary), this video actually comes much closer to the day-to-day reality. It really is awesome.

Last year status updates didn't happen until later in the day, and happy results came out earlier in the afternoon via phone calls and emails (both after the call and if you happened to miss the call). The only exceptions I remember are internationals (they found out a bit earlier in the day, based on time zones).

Good luck tomorrow, everyone! We're rooting for you!

Hear, hear! Do yourselves a favor and don't check GMATClub until this afternoon. Dive into work, or Netflix, or a magazine or something. Take a deep breath. Good luck!

in! looks like they are starting with Asia!

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