<p>Dont worry Yale is probably the most overrated Ivy of them all. I got into Yale, Harvard, and UPenn Wharton…waitlisted at Dartmouth and Cornell, and rejected at Columbia. </p>
<p>I immediatley threw away the Yale app, and am probably ending up in Penn…Harvard undergrad is really yucky; I visited last week and I think they do not have nice stuff, bling bling, if you know what I mean, for undergrads. </p>
<p>So no worries, people that go to yale smeellll like … whalesss :p</p>
<p>Accepted at Yale. Also at Brown, Northwestern, and scholarship at Washington U. in St. Louis. I am very excited to see all of you in New Haven next year!</p>
<p>Decision: deferred, waitlisted, then accepted!!!</p>
<p>Congrats dan92! Hope to see you next fall.</p>
<p>Hey guys, (no offense) what’s so unbelievable about Stupefy getting rejected? I’m sorry, I just joined this forum lol. Is there something I missed? I’m still suffering from really-high-score-gets-rejected shock, and I don’t really see many differences.</p>
<p>I’m just wondering so I can learn a little bit more.
BTW, it suckjs that you didn’t get in…I want to go to Yale REALLY badly but I’m below you in most areas lol</p>
<p>Decision: Waitlisted –> Accepted!!!</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2140 - (610R/790M/740-8W)
[</em>] ACT: 34 - (31E/36M/35R/34S)
[<em>] SAT II: 790MII / 770Chem / 770USH
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0 / 4.5655W
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/451
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): World History 4, US History 5, Chemistry 4, English Lang. 4
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): Not offered.
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Calculus BC (only one at school taking it), AP Micro/Macro Block, AP USGov/CompGov Block, AP English Literature, AP Psychology, Two Engineering Classes, Physics I Honors (AP not offered)
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): N/A
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Key Club President, Math Team President/Founder, NHS, Academic Team, Jazz Ensemble I First-Chair Piano
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Professional Entertainment at Local Restaurants (play keyboard/sing)
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: ~320 hours
[<em>] Summer Activities: Engineering Internship, College Courses (Statistics, etc.)
[</em>] Essays: Great - wrote about a financial risk i took that lost me over $1000 of my own money
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Awesome!
[</em>] Counselor Rec: IDK, probably good, but she’s a lazy ***** that should be fired.
[<em>] Additional Rec: Engineering Teacher, Online AP Calc BC teacher, Mayor
[</em>] Interview: None 
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Deferred SCEA?: N/A
[</em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
[<em>] Intended major?: Mechanical or Biomedical Engineering - we will see!
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant): Florida
[<em>] Country (if international applicant):
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: White
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] Income Bracket: ~$30,000
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): FGC, URM(Redneck). jk.
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: GPA, Math Scores, Ranking
[</em>] Weaknesses: SAT Reading - bad test, but ACT made up for it. I promise you, I can read lmao.
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Waitlisted because maybe I didn’t show enough interest at first? No interview to show my personality?
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted: UF, UMiami; Waitlisted: Harvard; Rejected: MIT, Stanford, Princeton, Harvard
[/ul]General Comments:
Show your personality. STAND OUT. REPEAT: STAND OUT FROM THE CROWD. These admissions officers read thousands of the same old boring crap applications. Supplemental materials (maybe something humorous, like I did) can only help. Give them a breath of fresh air! I am the only person to ever make it into an Ivy League university from my hometown. One last word of advice if you are a underclass high school student reading this: MAKE SURE YOU GET A GUIDANCE COUNSELOR THAT IS WORTH A CRAP. I’ve missed out on countless opportunities because of my counselor’s laziness, inability, and because I wasn’t in her “pet project honor society” group of students. She seems standoffish towards me, even to this day, most likely because I did everything I could ON MY OWN.</p>
<p>**Decision: Waitlisted, **Rejected</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2390 (800R 800M 790W)
[</em>] ACT: 35 (35E, 34M, 35R, 34S, 8/12)
[<em>] SAT II: 800 Math II, 780 Bio E, 760 Chem, 730 Phys, 660 US
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.98 (4.54 weighted)
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/527
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): 5 (Macro, Bio, Chem, Calc AB, Enviro, Stat), 4 (Computer Sci A + AB, Micro, Phys B, World, US, Eng Lang), 1 (French Lang)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): -
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: Physics C Mech, French, Calc BC, US Gov + Comparative Gov, Human Geo, Eng Lit, Psychology, all AP
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National AP Scholar, Siemens AP Award
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Mathletes/Mu Alpha Theta (President, 11 + 12), Engineering club (competitions captain 11 + 12, club vice president 12), Orchestra (viola)
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: “Being a student is a full time job”
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: After school tutoring (10, 11, 12), Lab aide (10, 11, 12)
[<em>] Summer Activities: Lab aide, Governor School, some high school research program
[</em>] Essays: thought one was great; other was ehhhhh
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: I didn’t read them, but the teachers offered to let me read them, so I trust they were positive; I did well in both their classes and participated in extracurricular activities they organized. From Computer Science and Economics teachers
[</em>] Counselor Rec: No idea; it’s like one counselor to 400 students at my school so I didn’t know her well, but I would think it was positive, if impersonal.
