I'd do anything to go to Yale...PLEASE CHANCE ME and suggest ways to improve?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Yale is my dream school, so please chance me with that in mind. I am a strong writer and will have great essays presumably and my teachers/counselor love me. I can't join many ECs because I am low-income/commuter (45 miles each way) and I have to work to pay bills, etc. I'm first-gen and come from a very small, poor, community that is not very focused on education. That's why I commute to a better school that's further away. Please chance me!! Honest opinions...sometimes the truth hurts!</p>

<p>SAT I (breakdown): Not taken
ACT: 34 Comp (35 English, 33 Math, 36 Reading, 30 Science and 9 Essay)
SAT Subject Tests: Will take Math 1, Literature and Chem and MAYBE French in fall
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0 (no less than an A on entire transcript)
Weighted GPA: School doesn’t weight
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 1% of ~375
AP (place score in parenthesis): Honors Chemistry, College English, Trigonometry (School attended through Dec. ’10 did not offer APs or Honors)
Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc BC, AP Psych, AP Chem, Honors Physics, French III, Advanced Video Production
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Questbridge College Prep Scholarship, French Leadership Award (Minor), National Merit Commended OR Semifinalist (Won't be sure until fall but probably semifinalist)</p>

<p>Extracurriculars: Ballet classes (14 years), Northwest Michigan Ballet Theatre (3 years; Soloist, participated in regional touring program) Piano (8 years; written two complete songs, performed locally), Theatre (main role), School Video Production Crew (filmied and edited short documentary, also director), accepted into NHS but haven't started yet (NOTE: The school I attended until halfway through junior year had NO ecs at all)
Job/Work Experience: Child care provider at local ski resort (4 years), Lifeguard and Kids Program Staff (Summer ’11)
Volunteer/Community service: Created a creative movement program for young kids at local library (coordinated/advertised/taught classes), ProjectRead tutor, story hour volunteer, annual Red Cross blood drives, volunteer at local BACN group (similar to Salvation Army), translated documents from English to French for a Haiti relief organization, organized a Christmas card drive for a terminally ill boy
Summer Activities: Medical Science and Math and Engineering classes at Oxford University (Full scholarship granted on the basis of academic and extracurricular achievement), aforementioned volunteer activities, lifeguarding, spending time with my young neighbor who has cerebral palsy</p>

<p>Intended Major: French or Linguistics with some Cognitive Science in there somewhere
State (if domestic applicant): MI
School Type: Public, rarely sends grads to top schools
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: ~$35,000
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): First Gen, Low Income, Will apply through Questbridge</p>

<p>College Preferences:
1. Yale
2. Duke
3. Cornell
4. Brown
5. Stanford
6. Williams
7. Carleton
8. Wake Forest</p>

<p>Feel free to comment on my chances for all of these but especially Yale! Also, Carleton is kind of my safety but I don't know if that's too optimistic. Feel free to suggest others! Thanks! Oh, and sorry for the double post. I posted the same thread earlier this week but it's dying and I'm still trying to get more opinions!</p>

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chance back please!!!</p>

<p>this late in the game i’m not seeing any real ways to improve, and you’ve already got a great shot so just chill, write some great essays, and I bet you’ll get in :)</p>

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<p>also, considering that you don’t chance back (you didn’t the last time I posted on your thread), that might be what’s making your threads die, just saying, so please, chance me back.</p>

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<p>Sorry about that! Im sending things from my phone and I can’t follow links on here or it shuts off. I’ll chance you back when I’m able to get to a real computer! Thanks for the suggestion though…you’re probably right!</p>

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<p>Nothing more you can do now. On paper you seem like an excellent candidate. Just apply and hope for the best.</p>

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<p>there’s really nothing else you can start doing to help your application. at this point, just keep up the good work. make sure colleges know that your lack of ecs early on was out of necessity, not apathy. that’s the only thing i would suggest, otherwise your clear ability to self start as well as your dedication to school and activities despite hardships is impressive and im sure adcoms will be impressed too. don’t worry, I’d say you have a very good chance of getting into a very good school, even if it isn’t yale.</p>

<p>chance back please
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<p>Thank you! I’ll chance you back as soon as I can get to a real computer. My phone refuses to follow links :P</p>

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<p>Carleton is NOT a safety, either academically or financially. A safety is a school to which you are practically guaranteed admission AND which you will definitely be able to afford. Carleton fits neither of these requirements.</p>

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<p>Ok thanks. What are some good safeties for me?</p>

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