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Yale University
265 Church St.
New Haven, Connecticut 06520
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Old 06-25-2012, 07:42 PM   #1
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chances?

I'm a rising senior from a competitive school of about 2500 in NJ.
SAT: 2300
Un. GPA/ 3.98
Wei. GPA (out of 6.0) 5.70
all honors courses, taken 4 APs (calc bc, lang/comp, comp sci A, US hist)
scheduled for 4 maybe 5 next year (micro or macro, stats, physics B or C, self study chem, still deciding on 5th)
Rank: top 1% of roughly 600 kids - school doesn't release exact data

Extracurriculars: Frisbee and cricket for fun, badminton player (won a tournament recently), 10th grade cross country, senior Model UN delegate, senior Math League member - leadership here, senior Knowledge Masters team member - running for leadership here, Science Spanish and National Honor Society Member, Science Olympiad Member, 7 years piano, am composing for album

Summer: taking small business course this year, took C++ course at county college freshman year, audio engineering course this year

Volunteer: 180 hours at Liberty Science Center
70 at local hospital, 50 at church, 25 from tutoring at elementary school, have raised $1200 for Red Cross Japan and Haiti relief efforts, helped coordinate two coat drives at religious group

Recs: math teacher who advises Knowledge Masters and math League - knows me well, music teacher - 7 yrs and teaching audio engineering to me, calc teacher, chem teacher, thinking about lang/comp teacher
What do my chances look like? Please advise me how to improve.
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Old 06-25-2012, 10:20 PM   #2
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yes i am. my name may not suggest it though. my friends have all thought i'm african-american when they first heard my name. its cuz i'm christian
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