Hi all,
I was just accepted to Yale’s class of 2022 for regular. Some tips:
Understand that a highly selective college like Yale’s choice to accept/deny you is not reflective of your hard work/personality/intellectual capacity. If you haven’t heard already, these colleges are run like businesses. They have their internal institutional agendas to fill. One year it may be for more students who care about diversity and inclusion, another year it may be more STEM students, who knows. You can apply one year and get rejected, but if you were to apply with the same exact stats, essays, and everything the next year, you could get in.
That being said, I also don’t want to discourage anyone from applying to wherever their heart desires. I actually was not even going to apply to Yale until my ED school rejected me. I had always liked Yale but considered it impossible for me to get in/a waste of my energy to write another app, so it wasn’t on my college list. After my ED school rejection, I said what the hell I’m going to apply to Yale-what do I have to lose besides a couple hours of writing apps/a lil extra stress? I ended up applying to three ivy’s all of which I honestly convinced myself I wasn’t going to get into (sat 1490, asian, low-income, have not won any amazing awards or anything, so I wasn’t amazing in terms of being a “winner” or high scorer) BUT i ended up getting accepted into all three ivy’s. I tell myself maybe if I applied another year, the results would have been much different, but heck, I gave it a go and admittedly, with some luck I got in. That’s why don’t waste your time with college confidential chance me’s, don’t think, oh, my SAT is too low, or oh, I’m not amazing enough. College admissions have so many weird reasons for why they might want a candidate, and you could potentially be what they are looking for.
Best of luck to future applicants!