<p>I was just wondering if anyone who has been accepted to Yale would be willing to post their stats...just to show us all what 'cuts it'...so to speak...</p>
<p>Look at the thread immediately above yours, the EA decisions thread. That has the stats of people accepted/rejected/deferred.</p>
<p>and other associated posts</p>
<p>Excluding all subjective things and AP/SAT II test scores, according to my school's Naviance page, the average GPA of accepted students is 3.84, while the average SAT score of accepted students is a 2260. 23 applicants, 4 acceptances... and this is from one of the best public high schools in CT.</p>
<p>Stats are not a very good indicator of what cuts it. There are plenty of kids with perfect SATs and GPAs that get rejected. There are many other variables involved: one of them being luck.</p>
<p>Also stats from CC are misleading(skewed). What "cuts it" is not simply what you see here. Posters here are the tip--not the top--the tip of the pool. If you look at Yale's own YALE at a snapshot link, you'll see the immeidate difference between those listed in the CC link above and the actual freshman class attending YALE. Most notably the test stats are actually higher among the CC pool. I would not spend too much time relying upon chance threads or who got in or rejected posts at CC to draw conclusions about ADCOM decisions at Yale. Obviously it helps to have high test scores. But the rest is very indiividualized, and some might argue subjective.</p>
<p>What you really want to see are the "stats" of those rejected at Yale. What you will notice is that, in many cases, they are indistinguishable from the stats of those accepted. (In plenty of cases, they are indistinguishable from perfect.) That tells you most of what you need to know about stats and Yale (or Harvard, etc.): the final in-or-out decisions are not made based on stats.</p>
<p>CC stats = inflated. I'll tell you what I told someone else: go look at the college's website. That will give you a better idea.</p>
<p>And even the stats won't help you much because, as JHS said, they get so many great applicants with similar stats that they rely on more subjective things to make the decision.</p>
<p>To put it in perspective for you. Two kids I know applied to Harvard in the history of my school. One had a 2400 even, the other had a 2370. Both were top of their class, had substantial ECs and had great recommendations. Neither of them was even waitlisted. That just goes to show that there is no way of predicting. As long as you're qualified, give it a shot and don't fret if you aren't competitive/don't get in. Rejection is part of life, as is failure, although I'd bet many kids with Ivy caliber stats haven't had much experience with either.</p>
<p>^ What is this failure you speak of? Is this one?: <a href="http://cincinnatimercantile.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/telephone-rotary.jpg%5B/url%5D">http://cincinnatimercantile.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/telephone-rotary.jpg</a></p>
<p>^Yeah, that's strange...</p>
<p>I didn't mean that getting rejected from ivies = failure...so please don't interpret that way. I only meant that many people who are applying are very smart and well-liked. It isn't very often that they fail or get rejected, so it hits them hard when it comes. The only correlation I meant to make between rejection and failure was that they are both something that your average Ivy applicant probably doesn't experience as much.</p>