Chance my AWESOME friend!

princessbell
Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:27:23 +0000

^^like I said before, not true.


Yale doesn’t want “well-rounded”. They might have 5 years ago. Now they want well-rounded AND completely amazing at a couple of things - great depth as well as breadth, which (no offense) this person just doesn’t have. I can’t read through that list of activities and figure out what the person is actually interested in vs. what the person is doing robotically.
I’m not 100% sure, but I don’t believe that the Yale adcoms have any idea how low-income you are besides the fact that you check the aid box. And if they’re need-blind, they shouldn’t even know that. I checked the aid box, and my family makes nearly $200,000. I don’t think the people making these decisions will know the difference between my situation and the OP’s friend.
Academically active? Are you joking? Please tell me one person who has been admitted to Yale who is not ‘academically active.’ Whatever that means…
Again, like I said before, plenty of black people with similar scores have gotten rejected or waitlisted by Yale. Please, AA cynics, do yourselves a favor and check out the past threads about Yale admissions, focusing especially on the people of color who got rejected. It proves that at this highest level, that there are enough people of every race and creed, enough high scorers, and enough overall amazing people for Yale to be able to really shape and choose it’s class. They aren’t so desperate for minorities that they would completely abandon their holistic process in lieu of scraping together some semblance of diversity. Yes, the standards might be a bit different for some “hooked” groups, blacks included, but they aren’t completely tossed by the wayside. If you look carefully, nearly all the accepted black students embody the same ideals that Yale looks for in all its students, and those who are rejected likewise don’t have the solid application that would have gotten them in, like the other rejects of every race.