<p>I'm currently a Junior</p>
<p>GPA:3.75 (upward trend in grades)
Class Rank: top 5%
ACT: composite 31/E32/M32/R32/S26/W9 (don't know why I got that 26 on science haha)
Will take SAT 2s in October
Intended Major: Chemistry and Music
Location: Illinois
Ethnicity: Mexican
Gender: Male
Hooks-ish: URM, First-Generation College Student, First-Generation American, can speak 4 languages (does that count as a hook?)</p>
<p>Course load:</p>
<p>Freshman:
Honors English
honors Bio
Honors geometry
Honors symphonic band
Honors jazz ensemble
Spanish 2
Fine Arts Survey/PE (required courses)</p>
<p>Sophomore:
Honors English
Honors Chemistry
Honors Symphonic Band
Spanish 3
Honors Jazz ensemble
honors Algebra 2/trig
AP Euro</p>
<p>Junior:
honors Physics
Honors symphonic band
Honors Spanish 4
AP US
AP Lit and comp
AP Calc AB
AP Chemistry</p>
<p>Senior:
Honors Shakespeare
AP Physics
AP Calc BC
AP Micro
AP Spanish language
AP Music theory
Honors symphonic band</p>
<p>ECs:
(* denotes leadership roles)
*Band 4 years
Jazz 2 years
*Improv club 4 years
XC 2 years
Math team 2 years
Scholastic bowl team 3 years
Pit orchestra 3 years
Taken private lessons 6 years
Shenanigans (our audition improv group) 2 years
(hopefully * because officer elections are soon!)NHS 2 years
*Student Ambassadors 3 years (orienteer transferred students)
*Conflict Resolution Team 2 years (talk to kids about how to avoid conflicts)
*Freshman Marching Band Orientation 3 years
200+ service hours
Awards: IMEA District Honor Band (2nd Chair), IHSA superior ranking 3 years, Best of day at IHSA solo contest, NHS, hopefully AP Scholar with distinction this year!.</p>
<p>Other: teaching a girl calculus, tutoring, learned French and Italian because of my love of different cultures. Idk, I'm hard to sum up in a paragraph. I'm VERY quirky. :P
Yale is my one and only dream school and I will reflect that in my essays very much!</p>
<p>Oh, and I’m also going to send a music supplement which will be either a recording of me playing 3 professional saxophone solos or an original composition (right now I’m leaning toward the recording).</p>
<p>Yale doesn’t care if it’s your dream school, they want to know hat you’ll do for them, o focus your essay on that. Average chance with current stats.</p>
<p>Por favor otras personas, ¡Ayudame! Quiero tener un pensamiento de la realidad antes de que empiezo mi final año de escuela secondaria.</p>
<p>To be brutally honest you don’t have a shot. By Yale admission standards your gpa is low, act is low, and ecs are subpar.</p>
<p>Did you look at the hooks or just scroll to GPA/ACT?^</p>
<p>^ I looked at everything. GPA is on the low side as is ACT. OP has a lot of extracurriculars and is involved in a lot of activities but most students who get into Yale have numerous extracurriculars like that and more, as well as superior academics. Having a leadership position doesn’t count for much, it’s what you do with it. Unless OP did something amazing in those different activities I’m afraid Yale is a far reach.</p>
<p>Sorry OP, my earlier comment might seem a tad harsh but I’m sure you know how absurdly competitive Yale is. I would suggest applying ED to better your chances but have safety schools ready.</p>
<p>@prettymidget You know so much about Yale, yet you don’t know enough to know Yale doesn’t have ED? >…<</p>
<p>^Yes, they do. They call it single choice early action, and it basically is the same thing although it will limit you to Yale since you cannot do EA for any other school. It would show Yale at the very least you are prioritizing their school over others, which presumably fits the OP’s purpose since it seems to be overwhelmingly his/her top choice.</p>
<p>I refer you to:
<a href=“http://admissions.yale.edu/scea[/url]”>Single Choice Early Action for First-Year Applicants | Yale College Undergraduate Admissions;
<p>Oh, I know they have SCEA… But that’s completely different from Early Decision… ED is binding and you can apply to other Early Action non binding schools, whereas SCEA is not binding and you’re not allowed to apply to other EA schools… Unless they’re public, I believe…</p>
<p>The only thing that’s really the same is the deadline</p>
<p>I took the state testing act at the end of April and luckily the science wasn’t too bad but all my friends said the science was brutal! It sucks though that I got a 26 in science because even though act science is by no means actually science, it still counts toward the composite score and I feel it may hurt me that my major is in the field of physical sciences.</p>
<p>Also, when I apply, I WILL apply SCEA.</p>
<p>Also, I would say somewhere in my applications that the reason my GPA is on the low side is because English was really choppy for me and when I entered high school english, it was a big jump for me. And another reason it’s lower is that I skippedalgebra 1 so started my freshman year with geometry which was fine but when I was in algebra 2 my sophomore year, since i didnt have a strong algebraic background, my first semester was not how I wanted it to be (got like an 85%)</p>
<p>And also, these are activities I don’t only partake in at school; I spend at least 2 hours a day practicing music and an hour more rehearsing for improv shows. My hope is that Yale doesn’t overlook the amount of dedication, effort, and soul I put into everything that I do…</p>
<p>Retake ACT. URM won’t help unless you are already qualified. Yale won’t even look at the ECs unless your scores are up to par. At least get a 33 to have any chance. Higher score will improve your chances.</p>