Chances

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<p>I really love Yale and I am applying Early Action. I was wondering what you guys think my chances are.</p>

<p>I have a 3.83/4.0 in a top 30 nationally ranked high school, and if you dont count my 10th grade year, when I went away for the second half of the year due to science research, I would have a 3.9 or higher. Weighted I have a 4.18 and would be a lot higher if I didn't count 10th grade again. My guidance conselor is writing about this in her recc. </p>

<p>My Honor and Awards are:</p>

<p>Exemplars- 10th Grade Honor Society
Italian Honor Society-10th Grade (could not continue taking Italian beyond Italian III because of schedule conflicts with AP Chemistry in 11th grade and Intel Prep in 12th grade)
Math Honor Scoiety- 10th, 11th and 12th Grade
National Honor Society- 11th and 12th Grade
Long Island Science and Engineering Fair- First Place, 10th Grade
INTEL International Science and Engineering Fair- Finalist, 10th Grade
Rohm and Haas Invitational Science Fair- Second Place, 10th Grade
Long Island Science Congress- High Honors (Second Place), 11th
Rohm and Haas Invitational Science Fair- Second Place, 11th Grade</p>

<p>My Extracurriculars are:</p>

<p>Science research for the summers after 10th and 11th grade, I volunteer in the ER of a local hospital, I am captain of the Debate Team and the Mock Trial Team, I am a peer responder, which is a peer tutor, also community service, and I was captain of the JV baseball team and a memeber of the varsity baseball team</p>

<p>MY SATs are:</p>

<p>740 CR 750 Math 750 Writing 12/12 Essay</p>

<p>800 in Chem
Took Math IIC and probably got 780-800
720 in Bio-M and World History</p>

<p>APs:</p>

<p>5 on Chem, World and U.S. History
4 on English Language I forget which one specifically</p>

<p>I am assuming all the recs and essays are good. </p>

<p>I am a white male.</p>

<p>I dunno if i left anything out but....what you guys tihnk?</p>

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<p>Oh I also work as an environtal consultant</p>

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<p>Impressive results at LISEF and ISEF, man! Glad to see some strong math/sci kids applying here. I hope you did the research independently? If you did, try your hardest to do well in Siemens and Intel. It's not a necessity, nor is it a guarantee of admission if you do make it (I know lots of math/sci kids here who didn't make finalist in either competition, and then plenty of Intel finalists who were rejected), but it doesn't hurt. Make sure you clearly demonstrate your passions (in science, I'm assuming)...</p>

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<p>just out of curiosity. if you used the same project in all those competition when you were in 10th grade, it must have been amazing. what was your proj?</p>

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<p>Seems pretty good... I've been kinda browsing through the stats of all of us here who are applying EA and what strikes me most is that Yale looks for a diversity of skills amongst the applicants in order to form its freshman class and by the looks of it - you've got a chance! If everybody here were strong in science, then we'd all be in trouble but kudos to you for having a particular strength! And WOW at the 800 in Chem - you gotta be amazing! I still have no clue what I got cuz we overseas kids have little feel for the SAT II, but showing your passion is such a beautiful thing that it simply must give you a certain edge!</p>

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<p>Well I have actually did one project this year at Cold Spring Harbor Labs which I put into Siemens and STS soon, two projects last year, one at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Puschino, Russia, and the other in my school and I won awards for both, and then the one I did in 10th grade I did in school and won awards for that. I also did one in 9th grade but it was bad. I worked independatly or the team leader on all the projects, including the one in 10th grade when I went to ISEF and got 1st in LISEF. So to answer ur question chet2006, i didnt use the same project all those competitions. I used different ones. But that project in 10th grade was on extending lifespan by using a drug that promotes heat shock proteins.</p>

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<p>How did Siemens work out for you?</p>

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<p>I was not a semi-finalist, but I was expecting that because I did a behavioral project, which the competition does not want submitted. The only reason I could submit it is that it was on uncertainty and foraging using rats, so it could be considered an ecology project, which falls under the environmental category. I hope that I will be able to do better in STS because they actually have a behavioral category.</p>

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<p>haha oh man, matt levy? it's scott elman. good luck with yale, man. it looks like you've got a very good shot at getting in.</p>

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<p>no sorry this is mike levy.</p>

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<p>I have five research abstracts and I was wondering how many I should submit for the sup.?</p>

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<p>Mike, that makes sense with regards to Siemens, I can't remember a behavioral project getting far, at least last year. Good luck with STS!</p>

<p>As for abstracts, someone can correct me if I seem to be wrong, but I would think that sending one page with all five abstracts is fine. At least, it wouldn't hurt. If you are sending abstracts, though, you might want to cut out any that aren't really up to par. Try to keep it down to publishable research, there's no need for fluff projects.</p>

<p>That being said, you might not even want to send in abstracts. At least, I see no reason for it. Chances are the admissions officers won't understand it, and if you want the scientists (who would understand it) to see anything, it's better to give them a full paper. Good projects are in the details, not the overviews. The way I did it was by putting a Research section (or something like that) on my attached resume (you know, with the extracurriculars and all that), and detail in it your projects, the dates, the place, who you did it with, and a 2-3 sentence description in layman's terms of what you did. Then send in the STS paper (I'm assuming this is your "best" project) to the relevant department DUS (Director of Undergraduate Studies) with a very, very nice and polite letter attached explaining why some random kid is sending him this paper. Generally if you attach the paper to the application (which is also a good idea), the admissions office will forward it to the relevant department, but it's not a bad idea to get a head start on that just in case.</p>

<p>haha oh, and if you've published and/or presented at conferences, a "Refereed Publications and Conference Proceedings" section is a pretty nice (read: amusing) touch for the resume, but don't feel compelled.</p>

<p>Good luck!</p>