<p>who here applied to yale regular decision?</p>
<p>i heard yale accepts around 30 canadians every year so i just want to know what the competition is like...</p>
<p>i applied to yale early action, got deferred, so im in the pool for regular action</p>
<p>harvard also accepts 30 applicants, but you should realize that there are a lot of cross admits because generally yale/harvard/princeton are all looking for the same things</p>
<p>can u post ur stats? </p>
<p>for that matter, can canadians who have applied to yale post up their stats so we all no what we’re up against?</p>
<p>Deferred</p>
<p>Stats:
SAT: 2230 - Math 740 - CR 740 - Writing - 750
SAT II: Math Lvl 2 760 - Bio E 780 - Literature 730
ACT: -
GPA: 93%(combining all courses from grade 9-12)
Rank: School doesn’t rank but above 10% for sure
Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB):
Subjective
Essays: Ok essays… not hopeful for Yale becuase I updated my essays HEAVILY for other schools…
Teacher Recs: One was exceptional(best student in 30 years of teaching), the other was pretty good.
Counselor Rec: Good
Supplementary Material:
Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize):
Personal
Location: Toronto, Canada
High School Type: Public
Ethnicity: South Asian
Gender M
Other
Extracurriculars: president/founder of youth in action club which is trying to build a school in sri lanka(raised 5500$+ so far)(2 years), president/co-founder of DECA(4 years), vice-president of muslim student association(4 years)
Awards: Small community awards
Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?:</p>
<p>my essays for yale were relatively weak. i am definitely more hopeful for harvard.</p>
<p>there’s gotta be more than just pakalypse that applied to yale on here. kelloggs, can u post ur stats? wanna see what the CC canadians applying to top schools have as stats</p>
<p>and kelloggs, what did you likely letter say? is it just a generic letter, or do they personalize it? (for Columbia)</p>
<p>!! kellogg posted stats sometime ago at ‘your stats plsease’ thread just as pakalypse did. </p>
<p>-> <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/canada/817219-your-stats-please-canadians-aiming-us-schools-7.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/canada/817219-your-stats-please-canadians-aiming-us-schools-7.html</a></p>
<p>damn, kelloggs, if you don’t get into AT LEAST 2/3 of those schools then something is wrong. lol, now I get why you got that likely letter from Columbia lol well deserved</p>
<p>haha thanks for the encouragement viggy. </p>
<p>also, the likely letter is just a generic letter. u can see a version of the letter on the columbia thread in the thread started by pigs<em>at</em>sea.</p>
<p>good luck on ur sats!</p>
<p>^yea, I saw that one that pigs posted. And dude, its not even encouragement, I’m saying it for real. You SHOULD get into the majority of the schools you apply to. Your stats are awesome, and what impressed me the most was that you played on the high school team for basketball as well. Balancing that with academics, research, SAT and all that stuff is a real accomplishment. I say your in at Cornell for sure, Penn, Columbia, Hopkins, Brown, and probably yale and Dart. too. Idk if Caltech is a state school, but Berkeley is so you never know what they do with Canadian apps. Stanford is ridiculously hard to get into, but I mean, you obviously have a legit. shot, but the other ones…I say your a match.</p>
<p>btw Kelloggs, did you apply for FA? And what are you thinking of majoring in?</p>
<p>also, kelloggs, kinda curious…I know you did that sci fair project and won gold and it was unreal…but for me, I would never be able to to such a thing. What can I do to get major awards? Like, the only thing I could do is take high school baseball seriously instead of treating it as a joke and make All-District, but like academically, I have no awards (besides school subject/overall awards). </p>
<p>Oh and kelloggss, what uni. did you do the research at? I want to do some at UWindsor (closest to me), but i’m not sure if they’d let me. If I know where you did research, then I’d know where I could get involved as well (ie. if you did it at a uni. that means I should be allowed to too). I actually want to do some stem cell research or cancer research. If possible, I’d like to do some fibromyalgia research as it is a problem that has affected my family and i’d like to learn more through research about it.</p>
