CHANCE ME - Asian Male School President and Triple Varsity Athlete

Sorry to have read about your Yale rejection. I am sure it stings given all you have achieved but please use it as a wake up call to ensure you are properly prepared and hedged for RD.

Please sit down with your GC ASAP and ensure you have a few safeties.

As mentioned previously at highly competitive prep schools like yours that send a lot of kids to top tier schools the eventual decisions are often driven based on subtle differences in GC and teacher LORs. The GC will know what has been messaged about you in those letters and what your “real” standing is amongst your student peers.

With that knowledge and their experience the GC can offer you proper advice to ensure you have a back up plan.

As stated previously your credentials are outstanding. Please make sure your essays are constructed specific to the schools. You seemed to target schools based on rank which can lead to generic essays. You need to dig deep and be introspective rereading those essays to make sure they are specific and authentic.

While you are academically qualified for any and all schools you need to use your essays to convince AOs why you are a good fit for their schools.

You have a short window of time and I am sure you are stressed but you have worked far to hard not to get this done!! Good luck!!!

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