Yale chances?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Yale University
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<p>I've been to Yale several times as a kid and a few times during middle school and I loved every inch of the campus and the feeling of being in it. I remember ****ing off my uncle since I would always ask him to drive me to Yale on the weekends; he was a Cornell Professor. Anyway, I've been getting mixed responses from all three of my high school counselors so I decided to give CC a try</p>

<p>ACADEMICS
Medical magnet high school, ranked 40-some on newsweek. Pretty competitive.
SAT: 2170
ACT: 34
GPA: 96.9/100 (setbacks: grandfather's funeral, grandma's surgery and chemo follow up, all in the Philippines. Left school for a total of 4 weeks and had little time to make up work junior year)
Rank: 8/165 (setback: only kid in school taking Calculus II; it's not even offered on campus. I go to a medical magnet and I have to go to our district's engineering magnet to take that class. Ridiculously unforgiving teacher. I have a C 1st quarter senior year)
AP 5/5/5/4/3</p>

<p>DEMOGRAPHICS
Ethnicity: Filipino (does it matter what kind of asian?)
Region: South Texas, Rio Grande Valley. Not the richest part of the US. A skip away from the border.
Status: Perm. Resident, lived in US for 5.5 years total. Moved from philippines when i was in 7th grade
Languages: English, Spanish, Filipino, Ibanag</p>

<p>EXTRACURRICULARS
Student Council; Treasurer Jr. Year; Vice-President Sr. Year
KRGV-TV Masterminds (college-bowl type competition; 1st runner up, team captain)
Health Occupations Students of America (Advanced to Nationals)
National Honor Society; Member Jr. Sr. year (no faculty council my first two years; lazy principal)
National Technical Honor Society; Member Soph/Jr. Year. President Sr. Year
Senior Class Treasurer; former Sophomore class Vice-President
Founder: Med High AP Tutorial Initiative
VIVA National Peer Tutor; soph, jr. sr. year
University Interscholastic League; State 6th place overall science (freshman year) District 1st place science, persuasive speaking, social studies (freshman year), State 2nd place biology (Junior year)
Newman Institute; Diocese of Brownsville - World Youth Day coordinator and youth correspondent
Instituto Cervantes Manila; Auxiliary tutor jr, sr year
Pianist; working on Liszt's La Campanella; finished Beethoven's Appasionata 3rd movt
Organist, San Cristobal Magallanes Parish</p>

<p>MISCELLANEA
AP Scholar with Distinction
Assisted (not observed, assisted) in Ovarian Mass Resection (video and picture documentation and write-up included) University of Sto. Tomas, Manila.
Couples for Christ Gawad Kalinga charity program; built houses in Philipine landfills and drove through slums giving food while parents gave medical services. annualy since 7th grade
Rice University/Baylor College of Medicine DocPrep participant
MD ANderson Cancer Research Center Symposium invitee and participant</p>

<p>AP's
AP Calculus BC (only one in high school taking it)
AP Physics B
AP Macro/AP Gov't
AP English Comp/AP English Lit
AP World Hist/AP US Hist
AP Biology
AP Chem</p>

<p>Boy, that's an incomplete looking list.</p>

<p>Anything else you guys need to know?</p>

<p>I'm pretty scared. Yale's at a tie for first choice with Stanford, another university close to my childhood and persona</p>

<p>So....chance me?</p>

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<p>I think your chances are decent - you should definitely apply, if you haven’t already. Your ACT score is great, GPA is good as well (although the C might be a little bit of a problem - I’m not sure how they will view it, and it also depends how the grade changes as the year progresses) and your extra-curiculars/ (especially) awards are also good.</p>

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<p>thanks man
yeah i was freaking out about that C…theres no use trying to change it tho…
i mean, I’m pretty sure the counselor would tag on a “he’s the only one taking it. most rigorous in school. most.” comment
but i dunno if that’ll offset the only C ive ever had</p>

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<p>Obviously, taking Calc II when it is not offered shows great commitment, and that you are willing/capable of excelling beyond what is expected of you. With that said, there are a lot of other applicants to Yale who are in similar situations (or even farther ahead) and are getting A’s… Its not an “ideal” situation, but it is possible that the rest of your app could overshadow/outweigh the weakness</p>

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<p>mmm…makes sense.
i’m praying that I can force my second quarter and sem exam grades to push Calc II to the B range and have weights maybe bring it up even more…
thanks a lot man</p>

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<p>I should probably update with subject test scores</p>

<p>SAT II
Lit - 740
Math II - 770
Bio M -780</p>

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<p>Did you get innnnn???</p>

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<p>You’re able to click on a poster’s name and then go down to “Find more posts by ___” to look at everything they’ve put on CC. Based on what I can see, the OP did not get into Yale and instead ended up at Vanderbilt</p>

<p>EDIT: You shouldn’t be surprised that the OP didn’t get in if you were concerned about that. If you’re unhooked and don’t have some amazing ECs/accomplishments/awards that make you stand out, then you’d probably need phenomenal raw stats (GPA/rank, test scores, etc). This was not the case for the OP. He wouldn’t have really stood out in the applicant pool</p>

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<p>Vanderbilt is still a very good school. I am banking for Princeton or Yale, but I also be ecstatic to get into Rice!!</p>

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<p>Please use old threads for information only, don’t post and resurrect them.</p>