Yale 2014 Hopefuls

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really? that’s surprising since like, 99/100 young people love him. Oh well its just sensible to elect hillary over him. I didn’t realize Americans were so susceptible to motivational speakers. Ugh</p>

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did you qualify?
and HA. Pennsylvania’s actually pretty academically competitive (though not as much as like california, NY, NJ, or massachusetts) but especially in the philadelphia area. I was looking through the list and like 80% of the qualifiers are from schools within half an hour of my school.</p>

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<p>Don’t be hatin. Though it is true that the “other” parts of PA, the not Philly or Pittsburg parts (aka where I live) are not super completive. My local newspaper has a coverage area that’s larger than RI in land area and they only listed nine NMSFs.</p>

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<p>Nah I didn’t qualify and neither did anyone from my school. No one got a perfect, but something around 50 people have 2100+ scores. I only have a 1450 for CR + M (2220 when the writing section is factored in though), so obviously I wasn’t even close to qualifying.
Stupefy, did you get that PHEAA certificate of merit thing? And if you did, do you have the slightest clue what the point of it was?</p>

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<p>^yeah I got that along with thousands of other people. it’s less significant than national merit (since the cutoff score is much much lower AND theres no money involved)
in short, it means nothing</p>

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<p>There were three people from my school on the list. The only one whose score I know had a 1590 M+V. The people I know with 35’s on their ACTs didn’t qualify. I know one guy elsewhere with a 36, and he was on it.</p>

<p>I had no chance :(.</p>

<p>Two of the people who were nominated are on our school’s elite math team though. The team won some competition, so they’re already going to DC for free and meeting the president. It’d be funny if they went twice.</p>

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<p>I don’t know why they bother to send out the PHEAA thing, it’s a waste of paper. Wasn’t it the top 50k in the state or something ridiculous?</p>

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<p>wombat, it’s top 5k, which is essentially top 5% of students from PA. I think it was completely uncompetitive though considering I’m pretty sure that I got it based on the score that I got when I had a stomach flu while taking the SAT (running to the bathroom between breaks and all that crap, it was horrible lol), which was a 2010.</p>

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<p>whats a presidential scholar? and for what</p>

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<p>Alright…I need your guys opinion, and I’m gonna post it here (since I don’t want to make a new thread) because I value your guys’ opinion :). I’ve become skeptical that the adcoms might think of my EC’s as lacking any passion and simply being done for the sake of a resume, so I want to know if you guys would think the same thing. So, yea, here are my EC’s (keep in mind that my three subjects of interest are Philosophy, Political Science, and then Economics):</p>

<p>MUN (9-12, odd leadership position, 75 hours), Econ Club (9-12, co-president, 68 hours), Student Government (9-10, Speaker of Freshmen Class, 36 hours)</p>

<p>-I quit Student Government in 11th grade and, instead, wrote a school reform document that I sent to my superintendent and we discussed it - attached part of the document and said that my student government never really did much, so I took the initiative to attempt to make big changes.</p>

<p>Presidential Campaign Volunteer (11, Campaign Volunteer, 40 hours), Rec. Soccer/Rec. Basketball (9-12, 102 hours), Basketball Ref (Since 6th grade, 4 hours/week), Track (9, didn’t provide hours), School Newspaper (11-12, contributing writer, 16 hours - said I only wrote little because I only wrote about issues important to me), Volunteer Counselor (9, 160 hours), Volunteer Counselor at a different camp (two years, 20 hours total), Technology Student Association (11-12, didn’t provide hours - I’ve taken 2 tech. classes in HS), FBLA (12, didn’t provide hours, competed in econ), Poet for School’s Arts Magazine (11, didn’t provide hours), and then I sent in four philosophy papers.</p>

<p>So, what do you guys think (be honest :()?</p>

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<p>^I think your EC’s show a lot of passion. and that’s cool about the student government thing. I really feel the same way about mine (i’ve been a class officer for the past two years) but I never had the guts to say anything.</p>

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hahaha speaker. funny title. NANCY!</p>

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<p>Back on topic…</p>

<p>A little over 2 months until 90% of deferees get rejected! :D</p>

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<p>^95% is more realistic :(</p>

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<p>nuhhh uhh, they accept more than 5% of deferees!</p>

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<p>I got the presidential scholar thingy. :smiley: One other person from my school got it too. Only thing is now I have another application to fill out. >_<</p>

<p>I’m in AZ and my score for M+V was 1570.</p>

<p>@harvardlite: Presidential Scholar is this competition where the top 3000 high school seniors (based on SAT/ACT scores) are chosen to compete for 141 spots. Winners get an all expenses paid trip to D.C. and get to meet people and stuff.</p>

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<p>^haha, I miss you guys/this thread. it hasn’t been very active recently :confused:
I can’t believe we’re almost only 2 months awayyyy</p>

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<p>dang people in arizona are so lucky… a 1570 makes it.
living in california is a curse; 1590 M+V killed my chances, they only pick from the perfects. :(</p>

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<p>being a permanent resident instead of a US citizen is another thing that kills your chances.</p>

<p>1600 M+V :(</p>

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<p>If you are a permanent resident you are treated the same as a citizen for admission and financial aid purposes! There are no ifs ands or buts on this one. Getting into Yale is tough but you can’t do the boo hoo about having a green card…it isn’t relevant. It also isn’t relevant to the presidential scholar picks…you can have a green card for that too!</p>

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<p>thx chinatown</p>

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<p>fineartsmajormom, I’m not talking about admissions. I’m referring to presidential scholar picks, where you happen to be misinformed.</p>

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<p>For the record, I have 1600 M+V. I’m not a presidential scholar candidate because I’m a permanent resident, not a citizen.</p>