Hi. So I’m currently a junior in high school with a GPA of 3.7 and I am involved in 5 different clubs and 5 extra curricular sports activities. I have taken 3 Honors courses and I am going to have taken 4 AP’s by the end of my Senior year. My Practice SAT score on the new SAT was a 1410 without studying because it was a practice. My practice ACT score was a 32 without studying. I am also getting heavily recruited to play D3 hockey as well. I have also over 100 hours of community service and have worked as a camp counselor for 9 weeks each summer. Also, I had a grandfather that went to Yale in the late 1920s who eventually coached for Yale football and coached the first two Heisman trophy winners there and brought Yale to a couple Bowl games in his tenure. There is also a pitching award named after him for Best baseball pitcher of the year award. He played football and Baseball there in College. So my question is, with all of this about me and my legacy, what are my chances of getting into Yale? Are they high or low?
Is Yale not D1 for hockey?
Yale is indeed NCAA Division I hockey.
@Willp20: unless you can play at a D1 level and are currently being recruited by Yale’s hockey coaches, your ability to play D3 hockey doesn’t matter. Playing D3 is just like doing any other extracurricular activity (Debate, Yearbook, Newspaper, Dance, Theater, Robotics etc).
So, you’ll have to rely solely on your academics to be admitted. Does your 3.7 unweighted GPA place you in the top 10% of your graduating class? If not, your chances are going to be minimal. See Yale’s Common Data Set, C9 Data Points: http://oir.yale.edu/sites/default/files/cds2014_2015_0.pdf
With regards to your grandfather attending Yale, legacy applicants are not what they used to back in the day: http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/29/legacy-2/
Yale legacies statistically have an elevated chance for admission.
Give it a shot maybe you are 10:1 instead of 20:1.
For if you don’t apply …
DS has played on the club hockey team. They would love to have you 
There’s no shame in playing club hockey, and you’ll play against some worthy opponents.
I have a slightly different tack on this, as DS quite possibly wasn’t in the top 10% of his class as computed by GPA (his school didn’t rank). I have no doubt, though, that his LoRs would place him in the top 1% of the school, and in one teacher’s case, as among the very best in his career.
Do well in your junior year, but also be an applicant that your teachers and GC think of fondly when it comes time to write the recs.
Good advice @IxnayBob. When your counselors and teachers write their LORs, make sure that it is done by a teacher or GC that will take the time and write about why you are special. Not just that you got an A in their class and that you are one of the smartest kids they have taught in their career. You should be able to find a teacher that thinks you are special for some reason - it needs to be sincere. So, this is the year to get to know a teacher and counselor beyond the classroom and grade you receive.