gibby
February 10, 2015, 10:59pm
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@adrianmcafee15 : Welcome to College Confidential!
As a new poster, you probably missed this post from an MIT Admissions Director. Although the post is about MIT, everything in it applies to Yale, as well: http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/massachusetts-institute-technology/939227-reminder-no-one-not-even-me-can-give-you-an-accurate-chance-at-mit-p1.html
No one on this forum, not even me, can give you a meaningful chance.
Why?
Because the factors of admissions that can be readily apprehended in a forum post (GPA, SAT scores, etc) are in many ways the least important in our process.
Because listing the school you go to or EC's you are involved in does not communicate the degree to which you are a vibrant member of the community, does not communicate what your coaches or teachers or mentors will say about you, and those are the things we care about.
Because it does not include any information about the interview, which is another critical insight into the candidacy of any prospective applicant.
Because a forums post cannot communicate the complexity of an applicant's life story, circumstances, and so forth; even if they were to replicate all the answers to their essay questions, we still have additional data external to the application that we consider in understanding an applicant's context.
Because of a billion other reasons along the way.
I understand that chancing may be fun, or a way to blow off steam, or just something to do because we haven’t made the app available yet. I don’t want anyone who isn’t aware of this to be misled into thinking that CC chances are accurate or meaningful in any way (they aren’t and could never be!).
I’m sure you’re a wonderful applicant, as are the thousands of students who are rejected every year. Admissions Officers use essays and teacher recommendations to help them distinguish between one high performing applicant and another – and we are not the ones reading those. The only true way to really know your chances, is to toss your application into the ring and see what happens. Best of luck to you.