Does anyone Just Smart, without anything special, ever get in?

IxnayBob
Wed, 09 Dec 2015 15:01:25 +0000

Sometimes people, especially teens, are harder on themselves than is warranted. During FOOT every evening people tell their personal story and DS was in awe of the accomplishments of everyone else on the trip, He was feeling a bit pedestrian (ha!). When it came to be his turn to tell his story, he was shocked and pleased that his fellow students thought highly of what he had done.

GPA and test scores, which CCers fixate on, are the least important factor in admissions and success at Yale, assuming that they are credible.