Welcome to College Confidential. If you’ve been paying attention to chance threads on the Yale forum, you will understand my response. Your GPA, test scores and ranking make you a qualified applicant for Yale. However, as Yale receives more applications from qualified students than they have seats in their freshman class, Admissions uses a student’s teacher recommendations, guidance counselor’s Secondary School Report (SSR), essays and interview report to choose one high performing student over another. They look for wonderful scholars of good “character” – that’s an old fashioned word meaning the way you develop your inner qualities, intellectual passion, maturity, social conscience, concern for community, tolerance, inclusiveness and love of learning. Unfortunately, none of those qualities can be gleaned from a post like yours.
So, do you have a chance? Sure! How much of a chance is anyone’s guess.