<p>Which other colleges are you applying to?
Univ. of Michigan, Univ. of Chicago, Stanford, Columbia, UPenn, Michigan State, JHU</p>
<p>List a few of your most important ECs
-Violin private lessons for several years, in symphony orchestra and an after-school orchestra (counts as a class) this year
-Ski team in 9th grade
-Youth president of state-level religious organization with about 200 members
--Organized a can drive, candy drive, book drive, and soup kitchen trip with about 30 members participating in each for the religious org
--Webmaster of the website for the religious org
-Went to MMSS (a bio-math summer program at Univ. of MI)
-Did HSHSP (7 week research program at Michigan State)
--Will submit a recommendation letter from my lab mentor
-The usuals: Spanish Honor Society, Biology Olympiad, Linguistics Club, Quiz Bowl (no leadership positions in these, however)
-Co-founded a Khan Academy club in my school (in my senior year)
-Math tutoring at library for community service (75 hours)
-National Merit Semifinalist (soon to be Finalist)</p>
<p>What do you guys think my chances are at Yale for SCEA?</p>
<p>Don’t listen to benfster. No one really has “no shot”. The point he is trying (unsuccessfully) to make sarcastically is that your GPA is a tad low. But don’t worry! You’re a competitive applicant, all you can do is apply. No one, short of admissions officers, can really tell you your chances. </p>
<p>Admitted students to Yale, and most other selective colleges, have teachers who support their application by raving about their academic performance in the classroom and commenting about their potential as a scholar. With acceptance rates under 10 percent, the level competition is astronomically high, so your teacher recommendations need to look like the ones on MIT’s site: [Writing</a> Recommendations | MIT Admissions](<a href=“http://mitadmissions.org/apply/prepare/writingrecs]Writing”>How to write good letters of recommendation | MIT Admissions)</p>
<p>And even with stellar recommendations, no one can say “you have a good chance” because the process is so subjective and unpredictable. You need to just send your applications out into the universe and hope for the best. So long as you have applied to a broad range of schools, which include a number of target and safety schools, you will end up someplace great.</p>
<p>I can say, “you have a good chance” because the stats presented in this thread are among the top one percent in the country and will not be the reason he gets rejected, if he is rejected.</p>
<p>Admissions being a shot of the dark does not make claims like this one unwarranted.</p>
<p>Well, let me give you a real world example. My daughter applied SCEA to Yale several years back with stellar stats. Everyone said she was a shoe-in, but she was deferred and then rejected. She also applied to Princeton and was waitlisted. But, she applied to Harvard and as accepted. You would think that whatever Harvard saw in her application that Yale and Princeton would want that as well. But, they didn’t. That’s not how admissions works. It’s totally subjective and unpredictable. </p>
<p>As to your claim about the top 1%, think about this: HYP in total have about 4500 beds. After subtracting slots reserved for recruited athletes, legacy’s, URM’s, developmental cases etc – that leaves about 3,000 beds available for everyone else. Last year, there were more than 3,000 students in the world in the top 1%. Not everyone in the top 1% gets accepted – and many in the top 1% get rejected from all their ivy league choices.</p>
<p>@ OP, Honestly, here’s the thing: you’ve posted in six different threads at this point asking for a chance. It seems that by this point you would already have a decent idea what colleges expect and how your achievements qualify you. If you’re looking for affirmation, here it is - you have great stats (and that was sarcasm in my first post). Those give you a leg-up on the competition, as you expect. What do we not know from your post, however? The most make-or-break portions of your application: recommendations, essays, and transcript. Excepting adcoms, you are the only person who can accurately evaluate your application. My advice? Stop posting chance threads, and go eat some icecream or something. Relax.</p>
<p>Just because your daughter didn’t get into Princeton or Yale does not mean she didn’t have a good change of getting into Yale or Princeton.</p>
<p>Just because the applicant may not get into Yale does not mean he does not have a good chance of getting into Yale.</p>
<p>When I say good chance, I am not saying “loldude you’re totally getting in, no need to apply anywhere else”. </p>
<p>I’m saying, “loldude your chances of getting into Yale are relatively high given the pool of people applying to the institution and your standing within that pool, at least as far as the information posted in this thread suggests to me”.</p>
<p>Well, your comment then is kind of meaningless, as probably five thousand, ten thousand, maybe even fifteen thousand students ALSO have a “good chance.” </p>
<p>But this is getting off topic. I agree with benfster. As the OP has created 6 chance threads, s/he should understand enough by now to predict their own chances.</p>