<p>And pakalypse. Yale is SCEA right? What other top/good schools have EA? I would apply to Yale next year SCEA, but I don’t want to ruin chances at applying to other schools EA (especially BS-MD program schools that have the EA option, if that’s a possibility).</p>
<p>the_pakalypse, I doubt you’re getting into harvard</p>
<p>@viggy</p>
<p>again, thanks for that confidence lift. i really want to get into yale. its been my dream since like grade 7…</p>
<p>i’m thinking of majoring in bio/politics (then kinda combining the 2 into a kind of medical policy sort of thing)</p>
<p>as for my research, i research at the university of alberta. my mentor is totally awesome so i get to do alot of the high end research projects (not just the basic ones). i think research definitely helps. i sent in a research paper to all the schools i applied to and i think i’ll help me alot down the line.</p>
<p>and pakalypse</p>
<p>u really cant be sure bout top ivies till u get a decision. that being said, u have a decent chance.</p>
<p>lol wow that was harsh
i admit my stats arent spectacular, but stranger things have happened
especially since i doubt the applicant pool(at least from canada) can consist of 30 people with near kellogg’s stats lol</p>
<p>We do have a lot of smart kids in Canada. 6 IMO finalists are canadian. I’m sure the cross applicants from Mac Health Sci (those who get in) and any ivy league applicants will also have spectacular stats. The bleak reality is that the applicant pool can be tough.</p>
<p>i agree with darksoulz.</p>
<p>in my opinion, far fewer canadians use collegeconfidential. so not nearly as many stacked canadian applicants show up on cc. this often gives the false impression that the canadian pool is not as competitive as the american pool</p>
<p>i think its far more competitive for us canadians…
this is y i regret not applying for the green card 10 years ago…</p>
<p>yeah its probably better to be prepared for the harsh reality, but hell, if i get accepted to any of the schools i applied to in the states, ill be ecstatic 
regardless i think the subjective/what you cant see on cc matters much more than we think. case in point, i remember reading about a canadian on cc with 98 percent ib average(predicted score of 44/45) being rejected by ALL the schools he applied to the in the states… and he had some pretty good ec’s too</p>
<p>its too late to worry or change anything now, we just have to be patient!</p>
<p>edit:
found the guy, really shows u how sporadic the admissions can be :S… i wonder where he ended up
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/681434-official-harvard-university-2013-decisions-thread-2.html#post1062182555[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/harvard-university/681434-official-harvard-university-2013-decisions-thread-2.html#post1062182555</a></p>
<p>^Queen’s Commerce, I PMed him before. I was absolutely shocked about him not getting in anywhere as well</p>
<p>@kelloggs, hell, we applied for green card forever ago…FINALLY think I’ll get it by 1st year of university! man, just one year earlier would’ve made all the diff. in the world…</p>
<p>well, if ur talking about canadianftw…</p>
<p>his sat scores are 2220…thats barely enough to get into cornell let alone harvard. unfortunately for us canadians, the schools doubt our school gpas simply because they are so unfamiliar with the canadian ways of assessment. thus, the schools rely alot on standardized testing scores. I think this is very unfortunate since sat scores a far far worse indicators of a student’s actual level of achievement. </p>
<p>however, the bleak reality is this…so, all in all, its not surprising he got rejected. i’ve seen people with 4.0, 2400, 5s in 10 ap courses get rejected.</p>
<p>^^ see kellogs i used to think the same thing, until my friend(from my school. i think first ivy admit ever?), got accepted to upenn/wharton with a 2090… his CR score was 610… i kid you not, 610… an ASIAN with a 610 CR score = kiss of death on these forums… but his overall hs average was 97% so I guess that played a part as well :P</p>
<p>haha, yeah
u never no with ivies.
maybe he had some hook?
or just he had superb essays…</p>