Chances at Yale (double legacy but kinda weak ECs)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>White Male
SAT: 2350 (800 CR 790 M 760 Writing w/ 12 essay)
SAT II: 800 Physics 790 Math IIc 760 Lit (might retake IIC, I know I can get the 800 easily, just need to brush up on conic sections and that other precalc stuff, I took it after a year of calc)
GPA: 4.0 UW
Rank: 1/280-ish
APs: 10th grade - Euro 4 (didn't read for the class all year and tried to cram it all a week before the test)
11th grade - US history 5, Calc BC 5, Physics C (both parts) 5, Psych 5</p>

<p>Senior Year Courseload (hardest possible, will have taken every AP offered at my school except Music Theory, Spanish, and French):
AP Bio
AP Chem
AP Stats
AP English
AP Gov / Honors Econ (school doesn't have AP Econ)
AP German
AP Java (computer science)</p>

<p>ECs:
Senior Class President
Varsity Football (chance to be a captain this year)
- I could probably get in just for football, I've been recruited by Brown, Penn, a few other Ivy League schools, but I don't think I want to play in college, so I'm not gonna really use that hook
Basketball 9th and 10th grade, may play again this year
NHS 11th and 12th (it's actually serious at our school, we have to apply to get in and have a service hours requirement)
Science Olympiad
Science Quiz Bowl</p>

<p>Other:
Spent a week last summer building a home for a crippled man in Jamaica (will spend another week doing something similar in North Carolina this year)
Worked as a research assistant at UPMC Medical Center; second author on a paper on VEGF (vascular endothelial growth factor) that has been accepted by a major medical journal</p>

<p>Schools:
Yale SCEA (double legacy, both of my parents went; dad won the Snow Prize, the top award for academic achievement at Yale)
Harvard (dad went to Harvard Med, mom went to Harvard Law, don't know if that counts as a legacy though)
Stanford
Brown
Cornell
Georgetown
Top tier UCs (supposedly it's really hard to get in out of state)</p>

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<p>Bring
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<p>I think you have relatively good chances at those. MAKE SURE you have safetys and matches tho!!!!</p>

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<p>Definitely have safeties...but otherwise, I'd venture to say that you're a shoe-in.</p>

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<p>What are you looking to major in? The top colleges all have their strengths and weaknesses (well...weaknesses compared to eachother lol).</p>

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<p>Yeah, I'll definitely include safeties if I don't get in for early action at Yale, probably places like Pitt or some weaker UCs.</p>

<p>And the issue of majors is one of the reasons I want to go to an Ivy-type school; I've equivocated a lot about what I want to major in, so at any of those schools I'd have a lot of options to pursue. I've considered the physics thing (and although Yale isn't as strong in the hard sciences, they're making a major campaign to improve them), the economics thing, the international studies thing (thus Georgetown), and I'm sure I'll change again. At any of those schools I'd be getting a strong education regardless of whatever field I chose.</p>

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<p>Sounds good to me lol, gl</p>

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<p>dude double legacy? 2350 SAT and a GPA of 4.0? Lots of APs? Senior class president? Why are you even asking us!?!?!?</p>

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<p>Enjoy New Haven.</p>

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<p>The ECs aren't weak at all! Great grades, fantastic SATs and APs, published research paper, plus you're prez and possible varsity football captain. </p>

<p>I think you're in. You should go try graduate school at Harvard considering your parents both did.</p>