Chance and Questions!

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<p>I'm a senior in high school and interested in attending Yale for International Relations, however, I wanted to know what my current chances were and any possible way I can boost my chances. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I've taken honors classes since freshman year and took four APs last year as a junior--we're only allowed to start taking them that year. My transcript will show all A's except for a B in Spanish I (Middle School), B in Honors Biology I, B in AP Microeconomics, and a C in Honors Precalc. Before you immediately deny me based on the bleak circumstances previously mentioned, consider the following information.</p>

<p>SAT: 2310, struggled in math.
ACT: Haven't gotten my scores back, but with reasonable assumption, one could say they were very high.
SAT II: Perfect score for French, US History, Math II.</p>

<p>Junior Year, I had all honors and AP. I earned one B in AP Microecon and one C in precalc. However, I earned fives on all four of my AP exams. I also self studied for two other AP exams (Comparative Government & Macroeconomics) and received fives on those as well.</p>

<p>My senior year schedule includes all honors and 7 AP classes. </p>

<p>Outside of grades, I have over 400 hours of community service. They are consistent hours in causes I am passionate about. I also started working summer of junior year.</p>

<p>I have numerous academic awards for school subjects. </p>

<p>I attend a Broadcasting Institute at Emory University every summer since eighth grade and received an award.</p>

<p>I am a passionate DECA member, I have attended internationals since freshman year and hold numerous district and state level awards, as well as two international titles. I've held leadership since freshman year and am now president. </p>

<p>My other clubs: School Advisory (like student council) since junior year, National Honor Society, National French Honor Society, National History Honor Society (Officer), key club (Since freshman year), German Club (President), French Club (officer), Model United Nations (President/founder), Newspaper (helped create the first newspaper in my school's history and am an officer.) </p>

<p>Additional Information: Turkish Immigrant, adopted at age of 13, speak five languages fluently (use this skill to tutor others and have begun creating a website for this), and family makes under $120,000 a year. </p>

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<p>See: <a href=“Majors in Yale College < Yale University”>http://catalog.yale.edu/ycps/majors-in-yale-college/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Yale does not offer a major in International Relations, so if you state your interest, your chances of admission will be close to zero, as Admissions will assume that if they admit you, you will not be happy with the choices they offer.</p>

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<p>My apologies–I should have phrased my intentions better: I originally post this on American University’s forum, and they do offer it as a major, however, I forget to edit this for Yale. If accepted into Yale, I would plan on pursuing a global affairs major. Trust me, I wouldn’t be as sally as to put an IR major when they don’t offer it. Good catch, though!</p>

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<p>^^ Your test scores indicate that you are a qualified applicant – but that’s about all that can be said. Beyond that, it’s impossible to predict anyone’s chances, as so much of the applications process is subjective and comes down to how an admissions director “feels” after reading your teacher recommendations, guidance counselor report and essays, and compares them to all other applicants. Faced with more academically qualified applicants than places in the freshman class, Admission Directors pick and choose students based upon who gives them a “warm and fuzzy” feeling, and who they feel would benefit the most from the college’s resources. Without reading your essays and teacher recs, it’s impossible to know how an Admissions Director would feel after reading your file.</p>

<p>In addition, every college tends to look for something different every year. For example: one year, maybe too few students are majoring in X, and Admissions needs to actively pursue students who might be interested in majoring in X. Then, the following year, it changes to Y. So your chances actually vary from year-to-year depending upon on a number of variables, some of them totally out of your control. </p>

<p>While this video is not about Yale, it will open your eye to the Admissions process at selective colleges:
<a href=“College Admissions: Inside the Decision Room - YouTube”>College Admissions: Inside the Decision Room - YouTube;

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<p>WOW-thank you so much! This video is great! Thank you for all your help!!!</p>