<p>I wanted to hear of any stories where someone was admitted without having through-the-roof GPA's or prodigy-SAT scores. Well....that is if there is any. Need a little hope for an applicant with little hope.</p>
<p>My twin sisters were accepted at yale and they only had act's of 32 and Sat's of 1400 something. They went to a small public school and were 1 and 2 in a class of 32. Everyone else in their class went to a communitiy college. They did not have great extracurriculars and played sports but had no sport scholarships</p>
<p>cinderella here i come</p>
<p>OK, that's definitely not a Cinderella story. Being the valedictorian or salutatorian and getting 32+ on ACT creates a very qualified candidate to Yale. NEXT!</p>
<p>actually..that sort of is...</p>
<p>not great ECs
not perfect test scores (despite what you believe, a 32 isn't excellent)
and valedictorian and salutatorian in a class of 32 isn't that big a deal</p>
<p>i'd say that IS a cinderella story</p>
<p>"not perfect test scores" - you obviously do not need perfect test scores to get into Yale. And 32 IS excellent - it places you in the 99th percentile, and you would be hard-pressed to find someone that does not believe being in that percentile is excellent. </p>
<p>Also, yes, being 1 of out 32 is not as impressive as 1 out of 250 or something like that, be she still graduated valedictorian, and Yale would have looked at her rank in the context of her class.</p>
<p>I thought it was pretty cinderella considering they got only into yale and dartmouth and not harvard middlebury amherst</p>