how many successful SCEA applicants AREN'T valedictorians (or top 10)?

Colleges & Universities Yale University
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<p>I submitted my application today and I am just curious, how many of the people who get in SCEA are NOT valedictorians (assuming they haven’t won ISEF, IBO, cured cancer, etc.)? I was browsing through the old decision threads and it seems that most people accepted early are either valedictorians or somewhere in the top 10 people of their school. I am top 1.5% of my ~1000 person school (more like 980 something but im not sure) and have very strong EC’s compared to the people ranked higher than me, but I am still curious about how necessary it is to have a top 10 rank in the early rounds.</p>

<p>Thanks for shedding some light!
Dan</p>

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<p>One non-val recruited athlete was accepted SCEA in 2007. That was the only non-val, ever.</p>

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<p>Top 10 people is definitely believable (though that depends on how big your school is) for Yale standards.
Plenty of non-athlete non-legacy non-valedictorians get accepted though.
And again, plenty of valedictorians get rejected.</p>

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<p>My school doesn’t rank.</p>

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<p>^ neither does mine, but I know my counselor specified my rank (1/80) on the secondary school report.</p>

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<p>I went down to #2 this year.</p>

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<p>RE: Sherpa…
i honestly doubt that’s true. is that a joke or did you actually come across that?</p>

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<p>^
He was being sarcastic.</p>

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<p>The two kids who were accepted to Yale from my school (One SCEA and one RD) were both not Val or Sal.</p>

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<p>Last year three students were accepted to Yale SCEA from my school. Here’s what I know of them:</p>

<p>1) AAST, white male. Had the highest grades in his class, but our school doesn’t rank. He played football and did three internships at PPPL. He went far in Physics, though didn’t make it to USA Physics Camp. </p>

<p>2) AAST, wihte male. Both parents went to Yale. He was very, very good at writing and had high grades and SATs.</p>

<p>3) AAST, asian female. Did fencing/lacrosse, though not recruit-level in either. She got 10th at INTEL last year and had very high SAT / GPA.</p>

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<p>haha k thats what i thought. never know for sure though, there are some crazy CCers…</p>

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<p>Yes, post #2 was intended as a joke. Sorry, I’m often not as funny as I think am.</p>