<p>I'm kinda wanna know if a 1560 SAT score is sufficient to get into Yale university, I'm currently enrolling in an A level program so should they expect a lower score??? I also took the SAT II, for math CII I got 780 and physics I got a bad 600 and is it sufficient or not since I have ,y A level backing me up.</p>
<p>Your chances with that SAT score are almost zero. Most Yale applications have SAT scores of 700-800 in each section. Your SAT scores indicates that you may have some problems with speaking English fluently, a requirement of all Ivy League colleges. </p>
<p>Your A’ Levels can show your academic ability within the context of your country, but they do not compare you to other applicants in the United States. COMPLETED (i.e. not predicted) A’ Levels can waive the SAT II requirement, but you will still need a stellar SAT I score.</p>
<p>Thanks, ill try some harder maybe take a test prep course or two.</p>
<p>I got 2110 which was quite low and I was waitlisted…</p>
<p>FWIW: Yale Common Data Set, C9 Data: [Common</a> Data Set (CDS) | Office of Institutional Research](<a href=“http://oir.yale.edu/common-data-set]Common”>Common Data Set | Office of Institutional Research)</p>
<p>75% of admitted Yale students had an SAT score of 2110 or better. (25th percentile)
25% of admitted Yale students had an SAT score of 2390 or better. (75th percentile)</p>
<p>A 1560/2400 SAT is not going to cut it.</p>
<p>gibby, you’re reading the statistics in an inaccurate fashion by making a false assumption. The common data set does not say that 25% of the students get 2390s or higher. It says that 25% (well, it’s probably more than 25%, as people in the 74th Yale percentile could also have 800s) of students get 800s on CR and 25% of students get 790 or 800 on math and 25% of students get 800s on writing. These 25% are not always the same students. </p>
<p>For example, a student would earn 800 CR, 740 M, and 760 W (a combined, more reasonable albeit uber high, 2300). Other students will get 740 CR, 800 M, and 690 W. What I’m saying is that students usually succeed in individual sections more than they do on other sections. The common data set isolates all three parts of the score. What this all means is that fewer than 25% of students scored 2390, and fewer than 25% of students scored 2120. As further proof, in 2008 there were 419 graduating seniors with 2400s or 2390s. There are 1,355 in the incoming yale class. If 25% of the Yale class, or 339 students, had 2390s or 2400s, that would leave only 80 students for Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, the LACs, state schools, etc. Seeing as Harvard itself has similar percentiles (790, 800, 790), it would be mathematically impossible for 25% of Yale’s class to have scores of 2390+.</p>
<p>With that being said, OP, 2% of people had scores from 500-590 in CR, 1% from 500-590 in math, and 2% from 500-590 in writing. These people probably all had superb other scores (be it a 590CR, 800M, 800W, or high ACT). Your chances of admission are basically zero with your scores.</p>
<p>Just making sure, is that 1560 or CR+M or for CR+M+W?</p>
<p>^^ nhdmaniac: The 25th percentile is the score that 25 percent scored at or below; the 75th percentile score is the one that 25 percent scored at or above. That is the standard definition of the 25/75 percentile. It’s the definition included in Yale’s C9 data, as well as Harvard’s C9 data: <a href=“http://www.provost.harvard.edu/institutional_research/CDS_2011-2012_Final.pdf[/url]”>http://www.provost.harvard.edu/institutional_research/CDS_2011-2012_Final.pdf</a></p>
<p>I understand what you are saying though. The SAT scores are broken down for M, CR and W – so, yes one student could have scored at the 75% for Math, but not at the 75% for CR and W. The data for The ACT does not break down individual sections, so 25% of students who took the ACT scored 35 or above and 25% of students who took the ACT scored 32 or below.</p>
<p>@omnipotent24 its 1560/2400. BTW I switched to ACT because I can do a bit better at it, I did my practice test without writing and I got a low 24, 34 for math, 18 for both english and reading and 24 for science.</p>
<p>@peter1412, what is waitlisted anyway. I just know they put you on a list and the rest im not sure.</p>
<p>Wilson: “a prep course or two” will not boost your SAT 700 points nor your ACT 8-9 points which would be required to make you halfway viable. </p>
<p>Your understanding of the competitive nature of the international pool applying to Yale is unrealistic. The international pool is the MOST competitive pool within a larger pool which rejects ~94% of applicants.</p>
<p>Please read the following:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/yale-university/1477850-official-yale-class-2017-rd-results-thread.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/yale-university/1477850-official-yale-class-2017-rd-results-thread.html</a></p>
<p>You should take some time to research a list of realistic colleges. Yale is not on that list. Please please look at the links in this post:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/16190371-post6.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/16190371-post6.html</a></p>
My SAT I is 2270 (CR: 800, M: 750, W: 720) do you guys think this is a competitive score for Yale?
@pdoyle97 Start a new discussion with your question. Do not hijack a thread, especially one that is over a year old. Closing.