Chance Me Please

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<p>Background
[ul]Race: Hispanic[/ul]
[ul]New York Resident[/ul]
[ul]GPA: 3.71 Unweighted; 3.96 Weighted
(My GPA took a hit freshman year as I had trouble adjusting to high school, but I've shown a steady upward trend since then.)[/ul]</p>

<p>Test Scores
[ul]ACT: 35[/ul]
[ul]SAT: 2190 (Taking it again in December. Hoping for a 2300+)[/ul]
[ul]World History: 770[/ul]
[ul]Spanish: 700[/ul]
[ul]Math Level II: 630[/ul]
[ul]Physics: 630[/ul]</p>

<p>Awards
[ul]General Excellence Award (School)[/ul]
[ul]Principal's Honor Roll (School)[/ul]
[ul]AP Scholar (National)[/ul]
[ul]National Hispanic Recognition Scholar (National)[/ul]
[ul]National Merit Scholar Commendation (National)[/ul]</p>

<p>Work Experience
[ul]Writer on Bleacher Report[/ul]
[ul]Run two Youtube channels and a website[/ul]
[ul]Interned at Technology Firm in NYC[/ul]</p>

<p>Community Service
[ul]Volunteer at Soup Kitchen[/ul]
[ul]Member of Operation Smile[/ul]
[ul]In-School Tutoring[/ul]</p>

<p>Sports
[ul]Football (2 years)[/ul]
[ul]Crew (1 year)[/ul]
[ul]Intramural Basketball (4 years)[/ul]</p>

<p>My GPA is definitely the weakest part of my application, and I'm very concerned that it'll significantly hurt my chances of getting into Yale.</p>

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<p>Why are you retaking the SAT when you already have a 35 ACT? Your Subject test scores are on the low side and you’d have to send all of them if you send the SAT.</p>

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<p>Retake subject test instead of Sat and just send in act</p>

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<p>If I send the SAT subject tests, won’t I have to send the SAT as well anyway? I was under the impression that I would need to send all College Board scores to Yale if I sent any.</p>

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<p>Exactly. So I’m saying why would you want to send ANY SATs/Subject tests when you can just send your 35 ACT? And if you’re not going to send your SATs, why would you sit it again in Dec?</p>

<p>p.s. Hispanic is an ethnicity, not a race. Hispanics can be of any race(s).</p>

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<p>I feel like it’d be necessary to send subject tests to Yale, in which case I’d also need to send my SAT scores.</p>

<p>Sorry about that by the way. Didn’t mean to put race.</p>

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<p>You’re wrong about this. When Y says that the ACT w/writing fulfills their testing requirements, that’s what they mean. Don’t over think it.</p>

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<p>Subject tests are more than necessary, remember that.</p>

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<p>yale2017: what are you saying? Subject tests are not necessary at all if an applicant submits ACT & writing.</p>

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<p>So my application won’t look any worse if I just submit the ACT without any subject tests?</p>

<p>Sorry for all the questions. I’m just very nervous because Yale is my dream school and I want to do anything I can to make my application look better.</p>

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<li><p>Sending the ACT without Subject tests will not hurt your application.</p></li>
<li><p>As they are now, your Subject tests could hurt as much as help your application.</p></li>
<li><p>Forget about dream schools, just make a solid list of safety/match/reach schools that fit your academic, personal and financial needs/wants.</p></li>
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<p>P.S. read the Resources sticky thread on the Hispanic Students forum (under College Admissions, Speciality Topics) for lots of information on fly-in weekends, scholarships, etc.</p>

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<p>Ok, thank you very much!</p>