<p>amciw: I went to the collegeboard site to see the exact testing dates, there is an october test, I don’t know why I had overlooked it before. Thanks for that, it puts a bit less pressure on me. Though my current range is 2100-2250, and I definetly need to get that higher. It’s a relief to hear people generally do better though.</p>
<p>My parents love stanford, partly because they’re both engineers and they want me to become one (for the stability) and its proximity. They’re still very egdy about the east coast. But I think you need to be so passionate about math/science and Stanford to stand any chance, and it would just be a waste of money otherwise. But then that’s not always the case.</p>
<p>I really want to visit the Yale campus, but I don’t think it’s going to happen. Either way, everyone I’ve heard from who has visited has always loved it.</p>
<p>Great post pianista. I’m not interested in Stanford, but for a while I was really debating between Yale SCEA and MIT/UChi EA. I still have the summer to think about it, but I’m pretty sure I’m going to go down the MIT/Uchi route and leave Yale for regular admissions. </p>
<p>Best of luck to all the SCEA’rs here. I hope you all get accepted, and if not, let’s hope we get accepted together in regular admissions =]</p>
<p>Another SCEAer here, I think. I tried so hard not to fall in love with it when I visited…and failed. I have the feeling that we’re all gonna be stalking these boards for quite a while :)</p>
<p>Theres always at least one of these threads around, no matter what time of year it is. Next year, when we’ll know the decisions, 2015 threads will prolly start popping up xD the next generation seduced by Yale. </p>
<p>A new thread will prolly come up when about everybody’s submitted their apps, I can’t even think about THAT right now, and then the real countdown begins. I’m both really excited and feverishly scared.</p>
<p>ME!!
I just made my decision this week to apply SCEA at Yale. I am a math chick-800 Math section SAT, but a professional actress-weird combo, Yale is such a perfect fit for me. The more I read the more I fall in love with it. It will be a long shot , but I do plan on starting on my application as soon as exams are over. I am taking the SAT again in October for one last shot at getting my horrible CR score up. If I am not accepted to Yale or Princeton, I may end up in LA.
Good luck to everyone!!! :-)</p>
<p>I’m apply too. 34 ACT, writer with a national award… but weak in math! I actually know someone who got in RD, and she isn’t super incredible, so I have hope.</p>
<p>i just wanted to ask you all, especially the person who got a score of 2350, why are you trying so hard to get a perfect score? You’re making me very nervous because my score is nothing like that, but why does it have to be so perfect? Why isn’t that score good enough? I’m not accusing anyone, I’m just trying to figure out the logic behind your decision.</p>
<p>I will be! I’m quite nervous and don’t think I have too great a shot, but I know I’d regret it if I didn’t even try. I have a 2290, 4.0, decent extracurriculars and all that jazz, but I don’t think there’s anything that would set me apart as Yale material. I just feel like I’m your average ivy applicant, as much as I’d like to convince myself otherwise.</p>
<p>Ajrover, since I think I was the person who got a 2350 that you were referring to, let me address your concerns. I didn’t try that hard to get a perfect score. It just happened that I got a 2350 after taking three practice tests (and the math sections on a fourth), I guess because I was much better focused on the real test. Three practice tests is not substantial studying for the SAT. I just did enough to get me familiarized for the test, so that I wouldn’t be scared at the format or surprised by any questions.</p>
<p>The score doesn’t have to be perfect, but it always helps to be higher. There is a lot of data showing that students with higher SAT scores get admitted to top schools at a greater percentage than those with lower SAT scores. While there is obviously the confounding variable of students who score higher being more prone to do the ECs and write the quality essays that are so helpful in admission to such schools, I still think that having a higher score makes you look better, and helps. If nothing else, if you have someone at 2250, and someone at 2370, with everything else being exactly equal, the person with the 2370 would invariably be picked. It might provide the push you need to get in.</p>
<p>As a note, I’m not an applicant for SCEA in 2014. I applied regular decision for the Class of 2013, was admitted and will be attending next year. I was posting in here to help Yale hopefuls, such as, I would assume, yourself.</p>
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<p>You’re welcome. Good luck on all your tests. Read the questions carefully, and don’t worry to much while taking it.</p>
<p>Congratulations on your admission, and thank-you very much for the advice!
