<p>Is a 3.68 gpa too low for yale, my sats are 2220, sat ii: 800 (math2)(750 bio, 730 math 1)
great recommendations (1 GC, 2 Teachers, 1 Ph.d Researcher @ university)
great EC's (national, international awards, president of multiple clubs, university sponsered biotech. science research projects dealing with regenerating neural stem cells...etc)
Essays: Im a good writer, (have been published), if my essays wont help me, they definetly wont hurt me. </p>
<p>your opinions?</p>
<p>lol.
Next time change your post to actually contain the university in the forum you are posting in.</p>
<p>What college would you be applying to?</p>
<p>That’s priceless… .Pennhopeful, applying to Yale, asking chances on the Cornell site.</p>
<p>no more eggnog for you kid. but good luck!</p>
<p>If it helps any, I’m applying to AEM and CAS with a 3.77…</p>
<p>Pennhopeful is asking questions about Yale on the Cornell forum. What a winner :).</p>
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<p>Your really applying to either AEM or CAS, not both, your secondary choice is unlikely to even be looked it so its barely even worth mentioning.</p>
<p>I don’t really know but be sure to spell check your essays and remember hopeful only has one l in the end.</p>
<p>lol guys, yes, it was originally a post on the yale thread…when posting on the cornell thread I reminded myself that i must change the name…i uh…as u figured out…forgot lol.</p>
<p>This has got to be one of the greatest threads I have ever seen. </p>
<p>Anyway, your ECs seem great and so do your recommendations, but your GPA is really low. Your SAT scores are average-good, but Yale was tough this year and I’d say your chances are pretty good. (I’m a Yale deferree by the way.)</p>
<p>If you would answer the question of which college and which major, we might be able to give you an actual answer.</p>
<p>I got waitlisted at Cornell with a similar GPA (granted that GPA was pretty good at my HS, and it’s above the accepted average according to naviance), better test scores, and worse ECs. I figure I got waitlisted because I was too smart :p. Seriously though, I hear waitlistees are generally kids with better stats but worse subjective areas. So I’m going to assume you get in, because you seem to own in the subjective areas. </p>
<p>I know a guy that got into Yale with a similar GPA (same HS as me, yet this was below Yale’s average), similar test scores, and worse ECs. Like you, he had a sciency focus (his was engineering). So I’m going to assume you get in.</p>
<p>I think he/she used pennhopefull (with double l) because pennhopeful was already taken.</p>
<p>I think they defer/waitlist kids with high stats to be polite =P</p>
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Yeah, cause it feels great to be deferred/waitlisted! Gosh this better not be true. If they really care so much then just admit me or something. Or get some balls and reject me!</p>
<p>I was under the theory that they generally have high stats applicants (from wealthier backgrounds- aka me) and lower stats applicants (from lesser backgrounds, who probably have more experiences/character or whatever) to decide among the last few hundred places. It makes sense to admit the lower stats applicants because they add more diversity to the class (not necessarily in race). Also it may be a form of yield protection (not a bad one, in my opinion). Not only will the lower stats applicants probably be more likely to accept the offer (generalizing) but the higher stats guys that are truly interested will be emphasized by the waitlist (first by accepting, then by sending updates). Then when a school has to go to the waitlist, they have interested high stats applicants to choose from. </p>
<p>Some of my “theory” comes from that UChicago admissions article. Some comes from my inferences based on experience and other factors.</p>