Chance my AWESOME friend!

IBnerdygirl
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:48:57 +0000

My best friend doesnt want to waste time making a CC account she would never use (lol she’s more of the myspace/facebook type) so she asked me to make a chances thread for her

anyways, she is VERY VERY nervous abt Yale SCEA admissions, and she would like to find out sooner rather than later if she had a good chance in the 1st place.

Ethnicity: African American
Income: 23,000/family of 7 (she mentioned this on her fee waiver request + her father’s occupation qualifies her as “very low-income” in the eyes of the admissions committee.)

GPA: 3.83UW 4.728 weighted
Rank: 2 out of 350

SAT’s: Superscore: 2110 (660 M/720Cr/730Wr)

SAT II’s: 760 Spanish with listening; 720 USH

Course schedule: IB Diploma Candidate/most likely recipient (her courses include IB Math Methods SL, IB Philo HL, IB Chem SL, IB History of Europe HL, and AP Bio)

AP’s:
AP World History: 5
AP US History: 5
AP English Language: 5
AP Spanish Language: 4
AP Comparative Govt: 4

IB Spanish B SL 7 out of 7

EC’s, Awards, etc.-- relatively strong, but only “OKish” as compared with other CC’ers:

1. President of Key/Service Club 12th; Activities Officer; 11th; active member (9-12 grades); she ran/organized lots of activities for the school

2. VP of Spanish Club (11th-12); Service Officer 10th

3. Forensics/Speech; Last year’s State Qualifyer runner-up

4. Humanitarian/world Club (10-12)

5. Lots of hours (300+) of volunteer work

6. Field Hockey— plans to join the club/intramural team (hopefully at Yale ;))

7. Harvard Book Award

8. National Achievement Semi-finalist

9. AP Scholar w/ Distinction

10. County Student of the Year Award

11. Admitted to Governor’s school program last summer

12.     Questbridge Prep Scholarship Award&lt;/p&gt;

also, our school is quasi-urban; low quality in terms of education (as compared to the more wealthier schools in our district---- idk if our gc’s actually state this, but they send a profile along w/ our transcripts that show the school’s average SAT as compared w/ the county as a whole, plus the range of gpa’s---- this doesnt look so pretty!