Put this one down under ‘practical and boring.’ Still, I thought someone or someones out there might be curious as to what exactly Yale sent me and the 700 other early admits. So here is what came in that ‘fat envelope’ packet on Monday, accompanying the official letter of admission. Clockwise from top:

YALE banner.
‘Reply’ card [...]

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That’s the title of a discussion thread created on Facebook by Eddie Fishman, a fellow Yale pre-frosh from Harriton Senior High School. Eddie is aware that the degree to which we early admits of yale 2011 seem to be communicating with one another online is unusual and noteworthy. He asked:
I have a bunch of friends [...]

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First, a two-sentence long post that I wrote on November 1st, after I had sent in my common application, but kept private.
Well, that was easy: I just applied to college.
I just applied Single-Choice Early Action to Yale. The Common App online really does make things very easy–too easy, in fact, but that’s the point.
That impression [...]

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So at 4:25 today I called my golden retriever (not bulldog) Cozmo over to me, for support, and loaded up Yale.edu/Admit … and, as the headline suggests, I had AWESOME news. The past few days have been the most nerve wracking and stressful time of my entire life. I have a lot more to say [...]

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This was on the front page of the Exonian today, reported by my super-excellent best buddy and fellow senior Boaz Chandrasekhar: 64% of Exonians applied early to schools this fall. This is up from 58% last year. There are 315 people in the class of 2006, 30 of whom are postgraduates. Boaz wrote “early decision” [...]

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