<p>Gah.</p>
<p>This thread is making me very stressed. But my application is in, so that's all I can do.</p>
<p>Don't stress! if it makes you feel better, everyone regardless of their grades, scores, etc. are stressed :-)</p>
<p>I have a question. There are so many postings from last year of people with incredible scores and gpas who did not get in to Yale or got deferred. How can 1/3 of legacies get in----does that 3rd have equally unbelievable scores or they just jump over the more credentialed applications?</p>
<p>you all are crazy</p>
<p>We are crazy because....</p>
<p>we're crazy cool.</p>
<p>ss6622, where do you go to school?</p>
<p>ok here goes, RATE ME *****ES
SCEA</p>
<p>800 cr 760 mth 700 writing
800 us history 700 lit 670 bio - e
5 us history ap, 4 english comp ap
no idea about gpa four A's and an A- this quarter
tough private school in westchester we send several each year</p>
<p>extracurriculars
heavily involved in music
baseball
soccer
model congress
tutored at hispanic resource center, inividually tutored ghanaian immigrant in us history to gain us citizenship test
misc comm service -- diabetes walk, register voters
save the river foundation, canned food drives, historical building restoration</p>
<p>work experience
ran movie theater (really low budgie, converted from old tabernacle)
marina
organized soccer games</p>
<p>letters, essays
good i assume, in one of my essays i emphasize my PASSIOn for history
in the supplement one, i talk about my work with citizenship tutoring, how it helped me extend my PASSION for history to other aspects of my life and gave me perspective. it really did. yes.</p>
<p>both recs from history teachers
on campus interview went swimmingly
i am a legacy, my mom was in the second ever class of women in '74</p>
<p>whats up</p>
<p>OK, to hell with all the SAT/GPA/AP bull****. If you're here, you're almost certainly qualified in that regard. The prompt I put to all the applicants here is this: explain in twenty words or less what makes you interesting. </p>
<p>Answer that, and it will tell me much more than your GPA or class rank ever could. For example, one of my suitemates is a champion debater and wine fiend; another, a top basketball recruit from California; the third, an American/Parisian schooled in England. A girl in the next entryway down can solve Rubik's Cubes really fast. Everyone here that has a life is interesting: they do interesting things or think interesting things or have interest talents or interesting experiences. </p>
<p>So. Twenty words. Demonstrate your interesting-ness.</p>
<p>ToC* Policy Debate tournament semi-finalist as a junior. Attended two month long camps every summer since the summer following freshman year for debate. Published novelist.</p>
<p>More than twenty words but screw that.</p>
<p>*Tournament of Champions is the ultimate goal of every highschool policy debater and is most often only fourth year debaters.</p>
<p>boooooreeeeng</p>
<p>lol, this is fun to read.</p>