[<em>] Additional Rec: none
[</em>] Interview: Interviewer was immediately impressed with my resume, but the interview was short and he didn’t really give me too much opportunity to elaborate on myself or ask questions.
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Deferred SCEA?: -
[</em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: yes
[<em>] Intended major?: environmental engineering
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant): AR
[<em>] Country (if international applicant): -
[</em>] School Type: large public
[<em>] Ethnicity: East Asian
[</em>] Gender: male
[<em>] Income Bracket: $75,000
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): ;_;
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: objective stuff, male
[</em>] Weaknesses: second essay, interview possibly, lolAsian, lolPoor
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: no idea honestly; I wouldn’t think the weaknesses would have caused my results
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Rejected at Harvard, MIT (deferred EA), Caltech (deferred EA), Stanford
[/ul]General Comments: My financial aid application was pretty messed up because my parents are crappy investors; we have a lot of debt and a lot of assets with a relatively low income
So yeah, 5 rejections 0 acceptances wth
/wrist</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 800-Math; 800-Reading; 780- Writing/ Total: 2380
[</em>] ACT: Did not take
[<em>] SAT II: 800- Math II/ 780- Physics/ 800- French/ 800-Chemistry/ 800-Biology
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.6/4.0 (W) 4.2/4.0 (UW)
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/780
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Human Geography (5)/ World History (5)/ US History (5)/ Biology (5)/ AP Language (4) /AP Government (5)/ AP Calculus (NA) AP Chemistry (5)/ AP Literature (N/A) AP Enviromental (NA) AP Stats (NA) AP Psych (NA) AP French (5)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): IB not offered at my school
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Literature, AP Calculus, AP Statistics, AP Enviromental, AP Psychology, General Medicine, Symphonic Band (Highest Band)
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Intel Science Fair, Recieved 2nd in Nationals under Biological Science Category/ National AP Scholar/ National Merit Scholar/ 1st place in Prepared Speaking at National HOSA Leadership Conference. Academic Excellence awards 9-12 grade/ community service award. </p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): HOSA (President for 2 years) Thespian Society (VP for 1 year/ Pres for 1 year). National Beta Club (President for 1 year, Secretary for 1 year). National Honors Society (President for 1 year/ VP for 2 years), French Club (President for 3 total years), Started a Science National Honors Society (President for 2 years). French Honors Society (Vice President for 1 year). 1st chair alto saxaphone player for all 4 years. All state band 2nd chair.
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Internship at a local dermatologist for two school years. Did not work during the summer because of travel.
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: Total: 650 Hours of Community Service. French Tutor twice a week, every week during school year. / Hosted and Planned Two Biannual Red Cross Blood Drives at school. organized and provided food for blood donors, and worked at registration desk (did this since 10th grade). Youth Leadership Henry- local program that selects teens for community service. went every month and volunteered around my county. Hands on Henry- improve the county w/ volunteer.
[</em>] Summer Activities: Travel to Senegal (native country) while volunteer at UNICEF and WWO. / National Leadership Forum on Health and Medicine/ National Youth Leaders Conference/ Congressional Student Leaders Conference.
