Chance me for Yale S'il Vous Plait!! First-gen, all A's

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Yale is my dream school, so please chance me with that in mind. I am a strong writer and will have great essays presumably and my teachers/counselor love me. I can't join many ECs because I am low-income/commuter (45 miles each way) and I have to work to pay bills, etc. I'm first-gen and come from a very small, poor, community that is not very focused on education. That's why I commute to a better school that's further away. Please chance me!! Honest opinions...sometimes the truth hurts!</p>

<p>SAT I (breakdown): Not taken<br>
ACT: 34 Comp (35 English, 33 Math, 36 Reading, 30 Science and 9 Essay)
SAT Subject Tests: Will take Math 1, Literature and Chem and MAYBE French in fall
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0 (no less than an A on entire transcript)
Weighted GPA: School doesn’t weight
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 1% of ~375
AP (place score in parenthesis): Honors Chemistry, College English, Trigonometry (School attended through Dec. ’10 did not offer APs or Honors)
Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc BC, AP Psych, AP Chem, Honors Physics, French III, Advanced Video Production
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Questbridge College Prep Scholarship, French Leadership Award (Minor), National Merit Commended OR Semifinalist (Won't be sure until fall but probably semifinalist)</p>

<p>Extracurriculars: Ballet classes (14 years), Northwest Michigan Ballet Theatre (3 years; Soloist, participated in regional touring program) Piano (8 years; written two complete songs, performed locally), Theatre (main role), School Video Production Crew (filmied and edited short documentary, also director), accepted into NHS but haven't started yet (NOTE: The school I attended until halfway through junior year had NO ecs at all)
Job/Work Experience: Child care provider at local ski resort (4 years), Lifeguard and Kids Program Staff (Summer ’11)
Volunteer/Community service: Created a creative movement program for young kids at local library (coordinated/advertised/taught classes), ProjectRead tutor, story hour volunteer, annual Red Cross blood drives, volunteer at local BACN group (similar to Salvation Army), translated documents from English to French for a Haiti relief organization, organized a Christmas card drive for a terminally ill boy
Summer Activities: Medical Science and Math and Engineering classes at Oxford University (Full scholarship granted on the basis of academic and extracurricular achievement), aforementioned volunteer activities, lifeguarding, spending time with my young neighbor who has cerebral palsy</p>

<p>Intended Major: French or Linguistics with some Cognitive Science in there somewhere
State (if domestic applicant): MI
School Type: Public, rarely sends grads to top schools
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: ~$35,000
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): First Gen, Low Income, Will apply through Questbridge</p>

<p>College Preferences:
1. Yale
2. Duke
3. Cornell
4. Brown
5. Stanford
6. Williams
7. Carleton
8. Wake Forest</p>

<p>Feel free to comment on my chances for all of these but especially Yale! Also, Carleton is kind of my safety but I don't know if that's too optimistic. Feel free to suggest others! Thanks!</p>

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<p>You have the grades and the ecs.So you have a chance.Which is 7-11% depending on the year like everyone else.
Good luck.</p>

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<p>I just see you everywhere don’t I. </p>

<p>I think you’re chances are very very good. There’s a lot of diversity in ECs. You have the ballet for 14 years, the video production, plus your medical science ambitions. Plus you’re low income, first gen. You have several major awards under your belt as well. Michigan cutoff for NM semifinalist was 209 last year so anything above that and you should be okay. </p>

<p>You will get into Yale. Just make sure your essays are good and you’ll be fine. </p>

<p>Chance me!
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1155428-chance-me-hypsm.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1155428-chance-me-hypsm.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Quick!! 2 things: don’t take math 1. That’s usually frowned upon at selective colleges. Math 2 is the usual. 2. You can submit your ACT score in PLACE of your subject tests. Yale is one of the colones that does this. But if you feel it will add to your application go ahead.</p>

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<p>*colleges. Stupid spellcheck</p>

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<p>Lol, Butters, I think you and I are always in the same place at the same time. I know Math 1 is not great but I got a Math 2 prep book and felt like it was way over my head…maybe I’ll just skip the math altogether? I had a decent ACT math score…33. Hmm…Thanks guys! I’ll chance you tomorrow Butters. I’ve already seen your chance thread…it’s amazing, of course! You’ll get in.</p>

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<p>P.S. My PSAT was only 211 so if Michigan raises much…I’m out :P</p>

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<p>These chance threads with the little info highlights in the title make me think of dating profiles.</p>

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<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1159533-yale-ea-chance.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1159533-yale-ea-chance.html&lt;/a&gt;
chance back!</p>

<p>apply to Yale EA (that’s what I’m doing), you’ve a slightly better chance that way, especially with harvard and princeton offering EA for the first time this year since a while back</p>

<p>questbridge and oxford full ride program are both epic. your ECs seem pretty good, so you have a fantastic chance at Yale, I’d say 50-50.</p>

<p>duke shouldn’t be too hard - high match</p>

<p>cornell - low reach/high match</p>

<p>brown - low reach</p>

<p>stanford - same as yale</p>

<p>williams - same as cornell</p>

<p>carleton - match</p>

<p>WF - match, especially from MI. I’m from NC and we don’t have too many northerners applying to WF.</p>

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<p>I’m scared I wont get in anywhere since idk if any of my schools are really back-ups. Should I apply lower? I don’t really have a lot of leadership…just soloist in ballet, starting my own dance program, director for video crew and hopefully I’ll be the founder of our school’s French club next year…the problem is that my ECs aren’t really club type things where I can be president, etc. Will this hurt me? I also don’t have much recognition for ECs. I know my stats are on par, its just ECs that I worry about.</p>

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<p>"the problem is that my ECs aren’t really club type things where I can be president, etc. Will this hurt me?</p>

<p>And before that you said: “.just soloist in ballet, starting my own dance program, director for video crew and hopefully I’ll be the founder of our school’s French club next year.”</p>

<p>Don’t you think you have leadership enough? You don’t have to be President of every club your school has!</p>

<p>You are fine don’t worry too much!</p>

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<p>Haha thanks. I guess so. I just see these chance threads with giant lists where the kid is president of Latin club, French club, red cross club, national honor society, students government, captain of football and baseball and swim teams and owns his own business where he donates profits to saving orphans in China. These people are superheros! Gotta stand out somehow…</p>

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<p>Just FYI, officer titles in clubs in HS really don’t mean much unless you can prove your club actually does a bunch of stuff. :wink: Don’t stress, your ECs are great! Not sure how Questbridge affects your chances for these schools, I really don’t know much about it. However, you definitely have as good of a shot as anyone so good luck! Study your butt off for those SAT IIs.</p>

<p>You may want to apply to some slightly less prestigious schools in search of serious merit aid $$$ too.</p>

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<p>Thanks. I’m still looking for more schools to apply to…any suggestions? I’m gonna need a lot of financial aid or merit money…</p>

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<p>Well the top schools will make it affordable for you to go to their school because they can afford to. But you need to look lower for good merit deals. I think on the financial aid forum there’s a list of merit scholarships. Check there.</p>

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<p>Just curious, what ski resort do you work at?</p>

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<p>Penn and Vandy are both possible for you, not to mention they are VERY generous with aid.</p>

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<p>Are we talking Penn state or upenn? I feel that the latter might be out of my reach. I considered Vanderbilt but am not sure how well I’d fit in there. It seems like a very…non diverse student body. </p>

<p>I work at crystal mountain; its a little place in northern Michigan.</p>

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<p>Upenn. You definitely have a shot…</p>

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<p>Oh you live Up North? And I know Crystal, I’ve gone there before! We tend to go to Boyne more though.</p>