<p>Apparently Yale didn't mind much at all, but I certainly think the rank was detrimental to me at Harvard and Princeton. My biggest strengths are not so much measurable by numbers. My low rank was really a result of a) a somewhat-relaxed freshman year and b) taking 2-3 more APs than the top-ranked kids last year (that murdered me, lol). But all three years I went through my classes learning what I could and doing my work without focusing on constantly getting those extra couple of points to be super-competitive, so if that really hurt me at some schools, then so be it ;)</p>
<p>Wrathofgod--I actually have not chosen Yale over the Axline. At this point it is between Yale, MIT, and Caltech, so it's to the prefroshes for me :)</p>
<p>ya good for you , congrats, a person is more than a combination of numbers i was just stating the obvious conclusion based on what the stats turned out</p>
<p>I have noticed that there are starting to be more and more "What are my chances?" threads here and on the other forums. I'm bringing this up to the top so those rising seniors who are trying to estimate your chances of admissions to Yale can look carefully at how they stack up with those students who were admitted, rejected, and waitlisted in the RD round. Also look at the stats of the students with their decisions in the SCEA round which has a sticky at the top of the forum. I'm really hoping the moderator will put a sticky on this thread, too. Take a careful, considered look at the statistics of the students who were REJECTED and WAITLISTED when trying to compare yourself. These are quite sobering. Good luck to all of you!</p>
<p>I think the point is the total lack of consistency, the fact that you can never accurately predict someone's chances. People didn't get in when many CC'ers predicted that they would, and people did get in when many people must have thought that they wouldn't. And people with amazing test scores, GPA's, etc got rejected, while some people with less-than average (the average, after all, isn't a minimum!) numbers got in. All this means simply that you won't know what's going to happen until you apply!</p>