<p>I want to go to YPH (preferably Yale)...what do you guys think of my chances?</p>
<p>my stats and ECs/awards are good enough (i hope).</p>
<p>how good a hook is having work published in national newspapers? I've had several articles of about 1200 words each published in several different papers, with more stuff planned for the near future. I've also had a job proof-reading on a highbrow national newspaper for the last 5 years.</p>
<p>i think its pretty good/unusual, but do you think it'd make me stand out enough?</p>
<p>i live in england...but if this means anything to you:</p>
<p>the sunday telegraph
the sunday times
the spectator</p>
<p>the first two are the biggest highbrow sunday papers, the last is a popular political comment magazine with a high profile and large circulation.</p>
<p>That'd be pretty good. But I don't know if it would be an automatic admittance. Definitely an excellent EC though. We're not talking a column, right? That'd be awesome... but yeah, it's definitely a great thing to have. If you're into journalism, contact the heads of the journalism departments at the schools you're interested in. Send them your work, and they could have a pull on the admissions office.</p>
<p>The Sunday Telegraph - to put it in an American perspective that's like working for a paper on the level of Wall Street Journal, I believe. Or at least on the level of USA Today. But on the Sunday issue (the most important one).</p>