<p>Hi :)</p>
<p>First off, I'd like to thank you for all the help you provided here. It has been incredibly useful to me!</p>
<p>I am considering applying to Yale next year and I just wanted to have some opinions. Since I'm French Canadian, I don't know what I can expect from it at all. I know this is a bit long to read, but it would be truly appreciated if I could get some advices :)</p>
<p>I'm an high school valedictorian (class rank 1/433, have been 1st through 5 years of high school. In Quebec, you have to attend CEGEP before going to college, which explain why I graduated from high school but am not yet in college)
Current unweighted IB GPA: 4.0
SAT/ACT test results soon, I'm only applying next year</p>
<p>ECs</p>
<p>-Minor clubs (student council, school plays, Amnesty International, peer tutoring) & hobbies (soccer for 9 years, gymnastics for 5 years, ballet for 4 years).</p>
<p>-I organized an important fundraising campaign to raise money for 200 children in my area whose families could not afford new school supplies. The project was featured at the provincial level.</p>
<p>-I'm organizing a major 24h famine with students from the 8 CEGEPs in my city to raise money for the local food bank</p>
<p>-I'll travel to Peru next summer to do some community work, especially to work with children</p>
<p>-Writing is my passion: I have written hundreds of texts since grade 6 and am now part of my school's writing club. My dream is to be an international journalist. I have been a writer for my school newspaper for the past 3 years and I am currently being considered as the next editor-in-chief. I'm working with my English teacher to publish some of my work in newspapers. I'll also cover the Canadian International Model United Nations as a journalist.</p>
<p>-I'm working on my first novel, since many teachers have encouraged me to do so. </p>
<p>-I initiated a major research project to improve a solar water disinfection (SODIS) method used in Third World countries. It was part of a science fair project that led my partner and I up to the international level, either as the few or the only Canadian representants. We won the Canadian Stockholm Junior Water Prize, a major national award. Our work was acknowledged by the president of the organism that promotes SODIS and I was offered to participate in some field work with the UNICEF. I intend to keep working on this project in order to patent my designs.</p>
<p>I know the bar is set extremely high, especially for someone whom first language is not English. I have been labeled ''bilingual'' by my school's counselors, but I'm not taking anything for granted and intend to work extremely hard for those SATs. </p>
<p>Here comes the infamous question: Is it reasonable for me to hope to get in?</p>
<p>I'll give a free and warm virtual hug to whoever answers</p>