[<em>] Essays: I was proud of them. Common App: Talked about my passion for healthcare/medicine and how it has shaped me as a person, Supplemental essay: Discussed the difference of being raised at home w/ senegalese culture, but then having to live in USA. and I did something else, cant remeber.
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: Both of my teachers were very close to me, and actually asked me if they could do my recommendation. One of the teachers cried saying that she didnt get to write all the positive things that she wanted to, because the space was limited. I saw both reccomendations, and they were both excellent.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Knew the counselor very well. Saw it, and it was excellent.
[</em>] Additional Rec: From the dermatologists I interned for. It was very positive.
[<em>] Interview: After the interview, the lady went to congratulate my mom and told her, that I would fit right in to Yale, and she said that I was a great speaker w/ good ideas. The interviewer and I discussed biology and medicine, which are my two passions, so it went really well!
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>] Deferred SCEA?: Regular Descision!
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: oh, yes, I don’t roll in dough : )
[</em>] Intended major?: Biology/ Biochemistry (Pre-Med)/ Minor in Sociology or French.
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): GA !
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Public.
[</em>] Ethnicity: African American
[<em>] Gender: Female
[</em>] Income Bracket: 100,000 +
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):Nope, both of my parents have a Masters and a PhD/ dad has an MD.
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: ExtraCurriculars, GPA, SAT, Leadership, Reccomendations
[<em>] Weaknesses: Not enough Major Awards.
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I don’t know, but I’m really happy
[li] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted: Harvard, MIT, Emory (got full scholarship) Princeton, Columbia, Syracuse, Stanford, Brown, Dartmouth, UGA[/li]Honors (got full scholarship) GA Tech, UCLA, Penn State Honors (got full scholarship), Vanderbilt (got full scholarship). NYU (Presidential Scholarship)
ejected: None. Waitlisted: nada. 
[/ul]General Comments:
I’m very happy to be accepted to Yale. This summer is going to be really hard choosing a college though. I live in GA and my parents are African, and don’t want to see me go, so they are telling me to go to Emory. But all of these schools I can choose fromm! This summer, I’m just cooling it, and looking at where Im going to go :)</p>
<p>Decision: Deferred SCEA —> Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2200
[</em>] ACT: didn’t take
[<em>] SAT II: US History- 750 Literature- 800
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.77 (I know, I know, I’m flabbergasted as well.)<br>
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 13%
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Euro (4) Bio (4) Language (5) Calculus AB (5) AP US History (5) … and now estimates for senior year APs- Literature (5) Calc BC (5) US Gov’t & Politics (5) Macro (5) Spanish (5) Psych (5)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): My school doesn’t do this
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: See the “estimates for senior year APs” above- I took all APs this year.
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): None actually… I advanced to regionals for debate but that’s it. Oh, and does advancement to CIF for swim count? (CIF is like finals between the best of the best high school sports teams in California).<br>
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]<br>
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Model UN- 4 years (President- 1 year), Debate 3 years (Vice President- 2 years) Varsity Swim- 4 years (Captain- 1 year), church leadership- organized a fundraiser to help renovate the church, raised $20,000
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: none whatsoever
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: Probably 200+ hours at my church over the past 4 years, and at least 100+ at the hospital
[<em>] Summer Activities: summer internships at the local hospital
[</em>] Essays: They were truly personal and in my opinion some of the best pieces I’ve ever written. My teacher said that it caused her to choke up.
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Only saw one from my junior English teacher, and she was absolutely gushing about me. I’m sure my APUSH teacher wrote a fantastic one as well.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Eh, decent. She doesn’t really know me as well.
[<em>] Additional Rec: My church director wrote about me and she loves me!
[</em>] Interview: I believe it went very well, my interviewer talked with me for nearly two hours regarding the different branches of government and their merits/demerits.
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Deferred SCEA?: YES
[</em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
[<em>] Intended major?: Political Science… but I’m still contemplating changing it
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant): CA
[<em>] Country (if international applicant):
[</em>] School Type: Public, sends maybe 1-2 kids to a top school every other year
[<em>] Ethnicity: Mixed- Asian/White
[</em>] Gender: Female
[<em>] Income Bracket: $50,000
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None that I can really think of!
