Chance a Junior for Yale 2014

Colleges and Universities A-Z Yale University
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<p>I'm a Junior this year planning to apply to HYP next year. Please take a look; in your opinion, what are my chances? Should I try to work on anything or do you have any suggestions? Thanks a bunch for any input!</p>

<p>Stats:
Female, large public high school in central US, Asian, family income <60,000</p>

<p>SAT: 750 CR, 800 M, 780 Wr = 2330 (1 sitting). First time: 740 CR, 730 M, 730 Wr = 2200</p>

<p>SAT II: 740 French, 700 World History <--planning to take Math II and Bio and hopefully each above 750, maybe retake French (760 for credit)</p>

<p>W GPA: 4.7, Rank top 5 out of 600</p>

<p>AP exam results so far: 5 US, 5 World, 4 Euro. Others will most likely be 4's or 5's
Total AP classes taken by senior year: 13</p>

<p>Junior Schedule APs: Bio, Calc BC, French, Psych, English Lit
Senior APs: Econ, Gov, Environmental Sci, Stats, English Comp</p>

<p>Clubs, years, positions etc:
International Club 2006-2009, Vice President 2008-2009
French Club 2006-2009, Vice President 2008-2009
Operation Smile chapter at school 2008, co-founder, raised money, etc
National French Honor Society 2007-2009, tutoring
Student Council 2007-2009, attended many leadership conferences and assemblies, 60+ volunteer hours
NHS 2008-2009, 20+ volunteer/tutoring hours
Academic Team 2008-2009
Freshman Mentor 2008-2009
some other random clubs...</p>

<p>Music:
Local youth orchestra 2007-2009, viola (high level group, several members attended Juilliard/Curtis every year)
All-State orch 2008, assistant principal chair
Honors national youth american symphony 2009, viola <-- not real name but it is a national youth orch
school orchestra 2006-2009, principal chair
piano (many years), perfect score at state competitions, recitals, etc</p>

<p>Awards:
2nd place in business plan competition, $200
winner in local university high school math contest
2nd place in french competition
most likely some sort of AP scholar, NMF?</p>

<p>Volunteer/work:
Tutoring French twice a week, $15
Volunteering at public library over summers 50+ hours</p>

<p>Summer activities:
2008 Studied for 7 wks in France during summer with university program (complete immersion with host families, attending classes, etc)
2007 Studied for 7 wks in China during summer with host family, etc to learn Chinese</p>

<p>So that's me in a nutshell. There's some things I didn't include that seemed insignificant like some clubs or other and I probably won't include them in my actual resume...Thanks for any comments! :)</p>

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<p>Very good chance. The most important thing for you to do is begin thinking about how to shape your application because I don’t believe that there is anything you could do right now to increase your chances other than maybe another program this summer. Try to determine what your most important activites were and shape your essays around these passions. Always remember that the personality that you show through your essays is more important than you think given that there are so many applicants with impeccable records. Given your language and music background as well as your more than adequite grades/test scores, I believe that you have a decent chance.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the advice, I’ll be sure to spend some time on those essays this summer :)</p>

<p>Anyone else? Feel free to comment, anything would be helpful.</p>

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<p>nice, you have great stats, your resume seems similar to mine.
I guess the only thing that can distinguish the best of the best is the essay…</p>

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