Chance for Yale SCEA Class of 2020

Hi so I was just wondering if I seem like a competitive applicant for SCEA at Yale for the class of 2020. I was born in the United States but I moved abroad in the 9th grade. Thank you in advance. :slight_smile:

SAT I (breakdown):N/A
ACT (breakdown): 34 Composite (36 R, 35 E, 35 S, 28 M)
SAT II: 800 (World History) and 750 (Biology E)
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): N/A
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): School Does Not Rank
AP (place score in parenthesis): N/A
IGCSE Scores: (10th grade Board Results)- 4 A*'s, 4 A’s
IB (place score in parenthesis): 35/42 last year, predicted a 40/45 this year
Senior Year Course Load: HL Biology (Predicted 7) , HL History (Predicted 7), HL Literature (Predicted 6) , SL Math (Predicted 5), SL Psych (Predicted 7), SL French B (Predicted 6), TOK

Extracurriculars :

-Model U.N. (10 Conferences, 1 best delegate award, 1 best judge award in Dubai, 2 Executive Board positions, 1 position as Secretary-General)

  • Member of School Prefectorial Council
  • Speaker at Mandela-Gandhi Youth Summit in Johannesburg (In attendance were students from around South Africa and Ndileka Mandela)
  • 1 week internship at Asia’s second largest hospital.
  • Role of King Duncan in Macbeth
  • Founder of school’s online literary magazine. (Editor and Founder)
  • Speaker (during speaker session) at Harvard Model United Nations India 2014
  • Event Director of the school’s first Homecoming dance
  • Co-Founder of a gender equity project

Job/Work Experience: None
Volunteer/Community service: Event Director of an NGO
Summer Activities: Student Global Leadership Institute in Honolulu
Essays (rating 1-10, details): Common App Essay- 8/10 (The essay is on how I began Model United Nations and how that has affected me, specifically after my move)/ Supplement Essay- (The essay is on how I spent the last year planning and executing my own Model U.N. conference which was one of the largest high school organized conferences in the world.

Recommendations :

Teacher Rec #1: 9/10 (From my History teacher who loves me and has a doctorate from Cambridge)
Teacher Rec #2: 8/10 (From my Psychology Teacher)
Counselor Rec: 8/10
Additional Rec: None

Intended Major: International Relations (Global Affairs at Yale)
Country (if international applicant): India
School Type: Private
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Male

General Comments:
My grades in the 9th grade were not the best due to severe adjustment problems and culture shock after moving, however there was an extremely strong upward trend from then on. The aforementioned is explained in my counselor recommendation letter.

You’re “qualified” >90% of qualified applicants are rejected.