Yale SCEA chances?

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<p>Waiting for the results are pretty much killing me. So, if anyone could, what would my chances at Yale be?</p>

<p>Indian, male, Senior.
SAT Superscore: 2240 (780 Math, 740 Writing w/Essay 11, 720 writing; 2200 first time, 2210 second time)
SAT Subject tests: 790 Math II, 770 Chem., 750 US History, 700 Lit.
ACT: 33 w/Essay8 (36 math, 36 english, 31 science, 30 writing <-- I believe that was the category...)
Rank: 1 out of 800
Unweighted GPA: 4.00 every semester
Weighted GPA: This semester - 5.00. Past 3 years combined - 4.67
AP Tests: 5 on Chem., 5 on Englis Lang. and Comp., 4 on APUSH, 4 on Stats.
National Merit Commendation
CSUSB Presidential Academic Excellence Scholar (For being in top 1% of my school)
JV and Varsity Scholar Athlete for 2 years.
Student of the Month in November of Freshman Year.
AP Scholar with Honor award
I'm taking 5 AP classes and 1 Honors class this semester, and 6 AP Classes next semester.
I skipped the latter half of 3rd grade, and the former half of 4th grade.
Applied for Biomed engineering at Yale with Physics as an alternate.</p>

<p>ECs: 4th year in JV/V Tennis. Have also played in tournaments and will continue to play whilst in college, and in my free time.
4th year in Science Olympiad w/ 8 Regionals Medals. Treasurer Junior and Senior Year, along with Team 3 Freshman year, and Team 1 Sophomore, Junior, and Senior Year (the team that represents us at State)
3rd year in Rotary Interact Club. Co-president this year and last year
3rd year in Link Crew.
3rd year in Academic Decathlon. 2 medals and a trophy Freshman Year, and 2 medals this year (competition was after the applications were submitted). VP Sophomore Year, quit Junior Year, and back in Senior Year.
One year volunteer at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center w/ 200 hours
AP Stats Club Junior Year. Treasurer.
2nd year AASP Club (Admissions, ACT, SAT, PSAT tutoring club). Co-Founded and am Admissions Coach this year and last year.
Part-Time private Tutor.
Through Rotary, I have a few hundred more community service hours.</p>

<p>Essays: They'll hold up. One essay about my namesake (common app).
One essay about Tennis and one essay about why I want to be an engineer, with family aspect towards it.</p>

<p>Recs: My counselor's will be alright. My English teacher's isn't particularly good. My SO advisor and AP Chem. teacher will probably be really good, since she's more of a friend and knows me better than I know myself (sadly, I'm not joking here).</p>

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<p>they won’t care about you skipping 3rd / 4th grade. 9-12th is only what they look at truly (sometimes incoming summer to HS)</p>

<p>Excellent academics - but your private tutor, school type, and geographics all determine this.</p>

<p>Generic essays but hey if it qualifies (not your stand-point of your application) it should work.</p>

<p>i think they take the letters VERY seriously especially based on your academics - remember a school can very easily grab a strong academic student but what will it matter if he doesn’t communicate well? Obviously your competition for engineering is both a hook and a difficulty - but if i were the officer i’d think you were a pretty good chance!</p>

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<p>Thanks! I tried to organize my essays so that they told about my character and my motivation, instead of “Why Yale” kind of things. I was only a tutor to a sophomore once a week, so it wasn’t much. My school’s pretty decent and pretty competitive, and I’m in Southern California, so there’s the out-of-state factor. Do you happen to know if Yale has a particular preference for out-of-state students? I’m trying to grab any advantage I can…</p>