@ohmymy @hhjjlala - don’t know if @hhjjlala is a current student, but I would like to know your basis for telling someone not to apply to Yale for CS - or for any particular major. I recruit for Yale and my child is a junior there. @IxnayBob has a son who is a junnior CS major at Yale. Either he will pipe in or I suggest both of you go back and track his responses over the last 2 1/2 years. It will be very enlightening. Good luck to you if you are applying to Yale. Since you don’t declare a major until junior year, you have a long time before you have to make a definitive decision if you are lucky enough to be admittd.
Should I apply to bme with 1290 sat and 30 act
@Tperry1982 Long story short: DS is a Junior CS and Math major (at Yale, that means getting a BS in CS and a BS in Math). Yale is not the place to go if your idea of CS is Java 101, Java 102, Advanced Java, etc. It does not compete with schools that pump out coders (even well-paid, high-status ones). It does, however, satisfy a student who loves theoretical CS.
DS has no worries about employment when he graduates, or being accepted to a PhD program if that’s what he wants. It is early October, and he already has a few lucrative internship possibilities for the coming summer. He is doing independent research with well-known professors. Access to professors is there for the taking, as long as you reach out to them.
Hi everyone!
How far are you with your personal statement and supplements? I really procrastinated and now feel heavily pressured with time.
I’ve been finished for 2-3 weeks
Hi! @commonapplicant I’m quite behind as well. I have a solid direction for my common app essay but am having trouble articulating the focal point. I only have tentative drafts for my supps too so you’re not alone xC
My daughter is finishing hers up. She will review it with her school counselor next week. The goal is to for her hit submit on 10/24.
For some reason yesterday my short takes were slightly over 200 characters but not cut off when I put them into the common app. Then when i checked again today, if i erased part of the response to take it from say 230 characters to 210, it would cut off and not allow me to write anything new. Should I rewrite my responses to be 200 characters just to be safe?
Also, would any current students or parents of students be willing to read my why yale essay?
Hey all,
I looked at the numbers on the SCEA class of 2020 thread just to get a idea of the chances an average CC applicant would have. Note that the accepted % is probably inflated because people are more likely to post if they got accepted than if they were rejected or deferred.
Accepted - 18/37, 48.6%
Deferred - 17/37, 45.9%
Rejected - 2/37, 5.4%
Compared to the overall numbers published by Yale for class of 2020 SCEA:
Accepted - 17%
Deferred - 53%
Rejected - 29%
Withdrawn/incomplete - 1%
I wouldn’t be quick to jump to conclusions based off this data since the people posted in the SCEA class of 2020 admissions results thread likely aren’t representative of all CCers that applied SCEA to Yale. Still, the numbers do look very pretty…
@yousefk That’s deluded self-intoxication. Results postings from a CC thread are a third generation bias self selection. 1) how many ppl who apply SCEA are on CC. 2) after results how many of them report their results?
This (sample = 37) is meaningless
@Math557 You don’t apply to a major (BME), you apply as a Yale College applicant. With the stats you posted and not knowing anything else about you, you’re on the extreme low end for admitted students.
Just to give you some perspective, the average SAT at my kid’s HS was 1334. You wouldn’t even be in the upper half of the seniors at her HS.
Can somebody explain why the new residential colleges are leading to more spaces for first years next year? Don’t residential colleges only include sophomores and up?
@Yousefk, please see Gibby’s post on the question http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/yale-university/1926074-should-i-scea.html#latest
?how do I create a link to a specific post rather than a relative link?
Wait am I allowed to send my standardized test scores on Oct. 31st (before the SCEA Nov 1 deadline)?
Never mind on residential college question!
@NUHPME2017 When did you take it? If you took it October 22, then they will receive your test scores on time
Ok thanks! So it’s ok if I send my scores by the Nov 1 deadline, but they receive it after Nov 1?
@NUHPME2017 Yeah