Im also trying to delude myself into thinking there’s hope for US History at Yale. I do know that admissions for each subfield is independent so admissions to Europe would have no bearing on admissions to US history. I spoke to a professor for an interview the second week of January. He told me that I should hear back by the second week of feb regarding decisions. As long as I don’t know of anyone in US history that’s been admitted, I think there still might be some hope for us