29 Act

<p>Is a 29 ACT score too low for Yale?</p>

<p>hope not, thats what i got. really though its not all scores, i'm a firm believer in the essay, so make it great!</p>

<p>Isn't that about a 1300 on the SAT?</p>

<p>If your SAT is anything above that send it and not the ACT (if you haven't already).</p>

<p>It's in their range.</p>

<p>Yes, if you're a typical candidate in all other aspects. But if you have something interesting about you, then no.</p>

<p>It depends on your ethnicity, average for your high school, etc. But, yes, a 29 on the ACT is low.</p>

<p>the 29 isn't going to break you, as long as you are in range than the other aspects of your app become much more important</p>

<p>is 28 horrible? everything else on my record is great...but it's just that stupid test score.</p>

<p>The 2005-06 Yale Common</a> Data Set indicates that the 25th - 75th percentile ACT composite score for current freshman is 31 - 34. A score of 29 or 28 is obviously not in this range.</p>

<p>Clearly that is the MIDDLE 50 percent, thus 25% scored lower, thus 28 or 29 still as acceptance potential.</p>

<p>Retake if you can. I went from a 28 to a 30 to a 32 (33 superscored, stupid science, got a 28 the last time instead of the 32 I got before)</p>

<p>CAC119, yes that is true, but some of those ppl are URM, legacies, athletes, etc that are below the range. I'm not saying that it's impossible to get in with a 29, but not very likely. Retake it and aim for a 31+. If you don't get it, then just make sure your essays are incredibly well done.</p>

<p>although i know that the steriotype is for all those legasies and athletes to have lower scores, but i dont think it is quite fair to say that the whole or even the majority of the bottom 25% are made up of that group.</p>

<p>Who Goes to Yale?
• Students from all 50 United States and 74 other countries
• 5,200 undergraduates: 50% women; 30% minority students; 9% international students; 55% students from public schools and 45% from private or parochial schools
• Extraordinary people: 95% of incoming freshman ranked in the top tenth of high school graduating class; The middle 50% of SAT scores for last year's incoming freshmen: 700–790 on both the math and verbal sections; middle 50% of ACT scores: 29–34; In the last two years, three Rhodes Scholars, one Truman Scholar, two Marshall Scholars, seven Gates Scholars; Model UN team finished first in international competition (Heidelberg); In the 2005 Atlantic Monthly student writing contest, Yale students took six awards in all categories, including half of all awards in nonfiction. </p>

<p>Right from Yale website</p>

<p>thank you for the newest info.... much appreciated</p>

<p>np =) (ugh at 10char)</p>