<p>Albeit, I do attend a very difficult private school and was new in 10th and had 3 B’s in three subjects all year. The one other B came from a freshman year history class. I have pretty much had A’s for the rest of the year. When counting electives (2 A’s per year) then I have a low 3.8 – 3.82, I think.</p>
<p>I know a lot of other factors come into play. I was wondering if my grades keep me out. I have only seen a few ORMs post on Yale results thread with grades like mine. One or two were in 2010’s EA, one or two were in 2012’s EA.</p>
<p>I really don’t know my rank as my private school sends a little over 10% of the kids to Ivies and Stanford/MIT. This year about 6% of the graduating class got into Harvard to give an idea… or a better picture 5 Harvard, 3 Princeton, 2 Yale, 2-3 Brown, 2-3 Cornell, 2-3 Columbia, 1 Stanford, 2 MIT, etc. (Many were cross admits though.)</p>
<p>I am considered one of the “smart kids” that people expect to get into at least one of the Ivies. However most do not know of all the B’s I have (They probably think I have a 3.9+ UW which is what most of those HYPMS acceptees have, if not the 4.0 that one or two people per graduating class can actually maintain).</p>
<p>patel, i can see you are worried.
Yale admissions is a gamble. Look through this forum, and you would see that there is NO formula for admission
Your essay and talents are considered, and that is something that contributes to diversity.
APs and IB choices are also a factor. So that they do not have a class of AP Bio nuts and calc dudes who do not want to take AP Psych.</p>