If I get rejected from a summer camp then will it impact my future College application? for example, If get rejected from YYGS then does that mean my college application for yale university in the future will be rejected? Does a University collect data from the Summer Camp?
No. Being rejected from YYGS will not hurt a future application to Yale as long as you did something else worthwhile during the summer.
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Colleges do not know summer programs you applied to. Unless you tell them.
It will not directly impact your decision, but the two decisions could be correlated.
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Can you please elaborate more about this ?
If you don’t get into YYGS (with a roughly 30% acceptance rate), you may be less likely to be admitted to Yale. If you do get rejected from YYGS, reevaluate your essays and application, and use that as a kind of trial run for college apps. For reference, I got into YYGS this past summer and got deferred from Yale (and will probably eventually get rejected this April).
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To be more explicit, I think Eeyore123 and Lena are saying that if your application to the summer camp didn’t result in an acceptance, then your application to the university (which would include much of the same information) would probably not result in an acceptance. But the second rejection wouldn’t be due to the first; rather, it would likely be that your grades, extracurriculars, and so forth were not sufficient to get you accepted to either.
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Alternatively, your stats and ECs were good enough, but you did not do a good job on putting together your application. Your response , though is the same - review your application. In any case, most students are rejected from Yale, even the most qualified, and trying to predict, even based on an application like this, is sometimes like reading tea leaves.
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What people are suggesting is the OP apply Bayesian inference, meaning as you get additional information you update your estimate of probabilities. You just found out that your application for whatever reason(s) is not as strong as other applicants to the summer program. If those reasons persist then your estimate of your chances of admission to Yale should be lowered. This holds even if the admission office doesn’t know/care about the summer school rejection.
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As a counterexample, my son was denied by YSPA but received a likely letter to Yale a year later (for academics, not athletics).
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