2100 SAT score good enough for Yale?

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<p>Hi,</p>

<p>I took the SAT Reasoning for the first time on November 6, the results come out soon. I'm planning on applying to Ivies, Yale is my top choice. If I get over 2100, I don't think I'll take it again. Is this enough, or should I do it again? It was a last minute decision and I can only do it again in January, is it worth doing again until I get over 2300? I'm an international student if that means anything, I know some applicants from my native country get over 2300, it's more an inconvenience, I'd rather not do it again but if I should, I guess I will.</p>

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<p>at 2100, you are probably lower than the middle 50% of the admitted students. Taking into account your international status and also the fact that the lower 25% is probably filled with special hooked students, you need to have a serious hook to be considered.
see [Admissions</a> statistics](<a href=“http://admissions.yale.edu/node/2040/attachment]Admissions”>http://admissions.yale.edu/node/2040/attachment)</p>

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<p>Given the paltry overall admit rate of 8%, combined with the fact that you’re being compared with the more competitive international pool, I’d say your chances are even much lower than 8%. You’ve got to understand that the huge majority of the +2300SAT people from overseas will be rejected. The no. of applicants is just that large and high performing.</p>

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<p>I know someone who applied early to yale with a 2100… and got her reply (accepted) about a week back…
but she is an international level athlete…
so its not impossible… but other stuff should be great if you have a 2100</p>

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<p>Are you serious? I thought decisions were all out at the same time for Yale.</p>

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<p>your competition is with other international applicants. If they score a 2300…</p>

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<p>If it is the second time, it is definetly worth it. 2100 will not be a big negative but it isn’t a plus for Yale. You’ll need to show alot of other pluses to get in.</p>

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<p>Athletes are often offered admission early, coaches need to lock them in. But unfortunately, an athlete’s scores are not relevant, they are held to different standards.</p>

<p>Froshgirl, unless you have a hook, I’d retake. There are so many outstanding candidates with 2300 plus, you would need something truly stand out they don’t have to not worry about a 2100.</p>

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<p>R3d3 - sounds like a recipient of a “likely letter.” Those lucky ducks find out early. An international level athlete with a 2100 would know now. The likely letter is the Ivy version of a letter of intent.</p>

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<p>to use an example of int’l athlete is ridiculous.</p>

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<p>Precisely… that lower 25% is filled with Athletes, URMs, Huge Donors, in that order. 20% are easily athletes. As an International applicant, you possess none of those hooks. Bottom 25% that are unhooked DO NOT get in.</p>

<p>Doing the math, Yale’s incoming UNHOOKED class isn’t 1500, it’s about 1100. The true admission rate for unhooked applicants is more like 5-6%, at the MIDDLE of the 25-100 band, or at about 62% of their applicant pool.</p>

<p>To put that in perspective, those 1100 slots are potentially competed for by about 3,000 Valedictorians (many of the approx. 2,700 US High Schools have multiple Vals) in the US and several thousand top statted Int’l applicants.</p>