Chance-me, please. My dream school is Yale.

Chance Me / Match Me!
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I’m a high school student in Vietnam, 11th grade. I’d like to study Public Relations, Communications or Acting.

Studying:
11th grade GPA: 8.7/10
My IELTS: 7.0-8.0 (I’m going to talk the IELTS soon.)
I ranked no.1 in class for 2 years and in the top 5 of my school for 4 years.
I also have some achievements in my studying life:

  • The high school which I am studying in ranked no.7 in Hanoi and always on the top 20 of the best high schools in Vietnam
  • 1st Prize in District Literature and Writing Contest for Secondary School Students.
  • Hanoi’s Ambassador Of Reading Culture 2016 - 2018.
  • I Presented my district in Provincial Contest for History
  • 2nd Prize in School English Presentation Contest
  • I Ranked no.3 at my district in a Writing competition (grade 9)
  • Awards given for giving speeches in Reading competition

Extracurricular activities:

  • I co-founded a Fashion Club and has debuted for a Fashion show that had a lot of well-known fashion designers, models in Vietnam
  • I won the 1st Prize in a provincial Dancing competition
  • I am the President Consultant of a Voluntary Club. Each year, I am the leader of a project in this club to help the poor children in some hospitals in Hanoi to celebrate Mid-autumn festivals.
  • I am a Dancer and the Head Of Media in my Dance Club.
  • I played a part in a Music Video for a famous musical band in Vietnam
  • I am the Head Of Public Relations of a musical play in Hanoi which opens musical theatre every year
  • I am also the journalist in “Humans Of Phan Dinh Phung” (my school’s journalist club)

For all the aforementioned prized, what should I do next to help myself get into my dream school? How many percents my dream can come true? Thank you so much. Stay healthy.

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First, are you aware that Yale does not offer majors in PR, Communications or Acting (though there is a Theatre Studies major, which has acting classes)*?

Second, in the last admissions round, there were 36, 844 applicants. 2.241 were offered places; so about 6% of the applicants. 1,550 ended up enrolling. Of the 1,550, 146 of the were international students- ie, just under 10%. So, you are competing to be in the 10% of the 6%. The math is unforgiving.

So, off the top, before even getting to the specifics of you, the % that your dream of going to Yale is very, very, very small.

But: your info says you are a smart, motivated, achiever. Figure out why Yale is your ‘dream’, and what it is you really want from college. If you can afford to pay the fees, there are a lot of universities that do offer PR & Communications who would be happy to have you. If you want a university that has never heard of you to give you a free (or heavily discounted) college education you might have to choose one that you have never heard of.

*Note that the international student info on the Yale website is heavily distorted by graduate student numbers: undergrads make up about 20% of international students.

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thank you so much. do u have any recommendations for me? like which schools should i try? i really like PR or sth related to arts like dancing and acting. thank you.

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Figure out your budget and get some standardized test scores (SAT or ACT). This site has a college matching feature (under Schools, at the top of the page). Start there!