<p>I have a gold in my states math fair.
I have attended the Ross Mathematics Program at Ohio State University
NYU math circle
WOOT online olympiad training.
Prospective participant in Intel Science Talent Search
ACT 32
Will get good teacher recommendations.
My school normally gets some good connections, but not guaranteed.</p>
<p>I am the leader of two clubs at my school, the TSA Engineering Team and the Math Club. I also lead my schools math team that participates in the Mandelbrot Team Play competition. Additionally, my friend and I recently started a Technology Committee at our school with the main purpose of assessing the ways our school uses technology and other internet services. For example, my friend and I are responsible for introducing the use of IPads for all students at my school.</p>
<p>I also tutor kids weekly for math at a local boys and girls club. My work with the kids have produced great results and i am expecting a good letter of recommendation from the boys and girls club.</p>
<p>I have also been accepted into a research program at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute. The program name is CoSBBi and they only accepted 6 kids (plus it is also free tuition). From this program I hope to make a good research project for Intel STS. </p>
<p>I would be applying to Yale for engineering.</p>
<p>Ehh… Apply to your local community college, then try to transfer into one of your smaller state schools in a couple years. I don’t think you have nearly the amount of math related extracurriculars needed to even be considered. Only national math Olympiad gold medalists really have a chance. International olympiad medals are better.</p>
<p>Oh, and at that cancer research thing? It really only will look significant if you happen to cure cancer while you’re there. </p>
<p>I had all these qualifications myself, and was offered the fast track to Yale, but then I took an arrow to the leg. It happens.</p>
<p>^^ somebo seems just a tad bit bitter . . .</p>
<p>. . . or, maybe s/he’s just being realistic after-the-fact. </p>
<p>Consider that this year, Yale rejected 84.3% of all applicants who applied SCEA and rejected 94.7% of all applicants who applied regular. With those kind of odds, you would have had better luck in Vegas. </p>
<p>So much of the college application process depends on subjective factors that are out of your control – teacher recommendations, Guidance Counselor’s SSR Report, your essays, what application the reader picked up right before yours, how many other students appear similar to you etc. Honestly, with those kind of variables, no one is going to be able to give you a realistic chance, other than to say “You have a 6.8% chance, just like everyone else.” That said, I would definitely ‘play-up’ the engineering. See: [YES-W</a> draws prospective science students | Yale Daily News](<a href=“http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2012/feb/20/yes-w-draws-prospective-science-students/]YES-W”>http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2012/feb/20/yes-w-draws-prospective-science-students/)</p>
<p>I understand that the statistics show that getting into Yale is very difficult. But since you have some experience, how would you say my chances are of getting into Yale?</p>
<p>Your GPA is kind of low, but if you get a 2250+ and 750+ subject tests, I’d say you have a shot… Just write really amazing essays! Be yourself. Good luck! :P</p>
<p>Alright, I apologize for my previous comment. It was unnecessary and sarcastic. The point I was trying to make is this: you have no clue who I am. You have no clue who anyone else is who comments on CC. I could say that I am a middle aged Yale graduate, and I worked in Yale’s admissions office for 10 years. Therefore, I could either tell you that you have an amazing chance of getting in, or you have almost no chance, and most people will believe me either way, because of who I say I am on an Internet forum. The fact is, I am tired of hearing all these people pretending like they have a clue about the results of specific students’ applications. The only way to guarantee admission to such a university is to be at least decently smart, and have a parent who graduated from the same place and has donated at least $10 million. Notice I said this is the only way to GUARANTEE admission; many students with excellent credentials and honest essays get admitted every year. Please OP, for your sake, stop listening to everything you hear on this website, and do something that will actually be worth your time (even goofing off with your friends will be more helpful to you right now than seeking strangers’ assurances of your resume). Before anyone says it, I am a hypocrite, because I am writing this post on a “chance me” thread on CC. As I said, people on this site either raise the OP’s hopes up, or they make him/her feel worse than they did before. Stop stressing. Relax, and try to have some fun before you go off to whatever great university that you choose. In the words of the great ferris bueller: “life goes pretty fast; if you don’t slow down to look around every once in a while, you might miss it”</p>
<p>^exactly. Nothing against the OP specifically, this just happens to be like the 10,000th chance thread, filled with the same type of comments, that I have read hahaha</p>
Good luck! :P</p>