<p>Hey Guys, obviously this would be for the fall’s application but let me know!</p>
<p>App type: SCEA</p>
<p>Stats: towards the top of my class, don’t know exact ranking.
Scores: I don’t like to say, but near perfect
Schedule: most rigorous schedule available, but that means only 5 or 6 APs at my school.
Awards: A local scholarship given for good grades, nothing too big though :/Legacies/URM: None, White Male
Guitarist in my school’s band
Study Abroad
I own a website of my own, which I update regularly.
I am not very worried about my essays, I love writing a lot.</p>
<p>You’ve clearly demonstrated your passion for your major, and it’s a highly unique one at that. Coupled with near-perfect GPA/SAT, I’d say you have a better chance than most. Of course, Ivy admissions are a crapshoot (as I’m sure you’ve heard) and your demographic background sure isn’t going to help you. Good luck!!</p>
<p>^Completely agree with h1lbert! What backups (match and safety schools) do you have? Not that you don’t stand a chance at Yale- you definitely fit the mold yet are unique- but ivy league is mostly luck unfortunately once you fit that aforementioned mold.</p>
<p>Have you looked at any liberal arts colleges? Yout stats fall nicely into top LACs like haverford, williams, middlebury, etc and, while being extremely competitive, i think youhave a good chance of getting into one or more of them.</p>
<p>Tufts a safety? Are you kidding? Not be a kid with all rejects posting here this time next year. You don’t haveivy caliber ECs so please don’t believe they’ll happen anyway. You could get in, but most of those with top stats don’t. Create a list with real matches and safeties.</p>
<p>Waverly, I am looking for candid input. This is NOT synonymous with insult–I pretty much openly acknowledge the need for expanding those lists and those names in particular. I am simply going off of what my counselors and research have told me.</p>
<p>I appreciate your input, but work on your delivery. It’s particularly funny because a huge part of these schools is the personality or “holistic” aspect. That kind of attitude while commenting on chances at Ivys seems a bit hypocritical to me.</p>
<p>Regardless, I will try to “not be a kid with all rejects posting here this time next year.”</p>
<p>Work on your reality! Calling Tufts a safety is delusional. I’ve been sending kids to top colleges or admitting them for 2 decades, I just call it as I see it.</p>
<p>I honestly think you do have a good chance at Yale…
Of course it can always go in one direction or the other, but reading your profile you seem like a person they will be interested in.</p>
<p>As people said before - look at Amherst, Williams, Middlebury, Vassar, Wesleyan. They all are awesome schools and with your stats I bet you will be in at one of them.</p>
<p>Tufts will exhibit its most awesome syndrome - I am 100% sure. Once they see that 2380, they will waitlist you on the spot.
NYU seems like a good safety with your scores. All the people I have seen who got into NYU New York over the course of the last years have always been worse than you statistics-wise…
Add one or two more safeties though - NYU can sometimes also practice the Tufts syndrome. I have a friend who just got into Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford and Columbia, but got waitlisted at NYU…</p>
<p>You seem like an academically strong student with an interesting passion for languages. Your extracurriculars are not quite enough to completely stand out when it comes to very tippy top schools like Yale, so while the reaches you named are indeed reaches, they’re definitely not out of the realm of possibility. I would caution you to not name Tufts as a safety because Tufts is a highly ranked school that is difficult to get into; it’s not a safety for any student. It would most likely be a match for you, though. Do be careful to have a well-balanced list of matches and safeties since top tier college admissions are often a crapshoot and can have unpredictable results.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the (constructive) advice folks! Just to clarify the Tufts comment, which I know would cause confusion and even anger from some members, there was a recent graduate at my school who was Asian (!!!) and had much lower grades, scores, interests, and ECs than me, who got rejected from Yale and accepted into Tufts (non-waitless). My counselor also told me Tufts would be a safety-school. I do thank those of you who helped clarify and I will revise it to high-end target schools.</p>
<p>The LACs you named were great suggestions–thank you and I will definitely add them to my lists! Which of those recommended so far would be the most clear-cut safeties? </p>
<p>As for my EC’s, they seemed strong in comparison to what most of my peers do, but I was a little worried about them. </p>
<p>I am also a member of several Portuguese associations (although, I must say it is not particularly hard–you just join), have been published on a Princeton Professor’s website, and as stated will be working full time this summer at a Portuguese Eatery along with my summer study program in Portugal. I have also passed summa cum laude on the National Portuguese Exam. My big question is, is there anything I should consider to bolster my ECs? I don’t want to do anything dishonest or just for the sake of doing it, I know both myself and Yale would have a problem with that But if there are any recommendations (Language tutoring, etc.) that would really significantly add to my resume let me know!</p>
<p>Thanks so much, all of you have been so helpful :)!</p>
<p>P.S. It really doesn’t mean much, but I will be in the National Honors Society next year.</p>
<p>I don’t know what courses your school offers, but your schedule doesn’t seem outstandingly rigorous in comparison to many other applicants’ - I think you make up for that with your grades and test scores, but it’s a foreseeable weakness.</p>
That’s what I was most curious about–how much my interest could help me.</p>