Chance Me Please! Class of 2016

Colleges and Universities A-Z Yale University
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<p>Academic:
•My GPA at the moment is a 3.02/4.0
•My ACT is a 28
•I know that I don’t have the best grades, but i plan on getting them up.
•I’m an African-American (Somalian) student, Male, and Duke is my dream school
•Top Quarter Rank
•I planned on majoring in Sports Management, but they don’t allow that/have that major at Duke, so right know I’m thinking Marketing or communications, or if they have the opportunity to design my own major, I might do that as well.</p>

<p>Junior Course load:
•Psychology AP, American History, AP Language&Comp, Precalculus, Photography, Stats&Probablity, PhyEd 11, Guitar Methods</p>

<p>Senior Course Load:
•Yearbook Publication, Media Studies, Humanities (AP Lit&Comp), Senior Foods, Stats AP, PhyEd 12, Microeconomics AP, American Government AP</p>

<p>My EC:
•Student Council (VP Junior Year, and President Elect for senior year) (4 Years)
•DECA, which is like business leaders of America. And I am president of that. (4 Years)
•I am the founder and president of the African-American Leadership Council at my school
•I am the producer of the black history month show at my school.
•I am in speech, which has high prestige at my school is ranked in top ten in the USA
•Varsity Golf
•I help run a National Magazine for high school teachers nationwide.
•Been going to Muslim Religion classes every Saturday and Sunday since I was 6</p>

<p>Work Experience:
•I intern with the Minnesota Timberwolves
•I’m the basketball manager for my high school Varsity Basketball Team, and in the summer I manage an AAU team.
•Also this summer I’m working/ interning with a golf club
•I'm a golf caddy
•Mentor Somali Kids at a local Elementary School
•One of 2 students selected to work on the Roseville Park and Rec Board
•Habitat for Humanity this summer
•More volunteer work in the summers</p>

<p>Awards:
•Lettered in Speech and Student Council
•City of Falcon Heights Teen Leadership Award
•(More that I can’t think of)</p>

<p>Essays:
•Hopefully will be good, I know many people that I will have edit it, so it will be top notch when I turn it in.</p>

<p>Recommendations:
•Assistant Basketball Coach/Vice Principle at me Elementary school, in the Minnesota Hall of Fame for High School Basketball Coaching
•Counselor: He loves me, he worked in the Sports Management Field before becoming a counselor and I know his recommendation will be good.
•Teacher: Humanities/10th Grade Pre-AP English Teacher, One of the Top Teachers in the Nation, Has awards for being a top teacher In MN/USA. I work with her on a literacy publication magazine that a couple of other kids and I are working on together. (thenationalscholar.org) so her recommendation will be legit.
Addition Recommendation: Jeff Munneke; Vice President of Fan Relations and Guest Services I Intern with him, so he’ll write me a good recommendation</p>

<p>Other:
•State (if domestic applicant): Minnesota
•School Type: Large Public High School 2000+
•Ethnicity: Somalian (African-American)
•Gender: Male
•Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): URM and First Generation College. Research (Kinda?)</p>

<p>Reflection
•Strengths: Leadership, Experience, Recommendations’, and Extracurricular
•Weaknesses: Most academic related things.
•I know my grades aren’t the best neither is my ACT score, but the reason for that is because I was always busy with school, and extracurricular activities. And it wasn’t like I joined every club available just to be in them, I was an active member of each one, and I have leadership roles in many of them. I don’t know if my extracurricular will balance out my academics but do you think that I have a chance at all? Also I’m great at interviews so hopefully I nail that too.</p>

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<p>Sorry I kind of just coppied and pasted from my Duke post. Can you still look at my stats and tell me my chances?</p>

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<p>Sorry. GPA and scores are impossibly out of range, even as a reach. Save yourself the application fee and use it later to celebrate your acceptance to many, many other match schools that would be delighted to take you.</p>

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<p>Don’t tell her that Gryffon-- I say apply to at least 2 ivies just for the hell of it. You might get in you might not, its a flip of a coin. Admissions is very random and your grades are a bit low but I still say go for it. Don’t apply to all ivies but 1-2 is enough (Columbia and Yale but mostly Columbia and Brown will give you a better chance) :slight_smile: good luck</p>

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<p>Wasn’t Columbia at a 6.9% acceptance rate this year? It seems like Dartmouth and Penn would be better options at 9.7 and 12.3%.</p>

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<p>You’re definitely a well-rounded student so I wouldn’t worry about that. Your ACT is good, but 3.0 is actually a tad low. That doesn’t necessarily mean you’re not going to be accepted. If your interview goes well, your chances are probably going to be pretty high. They don’t simply look at your gpa as a determining factor on your admission as much as they do everything else. If you really want to go, I’d say go for it. You haven’t been accepted yet so the worst that can happen is you being in the same position you are now, not in the college. Plus, everything you have is great especially since you’re African American. Not to play the race card, but the admissions officers do tend to give more leeway to us minorities. It’s definitely not fair, but it happens. Go for it, your chances seem to be pretty high.</p>

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<p>You’re going into your Sr year, mid-year grades are not enough to bring up your gpa substantially. Also, why are you taking AP Stats rather than AP Calc? AP scores? Rigor of coursework?</p>

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<p>Where are you getting your data? Check last year’s Results threads, also the 25:75 ACT range at Y is 32:35:</p>

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<p>3.0 is significantly low, not a “tad low”.</p>

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<p>Alumni interviews have relatively little impact on admissions. </p>

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<p>URM admissions is much more complex than this. And particularly at a highly selective school like Y, competition is strong no matter what your race or ethnicity.</p>