Chances for Yale EA????

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I've applied for Yale Early Action and am just curious to see what some of you think my chaces are. I'm planning on majoring in either History of Political Science.</p>

<p>Male from Arkansas
Ethnicity: Indian-a card carrying Cherokee! (I sure need the card to prove it, though)
Rank: 11/450
G.P.A: Weighted: 4.19, Unweighted: 4.0
SAT: CR: 800, M: 740, W: 720
SAT II: US History: 710, Literature: 700
PSAT: 219
ACT: 33 (35,34,35,27)
APs: US Govt/Politics, US History, English Lang/Comp, Music Theory (all 5's)</p>

<p>Senior Classes: (my school only has 7 periods and Biology is a double period)
Band
AP English Literature
AP World History
AP Biology
AP Psychology
AP European History</p>

<p>Teacher and Counselor Recs: should be great
Essays: great</p>

<p>ECs/Awards:
-National Merit Semifinalist
-AP Scholar with Honor
-Band (1st band, 1st chair at all-region 9th, 10th, and 11th and 1st band, 1st chair in the Arkansas All-State Band in 10th and 11th, I wrote all percussion parts for this year's marching show and am the percussion section leader)
-Quiz Bowl (numerous regional/state tournament victories, team captain for 06/07, named MVP for regional tournament and state all-star tournament last year)
-Latin Club treasurer
-National Honor Society
-Astronomy Club
-Mu Alpha Theta
-Fellowship of Christian Musicians
-C.A.P.A. (Citizens' Alliance for a Progressive Arkansas)
-youth deacon at my Church and a member of the youth group
-I won my school's talent show last year with a tenor drum solo</p>

<p>-I also won 2nd place at the World's Fastest Drummer Contest at the NAMM show in Austin, Texas last summer.
-During the summers of 2004/2005, I toured with the Memphis Sound Drum and Bugle Corps, each year becoming a DCI Division 2/3 finalist.</p>

<p>I also have a brother who's a junior at Yale.
I realize the ACT science score is very low.. that test was from December of 2005. I didn't exactly plan my class schedule around the need to take 3 SAT II subject tests, so that didn't work out too well either. Those scores were MUCH lower than they should have been, and I'm hoping the AP scores will compensate for them somewhat.</p>

<p>The main weakness in my application lies in that many of my skills have improved immeasurably since I've taken the tests (as in the case of the SAT II Literature test). However, one of my recs is from my English teacher and I'm sure she had some great things to say, and my essays weren't too bad, either.</p>

<p>I welcome all opinions, good or bad! Thank you!</p>

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<p>i think you have a great chance. you have a lot of things going for you.</p>

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<p>ditto .</p>

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<p>dude, with your status as a really URM and your talents as a musician I'd be shocked if you didn't get accepted.</p>

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<p>Don't you need to take 3 Subject Tests? I might be wrong about that, but you might want to check that out...</p>

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<p>Yes you need 3 for Yale...</p>

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<p>As far as I knew the options were to submit an ACT score or an SAT with 3 subject tests, with both of course not being frowned upon. I do know some people who didn't take any subject tests and were still accepted, but maybe times have changed? Thanks for the input!</p>

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<p>that card your carrying just might get you in</p>

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<p>bump =) (will the 2 subject tests hurt me?)</p>

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<p>I think it's REQUIRED 3?..</p>

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<p>As long as ACT in place of SAT II's, ur in. URM + those stats, no problem</p>

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<p>basically, the indian card thing means your stats could be way below and they'd accept you just for that peice of plastic- just an opinion, but they seriously want any underrepresented minority, especially one so uncommon</p>

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<p>he's right. thats a very urm minority with exceptional stats and good ec's. enjoy yale next year lol</p>