<p>white jewish male
upscale los angeles
public high school, top 3 public in region</p>
<p>GPA = ~4.4 weighted, ~3.89 unweighted
SAT = 2230 (770W + 750CR + 710M)
RANK = top 5%ish?</p>
<p>AP = 5/5/5/5
SAT II = Lit 770, World History 750, US History 770
Senior schedule: 4 APs (so 9 total for all 4 years)</p>
<p>Extra curricular =
-school newspaper / journalism (4 years) head editor etc. we won awards across state lines. i was very involved with this EC.
-model united nations, was involved
-volunteer hospital 500+ hours
+some other random stuff</p>
<p>Work = I have worked for a professional newspaper man and wrote articles about sports.</p>
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<li>I posted a youtube question for nancy pelosi and it was asked to her live on CNN. might mention this.</li>
</ul>
<p>Counselor recommendation = my family knows him very well
Teacher recommendations = excellent indeed
Essay = I talk about my medical condition which causes pain and then talk pain in general. that's why i have few sports etc. it's an extremely, extremely good essay.</p>
<p>My application is getting professional help so I'm putting a good spin on it.
What are my chances for Yale SCEA?</p>
<p>Probably not great. SATs are well below their 75th percentile where the unhooked want to be, Just 5% would be a low rank and very average ECs won’t help. Bottom line is they get many much stronger applicants from CA. Probably even from your own HS.</p>
<p>You can’t say you’re a national merit finalist because those don’t come out till March–at best, you’re a Semifinalist. Just pointing that out to you so you don’t make that same mistake on your app- adcoms will know for sure.</p>
<p>Your SAT/GPA are only about average, and California is a veryy competitive state. Your ECs are pretty good, some good leadership stuff, but don’t jump out or anything. And your essay–talking about your medical condition–could come off as whiny if you don’t pull it off right Just saying…
You will probably be deferred or rejected SCEA- you seem like a great, well rounded applicant, but Yale will have applicants with much more impressive scores and ECs they can accept.</p>
<p>Well my essay has a great positive spin about endurance and it ties into some other things. And yeah thanks for pointing out the Semifinalist thing, my mistake.</p>
<p>Any other chances? Most people I know tell me that I have great chances… Should I get my hopes up?</p>
<p>Honestly? No. Most people don’t have a clue. All they need to do is look at a common data set and know what they’re reading for to see how few unhooked get into Yale with a 710 math score.</p>
<p>I’m accused of being brutal, but your chances are factually not good and you need to look at the facts and start putting your energy behind the many great schools you’re likely to get into.</p>
<p>What people don’t realize is Yale is the second best school in the nation… You have great stats. You’ll probably get in the lower ivies with relative ease, but the jump from say brown to yale is pretty huge. They can pick and choose just about any student. Without any real hook, your chances are looking pretty slim.</p>
<p>^True. Cornell still looks like a low reach to me though. I think you should go for the Cornell, Duke, U-Chicago kinds of schools as your reaches.</p>
<p>come on everyone tells me i have amazing chances. national merit and good scores etc.</p>
<p>maybe the subjective factors of my application will be enough to get me in? our journalism group is going to national competitions again. we ranked in the top 10 last year we’re doing amazing. my teachers and counselor love me and i’m putting a really great app together imo</p>
<p>also I’m applying to princeton and stanford etc. will at least one of these top universities take me?</p>
<p>Yale DEFINITELY is not the second best school in the nation.
NWdivisionChamps, Ever heard of Princeton and Harvard? </p>
<p>EC and SAT scores are very weak. A 2230 is like average. </p>
<p>You posted a youtube question and it was asked to Nancy pelosi… Really? What proof do you have of this? What does this say about you? that you are lucky? Good luck selling that to the Adcom.</p>
<p>I also realized you have no leaderships. This is highly problematic as Yale’s goal is to raise the future leaders of America (think about all those presidents).</p>
<p>“come on everyone tells me i have amazing chances. national merit and good scores etc.”</p>
<p>You ask people to chance you and now you’re basically saying that everyone’s opinions (especially those of hmom5 - whom you should most be listening to) are invalid? You’re clearly quite ignorant, as are those telling you that you have amazing chances.</p>
<p>You don’t have amazing chances in any way. There are many, many stronger applicants than you from CA. Your SAT score isn’t great, your ECs are average, and your class rank isn’t all too hot either.</p>
<p>I agree with most of the above posters.
As unhooked, try aiming for schools you would have a better chance at…possible Northwestern communications? U Chicago? UVA? Emory?
All of the top top schools see thousands of applicants just like you, and better unhooked. Its tough to say you’re a match for any.</p>
Just saying…