From my school 16% acceptance rate to Yale (44 apps) 3.5 avg accepted GPA

<p>and 2090 avg accepted SAT</p>

<p>How much stock should I put into this?</p>

<p>It's not really full out outliers</p>

<p>all accepted SATs fall in the 1920 - 2140 sat score range</p>

<p>Most GPAs fall in the 3.2 - 3.6 range (and then there's one 3.8 accepted)</p>

<p>I would guess your school has a lot of recruited athletes, solid URMs or legacies. If you’re not in one of those groups I’d put zero stock in it.</p>

<p>recruited athletes haha (nope)
URMs (the highest rank a URM has had in my school in the last 6 years [the span of the data] was top 18%]]
Legacies [none of them were legacies]</p>

<p>Without recruited athletes, it frankly boggles my mind that those kids got into Yale. ALL of the kids I know who were rejected had higher stats across the board, plus maximum rigor, good ECs, at least state level awards, etc.</p>

<p>Is yours a magnet school of some kind? Were they all superb singers or professional theater performers or something?</p>

<p>Low GPA indicades competative school, but SAT scores seems dreadfullly low for Yale/CC standards.</p>

<p>Don’t know whats up with your school.</p>

<p>Only 1 of them (The 6.8) was a superb singer/theater performer [But nowhere near professional]. He’s currently in the Alley Cats at Yale</p>

<p>^^ I agree, I can’t imagine what’s up at your school. Those stats would barely get a student wait listed at WUSTL.</p>

<p>The GC is the SIL of the regional Yale admissions officer or something? The name of the school is “Kingman Brewster Memorial HS”? :D</p>

<p>Something is very, very fishy in this story.</p>

<p>also from my school
Stanford 3.73/2150
Cornell 3.47/2120
Michigan: 3.38/2060
NYU: 3.3/2060
Case Western: 3.1/2050</p>

<p>Just to name a few</p>

<p>More [still thinking about more colleges to look up]</p>

<p>Chicago: 3.07/2100
Haverford: 3.3/2130
Bryn Mawr: 2.76/2020
Columbia: 3.6/2250</p>

<p>I’ll be a senior in the fall. My family is in the process of moving. I want to come to your high school. 3.6/2080 :slight_smile: Unless you’re ■■■■■■■■?</p>

<p>nope that’s not my school</p>

<p>my school doesn’t have 1 GC, there are about 15 and you are assigned one (class of over 500)</p>

<p>Well i forgot to mention that a 3.5 at my school is in the top 5%</p>

<p>it’s a public school. Blue ribbon for what its worth</p>

<p>CC’s, here, always post GPAs, but really class rank is far more revealing (and important to Admission committees). So a key part of the story is where the 3.2-3.6 puts you in the class.</p>

<p>So what is your high school - there is no reason not to let us know the name of this amazing place.</p>

<p>well its only ranked 38nd in NJ apparently (according to newsweek)</p>

<p>and only in the 1200s in the nations</p>

<p>What is this like puliing teeth. I am from NJ - I will know the school you are talking about - ok - out with it. Unless of course you are not telling the truth about the 44 apps getting accepted.</p>

<p>Oh you’re getting this wrong</p>

<p>44 people weren’t accepted</p>

<p>there were 44 regular decision apps, 16% got accepted.</p>

<p>In terms of ED however, 12 out of 13 were accepted. The average gpa/sat was the same though</p>

<p>lol at this point it’s not that hard to figure out which HS he’s talking about…</p>

<p>i found out but i’ll respect his privacy</p>

<p>Yeah I was going to say: are you on a mythical 3.0 GPA scale or something?</p>