<p>how the hell does someone get in with a 1900 SATI thats amazingly low even for a URM or recruited athlete</p>
<p>geniusgen... Even if you did get in, I don't know how you'd handle the workload. While your story is certainly impressive, the fact that you say you were previously making mediocre grades in a Georgia public implies a rough future ahead in an ivy league school. Also, your AP scores are a bit worrying... Your SATs really aren't that bad, not the worst part. Good luck, it could happen.</p>
<p>filmxoxo17, you have a good point. I think I would be ok though because i never studied and still made mediocre grades in upper level classes. I was one of those people who did the least work possible for the desired grades. I still made mostly A's and now I still dont work that hard and I am making almost perfect scores in every class.</p>
<p>in my class of 250, 3 got into yale...1 harvard...1 mit.... 1 caltech.. georgetown... University of chicago...stanford.... claremont mckenna...
and thats a public highschool.
go figure</p>
<p>Here's an amazing one from the pre-historic past for you guys. My private day school, Class of 1960, had a graduating class of 40 students. 20 of those 40 went to either Yale or Princeton. I think it was 8 to one and 12 to the other - forget which way it split. The remaining 20 students went to a variety of good to great schools but not in such numbers.</p>
<p>Oh ok geniusgen, good luck then. :)</p>
<p>Eli, I guess you went to Yale?</p>
<p>Eli, what is the name of this school?</p>
<p>I went to Yale. I loved it. That's why I use the Eli name on this site. My school was Landon School, Bethesda, MD. Still there and doing well. In today's competitive admissions, Landon may send 2-5 boys to Yale and Princeton combined each year out of what is a graduating class of 80-85. It's an all boys school.</p>
<p>If your school is so podunk and crappy and filled with kids with poor stats, why are you ranked so low? That's mainly a rhetorical inquiry. I'm not a Yalie (or a Yale applicant) but I peruse these parts when boredom lurks, so I probably won't come back for your reply.</p>
<p>OK OK OK...</p>
<p>Everyone slow down for a second...</p>
<p>6.8% acceptance rate?!?! Can someone please explain that to me for a second? Harvards has just dipped below 10%, how can Yale be closer to 1/20 than 1/10? What is everyone basing this on? I'm freaking out... Is this a sign of things to come for other elite schools?</p>
<p>Oh, and to the OP: You would be a great candidate if it wasn't for your low ranking. If you emphasised your schools poor quality (P would probably find out anyway) and then went on to say you didn't do so well, then Princeton would not look favorably at it. You still have a slight chance though, if you really made yourself stand out.</p>
<p>The low ranking was explained by my counselor because i am taking the hardest course lod in the class an those above me have never taken any upper level classes. Although the county does rank honors and AP classes, it is not enough to make a difference and put students who take more challenging courses on top. It is unfair but oh well.
Also, 6.8% acceptance rate comes from the extreme increase in applicants this year compared to last while the amount accepted will be near the same.</p>
<p>Yeah, Yale's apps shot up a lot. All the ivys' did except Harvard.</p>
<p>The article is in the Yale Daily News....<a href="http://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=31539%5B/url%5D">http://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=31539</a></p>
<p>So it looks like all Ivys are just now catching up to Harvard in terms of popularity - just Harvard accepts a larger class size. That's not that bad I guess (I just hope Brown and Dartmouth don't shoot up too quickly)</p>
<p>"Brenzel said Yale will most likely admit about 1,150 more students from the regular-decision pool in early April, yielding an acceptance rate of about 6.8 percent."</p>
<p>This sounds misleading to me... that might actually mean a 6.8% acceptance rate for the regular decision pool. The overall acceptance rate would be closer to 9%. Still, the math comes out to about 7.5% based on their hypothetical 1,150 number for just regular decision, so I'm not sure where they're getting the 6.8 from.</p>