<p>@Lacruset, do you watch anime or read manga? :)</p>
<p>I figure I have almost no shot in hell but I applied anyway. If you would, please gauge my chances:
SAT: 2300
SAT II: 800 Chem, 750 Math II, 740 Physics
APs: 5 Chem, 4s on Eng Lit, US Hist, AB Calc
GPA: 3.7 uw
High school: private college prep school, very rigorous
Ec’s: 2 year all conference football player, varsity lacrosse and JV basketball. A little bit of community service, 2 summer programs at Stanford, worked with uncle who is head of U of Richmond’s physics department, spent a month in Peru last summer.
Recs: good
Essay: Okay, this is unique. I spilled my guts here kind of, and wrote a possibly inflammatory but, in my opinion, extremely honest and well written essay about my atheism. I figure if I wrote a nondescript essay that my chances wouldn’t be helped either way, but writing a provocative essay might tip the scales in my favor or eliminate me from contention - I figure I might as well take that chance.
And my trump card: 2 generations of legacy.
What do you guys think?</p>
<p>Obviously, you are academically qualified for Yale, but, unlike others will say, Yale is not a reach for you, per se. Rather, whether you get admitted/not admitted depends on factors that us CCers cannot adequately gauge.</p>
<p>Hello everyone!</p>
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interesting. I did that with brown, because its not one of my top choices, but i was too scared to do it for HYP. now I’m regretting it, because my HYP essays didnt have the same conviction</p>
<p>I took a chance…my Yale essay was about getting a tattoo illegally when I was 16…they must not have completely hated it as they at least deferred me</p>
<p>Hahahahahahahaha @ you doing something illegal and then confessing to it on paper. That sounds like something I would do 
I’m sure it’s memorable.</p>
<p>I should have written about the time I stole a cop’s car and crashed it.</p>
<p>Anonymous93, u stole a cop’s car and crashed it??? hmmmmm interesting…
and rocket6louise, getting a tatoo sounds nice… i had a friend who wrote about getting a tatoo and he got into yale</p>
<p>Oooh what tattoo was it??? Tattoos are awesome–parents would freak if I got one (asian parents lolol) but I love using henna in the summer :]</p>
<p>@rocketlouise- that’s funny! what was the “message” of your essay?</p>
<p>yes, anonymous, pray tell! (or was that comment sarcastic?)</p>
<p>and rocket, that does sound risky. i didn’t take THAT big a risk, but my essay was different, and apparently it paid off.</p>
<p>@Everyone - Sorry! That was completely sarcastic. I imagine I’d be in jail if I actually stole a cop car and crashed it. Or I’d be dead. Both very bad because then I couldn’t go to Yale :)</p>
<p>I just thought we should keep the mood light. :)</p>
<p>^okay, i kinda thought so. it reminded me of the hangover though, which EVERYONE i know discusses endlessly. i saw it, and it was funny/all right, but not worth the obsession. seriously, how many more FB fan pages can people make with lines from that movie?!</p>
<p>Hahaha, yeah, you picked up on the sarcasm. I LOVE THE HANGOVER.
DO NOT EVEN SUGGEST THAT IT IS UNDESERVING OF ALL 400458475 FACEBOOK PAGES DEVOTED TO IT.</p>
<p>^omg, another cult member! it was all right, okay? i like zach galifianakis (and liked him when he was on fair game with faith salie–yay!). but if i get invited to another “not at the table, carlos!” or “paging doctor ■■■■■■” fan group, i might… i don’t know what i might do. 
but really. there might as well be a fan page for every line from that movie</p>
<p>edit: just now i picked up on the potential sarcasm in the last post…</p>
<p>my tattoo is of a bumble bee with a quote from the little prince under it “l’essentiel est invisible pour les yeux”…</p>
<p>My message was that I was more than a typical overachiever, that I was a little bit of a criminal…and I also made the point that that was one of my first really permanent decisions</p>
<p>the hangover wasn’t as funny as superbad…</p>
<p>Random question: does Yale take out dumb classes like band and health and recalculate your academic GPA? Cause my academic GPA is like .05 higher than my total GPA due to a pain-in-the-ass band teacher and some rowdy friends in health class :).</p>
<p>“my tattoo is of a bumble bee with a quote from the little prince under it ‘l’essentiel est invisible pour les yeux’”</p>
<p>OMG I put that as my favorite quote for princeton. Just thought I should jump into the conversation and tell you that.</p>
<p>Omg! I love Le Petit Prince! I’m reading it right now. Pretty confusing for my remedial french but nonetheless wonderful.</p>