Chance meh fo' Yale.

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Applying EA to Yale!</p>

<p>White female, <$60,000 a year, inner-city public high school.</p>

<p>· GPA: 3.99/4.0 UW
· Class Rank: 5/468
· SAT I: 780 Critical Reading, 620 Math, 780 Writing: 2180 total
· SAT II: 780 Literature, 750 Spanish
· AP Tests: US History: 5, Spanish: 4 (self-study)</p>

<p>Junior Schedule:
College Lit/Composition (1st/2nd Semester)
Spanish 305 at Macalester College (20th best school in the country)
Honors Pre-Calc
Honors Physics
Newspaper Production</p>

<p>Senior Schedule:
Spanish 307 at Macalester College
Fiction 120 at Macalester College
AP Calculus
Newspaper Production
Health</p>

<p>Awards & Recognition
· 2008 Davidson Fellow for Literature
· National Silver Award for Personal Essay, 2008 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards
· 1st place, National History Day 2006 (Group Performance, Newsboys’ Strike of 1899)
· Minnesota Labor History Prize, State History Day 2006 (Newsboys’ Strike)
· 2nd place, National History Day 2005 (Group Documentary, Stonewall Riots)
· 4th place, State History Day 2007 (Group Performance, Dust Bowl Farmers)
· 3 Varsity letters, Minneapolis South High School Soccer
· All-State Silver Award for newspaper, Minnesota High School Press Association
· Captain, Southeast Soccer Club (3 years)
· 1 of 4 high school students selected to take classes at Macalester College in 2008</p>

<p>Extracurriculars</p>

<p>· Translator/Volunteer, Head Start Literacy Program, 2007-2008 (300 hours)
· Member of Loft Center for Literary Arts’ first teen advisory council
· Volunteer, Hermano Pedro Day School, Antigua, Guatemala (90 hours)
· Executive Editor, South High Southerner (2008-2009); News/Feature Editor (2007-2008)
· Varsity Soccer, 3 years
· Club Soccer, 9 years (captain)</p>

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<p>Other than your math score, I see no visible weaknesses. You have a very strong resume. With your low-income status, I’d say you have a very good shot at Yale.</p>

<p>I would recommend you check out QuestBridge, if you haven’t already.</p>

<p>[QuestBridge</a> Home Page](<a href=“http://www.questbridge.org%5DQuestBridge”>http://www.questbridge.org)</p>

3

<p>I’ve seen your threads before (like the one that degenerated into “YOUR PARENTS ARE PRINCETON GRADUATES AND AREN’T CAPABLE OF MAKING MONEY THEY MUST SUCK”) and I’m very impressed by you and your qualifications! You really stand out as a writer, and you’ve got lots of other things going for you, too (wow @ soccer record!) I’m sure that your essays will be phenomenal, and I would not be surprised at all if you got into Yale.</p>

4

<p>You sound like a yalie4lyfe so you’ll probably get in…</p>

5

<p>I’d say you’d definitely get in Yale EA.</p>

6

<p>You have a really good chance. With the combination of your scores, your geography, your low income status, and your awards, I’d say that you have a much better chance than most people. Good luck!</p>