How can international students applying to Yale as Early Action improve their chances of acceptance?

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Hi, everyone.

I’m an international student planning on applying to Yale University as Single-Choice Early Action in the fall of 2016.

I’ve heard that international students have extremely low chances of getting in - would applying Early Action hurt my chance of acceptance?

Also, what could I do to improve my chances of getting into Yale? What would be the most beneficial for me - more internships, more volunteering, more extracurriculars, more sports, research at a local university…?

Any help concerning how I could set myself apart from other international applicants would be much appreciated.

Thank you!

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Being full pay helps a little.

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@aunt bea, No, it doesn’t. Yale is need blind for internationals as well as domestic students.

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My bad!

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Well on the official Yale website it says that 19% of all of Yale College’s 5,453 students are international. That’s equivalent to around 1,036 international students. If you divide that by 4 you get that around 259 students in every freshman class are international.

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11.2% of the Class of 2018 (the most recent info available AFAIK) is international. That number is close in line with prior classes.
http://admissions.yale.edu/node/2040/attachment