<p>I have a friend that has a 26 on the ACT and is applying to Yale SCEA. What do you think the odds of him getting in are?
He is Black and is a national champion in some sport, but is not being recruited or anything.</p>
<p>Very difficult to assess without more information about his complete profile, but the ACT score is WELL below that of a typical Yale admittee.</p>
<p>well what i wanted to ask was If there is any chance at all ?</p>
<p>Absolutely. Every year students are admitted whose gpas and test scores are below the norm. Yale employs a holistic admissions process, so the committee will look at many factors in evaluating a given applicant.</p>
<p>The middle 50% of matriculating students had an ACT range of 29-34 for the class of 2010. Statistically, a 26 would have been near or at the bottom of admitted students. As you can imagine, it would be quite the anomaly. Unless your friend is incredibly outstanding in some other way since Yale decides holistically, he/she faces practically insurmountable odds since Yale is first and foremost, an academic institution and are rejecting thousands who have scores higher than 26. I would strongly assume a reject in the SCEA round based on what's been presented.</p>
<p>I had an ACT of 27 applying as transfer, but got in. However I also had very good scores on the standardized test of my home country. Most educational institutions today realize that standardized testing is very flawed and dependent on socioeconomic status and ethnicity -- yet that's what they pretty much have to rely on as a way of sorting amongst a huge applicant pool. Is there any time to re-take it? Or see whether he'd do better on the SAT? </p>
<p>For sure it's not as disasterous as if a white, high-income prep school kid had gotten it. Please don't discourage him from applying!</p>
<p>He is very low income and is at the top of his class. He just isn't good at taking standerized testing. He's even on our schools Decathlon team and scores in the 900s on every section.</p>
<p>It's holistic, as someone said. Don't lose hope!</p>
<p>well if he's a national sport champion and at the top of your class then he probably stands a chance.</p>
<p>colleges will often overlook standardized tests if the rest of the profile is steller, especially for minority groups.</p>
<p>if he is very low income as you say, and URM, and excelling in his school there is some hope, so he should apply, but be prepared for a deny.</p>