Hey all! I just got off the waitlist for Yale Young Global Scholars Summer Progran and I am extremely stoked to have been taken off the waitlist. However I also got into LaunchX which is a tech entrepreneurial summer program and have paid the nonrefundable down payment of $2500 already. Is YYGS worth abandoning LaunchX since I’ve heard that 30% of YYGS attendees go on to attend Yale and it is also my dream school?
FWIW, I have two friends whose DD both got into YYGS (not through WL), one went there with their scholarship (I think it was need-based?) and her comments about the program was “if I had to pay for it, then it didn’t really worth it”. (Not a very high praise in my mind). The other loved it.
Both applied Yale Early, neither got in. One is at MIT, the other at UVA. Two data points.
I think you should go to the program that you think you will enjoy the most. And if 30% of YYGS alumni got into Yale, it did not mean a YYGS alumnus will have a 30% of chance of getting into Yale. These are two different things. Those 30% will get into Yale with or without YYGS experience.