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: My standardized testing, including AP scores and SATs and of course my ECs
[</em>] Weaknesses: My GPA sucked haha
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I think my outstanding AP scores and ECs really got their attention, because even though I got two C+'s in my freshman and sophomore year and two Bs in my junior year, I still took the hardest classes offered to me at my school. Plus, I showed commitment to the things I did as extracurriculars- I only picked a handful and stuck to them for all 4 years.
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted- UPenn, Dartmouth, NYU, Loyola Marymount, UC Davis, UC Irvine / Rejected- Harvard, Princeton, Stanford… but that doesn’t matter now, Yale has always been my #1!
[/ul]General Comments: This is a dream come true. I probably have the worst stats of all the Yale C/O 2014 kids here on CC, but I applied hoping against hope and I was deferred SCEA and then accepted in RD! Just convey your passions and hopefully that will pull you through! If not, there is always that university that is meant for you, you just don’t know it yet!</p>
<p>sorry…really late post
**Decision: Accepted! **</p>
<p>Objective:</p>
<ul>
<li>SAT I (breakdown): CR 730; M 730; W 790 (2250)</li>
<li>ACT: 33</li>
<li>SAT II (if submitted): Math I 740, chem 760, bio-m 780</li>
<li>Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0</li>
<li>Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 4-6/ 680ish (<1%)</li>
<li>AP (place score in parenthesis): bio-5, us-5, chem-3 =/…span lang…eng lit…calc ab… physics b…us gov and politics to come!</li>
<li>IB (place score in parenthesis): zipppo</li>
<li>Senior Year Course Load: most rigorous without a doubt lol</li>
<li>Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit finalist , National Honor Society,
NYS Science Honor Society, Mu Alpha Theta Math Honor Society, George Washington University Engineering Medal, Principals List every quarter (lol), Hispanic National Exam Silver Medalist, National Spanish Honor Society ,AP Scholar, NYCSEF Finalist, nycsef first award</li>
</ul>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<ul>
<li>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): science research program and internship, math team (captain), science olympics, chem olympiad, science bowl, a hell of a lot of tutoring, eucharistic minister, a lot more (peep chance threads)</li>
<li>Job/Work Experience: panera bread sales associate, tutor for pay;]</li>
<li>Volunteer/Community service: about 600hrs ish…some major some not…</li>
<li>Essays: sounded like a textbook. definitely the worst part of my application lol.</li>
<li>Teacher Recommendation: amazinggggggggggggggggggg</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: great[=</li>
<li>Additional Rec: neg</li>
<li>Interview: noneeeeeeeee</li>
</ul>
<p>Other</p>
<ul>
<li>Applied for Financial Aid?: yesss</li>
<li>Intended Major: biomed engineering/biochem</li>
<li>State (if domestic applicant): ny</li>
<li>Country (if international applicant):</li>
<li>School Type: huge catholic high school</li>
<li>Ethnicity: hispanic</li>
<li>Gender: male</li>
<li>Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): urm</li>
</ul>
<p>Reflection</p>
<ul>
<li>Strengths: great transcript and course rigor, beautiful recommendations</li>
<li>Weaknesses: test scores and essays</li>
<li>Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: i dont know…im just so excited wooo![=</li>
<li>Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
Accepted: BC Honors, notre dame, Fordham, Cornell, wustl, MIT, johns hopkins, dartmouth, harvard
waitlisted: princeton (dream school :[ felt like a big joke )
rejected: none</li>
</ul>
<p>Congrats future Yalies! Your stats are all so great! I’m pretty jealous to be honest. This thread makes me question my chances to be part of class of 2015 at Yale.
You guys are amazing!</p>
<p>Haha I always see an accepted applicant that seems similar to my stats… Then I scroll down to the “hook” section and die a little inside.</p>
<p>Lol same ^ so depressing :(</p>
<p>The Bottomline is, if you have a story to tell in your essay that distinguishes you far beyond the other applicants ur chances increase significantly, it’s not only stats remember that.</p>
<p>^ ^ Agreed. Hope we can do that because everyone is special in some way =)</p>