Another chance thread that I know everyones excited about!

okletsdothis
Wed, 09 Nov 2011 00:52:16 +0000

I’m in the 9th grade and I know this is early but maybe rather than chancing you can tell me what else could help me out
I really love Yale and would be thrilled if I could go there

Caucasian
income bracket <100,000+>
location:MN

9th grade private school
3.8 GPA (but there’s lots of grade deflation at my school…hopefully I can bring it up I’m not sure how it all works I have all A’s just a few A minuses because of being sick and missing days of classes that are mostly note based)

classes this year

british literature

world history

algebra 2

chemistry

religion (parochial school)

studio art 1

music consortium (basically just a strings ensemble)

french 1

There are no AP classes at my school and all of their honors were filled up before I was accepted into the school :(

I think I want to transfer next year though seeing ad how I don’t like the school I’m in. probably to a public school with a really good debate team.

next year I’ll be in pre calc just to clarify (I’ve already taken geometry)

Obviously I don’t have my test scores but I’ve always done really well I was in the 95th percentile for the SSAT that I had to take to get into my school (sorry I don’t know the actual score just the percentile) so I’m not really that worried about it

Extra-curriculars

Theatre

30+ community theatre shows lots of small awards for acting but nothing of great importance
chairman on the advisory board for a local theatre

2 shows (so far at my school) I’m likely to letter this year and end up on the theatre council

Volunteer work

Hospital (a relatively new activity)
100+ hours

16 trips to New Orleans since hurricane Katrina to work in a mental health center as well as rebuild elderly persons homes

2 trips to Haiti working on Research for Georgetown university comparing rural and urban Haitian Orphans



Miscellaneous other activities

Debate team (just started but I’m hoping to compete at state seeing as how I really like it and have been consistently placing)

Second degree Black belt in tae kwon do as well as assistant instructor at studio

Violin for 11 years (mostly just playing in orchestras for school as well as my violin studios orchestra)

skiing club (mostly just recreational have been doing so since I was very little not really important)

avid scuba diver?

also last summer I went to MITY (minnesota institute for talented youth) I’m not sure if that really helps at all though…

I want to study political science so this summer I’m volunteering on Amy Klobuchar’s campaign for re-election (she went to Yale) I know her as an acquaintance so I think if I work with her she’ll write me a letter of recommendation which I think should be helpful

also my uncle went to Yale and he can also give me a letter of recommendation

I know this might seem really obnoxious but I always thought it would be fun to try out a chance thread even though there isn’t much chancing that can be done for me yet!
Yale is kind of an exception because otherwise I’d like to just got to the U of M
thanks anyways guys!