<p>after reading about that example of a yale applicant who was rejected, my yale interview was exactly like that. yay i can expect a rejection from yale on friday. i think my harvard interview was alot better, though.</p>
<p>hey sexy (haha no pun intended) how does an intel finalist only score an 1130 on the SAT? that just doesnt make sense.</p>
<p>Callthecops: I was told by a Penn admissions officer they understood that students at international schools (ie, not following a US curriculum) would generally perform poorer on the SAT than their domestic counterparts. I imagine it's the same for Harvard.</p>
<p>you know what i made a mistake..she was an a semi finalist..still not expected..AT ALL!!!</p>
<p>well i dont know how that happens..shes graduating this year..i believe....my GC tells me she was soo intelligent and she worked really hard..my GC was like she was amazing ..one of the very few she came acrossed....i guess it just shows how its hard to score well and your economic/social status is an issue when it comes to sats..anyway so she got into rockefeller's summer program and she just rocked it</p>
<p>Thanks for the thoughtful reply, Northstarmom.</p>
<p>NSM, I understand that not even Nostradamus could predict who is accepted... that wasn't my question. Whenever you're recruited for football, your app has a special mark on it (different for each ivy, yale just flat out gives you a Yale athletics envelope to send it in and it is stamped at the top). I'm wondering where this mark sends my app? And I'm also wondering if, since football is my number one passion, they are just going to assume I'm playing for another school?</p>
<p>KirbusPrime,
I'm sorry, but I don't know the answers to the questions you raised.</p>
<p>I know that at Harvard the coaches(of rowing at least) simply tell the admissions office who they want the following year. Yale provides a list for rowers as well to the admissions office.</p>
<p>these athletes are so lucky</p>
<p>At all Ivies the "recruits" have specially marked files and - while they must obviously meet the schools "standards" (as, frankly, about 90% of the applicant pool does) then it is simply a case of applying the AI formula.</p>
<p>But you are either a recruit or you are not. Potential walk-ons are not given this special treatment.</p>
<p>In some senses yes. I do however have to give up doing so many things that I love because I can be great at one thing. I love rowing, don't get me wrong, but it is just a hard balance. </p>
<p>Football players get exorbitant push in the admissions office. For my sport the average SAT's GPAs and all the rest are equal to the regular admitted class. Athletes also get prescreened by the coaches and the admissions office to say whether they stand a chance of admission. The athletes that end up applying are normally the most qualified athletes, and this could which account for the high rate that they are admitted.</p>
<p>A statistic is that at Yale for Women's rowing all 11 listed girls got in early(they are trying to build the program b/c they were 2nd in the nation last year). The Yale coaches decided to pass me over because they were unsure of my "dedication", and if I had applied to Harvard EA I would have been listed and likely admitted. Now RD I am listed, but it doesn't have the same push as EA does. This gets confusing I know, but just think the stress I am going through about the fact that I likely made the wrong choice in applying early and I may not get into either harvard or Yale for the fact that the coaches were not transperent about their actions.</p>
<p>Lauren, I have known and worked with many would-be athletes who were put through the wringer like you were. I hope things work out for you. Somehow, although the course you wound up taking was riskier, I think it was the right course for you.</p>
<p>Thanks Byerly. My interviewer had a perspective that my athletic "prowess" would push me over the top. I don't know whether to believe that but being a "qualified" applicant it makes me feel a bit better to know that the Harvard coach wants me.</p>
<p>I'm an athlete too........ but not nearly good enough to get recruited :(</p>
<p>oh well, hopefully other parts of my app will compensate. congratulations laurenemma, I think you have a really good chance at either of those two schools</p>
<p>Me and Yale are having a love hate relationship after EA deferral.
I don't know what I will pick if I get into both Yale and Harvard. I just wish I get the option.</p>
<p>"I just wish I get the option."</p>
<p>wouldnt anyone want that? I know I would !!!</p>
<p>What do you play sempitern?</p>
<p>is..umm....debate a sport?hehe</p>
<p>Nick, thanks for that bit of info abt students in international schools. I guess most of the int'l applicants are not in International schools. I wonder how soft places like HYP would be on students from such schools. Does anyone know?</p>