Hello!
Yale has been my dream since I could speak, and now i have an interview next week… I just need some reassurance…
Please chance me!! I am freaking out about decisions coming out in about 3 weeks, and I can’t sit still.
Here are my stats:
Objective:
•SAT I (breakdown): not reporting
•ACT: Composite (30); Reading (32), English (35), Science (27), Math (26), Writing (1-12) (10)
•SAT II: did not take
•Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.8
•Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 13/300 (top 10%)
•AP (place score in parenthesis): AP Government and Politics (1), AP Statistics (1), AP Psychology (3), AP Microeconomics (3), AP Language and Composition (4)
•Senior Year Course Load: AP Environmental Science, AP Literature and Composition, AP Calculus AB, Physical Education, AP Spanish, TA for AP Microeconomics, AP Music Theory IN ADDITION to secondary school, where I take 6 additional courses
•Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
QuestBridge Finalist
Recipient of the John Miller Fund Instrument Award through the Yale School of Music
AP Scholar
Subjective:
•Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): National Honor Society (Secretary), Spanish Honor Society, Best Buddies (Vice President), Drama Club (founding member), Marching Band (Section leader, property manager, field captain), United Girl’s Choir (peer leader for 10 years), Junior Varsity Indoor Track, Varsity Tennis, Men’s Lacrosse (manager), Outdoor Club (founding member), ECA section leader
•Job/Work Experience:
Ben and Jerry’s employee at the CT Open
Intern for the Yale School of Music
•Volunteer/Community service:
Alliance Children’s Theatre:
-Assistant Director (2012-2014)
Worthington Hooker Middle School Chorus:
-Performed national anthem at Yale basketball games(2014 - present)
WCHS Lacrosse:
-Score keeper for all games (2014 - present)
Educational Center for the Arts (ECA):
-”Big Sibling” for incoming students
•Summer Activities:
Participant for Yale School of Music ‘Music in Schools Initiative’, Employee at CT Open at the Yale Bowl
•Essays (rating 1-10, details):
10, about how growing up in a dangerous neighborhood and raising myself along with my brothers has shaped me into who i am and how driven i am. Wrote about walking two miles to get to school every day in the seventh grade, being homeless as a child, a drug addict for a father, and how I am ready for my shot at becoming successful
•Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):
•Teacher Rec #1:
10. From my AP Lang teacher JR year. She loved me. A Yale Grad student.
•Teacher Rec #2:
9. From my AP Micro teacher JR year, who I’ve also done musicals with, as well as Outdoor’s club, and traveled to China with for a class trip. He knows me will, both inside of the classroom and out. Also a Yale Grad student.
•Counselor Rec:
8. They spelt my name wrong like four times, and told me after it was submitted.
•Additional Rec:
10. From Dean of YSM.
Other
•State (if domestic applicant):
New haven, Connecticut
•Country (if international applicant):
•School Type:
Biggest public high school in New Haven.
•Ethnicity:
White
•Gender:
Female
•Income Bracket:
No monetary income, but food stamps and HUD housing subsidy makes the income bracket about $3,000 for our family for 4. EFC is a firm 0.
•Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):
First generation college, QuestBridge Finalist, LoR from Dean of YSM, New Haven Student
Reflection
•Strengths:
Essay, background, New Haven residency, course load
•Weaknesses:
Freshman year grades (B in Spanish 2), ACT score
