chances at Yale EA

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<p>hi, my friend is applying to yale and wants to know your guys' opinions on his shot:</p>

<p>1400 SAT (first time): 700 M 700 V
790 Writing, 730 History, 700 Math 1C</p>

<p>3.67 unweighted (very high weighted; difficult schedule in the IB program with all IB and AP classes)</p>

<p>59/316 school ranking, 110/9,189 county ranking</p>

<p>Excellent essays
Good teacher reccomendations</p>

<p>Varsity XC and Volleyball, Cinematography club, NHS, debate club, etc.</p>

<p>Also, Legacy (father and brother)</p>

<p>OK What are his chances? THanks so much</p>

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<p>please try the chances board! we're going crazy as it is. is it appropriate to ask for chances right now?</p>

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<p>Well...I am a legacy applicant with similar test scores, a higher GPA, superb rec letters + essays, and maybe a little more ECs, and they told me I would be deferred.</p>

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<p>who told you that? why?</p>

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<p>i posted that on the chances board. please help!</p>

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<p>I think Chartreuse was talking about the whole "predict-my-chances" post. Anything predicted on there must be taken with a grain of salt because the decisions were based on very very limited information and it was just for fun!</p>

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<p>Honest truth: Don't count on anything. None of us are. Class rank might hurt you even though you're doing all AP/IB program. GPA will also hurt. SAT can go either way. Its not bad, but its not SUPER. Maybe the essays will win them over. ECs are ok. </p>

<p>Now, with my "handy dandy college calculator" I have calculated that your chances of acceptance are: 15.295739%</p>

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<p>its completely random with Yale. He has a decent shot even without the legacy considered. By decent I mean same as everyone else. you need to have more EC information to differentiate. anyways, yeah chances thread. EA people are Antsy.</p>

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<p>I'd disagree that he has a decent shot without being a double legacy. But, yeah...</p>

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<p>I don't know what your chances are. Neither does anyone who's not on the Yale admissions board. Certainly nobody around here knows for sure. <em>shrug</em> We're Yale applicants ourselves!</p>

<p>I suggest you add your name to the EA applicants list thread and hope for the best.</p>