<p>Hey guys, I'd appreciate an honest evaluation of my chances at Yale (SCEA), Harvard, Princeton, and Dartmouth [or only Yale, as this is the Yale board].</p>
<p>{N.B, I do realize some people may think some of my scores make me a shoo-in, but I really don't think so}</p>
<p>Since it's so important (curses witheld), I'm white and male, from NC and a +100,000 income bracket.</p>
<p>Academics
-SAT: 2400 (one sitting, not a combination) on the Nov. 4th, ~2250 on Dec. 2005
-SAT II: 800 Math 2, 780 Chemistry, 710 U.S History (Considering I'd just read an entire book on the topic, this was a surprise, but o well)
-ACT: 36 Composite (35E, 35M, 35R, 36S, 31E/W I think my essay was too short)
-Class Rank: 4th or 5th of ~550 At an NC Public School (But still competitive)
-G.P.A: 4.0 Unweighted (Will probably go down after this semester), 5.1 Weighted
-AP Scores: 5 Ap Bio, 5 Apush, 5 Ap Psych, 5 Ap Eng Lang, 4 Ap Physics</p>
<p>Extracurriculars (I swear these suck a lot)
-Piano for about 9 years, A few minor awards and recitals.
-Varsity Cross Country for 10th grade summer, 11th grade + summer, 12th Grade, Personal best for 5k of about 19:30, so definitely not a recruit
-Junior Classical League for three years, twice the Second place state certamen team.
-Vice president of Science Olympiad, a few regional awards
-Lincoln Douglas Debate (1 minor award) I wrote the Common app short essay about this one
-Only about 25 hours of Community service, although I was precinct captain of Kids voting (haha)
-High IQ team (i'm the math, music and history guy)
-No job. $&%!!!</p>
<p>Miscellaneous
ESSAYS: MOST IMPORTANT I THINK. I felt like these were really original, but I seem to sound like a prick when I reread them. Possible but minor grammatical errors. I'd love it if a current Yalie would review these.
RECOMMENDATIONS: One of them was glowing, and another one I didn't see.
Counselor: haha I pretty much talked her through what I wanted to be said.
Could not get an interview.</p>
<p>Only really major academic award was Second in a national Creative Writing Contest, National Merit Semifinalist, and AP Scholar with distinction. Two 1st places on the National Latin Exam, one of them perfect score</p>
<p>Thanks a lot</p>