<p>Top 30% would probably be fine for URMs at a school as competitive as yours. No way these were white/Asian unhooked kids.</p>
<p>To OP: Okay, my (old) school is number 671, and it SUCKS. You must have 100% Native American amputee orphans at your school or something, each with their own perfect, genius-tastical talent.</p>
<p>Well, newsweek ranking 136, about 3 to yale, everage gpa 4.50.<br>
Yours must have something “special” …</p>
<p>these were asian/white kids</p>
<p>they aren’t intel winners and whatnot.</p>
<p>only 1 athlete was accepted to yale from my school but his gpa was about a 3.8</p>
<p>my school has like no black kids or hispanic kids</p>
<p>dude your school profile for 2008 doesn’t even list Yale on the “College Matriculation” list…</p>
<p>and apparently your school is winning state championships</p>
<p>I agree with pointoforder on the class rank issue. Sounds like your HS is an EXCELLENT high school. Couple that with ECs that you don’t know about and great essays and these kids could potentially get accepted. </p>
<p>It still amazes me that it isn’t widely accepted that just because someone has a 4.0 and 2400 doesn’t mean they’ll get into top schools. You need a lot more to go with it.</p>
<p>EBHS I believe. Where did these kids end up going - one your posts from another thread.</p>
<p>oh and my graduating class’ might be higher </p>
<p>we have two 2400s
eight 2300s
14 2200s
19 2100s [huge drop off from here] </p>
<p>the thing is our class does have over 500 students</p>
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<p>how does one ED yale? Your school is mystical…</p>
<p>lol maybe he meant SCEA or the school’s website doesn’t differentiate between ED and SCEA?</p>
<p>still some things don’t add up…</p>
<p>let’s assume it’s SCEA.</p>
<p>12/44=~27% unless something’s terribly wrong with my calculator.</p>
<p>This is also assuming that no one got in RD.</p>
<p>EDIT: if we assume the 6.8 was a typo and he meant 3.8, </p>
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<p>pretty amazing kid, I’d say.</p>
<p>your high school must be very competitve</p>
<p>**HCHS<a href=“NYC”>/B</a></p>
<p>33 Apps, 7 Admitted (21.2 percent)</p>
<p>Regular Decision:
GPA 94.32
SAT 1510/1600 or 2287/2400</p>
<p>Early Decision:
GPA 95.92
SAT 1533/1600 or 2311/2400</p>
<p>I believe the above data are representative of the kind of student who gets into Yale primarily through merit.</p>
<p>Actually, that SAT average is probably low for the unhooked. Sure there were no hooked in that group? Any school from NYC sending 7 to Yale is bound to have lots of legacies.</p>
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<p>The 3.8 gpa kid could have played a sport in addition to the theater/arts. As for the rest…re-read his post:</p>
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fair enough, but I wonder why he didn’t say it when the question was first posed…</p>
<p>as for the rest… oops my fault.</p>
<p>I have always wondered… what 94.32 on a 4.0 unweighted scale? 3.7ish? How do you convert it?</p>
<p>How do you know the stats of the kids who got in…? Did you interview all of them, or what?</p>
<p>^Assuming a=93 and A-=90-93 and the top grade one can get is 100 and there is no rounding, then:
A 94.32 average can be anywhere from a 3.76 to a 4.0 (If my calculations are correct).</p>
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I’ve heard that regarding applicants from top prep schools, top colleges are willing to forgive SAT scores lower than the usual 2350+ because through years of experience those colleges are aware that the prep school students will probably exceed. I’ve even heard that some prep schools do not allow their students to receive tutoring for their SATs; it might have something to do with this.</p>
<p>Actually I correct my calculations to the lowest possible GPA of a 3.55 for the 94.32 average (I got my ti89 back and apparently my math was wrong). Not really important, but I don’t want to post false information here.</p>