<p>@Scottie2014 re “Not great at selling myself either.”</p>
<p>Disclosure: I am biased and this bias predated my getting to know a few dozen Y students and a dozen H students. I’ll say that my impression is that the kids who sell themselves tend to favor (and are favored by) H. Y kids tend to be more unassuming.</p>
<p>This might be unfair, but my pro-Y and softly meh-H bias stems from my working years, when I worked with many well-educated people. It was unusual to meet a Harvard grad who didn’t let you know that in the first half hour, whereas it wasn’t until last week at the gym when a Yale grad let me know that he had attended Y, after knowing him for a few years and only because he’d asked how my son was doing.</p>
<p>I am overstating the difference. I have met some humble H students and some braggart Y students. There are H kids that my son gets along with and some Y students that he doesn’t care for. But, for overall fit, I don’t think I’m misstating anything. </p>
<p>Hey guys I also applied to Yale early. I’m from a developing country. The only problem I have is my ACT score (upper 20’s), apart from that I have flawless grades and am a member of my country’s crew team (although i’m not recruited). Do you guys think I have a shot?</p>
<p>chives, all international students are in the toughest competition pools – with multiple high 30s being rejected. Honestly, your shot is extremely extremely small.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t go far as saying your chances are extremely small, but the other parts of your app will need to compensate BIGTIME for that low score. </p>
<p>I say this because I have seen people in my native Zimbabwe get into pretty much every ivy including our very own Yale with SAT scores of as low as 1810. Now I don’t know how a score of 1810 compares to an ACT score in the high 20s. But my point is a low standardized test score is not the END, if you have stellar essays, transcripts and EC. Personally I think all you have to worry about is the overall 6% admit rate.</p>
<p>@T26E4 and @Blueintheeyes my act equates to around a 1950 on the SAT. My grades are straight A’s and I have the toughest subjects. I have a rec from a professor at Yale who I’ve worked with as well. I lost my father so it was just me and my mom who I had to take care of as she wasn’t well as well and hence was unable to work. So considering that all other things are good. Do I still have a chance?</p>
<p>@chives123 1950 is slightly low for yale, but I’ve heard of students with even lower scores being admitted. you just need a hook that really makes your app shine if you want them to overlook that score.</p>
<p>@VSGPeanut101 My friend had an interview for Yale and her interviewer told her they are only accepting one Connecticut student early…which seems very odd </p>
<p>@p0tatoes, I would take that with a grain of salt. It is unlikely that the interviewer has any real knowledge of what the admissions committee will do. It seems more likely she is relating an anecdote based on “last year I heard only one CT student got in early”. Which may or may not be true.<br>
I am an alumnus of a school with a little higher acceptance rate, and the past few years during/after application season I’ve heard from my classmates how sad they are that none of the great kids they interviewed got accepted. It is natural for interviewers to feel invested in the handful of young people they meet, and they are notified later about the admissions decisions for the kids they interview. So this interviewer was probably passing on some anecdotal info based on those prior years’ reports.</p>
<p>Yeah @p0tatoes I don’t think thats possible. Out of an early class of almost 800, i don’t see how they would purposefully limit themselves to one kid from connecticut - doesn’t seem likely. Although it is interesting that the interviewer said that outright…</p>
<p>@pOtatoes: this is a parlor game: telephone. And you’re the recipient of much inaccurate info:</p>
<p>1) no interviewer on this planet (incl the admissions staff) knows about any limits of #s of ED accepts. It’s simply impossible.
2) there are no hard limits of ED accepts from any one area. Goals yes. Hard quota? No.
3) CT admits tons b/c of great schools & many fac brat hook admissions.
4) alum interviewers know almost nothing about the pool of applicants. It’s supposed to be that way.</p>
<p>I asked this question before but didn’t get a response: If my counselor faxed my previous ACT score reports will they show up on my Eli Account? I don’t see them on there and he faxed them a few weeks ago. I’m just very nervous!</p>
<p>Hmm @kylieq3 did your counselor put the required information at the tops of the forms? I believe there is something that you have to put on top of each faxed item.</p>
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