<p>I think it depends on how you want to classify ridiculously overqualified. I think that most students, URMs, legacies, and athletes included, would be considered ridiculously overqualified to your average joe.</p>
<p>I am sure that it hurts all the more if you are rejected, but the best thing you can do it put YOURSELF in your common app and not a resume. Yale accepts people, not stats or ECs.</p>