<p>Due to a number of reasons, my grades from my freshman year to now (third quarter of my sophomore year) have been pretty average/mediocre. I blame this due to a lack of academic drive, as result or maybe in addition to untreated depression, but now I sound like I’m trying to excuse my poor performance…anyways, now I’m on medicine and feeling better. Is it too late to get my act together for Yale, or any other prestigious college? Do they expect only the highest caliber grades across all four years, or would they take into account improvements in my GPA? (Provided I do improve, of course.) Would the rest of my application have to be strong to give me a chance at all?</p>
<p>By the time you apply, will you be one of the handful of top scholars in your HS? Will the teachers and principals uniformly say: “This kid is one of our superstars”?</p>
<p>Generally, these are the types of “WOW” kids that are viable applicants and *perhaps *get noticed by Yale. Can you be one of them?</p>