<p>OP: You are not a real human being. You have a 35 ACT score.</p>
<p>Like Yalie17, I’ll be starting Yale in the fall and I have to say that I feel pretty human. I haven’t cured cancer or anything, but clearly something I’ve done is special enough to get me in. Sometimes it takes someone else to point out what that is in you because to you it’s part of your day to day life. Ask around and see what they say. If you’re considering Yale and your school is supportive then they may be able to signal out what makes you ‘superhuman’ in relation to other 17/18 year olds across the country/world</p>
<p>And if you have a 35 ACT, you’ve got one up on me (and like 95%+ of the population) anyway :’)</p>
<p>I just want to give some of the posters on this page hope. I don’t mean to make this about me, but I was accepted to Yale and Harvard last year, and just finished my freshman year at Yale. </p>
<p>My SAT score was 2110 (not that impressive), I am not a recruited athlete, a legacy, a first gen, or anything like that. I wrote my admissions essays on being a waitress in a small diner for 5 years and about the local coup kitchen I worked at for 4 years. </p>
<p>Also, most of the people who are accepted don’t post in websites such as this one. The sample size is really skewed. A lot of my friends at Yale are totally normal kids who truly just have a passion for learning and show clear commitment. My admissions officer explicitly told me that my work ethic shown through being a waitress, and my clear passion about Yale were the reasons I got in. Normal people can and are accepted. Scores are not everything and major awards are definitely not either.</p>
<p>IQTest: I am really happy you told me this. This website gives me a lot of anxiety problems.</p>
<p>I think this website gives many people anxiety problems. You are DEFINITELY not alone.</p>
<p>It is discouraging to see the OP ask if normal people can get into Yale when she herself has a 35 ACT.</p>
<p>Why is it discouraging? As far as bizarre questions go, that’s typical of CC</p>
<p>I recommend that the OP read Paper Towns. A quote from it struck me very profoundly: “What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”</p>
<p>Yes, people get in to Yale. Yalies have love and fears and dreams just like you and just like the kids in the bottom 20% of your high school. All of Yale’s undergraduates are people, and you dehumanize them when you think of them as anything else.</p>
<p>I have a friend at Princeton who has always struggled with this. In high school she was well-liked but unapproachable because her accomplishments intimidated everyone. I was writing her an email one day, in the most intellectual air I could put on, wondering if it was even worth her time to hear me congratulate her for placing top 20 in the nation in a high-profile essay contest. Then I decided “screw it,” deleted everything, and in a very human tone I told her that she was my friend and I was interested in the little struggles and excitements of her life, not just the “big” things.</p>
<p>Then she confessed that almost everybody saw her as otherworldly and it made her exceptionally happy that one person didn’t.</p>
<p>So yes. They’re people.</p>
<p>I thought someone normal got into Princeton (similar enough to Yale). He had great academics and decent ECs. I didn’t think he had any hooks. He looks really caucasian. I got excited cause I thought it meant I could actually in (we have pretty similar stats, and I have no hook too). Then I found out he was a small percentage Hispanic… Maybe ill still get in though (but probably not)</p>
<p>The OP hasn’t posted since April, this thread has run it’s course.</p>