Is being admitted to Yale a possibility?

AdmissionsAddict
Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:00:36 +0000

I think not having spent a sustained amount of time on any extracurricular may hurt you. The Spanish immersion at the elementary school is great, but you just started it. Your internship was only for two months. The various honor societies appear not to have any real activities (or activities that you devoted substantial time to); you just get in for having certain grades. Not saying the honor societies are bad, they just don’t sound like hardcore ECs. That leaves the library, Sunday school, the doctor’s office, and the book club. They may be so much more than you described, but my overall impression is that you haven’t dug as deep in your extracurriculars as Yale usually likes. They may cut you some slack b/c transferring schools makes leadership and long-term dedictation to an extracurricular difficult. Again, this is just my sense from what you posted, I could be totally wrong and these activities may be much deeper than they appear.

Totally agree about taking out the sentence about advising lawyers on cases. They were just making small talk with an intern.

Good luck. You DO have a lot going for you, it’s just that admissions at the super elite college level is a whole different game.

And for the record, all the URMs I knew at Yale stood shoulder to shoulder with everyone else. Ditto for all legacies and all but one athlete I knew.