Is it worth applying/Do I have a chance?

Colleges & Universities A-Z Yale University
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<p>Hi, I just want to see if I have a shot at getting into a university as prestigious as Yale. I:
1. Have a 3.67 GPA
2. Have 2 Years working experience as a sales associate/restaurant employee and 7 years as a referee
3. Have over 50 hours community service
4. Am the Treasurer of National Honor Society in my school
5. Am in the top 10% of my class and received high honors throughout high school
6. Have/will have taken 4 AP courses
7. Am Captain of my spring and winter track teams, and start on my varsity soccer team
8. Participate in my school's: Student Council, Amnesty International Club, Latin Club
9. Am a first chair euphonium in my school's concert band/wind ensemble
10. Scored a 2200 on my SATs</p>

<p>I have the drive to bring my GPA up in the last term of my junior year and throughout my senior year. I would just like to know whether or not applying would be too much of a stretch. Thank you very much.
Collegeshopper9</p>

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<p>At first glance, your GPA is your biggest hurdle. Basically you have three semesters to get straight As before you apply. Even so, your GPA will be about 3.8 (4 semesters x 3.67 = 14.68 plus 3 x 4.0 =12 equals 16.68/7 semesters = 3.81). Is 4 APs the most rigorous schedule available to you? If not, and unless you are an NCAA level recruitable athlete or some other hook, your chances are very remote – even the context of everyone’s poor chances. </p>

<p>Best of luck to you however – even if a school like Yale is unlikely, you’ve achieved quite a bit and seem to be destined to do well in college.</p>

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<p>I’m planning on doing something related to architecture upon entering college. If I pull my GPA up, do you think that getting into Cornell would be a possibility? I’m asking this because Cornell has one of the best architectural programs in the country.</p>

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<p>Top 10% should be good enough to get into Cornell if you’re looking SOLELY at the grades aspect of your application, as long as you’ve taken challenging courses and continue to take challenging ones senior year. Not sure about Yale, was under the impression that they generally look for the top top students in terms of rank in school (top 10? not 10%) but I could be wrong. </p>

<p>But there’s so much more to your application, which is why it’s pretty hard to chance you based even on the information you’ve given. Lots of intangibles, which I’m sure you realize.</p>

<p>Cornell’s architecture program has a required interview ([Required</a> Interview](<a href=“http://aap.cornell.edu/arch/admissions/interview.cfm]Required”>Undergraduate Admissions: Architecture | Cornell AAP)) and portfolio requirements ([Cornell</a> / Architecture / Undergraduate Admissions / Portfolio Guidelines](<a href=“http://aap.cornell.edu/arch/admissions/portfolio.cfm]Cornell”>Department of Architecture | Cornell AAP)). I don’t see anything in your extracurriculars that indicates your interest in architecture, so not sure where you actually stand on that. It’ll probably help to take a look at the requirements for the program.</p>

<p>For Yale, you’d be looking to go into architecture too?</p>