Yale. A while off, but what are my chances?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hello kind readers! I am only a Junior in high school, but I was wondering if somebody would please take a guess as to my chances of getting into Yale for the class of 2016. I intend to apply SCEA next year, and until then any advice would be wonderful. Thank you for your time :] Just a note, other schools I'm considering apply to are Stanford, Northwestern, Carnegie Mellon, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, and USC.</p>

<p>Stats:
(modified basic accepted/deferred/rejected thread template)
Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): (converted from Sophomore PSAT with ABSOLUTELY NO prep at all) Verbal-700; Math-640; Writing-750
[</em>] ACT: Haven’t taken, but considering
[<em>] SAT II: Chem, 710 (crappy I know. :/), going to take Literature and MathII along with Japanese (thought it won't make it in time for early action)
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): unknown
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Junior year: US History (n/a), Environmental Science (n/a) Senior year (considering): Chem (n/a), Music Theory(possibly no space in schedule)(n/a), Literature (n/a), Statistics (n/a)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):School doesn't offer any
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: planning on it being vigorous, though annoyingly my school requires you take Gov and Econ, but there is no Honors/AP option for these... will this harm me? :/
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Orchestra (Principal Player/Section leader as a Sophomore after playing Bass only one year, Student Conductor Junior Year), Marching Band (Leadership Team Junior Year), Track (Soph.=JV, Junior=?), Jazz Band 1 (9th), Advanced Jazz Ensemble (10-12), Director of Outreach for CRISISes (student-run nonprofit to raise awareness on suicide prevention by presenting to health classes)
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: None
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: ~30 hours/ year with NCL, MESH program at Middle school music program (1-2 hours/week)
[li] Summer Activities: Family travel, volunteering, music department tour to europe after freshman year, taking classes over the summer to free up senior schedule and pursue other interests (I think I can only get credit if I do so at the local community college :/ anybody know for sure?)</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Might as well
[</em>] Intended Major: Music & Japanese
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): CA
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: White
[</em>] Gender: Female
[<em>] Income Bracket: Upper-upper middle? Not entirely sure
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None
[/ul]
Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Musical involvement, GPA, really close to teachers who I will ask for a rec
[</em>] Weaknesses: Summer activites (i.e. lack thereof), SAT (still waiting on Junior year PSAT and December SAT scores, both with prep)[/ul]</p>

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<p>Bump! :] Thank you to 20 people for reading this, though no responses hrm… I’d chance you back but as a Junior my views may be skewed!</p>

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<p>i’m a junior too and can’t accurately chance you, BUT I would like to say that my school has no honors/AP option for Gov as well. It won’t hurt your chances unless your school offered them and you chose not to take them.</p>

<p>we’re applying to the same schools though, good luck!!</p>

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<p>Ah thanks for your response!
It’s really annoying not being able to take Gov/Econ Honors, and though I could take it over the summer at a community college and get an extra point for that, my school again limits you to taking one class at community college soo that’s impractical as well ://
But good luck for you in the coming year!</p>

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<p>your grades and extracurriculars look really good! your projected SAT is a little low for a lot of the schools you’re considering, but since you didn’t prepare and got those scores anyway it shouldn’t be a problem. just try to get a 2200+ on the SAT and keep up the good work! :)</p>

<p>chance me back?
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1057918-please-tell-me-if-im-right-safety-match-reach-will-chance-back-links.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1057918-please-tell-me-if-im-right-safety-match-reach-will-chance-back-links.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Go read the Yale SCEA results thread and decide for yourself. I would say that your profile matches the deferred and the rejected more than the accepted.</p>