chances for yale RD

johnleemk
Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:15:14 +0000

You took the GCSEs/O Levels? Which school did you go to? And how do you weight the A Level grades? (My college took the easy way out and reported my grades but insisted we don’t have such a thing as a GPA…)

Anyway, your ECs are quite good, especially for a Malaysian - quite a bit of diversity. You sound like a very interesting person, so I think you stand a chance - albeit a slim one. If you are planning on applying, I think you should work on getting your SAT scores up. Most Asian applicants have a score of 800 or thereabouts for Math II, so it might be a good idea to either raise the Math I score, or take a different subject (Literature? History?). Try to improve the CR and W scores as well. ~600 for CR is pushing it, and ~500 for W is quite bad…

If you’ve already applied, all you can do is wait, I guess. Good luck - I’m also applying for Yale this year. I can’t believe we find out the result on April Fools…I wish it’d be over now.