<p>I would greatly appreciate it if you all would be so kind as to share your thoughts on my chances at being accepted by Yale early. My resume is below.</p>
<p>Music
- Violin for 13 years
- Winner of Golden Key Competition at Carnegie Hall
- Certified lvl 8 by Royal Board of Music for performance, lvl 5 for theory
- New Jersey All-State Orchestra
- Concertmeister of School Orchestra</p>
<p>Model United Nations
- 1st place at Yale MUN
- 3rd place at Princeton MUN
- Senior Advisor</p>
<p>School Tour Guide
- Senior Advisory Board</p>
<p>Science Olympiad
- 1st in NJ on individaul event</p>
<p>Community Service
- 500 hrs total
- Violin teaching to kids
- Worked at Teach for China</p>
<p>Sports
- Varsity Hockey
- Varsity Golf</p>
<p>Newespaper
- News Editor</p>
<p>GPA - 3.7
SAT I - 2260
ACT - 35 equivalent to SAT 2350
SAT II - 790, 770, 750
AP's - 5 taken, all 5's
Attending top 5 prep school
GPA is deflated</p>
<p>My high school on average has 15 students apply early with 5 being accepted. My GPA is a bit low, but my grades over the past 3 trimesters have been 3.6, 3.7, 3.9
I am expecting a 4.0 this term. My father is a Yale SOM alum, and I actually lived in New Haven for 2 years while he earned his masters. I currently live in New Jersey, and I attend a top private prep school. So what do you all think? Do I have a chance? If I have ommitted some information that would be helpful, post below and I'll add it. Anyways thanks in advance and good luck to everyone.</p>
<p>Strong chance for sure!! I really respect your violin talent. I used to play it, and it definitely requires so much dedication. You have a very good SAT score but I think your ACT is better.</p>
<p>Legacy does nothing to boost the chance of admission. I asked a Yale admissions officer yesterday at lunchtime (he happened to be the one who read my application). He said that legacies were as a whole a much stronger pool so their acceptance rate reflected that.</p>
If you believe that I have some snake oil to sell you. It’s common knowledge in almost all top schools the legacy acceptance rate is double the standard acceptance rate. I am not buying the stronger pool argument. I am not saying you don’t have to have comparable stats but if you have two students with similar stats and one is a legacy he/she is twice as likely to get accepted.</p>
<p>^^Hope you can make that argument to some friends of ours with a rejected yale legacy son, 2200 SAT, 3.8 gpa out of a top boarding school. IMO kid did not have very strong leadership qualities. Now attending another top institution (non ivy), or to another friend who didnt even bother have their kid apply EA after talking to the admission office about legacy chances, in order to utilize ED somewhere else. Yalel out of all the Ivys prides itself on not giving alumni children a boost.</p>
<p>Mhmm, As I stated, assuming you have comparable stats, your chances are twice as good. I hate to say it but a 2200 and 3.8 GPA are not high stats for Yale or any of the top Ivies.</p>
<p>^^ Lets agree to disagree. 3.8 GPA is close to the top. Private Schools don’t weigh the GPA, they tend to grade deflate and colleges know this. At Yale your chances are not twice as good for run of the mill legacies. Only for the “over mill” legacies, pardon the pun.</p>