<p>No one is denying his incredible stats.</p>
<p>Everyone tends to say "Everyone has those scores," to people with 2300+ or perfect SATs. It bothers me too, since this comment is usually not even brought up to someone with mid-2200s.</p>
<p>It's cliche to me now, but maybe I've browsed through too many chance threads.</p>
<p>those collegeboard stats are based on single test scores arent they? If so, alot more than 480 would have 2390+ when superscored, which yale does do. In any case though, the op's son will have a better chance than most of us here</p>
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<p>I suggest you search Yale's old SCEA and Regular Decision threads from the class of 2011. Many applicants posted their scores, ECs, and grades along with their admissions results. From what I've seen, students of your son's caliber generally do get accepted. There have been instances where they do not however, whether the rejection may be due to poor essays or poor recs, etc otherwise.</p>
<p>My GC supposes I have a good shot EA, though my SAT score is 100 pts. below your son's. I do, however, take advanced Greek and I have published in a medical journal, so I don't know how much those factor into his thinking. It sounds like your kid was groomed for Yale - exactly what they don't want to see. That said, he's bright, I'm sure, and has all the stats. Good luck to him, my competition. As for me, I didn't get an interview, so all doesn't bode well over here.</p>
<p>Again thanks for all the input., positive or negative...just to let everyone know, My son is not a privileged boy. He is the son of a HS teacher and a stay at home mom. We are from very humble means.We value education highly. He was born with a gift, and as a parent I want to make sure he gets every advantage to foster those gifts.He was blessed to get into one of the finest HS programs in country.His passion is Politics,national as well as international. He has worked hand in hand with a US Senator candidate as well as our town's First Selectman.</p>
<p>He will be applying to several schools in the coming weeks, so we hope and pray for the best for our son :)</p>
<p>Good luck. Sounds like tough competition.</p>
<p>Wow. impressive scores. I think that the way you presented his ECs here is not overly impressive, but, as someone mentioned, if you organized them and highlighted certain interests, they would be excellent. Good luck.</p>
<p>Your son has scores that are far more impressive than those of many people Yale will admit. Some of those people will be the children of alumni; some will be the children of rich people whose largess the development office wishes to divert to Yale. Some will be the children of Yale professors. Others will be recruited squash players. Some will be members of unrepresented minorities. </p>
<p>At some Ivy League schools, the percentage of seats remaining for "un-hooked candidates" is 40%. (See "The Price of Admission," by Daniel Golden, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal.)</p>
<p>Your son's test scores are of course outstanding, well above the average for Yale. So were mine, a few decades ago when I applied to Yale as a first-generation college student, with impressive (to me, at any rate) ECs, and grades that put me in the top six percent of a competitive public high school class. Yale rejected me. They may or may not reject your son. I am much more confident about his chances in life than I am about his chances at Yale. He may get in. But his future success does not depend on it.</p>