Please chance for Yale and other top schools!!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hello everybody thanks for reading: </p>

<p>Looking at everybody's credentials, I am feeling at times a little bit intimidated, but I wanted to know what everybody thought of my chances of getting into Yale. </p>

<p>School: Top notch Connecticut public high school that sent two kids to Yale last year and seven the year before that.
GPA: 3.97 UW; 4.42 W; currently fourth in my class
SAT I: 2060 first time w/out studying, in recent practice tests I have been getting 2180, but I am retaking in October.
Course load: Have taken five honors classes throughout high school and two APs last year, 5 on Biology and 5 on Calculus AB. This year, for APs I'm taking Calculus BC, Physics B, Micro and Macroeconomics, and AP French. </p>

<p>Recommendations: One good teacher rec, one really great one. Great counselor rec as well. </p>

<p>Essay: about Gaelic Football, an Irish cultural sport that I have been playing since I was 7. </p>

<p>ECs:
-President of class junior and senior year
-President of select choir in school. This choir is good... we have sung at Woolsey Hall and with the Yale Whiffenpoofs
-Parliamentarian of National Honor Society senior year
-Member of French Honor Society
-Mission trip to Oaxaca, Mexico for food distribution and building schools
-About 350 hours of community service throughout high school
-Sang with Eastern Connecticut State University Concert Chorale at Carnegie Hall
-Singer and bassist in rock band since freshman year. Play at many community events and headlined town fireworks in front of 6,000 people
-Three years of Varsity Soccer
-Four years of Varsity hockey, captain senior year
-Second degree black belt in Tae Kwon-Do
-Captain of Gaelic Football team for the past eight years
-Founded small neighborhood business with friends offering landscaping services and snow removal.
-Internship at engineering company summer before senior year
-Involvement in Action Against Hunger senior year</p>

<p>Hook: My mom graduated from the Yale Graduate School of Nursing</p>

<p>Also, please chance me for these other schools I'd like to attend: </p>

<p>UPenn, Wharton School
Stanford
Dartmouth
Brown
Johns Hopkins
Tufts
Boston University
UConn honors
Northeastern
Villanova</p>

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<p>You have a stellar record. Your drive and ambition shows. Quite the achieved individual. What exactly are you hoping to study at these universities? I’m guessing a BBA given that you want to go to Wharton? I’d say you have a fantastic shot at every single school you listed, honestly. I graduated from Northeastern, I would only recommend that depending on your major. But that’s obviously not in your top choice (as it shouldn’t be given your credentials) Sky’s the limit, expect more than one acceptance letter to an ivy league. Good luck!</p>

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<p>Thanks markiv, I’m applying to UPenn’s business school because it is the best in the country and I am very interested in business. For all other colleges though, I am applying for engineering, as that seems to be a prominent field nowadays and I am more of a math/science person. My cousin actually went to Northeastern too, and I heard it has a good engineering program, which is why I am applying. Thanks for responding!!</p>

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<p>These stats certainly give you as good a chance as any of the other applicants to these top notch schools. While your SAT is slightly lower than average, your GPA is great, and your ECs are solid as well. If your mom has remained active as an alumnus, that hook could really help you. Ultimately, at schools like Yale, thousands of perfectly qualified applicants are turned down. You’ve done everything you can and have as good a chance as any of us. Good luck to us both!</p>