<p>Does Yale require first marking period grades for those applying SCEA?</p>
<p>nope. of my schools: brown, duke, penn do. but not yale</p>
<p>Penn does not.</p>
<p>my counselor said Yale does and she's sending them</p>
<p>i thought they only require mid year report?</p>
<p>my counselor also said yale will ask for first quarter grades.</p>
<p>amnesia, first quarter grades aren't sent as part of ur application, so u have nothing to worry about. All that will happen is Yale will call ur counselor and ask for ur first quarter grades, which ur counselor will read out to them.</p>
<p>What if you're on the semester system?</p>
<p>my friend who applied to penn said they did- sorry. i think yale only asks if youre on the edge, or at least that's what i've heard.</p>
<p>whoops, i'm totally slacking off in calc and phys. can't they just go ahead and accept me, geez!</p>
<p>haha richard! ur not supposed to do that until second semester!</p>
<p>wait blurblurblur, can u clarify what "on the edge" means?</p>
<p>Are you serious? Do they really take those grades? Because that's bad. That's very bad. Oh crap. I'm toast.</p>
<p>no they don't. ***.</p>
<p>I think they'll want to know if you're on the quarter system, which my school is. My counselor made it sound like she was sending the mid-year report next week! haha... I dunnoooooo... I'll ask her again</p>
<p>yea our school has quarter grades which aren't official, only the semester grades are. Quarter grades are just supposed to let u know how ur doing in the class so far.</p>
<p>I know Yale might want to get a feeling for how you're doing if you're "on the edge", but at least at my school, it would say very little about my progress. Since quarter grades are unofficial, teachers really don't care much about them. For example, the Calc BC class that I'm in is notoriously difficult, and a 6 out of 10 on a quiz is often quite good. At the end of the semester the teacher drops my lowest quiz score, and in previous years has given around 10% grade inflation to whoever she feels has been working very hard (almost all of us). For U of W transfer credit, the class more than adeqately prepares us. Other classes I'm in are similar. I know I'll get an A in band (big surprise), and probably A- at least in Phsyics just because I do very well in it, but my Humanities and Calc grades could be as low as B-, with the semester grades probably a letter grade higher.</p>
<p>Will Yale actually make an admissions decision based on this??? I'd have a hard time believing that other schools don't have similar situations. Btw, people in calc with good shots at Princeton and another Yale hopeful are well below an A at this point.</p>