I must say, I would not suckle at the teat of Yale's cash cow, no matter how great the name cachet. If one is to go on to the Ph.D. (often earning as much as a Taco Bell shift supervisor as a graduate student), I would ferret away as much money as possible.
It's been an emotional 24 hours! Odd that they send out rejections before acceptances -- usually the other way around. No news is good news (for now), yellowshoes!