<p>Hi there! I'm a student from Eastern Europe and I know Yale is a reach for about every single applicant.. but I'd like an idea about how competitive my application is.</p>
<p>SAT
CR: 690, M: 780, W: 730 (Retaking next week)</p>
<p>SAT II
Lit: 790 (2nd take), French: 790 (2nd take), Math II: 760 (1st take)</p>
<p>Language Tests
Toefl-118
IELTS-9</p>
<p>GPA
9.79/10 </p>
<p>Honors:
-National English Language olympiad- Honorable Mentions in 9th, 11th grade, 3nd place in 10th grade
-National English Essay Contest- Jury's Award in 10th grade, 2nd place in 11th grade
-International Science Essay Contest- Honorable Mention in 11th grade
-National Interdisciplinary Kangaroo Contest- 1st place in 9th, 10th grade</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
-active European Youth Parliament member since the 10th grade, have participated in 3 sessions, one coming up in December
-have been tutoring disadvantaged children since the 2nd semester of the 11th grade, spend about 3 hours/week doing this
-International Exchange Program between my high school and high schools from 6 other countries, 10th-11th grade
-Volunteer at international sports events in my town since the 11th grade and have been selected as a volunteer for the next winter olympics
-Spring Internship at an Advising Center in my town (3 months- 10 hrs/ week)-11th grade
-Summer Internship at Microsoft (1 month- 3 hrs/ day)-last summer break
-Representative of Student Council (10th-12th grade)- organised a charitable event for kids from the social centers I'm volunteering at while I was secretary of the council in the 11th grade</p>
<p>Essays:
CommonApp: I'm basing this one on my experience with tutoring.
Yale Supplement: This one basically goes through my life, describing an activity I love, writing, and how it has had an influence on my passions and hobbies.</p>
<p>Recs:
The teacher giving me recs know me pretty well, one of them has spent the past two weeks writing it because she says she wants it to be 'perfect'. I'm scared I might have better recs than essays!</p>
<p>Intended major:
I'm thinking Sociology or Literature. </p>
<p>Forgot to mention gender and race! I’m a girl, white, and possible hooks might be that I’m a first generation college student and have 2 nationalities.</p>
<p>Well my score is currently 2200 and I’m striving for at least 2300, we’ll see how that goes… I really have to get a better CR score. I described my essays towards the end of my post, I think they’re pretty good, given that I don’t have any sob stories or extraordinary circumstances in my life.</p>
<p>Opps. Sorry! Try only focusing on Math and CR section for SAT, and yeah go for at least 2300(Your status as an international applicant will hurt you.).</p>
<p><strong>Edit</strong> IMO, getting your Math to 800 than getting up your Writing section will help you more in terms of getting up your chance.</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice! I’m pretty optimistic about upping my CR score, especially since I got a pretty good score in the Lit test I took this month. I guess that getting a perfect score in Math really depends a lot on how attentive you are.</p>
<p>If you can juuuust get that SAT score up by even 60 points you become a very competitive applicant to Yale. Now there will be tons just like that, but if you write unique essays (they don’t have to be sob stories at all!) and portray yourself as an individual the school could see on their campus, then you have a shot. Nevertheless you, along with everyone else, are a reach for the school :)</p>
<p>As you know Yale is a reach for everyone; however, considering your unique extra-curriculars and your “perfect” rec you should be in the higher end of “reaching.” I’ll have to reiterate what others have been saying, getting your scores up will make you a very competitive applicant!</p>