Chance at yale?

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<p>I am a rising senior at a competitive public school in Texas that sends many grads to top schools. I am Asian and Male.</p>

<p>Academics:
GPA - Unweighted: 4.00
GPA - Weighted: 4.288 (should go up, i had a beastly junior year)
Class Rank: 13
Class Size: 1017
Top 2%</p>

<p>Good teacher recs
Hopefully i can write good essays</p>

<p>Scores:
Jan Test
Math: 740
Critical Reading: 700
Writing: 700, 9 essay
Total: 2140</p>

<p>March Test
Math: 800
Critical Reading: 630!!!
Writing: 770, 9 essay
Total: 2200</p>

<p>Subject tests:
Chemistry: 740
Bio- 740
Math 2- 760</p>

<p>ACT: composite 36
35 eng
36 math
36 reading
36 science
8 essay (combined eng/writing 31)</p>

<p>12 APs by the time I graduate
Junior year schedule: AP bio, precal h, medical science, eng 3 ap, french 4 ap, apush
Senior year: AP physics b, eng 4 ap, ap macroeconomics/ap gov, french 5 ap, ap calc bc, ap stats, ap comp sci</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:</p>

<p>play table tennis competitively
founder/pres of red cross club
VP of Students organizing community outreach
vp of table tennis club (co prez next year)
historian for habitat for humanity
nhs
key club
french national honor society
hosa- teachers were lazy this year.. didnt do anything
mu alpha theta- several math competitions
Texas state french symposium- school got 8th in state. i placed 6th in a category.
several local table tennis awards
national french contest- top 10% in nation
over 200+ volunteer hours
active member at the local buddhist temple
volunteer with mentally disabled kids
Hopspital internship for a month
volunteer once a week at another hospital
dropped orch after 10th for medical science, but in a small orch group still
commended for psat score</p>

<p>what are my chances at yale?</p>

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<p>SATs are VERY average...perhaps even below average. your ACT, however, should more than make up for that. SAT2s are a bit week, especially considering most high-level students score 800s on those three subjects. your GPA is good enough. your ECs though...i see nothing unique or that would at least make you stand out amongst asian males. table tennis isn't worth much at all, though it's fun to do =P. founding the red cross club is pretty good, but that's it. there are hundreds of asian males just like you who have comparable ECs. what's gonna put you ahead of them? if you have an excellent essay and recommendations, i'd say you move up to a reach. your whole application is riding on those two parts =P. overall though, your chance at this point is very middle. which isn't necessarily a bad thing.</p>