Official Fall 2018 Yale Transfer Thread

Rejected

Stats for future viewers:

Community College
Major: Sociology
College GPA: 4.0
High School GPA: 3.8 (with two C’s my senior year due to my parent’s divorce… also didn’t take AP Tests due to this)
IGETC: Completed, AS Degree in Social & Behavioral Science in May!
Pre-Reqs: Completed

EC’s @ CC: 5 Star Member of Phi Theta Kappa, Leadership Effectiveness Certificate from Notre Dame’s Mendoza School of Business, VP and Secretary of my CC’s French Club, Completed French 2 with Honors, lots of time spent helping take care of my 3 younger sisters since family changes, EP Album on iTunes, 30 Page Research Paper through Western States Communication Association

WORK: Nanny, Tutor to 7 students, & house-sit/pet-sit in my community (worked at In N Out Burger during high school)

Congrats to all who got in and good luck to those who are applying in the future!!

Hey! Congrats! I got denied… but where were you transferring from and what was your major?

Rejected

Major: Political Science and Sociology
GPA: 3.8
Fluent in 3 languages
Female, Armenian and Georgian
78 units, 2 years at CC
3 AA Degrees: Social and Behavioral Sciences, Natural Sciences, Humanities
Completed IGETC
13 Academic and Extracurricular awards and scholarships from senior year of high school to now
3 Programs: Honors Program (Completed), Pathways Transfer Program, Cardinal & Gold Leadership Program
Submitted an Art and Piano portfolio to depict the activites I like to do on my own time (personal), other than my academic interests

Leadership:
-Student Trustee of Associates Students
-Chair of Student Trustee Committee
-Local, State, and National Advocacy experience
-Elected onto Student Trustee National Committee with only 14 other Student Trustees from 1,462 CC’s across the nation
-OMD Honors Society
-Youth Leader at Local, and Alto Sectional Leader at Local Church
-Art Club Founder and President
-Collaborate Leadership Institute: Enhanced art programs at elementary schools within my city

Internships:

  • Assemblyman Office
    -Senators Office
    -Regional Director for Borgen Project

Research:
-Undergrad Research Assistant at Caltech in the Broad Lab

  • Honors Program academic research (4 academic research papers, published all of them, and participated in 5 conferences)
  • Student Success Research at the Office of Institutional Effectiveness at my CC

Letter of Rec’s:
-College President
-Board of Trustees Members
-Professors
-Senators
-Pastor

*I would love some feedback on the components I have included in my app. Now that I look back, I feel like I may have over-did it a bit…

Rejected :slight_smile:

waitlisted… but whatever, I might actually be studying abroad this year!

Denied! That’s unfortunate, I was hoping my family tie to New Haven could push me over the edge. Brown it is…