<p>If anyone else has had this feeling recently please share it with me, because right now I am horrified. I was sitting last night thinking about my Yale SCEA application and I realized how underqualified I am. I became absolutely positive that I wouldn’t get accepted. All of my grades, test scores, and ECs, that I have worked on for years, are all mediocre. I am not the 1 in a million that Yale wants…I’m just average. </p>
<p>I realize I am obsessing but the (obvious illusion of) confidence that I previously had is gone, and fear and loathing have taken its place.</p>
<p>All this and I still have a month before I know for sure how absolutely insane I was to even think I could get into Yale.</p>
<p>Academics:
-ranked 13 out of 808
-mostly A’s with the exception of two B’s (in SPanish freshman year and an indepedent study life skills class)
-SAT I
<em>first time: 1340 (680v, 660m)
*second time: 2250 (790m,790v,670w)
-SATII
*Biology: 730
*US History: 770
*Math Level 2: 650 (oops)
-APs
*Spanish 2 (oops again)
*US History 5
*Eurpean history 5
*Biology 5
*English Literature 4
*taking right now:
*</em>AP Calculus AB
*<em>AP Economics (will take two AP tests)
*</em>AP Physics
*<em>AP Government (will take two AP tests)
*</em>AP English Composition
-Honors filled the rest of my schedule with the exception of Spanish and Geometry (not offered in honors)</p>
<p>ECs
-captain of the soccer team 2 years (only freshman on varsity since freshman year)
-Jack and Jill (cultural/service organization)
*member since age 9
*treasurer 2 years
*parlimentarian 1 year
-Science Bowl
*on team 3 years
*captain 2 years
-member California Honor Society
-member California Scholarship Federation
-Mentor 3 years</p>
<p>Summers:
-before 9th grade Traveled through Europe playing with soccer team
-before 10th grade Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth summer program in Maryland
-before 11th grade UC COSMOS summer program at UC Davis
-Before 12th grade
*job as office clerk 2 days a week
*internship at USC Keck School of Medicine assisting with research 3 days a week</p>
<p>Volunteering- 250 hours
-Test Sucess (Tutoring underpriveleged youth)
-Cooking for homeless
-Ronald McDonald House
-mentor
-many small projects with Jack and Jill</p>
<p>Awards Received
-national merit commended student
-national acheivement semifinalist (as of now)
-Who’s Who Among American Highschool Students (know it doens’t count for much)
-Second All-League Soccer team (2 years)
-National Honor Roll
-AP Scholar with Honor</p>
<p>Don’t stress, that looks fine to me. Go out, buy some ben and jerry’s, watch a completely idiotic tv show thats interesting nevertheless (i recommend laguna) and forget about it all. I do this at least once a week. ;)</p>
<p>I had a dream a few nights ago. I got an email from Yale, and it stated, “You have been rejected/deferred.” I couldn’t open the email because I woke up.</p>
<p>every time i talk to my counselor, i feel incredibly optimistic. Then I go on CC and see that everyone has a 4.5 uw gpa and i’m like GAH! I’l definitely be deferred!</p>
<p>i know exactly what you mean sewcurious…your stats are solid, you applied early, and you’re a urm…i’d say you’re in a better position than most applicants…</p>
<p>i mean, even you werent a urm, you have impressive scores and decent grades…ur urm status just makes up for the fact that you havent achieved at a national level or demonstrated a passion unique to the applicant pool…other than that, you’re as good as any other top knotch candidate</p>
<p>I am a URM but I actually didn;t want to put it because I wanted to know my chances without it. Truthfully I am beginning to feel guilty about AA.</p>
<p>Mediocre? Pleeeease. My SAT score is 670M, 600V, 610W. My AP US History test was a 2. I don’t know my SAT IIs yet. My stats are lower than yours (except class rank… I’m 6)!</p>