Rejected at Yale EA, Do I Still Have a Chance at Brown, Amherst, etc.?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Those of you interested in chancing me I would really appreciate it if you did!</p>

<p>Academics
I went to a mid-sized suburban high school for my Freshman and Sophomore years, but during my Junior and Senior years, I have taken all of my academic classes at the University of Minnesota through a dual enrollment program. I took all honors classes at my high school.</p>

<p>My high school's GPA is only reported in weighted format and it's out of 12. I think my high school GPA looks something like this:</p>

<p>HS GPA: 3.9 UW
UMN GPA: 3.930 UW</p>

<p>I've been on the UMN Dean's List all three semesters thus far, and my GPAs in Spring 08 and Fall 08 have both been 4.0.</p>

<p>Class Rank: ~10/350</p>

<p>ACT: 33 (35 Eng, 33 Math, 29 Reading, 33 Sci)</p>

<p>Teacher Recs: One from UMN TA/Grad Student, Other from tenured French Instructor. Both are great.
Counselor Rec: Very good.</p>

<p>Extracurriculars
They're in a lot of areas but they're pretty devoted nonetheless.</p>

<p>Band - 4 years
-Trombone (won State Superior Contest Rating 3x, First Chair, Section Leader, All-Conference)
-Electric Bass (Jazz Band Section Leader, won recognition at college jazz festival)
-Local Salsa Band, performs around Twin Cities</p>

<p>Theater - 4 years
-8 School Productions (Acting)
-2 School Productions (Pit Band)
-Letter (2x)
-One-Act 2x Regional Qualifier</p>

<p>Track - 3 years
-PV (All-Conference, Section Participant, Won ribbons at a few Invites)
-400m (Section Participant)</p>

<p>Govt/Politics
-Finance Intern for US Senate Campaign
-Friendship City Commission (City Commission that conducts relations with our sister city in Costa Rica, Youth Member)
-Boys State (Elected to State Office, Chief Editor of Newspaper)</p>

<p>Work
-Lifeguard at Local Water Park (2 years, 15 hrs/week)</p>

<p>Other
I'm a white male from suburban MN. I'm looking to major in either International Relations or Economics.</p>

<p>Thanks again!</p>

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<p>Forgot to mention where I’m applying. Sorry!</p>

<p>Amherst
Brown
Tufts
Brandeis
Bates
William and Mary
Carleton</p>

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<p>As anyone here will tell you-- Ivies are a crapshoot. Your ACT is a bit low though. Going to a conversion table, I see a 33=2190 on the SAT, which isn’t hot enough for Yale. I feel for you-- I’ve also just applied to Yale, and feel my 34 is inadequate.</p>

<p>I dunno about Brown, but Brandeis I can see accepting you.</p>

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<p>Yale’s middle 50% is 30-34 for ACT. I think CC posters inflate the value of standardized testing anyway, but I guess we’ll see.</p>

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<p>When you factor in that more than 40% of Yale and other top school’s classes have hooks (recruited athlete, URM, legacy, development), it leaves most of the unhooked to have scores above the 75th percentile.</p>