Applying to YALE next year. Help Needed!

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<p>Hi everyone,
I'm a junior and I am interested in applying to Yale next year. The problem is: My freshmen year, didn't go as well as I hoped. Mostly "B" range. But, I was wondering if you could help out any.</p>

<p>Stats:
SAT: 1200 (too low, I know. Will retake)
GPA: (junior) 3.6
School: Large, Public
Freshmen Year:
Algebra 1-87%
Freshmen Focus-96%
Health-80%
PE-78%
French I- 86% (took in 8th Grade)
French II- 90%
Physical Sciene-90%
Global stuides I- 87%
English I- 91%</p>

<p>Sophmore Year:
Everything was a B average
85-92%</p>

<p>Junior:
Classes:
Honors English III
US History Honors
Chemistry II
Internship at Television Station (News), Next year going to do Hospital Internship
Algebra 3</p>

<p>EC's:
Recreation Department's Soccer League (9,10,11,12)
Volleyball (10,11,12)
School Pagent Contestant (11,12)
Newspaper (11,12)
Student Council Rep. (10,11,12)
and still working on a few more hopefully!</p>

<p>What do you think??? suggestions!</p>

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<p>you need to find ur hook and passion and retake ur SATs and work on showing ur love to ur ECs like what do u love to do</p>

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<p>I agree with the post above mine. You have to show a passion for your EC's, maybe voulnteer work, that always looks nice! A bad freshmen year, doesn't always matter, especially if your grades have IMPROVED! G'Luck!</p>

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<p>are you planning on taking AP/college courses? Because your schedule looks rather weak, IMHO, for yale's standards.</p>

<p>EDIT: Just to be totally truthful, your grades are probably going to keep you from having a good chance at Yale (unless you plan on taking about 5 AP's next year and getting A's in all of them). Most kids who apply have several AP exams already under their belt, and a 3.8-4.0 unweighted GPA <em>at least</em>....and they're still deferred/rejected.</p>