Yale chances for a silly junior...

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Hello, I’m a HS junior in the US Northeast in a pretty privileged area, want to apply SCEA next year, please chance me…

GPA: This is my biggest weak spot, 8th and 9th grade were lazy for me, straight A’s soph year and so far this year, will end junior year with a probable 3.88 - 3.92

SAT: 2350
ACT: 35

SAT II: Math Level 2: 800
Math Level 1: 800

AP World: 4
AP Environmental (Self studied at end of soph yr): 5

Still taking many AP exams and maybe SAT IIs at end of this yr

This year course load:
AP Chem
AP Calc BC (took precalc 1 & 2 over the summer at a summer school, transferred over to transcript. A.)
AP Comp Sci
AP English Language
AP USH
AP Statistics
Spanish V

Next year will be rigorous

ECs:

  • President of yearbook
  • Quiz bowl team
  • FIRST Robotics
  • Will be president of mock trial next yr. Been in it since 10th.
  • President of my grade last year and this year.
  • I speak at schools in a program that a charity offers for a disorder that my family is affected by (little brother)
  • Founded a 501(c)(3) for that disorder. We've raised ~$2,300 but I will raise more.
  • Founder and president of club in my school supporting my charity and planning fund raisers etc.
  • In the works of writing and publishing a childrens' book about that disorder
  • NHS
  • Chess club
  • Peer tutoring, a lot of it

Awards:

  • Geometry academic award
  • Chemistry academic award
  • Algebra 2/trigonometry academic award
  • my NHD paper is doing well, I may make it pretty far
  • got really far in mock trial states

White, no legacy, parents went to Brandeis and GW. No one else in my grade is looking at colleges like these (my school actually is competitive, I have a really dumb grade)

High income bracket.

I love Yale and UPenn. How’s it looking? I know Princeton doesn’t look at 8th and 9th grade, which gives me a 4.0 in their eyes, I need to visit them and see if I like them, but I think I will. Maybe them? I don’t think I’m good enough to get in there.

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Eighth grade does not go on a high school transcript so it is irrelevant. You could not have done so bad freshman year if your GPA is as high as you say it is now. Your stats look like the vast majority of students that apply to YHP and Stanford. You will have the same 6% chance of admission as they will. Good luck.

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8th grade does get looked at if you took high school courses then. My algebra 1 was on my high school transcript even though I took it in 8th grade.

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@Zmanlane‌ is right, @Tperry1982‌. I took three high school classes in 8th.

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Okay, they may be on your transcript. But trust me, the top tier schools are not giving much weight to something you took in the 8th grade and may just recalculate your GPA without those grades. What I would do is what you are doing, continue getting good grades for the rest of your high school career. Those 8th grade classes are ultimately not make that much difference.

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I attended the same school from 7th through now (I am a second term senior), and took high school math in 8th grade but unlike some of the earlier posters, it does not show up on my high school transcript. My high school transcript only shows the courses I took once I entered 9th grade, so I guess the convention is school-specific and you should check with your guidance/college counselor as to what yours does.

Not sure why you would think that Princeton and other Ivys do not look at 9th grade courses and grades – my GPA does include 9th grade and my transcript shows both my first and second semester 9th grade courses/grades. But if you show upward grade improvement, that is better than the alternative.

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Of course they look at 9th grade - that is high school. What was said is that most are not going to factor what occurred in 8th grade, not matter what “high school classes” they student took.