<p>i saw that a thread like this had been made for some years in the past but not others... i thought it might be fun!</p>
<p>what are all of you good people doing with your summer?</p>
<p>Debating whether I should SCEA to Yale :D</p>
<p>It’s refreshing to speak to other SCEA hopefuls! I’m currently in Peru on a volunteer and traveling program.</p>
<p>After coming home from chamber music camp, boring things - drivers’ ed, Calc 3 class at local university. Visiting Yale at the end of the month!</p>
<p>Just finished a mission trip and debating whether it’s best to SCEA to Yale.</p>
<p>I would love to SCEA to Yale but I don’t know. I have started on my supplement essays however. I’m exited!! Anyone else start on common app/ supplement essays?</p>
<p>I’m counseloring at a camp I’ve gone to for many years, super fun and rewarding. Yale is definitely my first choice! Maybe get to know you guys throughout the process and hopefully at Yale!</p>
<p>Blah, this is already stressing me out. I’ve already finished my Common App essay - it’s 540 words. I’ve been doing research and volunteering at piano conventions and attending college to take Calc and Music Theory 
Pretty fun, I gotta say.</p>
<p>I can’t visit Yale :/, but I’m probably gonna apply SCEA to see what happens.</p>
<p>Yale is my dream school. It’s so perfect, but I’m debating whether or not to go SCEA because if I don’t get in it’ll be a cold winter day without the cushion of other acceptances and RD would be completely different. But anyway, I was working for the first two months and soon I’m gonna start an internship forty hours a week at this non profit organization for art in my city.</p>
<p>I’m applying SCEA this fall! </p>
<p>This summer I’m doing tons of physician shadowing and working on my Extended Essay (an IB thing).</p>
<p>Hi, you guys! Finally a class of 2017 thread! I hope to know better most of you during these months, I think it will be fun and comforting for most of us
Yale is my dream school, but I’m an international so I think I can’t really have SAT subjects ready for November 
Otherwise I guess I should take the ACT alone, but it seems a bad idea since most of the applicants will have them (and they will have outstanding scores) I don’t know what to do!</p>
<p>If you take the ACT and get an excellent score, and if you also have strong grades in various subjects, the subject tests might be superfluous unless required for other colleges. Other schools that I’m applying to require SAT Subject tests, so I’m taking them anyways.</p>
<p>How has everyone who has visited liked the campus?</p>
<p>I liked it a lot. The diversity of the buildings is excellent, and they tend to be gorgeous as well. Also, it felt like the campus was a beautiful, miniature city-within-a-city, which added to the appeal. Basically, I have a huge crush on Yale.</p>
<p>@earthdancer7 I’m going to take the SAT subjects anyway because I have colleges that require them, too; I was just thinking about SCEA at Yale… I mean, it would be AWESOME to have a response in December! I would take SAT subjects in Latin (in my school in Italy we have to do 5 hours of it weekly .__. so I think I can take a very high score) and maybe I can take the advantage of SAT Italian since, well, I could score an 800, but I don’t know if it is fair. My grades are good, but my junior year was definitely not outstanding because of some health issues and, in fact, I’m really really worried about admissions (I’m not saying that they are so bad, but not so high as well). So, I thought to wait RD to have better grades in my senior year, but Yale website says that they don’t require transcripts from international students and I have also to consider that it costs a lot to translate them. Argh, I’m so confused. The fact is that I want to be admitted so badly!
Where else you are going to apply ?</p>
<p>@KupLor97
I know exactly what you mean! I want to be admitted so badly too, but I’m really scared about Yale’s “send all scores” policy because I got a 590 on the SAT ll and aside from wanting to be an English major, I’ll graduate highschool with 11 English credits because of different creative writing credits required at my magnet program. Sure, I’ll retake it, but I’m scared of how bad it looks and Yale is my dream school. But to answer the where else we’re applying question, Brown and UChicago are definitely on my list so far. Being a bulldog is the dream though.</p>
<p>Avalde4@ I don’t think 590 will hurt you that way if you retake it and have other great things on your application, especially the essays etc! In which subject was the test? Literature?
Anyway, in the results threads here in CC I saw a guy who got in with a 2.50ish GPA and no outstanding scores. That’s definitely not common, but what I mean by that is: the most important thing is do the best you can and prove to Yale that you are special! So don’t worry about the 590, just try to fix it with another SATs or just retaking it.</p>
<p>@KupLor94 Yes, it was in literature. And thank you for the faith! I’ll probably retake it in November. But I’m still not sure if I’ll go SCEA just because a single rejection from my dream school would be harder to deal with than a rejection cushioned by other acceptances.
What do you guys think about the pros and cons of SCEA?</p>
<p>I am definitely applying to Oberlin, Case (for my dad), and Dartmouth, and maybe Harvard or Princeton as well(but not likely). Possibly applying to Miami University and Ohio State because they are the better public universities in the state.</p>
<p>Hey! I’m definitely applying to Yale, being utterly in love with the school, but I’m not sure if I’ll do SCEA. My SAT scores were good but not really Yale-quality accept for critical reading so I’d like to retake them, plus I’m an intern on a political campaign and trying to fill out a college application right before Election Day would be close to insane. Does anyone know if SCEA helps your chances of getting in? I know the admissions people will say no, but I’m not sure if I believe them…I’m thinking on balance higher SAT scores will be better for my chances than any advantage I’d get from SCEA, but I’d like to get everyone’s thoughts.</p>
<p>I have FINALLY narrowed down my list of schools to a neat 10! In addition to Yale, I’ll be applying to Princeton, Columbia, Brown, Georgetown, Chicago, Claremont McKenna College, George Washington, American University and Florida State. I have written a possible Common App essay but don’t know if I’ll use it.</p>