<p>I'm a sports guy, but I will not be recruited by yale, i know this. I now have a 34 on the ACT and an A average and have taken every hard class offered without exception. I haven't published any novels, or awarded any accolades from colleges themselves. i am in a fair amount of school club type stuff, and have gotten a few school based awards. i also have spectacular ("it's not braggin if it's true") recc. from my guidance counselor, 2 teachers and an outside source. I also have really good essays. however, i'm not an URM. do i have any shot at yale RD?</p>
<p>Well, my only example is a friend:</p>
<p>4.0 UW GPA (never got a B, took 7 AP's overall and got straight 5's on the exams)
800 Verbal
800 Writing
760? Math (around that)
Fluent in French, can read Cicero in Latin</p>
<p>Yale rejected her.</p>
<p>a.) u only mentioned her pro's, not her con's
b.) that's only one person out of the thousands who apply. not everyone who deserve it get it
c.) joker you'll definite won't make it in if you don' apply.</p>
<p>Well, obviously you know that your ECs are your personal cons. Do you have a hook? For example, will your essay be outstanding? Are you the first person in your class to pilot a plane across the Atlantic? Did you build a new sewer system for a Guatemalan refugee camp?</p>
<p>Without this, you don't stand out--which is kind of needed at Yale. But, obviously good grades and good test scores are a start (along with decent recommendations)--so consider what you can do about the ECs/hooks/sports category.</p>
<p>You have as much of a shot as anybody, but have backup plans. Also, pay special attention to the application as a whole. Try to make it hang together to give them a picture of you as a real person that they would be interested in.</p>
<p>To say the OP has as much of a chance as anybody is just silly. With school level awards and no hooks, he has little chance.</p>
<p>bump......</p>
<p>I meant he has as much chance as anybody without a hook, just good grades. Make the application package the best you can, and look at other schools, too.</p>