So I toured Yale over Spring Break and totally fell in love with the campus and the school so I am almost definitely going to apply ED in the fall. Also, I know my academics aren’t great but I am hoping to have really awesome essays and focus on being “unique.”
Objective:
GPA: 5.4 (weighted; school doesn’t do unweighted or class rank)
SAT I: 2230 (720 CR, 780 M, 730 W)
SAT II: 790 Math II; 770 Literature
ACT: Taking it on the 18th (hopefully 34 or higher)
AP: Music Theory 4, APUSH 5, AP Gov 5, Calc BC 5, English Lang 5, AP Psych 5
Senior Course Load: So my school doesn’t offer very many APs but instead has higher college level courses that give 6.0 credit, so my course load next year is: Advanced Chinese, AP Chemistry (advanced), Multivariable Calculus, Graph Theory, Mathematical Modeling, AP Computer Science, British Literature (equivalent of AP Lit); I am also self-studying for AP stats and AP micro/macro
Major Awards: Governor’s School for Instrumental Music (sophomore year); NSLI-Y scholarship to study Chinese in China over the summer (200 kids are picked from the whole country); AP Scholar with Honor
Subjective:
Extra-Curricular: I mentor under a professor in the Neuroscience Department at Duke University studying language acquisition in infants; I am also a Chinese TA. I have won multiple awards in Model UN, Mock Trial, Youth Legislative Assembly; my Odyssey of the Mind team made history by reaching World Finals with multiple problems. I am the President of my school’s Service Learning Board, on the executive committee of the local Tedx event, director of state relations for our student government, student ambassador for my school, North Carolina Library Association Student Ambassador, coach of a Mock Trial team and President of our Model UN club. In 10th grade, I organized a county-wide campaign to fight against a book banning at our school and eventually got on state-wide television and spoke at an American Civil Liberties Union conference about censorship. I also take lots of extra classes, and will graduate high school with 41 instead of the typical 32.
No Job Experience
Teacher Recs: My current English teacher has a PhD from Stanford and he asked to write one of my recs, so it will def be good. My other one should also be awesome because I have had multiple classes with my calc teacher and she knows me really well.
Essays: PhD teacher will work with me on them so they should be 10/10
Counselor Rec: hopefully really good 8/10
Supplemental Rec: Yale alumni is a family friends and dean of music at local university and knows me well 10/10
Interview: I have amazing interview skills 10/10
Financial Aid: definitely
Intended Major: math/linguistics/economics
State: NC
School type: public
ethnicity: white
gender: white
income bracket: 80,000 a year
hooks: i am from a super rural horrible mountain town, maybe being gay and jewish will help
I am probs going to apply to most of the ivies but Yale is my top choice. Thanks 