<p>Add some LACs onto your list, most of those tend to be open-minded and accepting. Might I recommend Middlebury, Williams and Wesleyan (this one is like a 1/2 hour from Yale, and it just became test-optional)? </p>
<p>-MIT releases their app in July, before Common App and Universal. If you want to apply EA there, you could very well have your application completed by August.
-Essay prompts don’t change form year to year and if they did, you’d already know by now (when they changed the prompts last year, we knew by March of junior year).<br>
-Ask for recommendations either before you leave school for the summer or in the first week of September. </p>