Chances at Yale! Please help!

Hello, I’m a HS junior in the US Northeast in a pretty privileged area, want to apply SCEA next year, please chance me…

GPA: This is my biggest weak spot, 8th and 9th grade were lazy for me, straight A’s soph year and so far this year, will end junior year with a probable 3.88 - 3.92

SAT: 2350
ACT: 35

SAT II: Math Level 2: 800
Math Level 1: 800

AP World: 4
AP Environmental (Self studied at end of soph yr): 5

Still taking many AP exams and maybe SAT IIs at end of this yr

This year course load:
AP Chem
AP Calc BC (took precalc 1 & 2 over the summer at a summer school, transferred over to transcript. A.)
AP Comp Sci
AP English Language
AP USH
AP Statistics
Spanish V

Next year will be rigorous

ECs:

  • President of yearbook
  • Quiz bowl team
  • FIRST Robotics
  • Will be president of mock trial next yr. Been in it since 10th.
  • President of my grade last year and this year.
  • I speak at schools in a program that a charity offers for a disorder that my family is affected by (little brother)
  • Founded a 501(c)(3) for that disorder. We've raised ~$2,300 but I will raise more.
  • Founder and president of club in my school supporting my charity and planning fund raisers etc.
  • In the works of writing and publishing a childrens' book about that disorder
  • NHS
  • Chess club
  • Peer tutoring, a lot of it

Awards:

  • Geometry academic award
  • Chemistry academic award
  • Algebra 2/trigonometry academic award
  • my NHD paper is doing well, I may make it pretty far
  • got really far in mock trial states

White, no legacy, parents went to Brandeis and GW. No one else in my grade is looking at colleges like these (my school actually is competitive, I have a really dumb grade)

High income bracket.

I love Yale and UPenn. How’s it looking? I know Princeton doesn’t look at 8th and 9th grade, which gives me a 4.0 in their eyes, I need to visit them and see if I like them, but I think I will. Maybe them? I don’t think I’m good enough to get in there.

  1. I don't know of any schools look at 8th grade
  2. You seem like a competitive applicant. Give it a shot, what's the worst that can happen?

But I’m worried about using my SCEA on somewhere I don’t have a chance at. If my chances are significantly better at UPenn then I should ED there and not SCEA at Yale…I’m all mixed up. Let’s be real, the binding early action programs increase chances, and that just may be what pushes me over the bar.