<p>^ I agree with drbigboyjoe.</p>
<p>In its letter of admission dated April 1, Yale says that it looks for several things in applicants, and character is one of them. What I like about this criterion is that it isn’t so much about about ‘doing’ (i.e., what you’ve done) as about ‘being’ (who you are in your core). And of course character cuts across gender, race, ethnicity, religious belief, socioeconomic class, and every other distinction… not that those distinctions can’t shape admissions decisions, too. But I digress. There are people of character in every bracket of life, and I do believe that, if your essays and recommendations show that you have a solid center - or any of the myriad manifestations of that elusive quality that we call ‘character’ - your chances of admission will increase.</p>