<p>I need hope.</p>
<p>Ha, do bad SAT IIs also count? Either way, I'm in :)</p>
<p>oooo oooo pick me pick me!
my school does it a weird way though, when it's recalculated it doesn't look THAT bad.</p>
<p>is the Yale forum, what exactly constitutes 'crappy'? lol. i know people applying to Yale with 97+ averages who would say they have crappy gpas. it's all relative. I have a 94.6 gpa, which i think is crappy compared to most other scea applicants. But within the context of my life and considering my course load, extra curriculars, and other activities, I'm pretty proud of my grades. </p>
<p>When you feel like your gpa is weak compared to all the other applicants, just remember that Yale looks at the application holistically. If your grades aren't superfab (Let's not call them crappy; let's just call them not superfab), don't flip out. I'm sure you have a ton of things that compensate for your not so superfab gpa and if you were able to show that in your application, hopefully the admissions board will take that into consideration. </p>
<p>Good luck on the 15th!!! and remember- if the bulldog doesn't dance, you might get good news on April 1st, or from another really great school. As much as we all want Yale, if it doesn't happen, I'm sure we'll be happy where we do end up. Good luck everyone!</p>
<p>My GPA actually is crappy, for Yale...I have a 3.7 UW. Actually, it's a 3.68 I think.</p>
<p>I wasn't really sure what it was until I finally calculated it like 2 days ago, and ever since I've been depressed about it. I have great SAT's, but Yale itself states that they are more lenient on a person with a high GPA and a low SAT score than the other way around.</p>
<p>I'm wondering if top 5% means anything...will that override- sort of- the GPA? I can justify pretty much every non-A...
9th...B in Engineering, but the next year I got an A in Engineering 2
10th B's in English and Math...I'm just bad in Math (why do we have to be good at everything) and I got an A in English the next year
11th...B's in Gym (I don't think they'll care too much) Physics (just bad) and Math (just bad), C in World History- but I got a 4 on the exam, so hopefully they'll know it was just a tough class)</p>
<p>But, with all these excuses, do I even deserve to get into Yale? I have the passion they want- my app definetely portrays me as a writer and an explorer-but will they understand my faults? I'm just bad at math, and world was a pain. But there are plenty of people who are not only good at every subject, but also excel in one special arena as well. I understand why yale would rather take these people- it's probably cool to say that they have an Engineering major who writes for the YDN or an Art History major who is also a member of the Mad Scientists team? What can I say? I excel in what I can excel in, and I can't in what I can't. Even if I get deferred, I'll have to send in a midyear report which will probably be stained with a C in Calculus, despite tutoring and endless hours of studying. The other A's won't matter...so what if I got an A in Lit and Organic Chem...I got an A in Lang and an A in AP Chem last year.</p>
<p>I just wish I could find one person who had a sucky GPA and wasn't also an international superstar in everything who got in...</p>
<p>Just one. :(</p>
<p>how about a perfect GPA and a crappy ECs?
GPA they tend to differ by a few decimal points among top school applicants.</p>
<p>ECs? Ohhh, by a count of tens even!
I only have half a dozen tituliar ECs, none impressive</p>
<p>Should I create a thread for "SCEA Applicatns with Crappy ECs Club?"</p>
<p>GPA is so relative that it's almost useless in a vacuum. The people who somehow have 100 GPAs boggle my mind... that's just not possible at my school in AP classes. The adcoms have to trudge through a lot of different systems. B's don't look good, and you better have a good excuse for a C, but other than that, your GPA is just a single component that means nothing by itself.</p>
<p>princessbell: I've found myself thinking the same thing, "do I deserve to get into Yale?" I've decided I'll leave it up to them. I know I'm among the lower end of their applicants, but I've made up my mind that if they decide to accept me, it's meant to be. Otherwise, I like to think that I might not be as happy there. School comes naturally to me, but not as much as it does to the top applicants. I do well on most tests, always do my homework, do extra curriculars, etc. But I don't know if I would be able to keep up with the workload at Yale. If they accept me, though, I of course will go :)</p>
<p>ps. I'm not SCEA, but I'm still nervous about Reg. decision!</p>
<p>Princessbell, I'm in a similar situation as you, although im not sure how my app portrays me. I've also been trying to find someone with a "crappy" gpa who got in. The only people who I have found was one triple legacy with a 3.7 gpa, and one african american girl with a 3.7 gpa. Other than that, I the only people I know (or know of) who are going there also got into harvard and have top grades.</p>
<p>Well your search is over, because I have arrived. :D</p>
<p>Let's do this in true CC fashion: </p>
<p>Name a president, VP, Secretary, etc and send it in as your midyear reports. :D</p>
<p>For God, For Country, And For Yale!!! CONGRATULATIONS CLASS OF 2013!</p>
<p>i have a 3.8! yay.
how about unsuperfab class rank of 7.5% in a class of a little under 600?
my SATs are on the lower end, as seems to be a lot of my app :(
currently have 4 B's due to time spend apping instead of studying and don't know how many i can turn into A's by semester -_-
omg world was really hard for me too, B's both semesters. solid Bs. not even B+s.
my transcript is also tainted with:
B/B+ freshman honors eng (my hardest class that year), A-/B+ soph honors eng, A/B AP french (this is going to look really bad), B+/A APUSH</p>
<p>i've also asked myself whether or not i deserve to get in...:/
i guess we'll see.</p>
<p>4 B's, ALL IN ENGLISH, all in a row from sophomore to junior year. </p>
<p>go figure. :P I consider English as actually one of my strong points though, and I got a high CR and W score on the SAT. I just had ridiculously hard teachers. :'( It will look pretty bad nonetheless.</p>
<p>My school doesn't use the 4.0 scale, so its always kind of hard for me to compare myself to people who say they have a 3.5 or something. </p>
<p>My school also doesn't give us our unweighted grades, so I would have to do that on my own. But compared to other applicants, I would say mine is pretty unsuperfab. </p>
<p>97.81% weighed. Not bad, just not superfab.</p>
<p>My GPA isn't necessarily bad when looked at in isolation (I got a B in Algebra 2 freshman year).</p>
<p>But my class rank isn't lovely: 29/330ish sooooo it's going to look much worse than you guys (PRINCESSBELL/BLVDOFBROKNTEETH!!!!) who are like in the top 5%/7% of your class.</p>
<p>I love how 95% of Yale's class was in the top tenth of their class .... but 95% of applicants were in the top tenth of their class, so that is meaningless.</p>
<p>My school doesn't have GPA, but I dropped the hot C+ in Hardcore Geometry freshman year. So that probably doesn't help too much.</p>
<p>My school is really high on itself and considers all our English classes to be AP classes (you can take one or both of the AP English exams at the end of your junior year), so I don't even get like weighted credit for dropping a B in that freshman year. That happens mad at my school. You take a really hard class that doesn't have a fancy shmancy Honors or AP or IB label next to it and just look like an idiot when you don't get an A+++++++++++++ like every other high schooler in the country.</p>
<p>46th in my class and still confident (we don't report rank here:))</p>
<p>^ haha i wish i were youuuuu</p>
<p>3.5/3.6ish FTW!
2 B's frosh year (honors earth science and honors geometry, i was lazy.), 1 B+ soph year (world history, hardest teacher ever), 2 B+'s and a B jr. year (honors chem cause i'm lazy, ap lang & comp, honors precalc), 1 B sr. year (bc calc, but now it's looking like it's going to go up to a B+ for 1st semester, not that Yale will see that)</p>