Chance me RD

Colleges and Universities A-Z Yale University
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<p>Hi.</p>

<p>I am a senior applying RD and I was wondering if you guys could chance me:</p>

<p>Demographics:
Race: White
Gender: Male
Home State: NJ
Highschool: Competitive Public</p>

<p>SAT:
Reasoning: 2370 (CR:800, M:780, W:790)
Subjects: Bio 770, US 800</p>

<p>Academics:
Unweighted GPA: 3.93/4.0
Weighted GPA: 4.43/4.5
(Only ever got two B+'s Freshman year)
Rank: Does not rank, top 5 percent</p>

<p>AP Courses:
Senior: Calculus AB, Statistics, English Lit, Spanish Lit, US Gov
Junior: Bio (5), Psych (5), English Lang (5), Spanish Lang (5), US History (5)
Sophomore: European History (5)</p>

<p>Activities: Boy Scouts (Senior Patrol Leader, Eagle Scout), School Paper (Editor-in-Chief), Co-founder of satirical paper at high school, Track (Two varsity letters), Running Crew for plays and musicals (All activities for all four years)</p>

<p>Awards: National Merit Finalist, AP Scholar with Distinction, National High School Community Service Award from National Civil War Historical Society for Eagle Project</p>

<p>Volunteerism: Volunteered in a hospital two days a week last summer, Volunteered in phonebank for the inclusion of LGBT Scouts
Work Experience: Paid SAT Tutor
Pre-college Program at Brown University two years ago</p>

<p>Please let me know what you think. I am EDing to Penn and if I don't get in, I plan to try Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Columbia, Brown, Northwestern, WashU, Hopkins, Rice, CMU, NYU and Rutgers.</p>

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<p>chances are pretty dumb. there are kids in the freshman class with pretty similar profiles to yours. i also know kids similar to you who didn’t get in. it’s all about your essays…</p>

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<p>Your EC’s seem light for the Ivies (except for Cornell and Penn which are not on your list). What is the focus of the “passion” which you have to show so that great “fit” is in play?</p>

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<p>Haha wow only on this site can being an Eagle Scout, a varsity athlete, editor-in-chief of the school paper, and a member of the tech crew be construed as “light extracurricular involvement”.</p>

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<p>my response is in the context of successful Yale applicants. No doubt that the OP is an exemplary high school student. Having said that let me explain. Eagle Scout is not academic plus if it weren’t for the LGBT phone bank participation I wouldn’t mention it at all - especially for Yale. The OP started the paper - could be a one person operation. The sport is not leadership related. The Brown program is not selective, you pay to go. Theater stuff is not leadership.</p>