<p>This is not a chance thread insofar as I just want to know if my academic qualifications show that I am competent enough. I know acceptance or rejection is not guaranteed–I just want to know if I even show some kind of academic potential that is necessary at Yale</p>
<p>GPA:
Freshman: 3.5 ( I got a ton of A-'s and one B)
Sophomore: 4.0
Junior: 4.0
Senior: 3.78-4.0 (it depends on those rotten A-'s and maybe a B?)</p>
<p>Test Scores:
680 CR, 780 M, 760 W
33 ACT (36 E, 34 R, 32 M, 29 S)</p>
<p>Rank–not submitted but they’re bound to realize I’m outside of the top 10% of my 50-person class.
Thank you!</p>
<p>Let’s assume for a second that grades are actually a very good indicator of intelligence/smartness. Then are you actually that worried that you got a few below-perfect grades your freshman year and maybe a couple of A’s this year? Do you actually think that makes you less smart, that you slipped up a couple of times? </p>
<p>Then let’s go back to our first assumptions. Grades don’t actually measure how smart you are very well at all. They can be influenced by intelligence, hard work, free time and activities, interests, teacher’s whims, a fluke grade on a test or two, random scheduling variance, etc. </p>
<p>Anyway, if you had said “will my GPA keep me out of Yale” then I would have responded only with the first paragraph. No, getting three A’s will not keep you out AT ALL. Honestly, I’m starting to almost find it offensive that people obsess over not having 4.0 GPAs, and call being ranked 7/500+ students low, and call 3.8 and 3.9 GPAs low. No. That’s just not how it works at any place. </p>
<p>The reason I gave you that second paragraph was because this type of attitude just seems to promote the notion that if you are smart, you will get into a place like Yale, and that if you have great grades, you are automatically smartand, more importantly, that if you DON’T get into such a place or DON’T have great grades, you AREN’T smart. </p>
<p>I know you had good intentions, but I just wanted to throw all this out there.</p>
<p>well, thank you for that…but I wasn’t worried that I was “dumb”, because that would be insulting to a lot of the smart people I know with lower grades. I was just wondering if I was too dumb FOR yale. </p>
<p>And I didn’t say that if I didn’t get in I would be dumb. No, I know that acceptance or rejection I isn’t guaranteed. I’m not going to judge my actual intelligence on what an exhaused admissions counselor thinks about an essay, a couple ECs, some grades and the like. I just wanted to know about a particular school and whether I was even academically competent to attend a place like that. </p>
<p>Grades are usually earned through hard work, not necessarily through intelligence. SAT scores are usually achieved through both hard work, studying, and your intelligence/reasoning skills, and since yours are pretty high, I’d venture to say that you’re smart enough to attend Yale. Most people are smart enough to attend Yale, though; a strong work ethic is necessary.</p>
<p>Your actual grades are fine, though your rank is slightly frightening. I think it could either be easily overlooked or the thing that brings you down, depending on the difficulty of the courses you took/take. However, keep in mind that you’re probably an amazing person outside of the classroom, and that you might get in with little consideration to your grades. :)</p>
<p>How can we possibly tell you if you are smart or dumb? We’ve never met you, and even then how would we know. No one is just automatically smart or dumb, people excel at different different things. You may have more initiative and drive than the so called ‘smartest’ person at Yale and do better than them. </p>
<p>And besides if you think being smart is the only key to success in college then that is just insane! </p>
<p>So have more confidence in your self and take a breath, you’d do fine at yale if you just work hard. :)</p>
<p>Well, I wasn’t asking if I was smart or dumb. I was asking that in respect to students at yale.
Aka- will my academic credentials (or lack theof) immediately throw me out of the regular pool?</p>
<p>If it makes you feel better, i went with just submitting my ACT scores. I got in with a 33. I’m definitely not the smartest person, without a doubt.</p>
<p>With respect to Yale students or not, it doesn’t matter. Nothing of whether you’re dumb or smart can be gleaned from this. Period. </p>
<p>As for what you really intended with this topic, no one here can really tell you anything real about your chances, save that your grades are fine and your worrying about them really annoys the heck out of me, who is trying to get in with far worse grades. Nothing personal, of course. Haha.</p>
<p>Reallyy, no one on here can accurately predict whether you’ll get in or not. I’ve posted chance thingies, and 50% of the time, people say I won’t get in, and the other 50% of the time, people are like OMG YOU’RE A SHOO IN.</p>
<p>So. Moral of this story? Go play some video games instead of being addicted to CC.</p>