@gibby
How can you call these stats competitive for a school that accepted 6.7% this year?.. I’m sorry that I am being brutally honest, but a 31 is right at the bottom of Yale’s Middle 50%. Also 18/593 class rank is very good but its nothing special from Yale’s point of view. What difference does it make that I haven’t been through the college process? It doesn’t take very much intelligence to see that this scenario presents a very very slim chance of acceptance. I agree with you that test scores certainly don’t make that much of difference past a certain threshold (34+ in this case), but they are certainly used to readily eliminate applicants that don’t meet the mark.