However, I feel that the dire competition between high SAT scores is unsettling to us applicants. It is my belief that Private Universities look at applicants in a holistic view and do not base their entire decision on a singular subject such as test scores. It would be better for us to accept a high test score and come to terms with it, than to struggle for a score a mere 100 or so points higher. Maybe we should all calm down and realize that it’s not the end of the world if we aren’t accepted into a certain school. A couple of my friends have broke down into tears due to the stress and want of getting into an Ivy League school, and one friend, specifically Yale. I don’t believe that having such a discerning view of scores is easing tensions at all. It’s very difficult to be in the cross hairs of a friend’s dream buckling. Again, I’m not trying to attack anyone, I just would recommend us all to relax and calm down, and be proud of what we’ve achieved.</p>
<p>^ While I’d like to believe that that 100 points doesn’t make a big difference, the evidence against this is pretty conclusive. For example, 100 extra points on the SAT in Princeton could result in a 18% higher chance of admissions. </p>
<p>Hi everyone, I’m fairly certain I’m applying Yale SCEA this fall, and I’m nervous/excited (exervous?)…it’s so weird to think that we’re on deck as far as essay obsessing and decisions posting goes.</p>
<p>There is a lottt of SAT score posting on this thread! I say we chillax a smidgen and discuss possible essay topics (either what you want to write about or what you think a sweet short take topic would be)?</p>
<p>I’ll go first.
I’m thinking about writing about the Little Mermaid. I’m not crazy, I swear.
I think a wicked awesome short take question would be “In fortune cookie form, state your life motto or mantra.”</p>
<p>I’m so down with ‘people who inspire you’ essays. Hence the username, I’d be writing about RFK. I would just like a fairly specific topic, as I’m terrible at coming up with what to write about. Once I have a topic, I’m golden, but having a specific prompt would help me out so much.</p>
<p>we had pretty free “mock” topics at school; I wrote one about moving a lot, one about how physics shouldn’t exist (humorous, but probably not for yale), and another about literary ignorance. I’m pretty much still waiting for the famous ‘of course!’ moment some people have when they’re searching for the perfect essay topic.</p>
<p>Lanaesque- One piece of advice: Waiting for an aha! moment for the essay is both tempting and useful, but don’t wait until the last moment. I consider myself a pretty strong writer, and spent last summer and fall looking for the “perfect” college essay topic. It never came. I ended up writing two essays on pretty conventional topics. I related the academic pressures of a summer program I participated in with watching the sun rise in the middle of a forest 3000 mi from home, and talked about a research project I did relating two of my so-called “passions”. The topics themselves are pretty unspectacular, but the structure and diction of the pieces were more unusual and I believe the essays were effective in showing my interest in the subjects, what I did, and my creative writing skills. </p>
<p>Sometimes “perfect” won’t happen and you’ll have to make due. I made the mistake last year of waiting too long, and ended up writing my essays the week before the SCEA deadline while in bedrest.</p>
<p>Extremely good advice by pianista. I spent two weeks thinking of a possible subject for my Yale essay, before settling for a revised version of my Princeton engineering essay because I thought it did the best of my ideas at representing me. There was never a compelling feeling that it was what I had to write about, and I found this for little else. Just think of something that represents you and the kind of person you want to communicate to the admissions officer and committee, write a good essay showing it, and hope they like you and admit you.</p>
<p>WOw, can’t believe junior year is almost over! (for me at least)
Gonna ask for recommendations tomorrow…just to give them a heads up and make sure the 2 teachers i want to do them are willing to! </p>
<p>I’m kinda excited to start on my college essays haha</p>
34 ACT, writer with a national award… but weak in math! I actually know someone who got in RD, and she isn’t super incredible, so I have hope.</p>