Chances for EA (because I'm in love...)

Colleges & Universities Yale University
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<p>With Yale. I went to a summer program there, and really fell in love with the campus. I’ll definitely be applying EA this fall.</p>

<p>Male
Caucasian
Attend a medium size and quality school in Wisconsin, class size around 350
GPA- 4.0 unweighted, 1st in class
SAT- not taken
SAT II- will take in fall
ACT- 35 (E35/M35/R36/S34)
Class Rank- first</p>

<p>AP Tests:
Calculus BC-5
Psychology-5
Biology (self-studied)-5</p>

<p>Most rigorous class load possible (9 honors courses, 6 AP courses), will be going to another high school next year to take AP German (not offered at my school). Advanced 2 years ahead in math, 1 year in science, 1 year in German by self-studying.</p>

<p>Senior Classes:
AP English
AP Statistics
AP German
AP US History
Economics
Physics</p>

<p>Extra curriculars-
-DECA President
-FBLA President, VP for 2 years
-3 years on swim team
-President of Political club, involved with state senate office
-President of German Honor Society, won scholarship
-Newspaper Staff/ Copy Editor, political columnist
-Member of Key Club- 9-12
-Forensics 9-12
-National Honors Society member
-participated in German exchange program (hosted a student and went to Germany)
-Track Team, Grades 9, 10, 12
-Marching Band, 9-10
-Swim Team 10-12
-about a dozen other assorted clubs, etc</p>

<p>Awards/ Honors:
-State champ in business services marketing for DECA, 2nd in state for International Business Plan, competed at nationals
-state grand winner for reflections writing contest, finalist last 2 years
-5th place at state in global business for FBLA
-German Scholarship Winner
-National Merit Semi-Finalist
-Semi-finalist in Rand Institue contest, Discover scholarship, and Joe Foss Scholarship</p>

<p>Summer (since beginning of HS):
-Boys State, selected to represent WI at Boys Nation
-Junior Statesman Summer School at Yale, won Best Speaker, elected graduation speaker
-German exchange program in Munich (two weeks)
-Waldsee German immersion summer camp (two weeks)
-Various band camps
-NYLC in Washington DC
-Summer Jobs (lots of hours)
-Volunteer at local hospital</p>

<p>Job Experience:
-Worked for a year and a half as a lifeguard and swim instructor, promoted to front-line manager position
-Currently an intern at a state senator’s office, working on constituent research and communication</p>

<p>Hooks/Extras:
-First generation college student
-Underrepresented state (WI) and high school (we almost never have Ivy applicants from our school)
-Possibly will have a paper published this fall about theology</p>

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<p>bump. i would really appreciate some feedback. thanks everyone.</p>

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<p>bump. please?</p>

4

<p>You are certainly within the range of admitted applicants. Whether you are actually admitted is another thing. Work hard on your essays and hope for excellent teacher recs.</p>

5

<p>You have a great shot – but see my advice on other threads (here and on the Harvard forum and elsewhere) on how to maximize it.</p>

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<p>bump bump please</p>

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<p>You seem like a very strong applicant. You have a good shot.</p>

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<p>Looks good. You are one of the many qualified applicants.</p>

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<p>Thanks you guys. Appears it will be a tough applicant pool this year, with the removal of EA at Harvard and Princeton. Also, record numbers of applicants will be a big challenge for those intent on Yale.</p>

<p>Does anyone else care to weigh in? It is much appreciated.</p>

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<p>From the perspective of an individual applicant, it won’t be significantly easier or harder to get in than it has been over the past few years. Every year about 16 people apply for every spot in the entering class – many more applications/spot than any other top university in the country – and only the best get in.</p>

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<p>I was talking to a congressman today, and he was saying how applying anywhere is a roll of the dice after a certain point. If you have the intellegence and work ethic, but so do many others, then you are going to have to rely on luck. An aquiantance of his got into Stanford off of the waitlist and graduated near the top of his class, and another student off of the waitlist there became a renoun writer immediately after graduation. I know people who got rejected by Georgetown and Notre Dame, but accepted by Harvard and Yale. </p>

<p>The point is, I think luck is a factor at a certain point. </p>

<p>That aside, I certainly hope for the best. I am certain that Yale and I are a match made in heaven.</p>

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<p>By the way, in case you have not read the big discussion going on in the Dartmouth board, I’m posting because my counselor does not know anything about top academic institutions. He thinks Yale is somewhere out west, and told me that anybody with over a 30 on the ACT will probably get in. I’d love some real advice, because I personally am a huge fan of Yale (thus why I’m applying EA).</p>