please chance me for Yale!!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Here's a little background: It has been my life long dream to go to Yale. The summer before my freshman year in high school I moved from an inner city school district in CT to a nationally high ranked high school in a suburb of CT. My grades were not excellent freshman year especially in Honors Physics where I received a C. However that year I was also elected vice president of my grade.
I know it is a really big reach but
Here are my stats anyways</p>

<p>Freshman Year
English Honors:B+
History Honors:A-
French 1: A
Latin 1:A-
Math Level 2:B
Physics Honors:C
Physical Education:A-</p>

<p>Sophomore Year
Math Level 3: A
Economics Honors:A
World Religions Honors:A+
History Honors:A+
French II Honors:A+
Latin II:A-
Chemistry Honors:B-
Physical Education:A+
English Honors:B+/A-(not sure yet)</p>

<p>My Schedule Next year is going to be:
AP U.S. History
AP English Language
AP Biology
Ap Macro-economics
Pre Calculus
French III Honors
(and one more elective on which I have not decided yet)</p>

<p>Here are my EC's
Freshman Year: Vice President of Class, Treasurer of Latin Club, Literary Magazine, STAND
Sophomore Year: Vice President of Class, Treasurer of Latin Club, Member of Amnesty International, Model UN(my delegation won second place), Principal's Advisory Council, I started a club called Islam Awareness. IMO, my most impressive EC is the reporting which I do for my school news show where I come up with my own stories, make them relevant to my school, interview people for them, and broadcast them every week. I also learn Chinese outside of school.
I plan on continuing all of my activities next year
Honors and Awards
9th grade: Multilingual student award
10Th grade: excellence in a language award for french and multilingual student award
Latin Honor Society
Volunteer Work: For the past two summers I have been volunteering over 30 hours at the local library. During the school year I give up my lunch period to work with special needs students.
Additional: I am of middle-eastern origin, I speak 3 addtional languages to the ones I learn in school. English is not my first language. </p>

<p>I Know it would be difficult without my projected scores but assuming they were around a 2000/2100 do you think I stand a chance at the following schools:
Yale
NYU
BC
Oxford
Stanford
Brown
Columbia
(i will be majoring in Poly Sci)
thanks!</p>

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<p>Yale would noticed you for your extracurricular and that you took two foreign language classes. But a few B’s and a C, your chances decreased. Yale also looked at your ranking, too. So, if you manage to become top 10, you may have a chance to be admitted. However, overall, Yale looks for people who are the best of the best.</p>

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<p>It’s a bit early to chance you. You should try to get straight A’s from here on out. Also dominate the SATs. And most importantly, you must stand out! Even if you had straight A’s thus far and got a 2300 on your SAT as a sophomore, I’d still wonder what makes you stand out. Don’t do superficial things in the hope that it will catch Yale’s or any college’s eye, just follow your passion as far as you can and write your essays about it. Oh, and I wouldn’t focus so much on Yale (what’s your reason for wanting to go there anyway?). It’s a great school, but there are so many other great schools, most of which with much higher acceptance rates.</p>

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<p>I do realize the few B’s and a C does decrease my chances significantly( I would do anything to change them but I can’t) but my school is very competative and does not rank. As far as standing out here’s what I was hoping would catch thier eye:
I managed to be elected vice president even though I was new and running against a very competative candidate</p>

<p>Languages are kind of my forte, I take two in school, learn one outside of school, and speak three other at home</p>

<p>My passion for journalism and my initiative to give up my one free period during the day and report on stories that I think are important, relavent, and need to be heard.
What I’ve done with my school’s news show is basically transform it from the reading of a couple of school announcements to making it a show with actual content based stories</p>

<p>That’s kind of what I wanted to focus on in my essay; my passion for journalism and braking the styreotype that good, South-east asian women are supposed to have “stable” jobs where they can look after their home, husband, and children. ( I want to be a war correspondent)</p>

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<p>no offense, but being elected VP in your freshman year isn’t a hook, especially at a school like Yale. you definitely have some great interests, so i encourage you to keep em up. you might want to check out the results threads for Yale to see what you’re up against:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/yale-university/616404-official-yale-2013-scea-results-thread.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/yale-university/616404-official-yale-2013-scea-results-thread.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/yale-university/681498-official-yale-2013-rd-results-thread.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/yale-university/681498-official-yale-2013-rd-results-thread.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>VP of your class is a step in building a good set of ECs that show leadership. But it isn’t anywhere near a hook.</p>

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<p>With a 2000/2100, unfortunately I don’t think you have much of a shot. But just work really hard on getting your GPA up and maybe you’ll be more competitive.</p>