<p>Freshman year: 4.7 GPA (straight A's)</p>
<p>Sophomore year: 4.4 GPA (two B+'s)</p>
<p>Junior year: 4.5 GPA (three B+'s)</p>
<p>Senior year: (hopefully) 4.8 GPA</p>
<p>My school also does only final grades, so I have 5 B's out of about 21 classes :( </p>
<p>I'm also ranked in the top five out of 300 students. My school is also competitive? (ranked in the top 25 in the state). Oh yeah, and I'm Asian. :(((</p>
<p>I'm just really worried about my transcript. Everything else is practically set (strong teacher recs, SAT scores, national awards). I don't want to be immediately eliminated because of poor grades. I really spread myself out too thin junior year :( </p>
<p>I also really appreciate everyone's feedback on this :). I realize I've been asking these kinds of questions a lot, and if you've answered a post from me before, I just want you to know that I'm really grateful for your help and I've taken your feedback into consideration even if I didn't reply to you :)</p>
<p>5B + 16A would give you a uwGPA of 3.76. It is a bit low for Yale, but your course load and class rank can make up for that. So don’t worry too much about that.</p>
<p>By the way, if it helps, I found out that my unweighted gpa is around a 3.81 (because our school takes A-'s/B+'s into account and stuff). But I’m sure Yale would recalculate it as a 3.75. Oh well…</p>
<p>Thanks for the reassurance though :)</p>
<p>You definitely have a shot, but Yale is a reach for anyone. In my book, as long as you have a 3.7 UW and above, a 2250 SAT and above or an ACT of 33 and above, you have at least a SHOT at every Ivy school. It’s far less predictable than any other school group.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, the one thing working against you is that you’re Asian. I don’t think it’ll break your application, but it might subject you to a little more scrutiny than “URM” or “white” students. (I say it self-mockingly- we all wish we could be as smart as you). </p>
<p>In my opinion, you have a shot. Any other non-Ivy, non-MIT school in the USNWR Top 30 will welcome you with open arms gaping with cash. But Yale’s different. Expect a 20% chance of admission.</p>
<p>Can you chance me please? <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1517788-chance-johns-hopkins-ed-will-chance-back.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1517788-chance-johns-hopkins-ed-will-chance-back.html</a></p>
<p>^^Quote from you: “any other non-ivy, non-MIT school in the USNWR Top 30 will welcome you with open arms gaping with cash”…Are you that UNINFORMED??? That is a kind way of saying something else…Have you heard of Stanford (non-ivy) the toughest school to get into in the country, Chicago (non-ivy), Caltech (non-ivy)…</p>
<p>…you seem to have a BIOPIC view of schools that are “centered” in the northeast…not very intelligent thing to do…by the way, there is a WIDE variance of selectivity amongst the ivy-league schools.</p>
<p>[Stanford</a> beats out all of the Ivy League schools by having the toughest admissions rate of all | Mail Online](<a href=“http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2302966/Stanford-beats-Ivy-League-schools-having-toughest-admissions-rate-all.html]Stanford”>Stanford beats out all of the Ivy League schools by having the toughest admissions rate of all | Daily Mail Online)</p>