Chances for Yale EA? (legacy)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>SAT I: Haven't heard back yet, hoping for close to 2300 (~800 M, ~750 CR, ~750 W)
SAT II: Haven't taken either, should be able to get near 800 on Math IIc and Physics, high 700s for Lit
APs:4 on Euro (slacked off), should get a 5 on Physics C(both parts) and Calc BC, shooting for a 4 or 5 on US History and Psych</p>

<p>UW GPA: 4.0
Class Rank: school doesn't keep, should be 1 or tied for 1, will qualify as "valedictorian" (school gives it to anyone with a weighted GPA over 4.3 and 5+ APs)
Senior Year Courseload: AP Chem, AP Bio, AP German, AP English, AP Java(computer programming), AP Gov & Politics, AP Stat, Honors Econ(required for graduation)
Hardest courseload possible at my school, taken every AP offered but Music and the other languages</p>

<p>ECs:
Varsity Football (possibly a captain senior year)
Basketball
NHS
Science Olympiad (won 1st in regional for physics)
Science Bowl
Church Choir
Johns Hopkins CTY program the summer after freshman year</p>

<p>Volunteer work:
Genetic research on heart failure at UPMC over the summer(work from last summer could possibly be published; if not, hopefully this year's)
Went on mission trips to Jamaica and North Carolina to build houses for hurricane victims
Helping at a youth football camp</p>

<p>Others:
Triple legacy(if uncles count) - both parents went, dad won the Snow prize for academic achievement, uncle was a big time football player(was drafted by the Bengals)
None of them are in the position to contribute a building or anything, so I don't know how much these will help</p>

<p>Might try to play football, I've been told by my coaches that I'm good enough to play in the Ivy League(they've sent players there before), not being recruited or anything though</p>

<p>That pretty much covers it. I'm planning on applying EA to Yale, just wondering how you guys think I'll fare. I'm also considering Stanford, Harvard(both parents went to grad school there, don't know if that counts as a legacy), Columbia, Georgetown, and Cornell, among others. Any opinions are welcome.</p>

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<p>Try going to nationals for Science Olympiad, or at least win state (4 state gold medals and a trip to nationals here, but no from Harvard, Princeton, and Columbia. Go figure)</p>

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<p>Oh yeah, I left out my completely un-extraordinary demographic stats
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Gender: Male
Income bracket: >200k
School: Competitive public school, ~270 kids per grade, western PA</p>

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<p>Science Olympiad is pretty casual to say the least at our school (I found out what events I was in 3 days before the competition), so we didn't even go to states. We did go to states when I was in eighth grade, got a first in the middle school division.</p>

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<p>Well, you can definitly afford it (im about 20K)
Something I did that might help, I coached the Division B Science Olympiad Astonomy event. </p>

<p>And as for football, I know you probably play in some stadium, but I was a captain for my school's football team, and we play 8-man. Its the best.</p>

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<p>Haha, nice. Football's like a religion around here, they try to turn into a job. 8 man sounds fun, I'll have to try it sometime.</p>

<p>The coaching thing sounds like a good idea. We don't have individual event coaches but I'm sure the guy who organizes it wouldn't mind.</p>