How to do so? 'ttle help for Yale

Colleges & Universities Yale University
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<p>Hello those who go to Yale, plan to go to Yale, or got into Yale, or know ANYTHING about Yale, please help me out here.</p>

<p>I live next to Yale. Actually, Yale property. And my father works as a Yale employee. Would that be benefitial for my application?</p>

<p>Also which one do you think Yale considers more “important”? </p>

<p>SATs/Subject Tests/AP test scores… or…
volunteering/ECs/afterschool clubs… OR (hehe)
the grades/classes you get/take in school(like AP)?</p>

<p>Thanks in advance!
futureiceskater</p>

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<p>should be beneficial, they do ask if you have a parent employed by the school i think.</p>

<p>a girl at my school got into stanford cuz her dad works there.</p>

<p>look at the yale common data set. there is a link to it from college search & selection i believe.</p>

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<p>i’ve always heard that grades/classes and essays are the two most important factors for most schools, but since yale is such a good school you really need the whole package… but still, i do thing that grades/classes and essays are the things that should be the strongest, but without at least decent (for yale) SATs and EC’s it’d be tough to get in. i do think having a parent who works there will help, though.</p>

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<p>employed in what capacity? If it’s a prof or an admin, then that’s good for your app. I’d bet that test scores and rigor of schedule are probably the two most important factors, but after that’s used to weed applicants, they’ll look to ECs, etc…</p>

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<p>When I was @ Yale for the information session, they were ranked, and grades were given the most importance in the admissions decision.</p>

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<p>That’s pretty much for every school. But many applicants are A students, so it is often only a qualifying factor, rather than a deciding one (unless your GPA is low, which, unless you have some hook or extenuating circumstance, will put you in the reject pile).</p>

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<p>JHU was so nice in describing how each admissions officer sometimes had a different methodology, and since some of them could be “softies” [sic] essay would come first sometimes.</p>