<p>what i mean is...will they be easier on a person's scores/grades in subjects that are clearly unrelated to their major/academic interests/goals? someone said that yale, for example, doesn't care so much about math if your major is in humanities. how true is this? it, of course, goes back to my sat scores which i'm still extremely insecure about. 800 w, possibly an 800 cr (have to get results from november test, right now i have 740), and probably 600-range math. and it goes back to the fact that i took all honors math and science but no ap's in those areas.</p>
<p>my ec's, essays, major, ap classes taken, etc are all centered around the humanities. will yale consider this? how important is it to be good at EVERY subject to get into yale?</p>
<p>you have to be at least competent in all subject areas, but you don’t have to be like crazy AMAZING at everything.</p>
<p>I had a 750 in SAT Subject MATH IIC. That’s 80th percentile, and not too good. You do not have to be proficient in every subject you take, but it should be within reasonable bounds.</p>
<p>“you have to be at least competent in all subject areas, but you don’t have to be like crazy AMAZING at everything.”</p>
<p>would taking honors math/science classes and getting 3 a’s and 2 b’s in those subjects/600-range math count as competent at least, then?</p>
<p>I’m in the same boat test score-wise (29 Math subscore on ACT with 34 Composite, 7 points lower than all my other subscores). I think our weakness will hurt us somewhat, but won’t completely wipe out our chances. I saw an applicant on the 2013 Yale RD thread who got in with a 620 M (non-URM, although with nice awards), so I guess it isn’t impossible. I think not taking any AP math or science courses when your school offers them, depending on the rigor of your school, may hurt though.</p>
<p>u don’t need like a perfect score to get into yale… just enough to get them to process ur app and then it’s all down to ur essays and rls and stuff…but the 600 math is gonna hurt</p>
<p>I definitely think it depends on the course, in terms of grades. </p>
<p>if youre into the humanities and get a b in calc, i dont think they’ll care about that too much, but a b in econ or stat would probably hurt you. similarly, in science they probably wont care about physics, but they might care about environmental or ecology.</p>