<p>Another issue may have been the strength of your coursework.The students I know who were admitted to the highly selective schools had taken the most rigorous courses at their high schools, usually having completed physics, Calc BC and at least AB and had many IB or AP courses and test results to show for it. Did you take the SatII in any of the math or high level sciences?
In general, you need to have taken the most difficult courses at your high school and have received outstanding recs from two of the teachers of those courses. </p>
<pre><code> I hate to see students lamenting not getting into the highly selective colleges when often these places wouldnât be the best for them or where they would be the happiest. You seem to get that with Yale. If taking the hardest classes and being a super high achiever at your school isnât âyou,â rather than feeling bad about it or the colleges that might not accept you, recognize that you charted the course that was right for you for the last four years, and there is a place where youâll be happy and thrive. I just hope you applied to some of those schools. Good luck.
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<p>@moonchild - I have taken the most rigorous course load offered at my school - 14 APs by the end of this year, with all 4âs and 5âs on tests. The thing is, the âhigh achieverâ atmosphere" is what I crave. Mehh. Itâll all be alrightâŠ</p>
<p>And yes, I have applied to safeties - BU, my state school, and GW (double legacy). </p>
<p>And I think I may be one of the first at my school to apply to YaleâŠdunno if that was good or bad?</p>
<p>So I know that this thread is very old, but just in case there are people who, in future, are in the same position I was at the beginning of the year (rejected EA from an Ivy and thinking they have no chance RD), I ended up being accepted to Columbia, UChicago, and Northwestern. So being flat-out rejected early doesnât necessarily mean that youâre screwed in the regular decision round!</p>