<p>GPA:
3.78 (Unweighted)
4.06 (Weighted)</p>
<p>SAT:
1940
710 in writing
690 in math
540 in reading</p>
<p>ACT:
29</p>
<p>I know the odds don't look great, but I do know that Yale looks at the whole application. I have a good story and am a published author at Huffington Post, but I don't expect that this will write the application for me.</p>
<p>Please let me know (honestly) if I stand a chance.</p>
<p>Honestly, you would have to have a pretty major hook to make up for the sub-2000 SAT and sub-3.9 GPA. I really wouldn’t bet on it or get your hopes up at all.</p>
<p>Well I plan on retaking the SAT and superscoring, since my reading score is what is really holding me back. Will getting above a 2000 improve my odds that significantly, or will it not make much of a difference?</p>
<p>I wouldn’t worry about the GPA all that much (it’s not helpful, but I know of worse that got accepted).
Your SATs are really a problem, and I’m not sure that superscoring is going to do much for you; even your better scores aren’t that good. I don’t intend for that to sound harsh, but I don’t know how else to say it. A 710 is good, but not if it’s the best thing in the application.
Your story might carry the day, but it had better be good.</p>
<p>Sorry to be so blunt, but good luck and I’m sure that, come what may, you will have a great 4 years at Yale or elsewhere.</p>
<p>When people say “your scores aren’t good” it is relative to the published “middle 50%” of enrolled students at Yale. This means that 25% of the students were below this range and 25% were above. For 2013 the ranges were:</p>
<p>SAT-Verbal: 710-800
SAT-Math: 710-790
SAT-Writing: 720-800
ACT: 32-35</p>
<p>(Just think about that for a second. This means that the top 25% of students probably got perfect 2400 scores)</p>
<p>Currently your scores are all below the middle range. The general consensus is that you need to have more than a “good story” to be accepted in this quartile- recruited athlete, legacy, URM/1st gen college/low income, donor, celebrity, etc.</p>
<p>If you could get the reading score up to a 700 I would say it is close enough to the range and you have a very long shot (as do most people). If you cannot raise the CR much I would say it’s not worth applying. The writing score doesn’t really help that much, nor does the Huffington Post article.</p>
<p>Personally I would put Yale out of my mind and focus on any number of other great schools where your scores (if you can increase the CR) would put you in the middle of the middle 50%. You can still apply to Yale, and who knows, maybe you’ll get lucky.</p>