Is it possible?

Colleges & Universities Yale University
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<p>Yes and isn’t it also your opinion that she won’t be admitted. LOL. Really now??? Never?? Does that mean that if I can find ONE student that was admitted SCEA in the past, present, or even in the future with a 22 ACT then your argument is null? Challenge accepted!!! X)</p>

<p>Well many Guidance Counselors barely bother to write original letters for each of the students they oversee. So it wouldn’t surprise me at all if the guidance counselor didn’t catch that. </p>

<p>That is what I am trying to say, we do not have a bulk amount of evidence. You are basing the impossibility of the girl being accepted into Yale by one piece of data…her ACT score. That is ALL we know. Maybe she took SAT and scored 2200+? Maybe her subject tests were all 800s? You don’t know the girl and you therefore don’t know how the rest of her application looks. As a Yale interviewer i’m sure you are well versed in the holistic approach Yale takes in viewing each application.</p>

<p>From the Website:
Exhibit A: “So what matters most in your application? Ultimately, EVERYTHING matters. The good news in that is that when so many little things figure into an admissions decision, it is fruitless to worry too much about any one of them.”</p>

<p>I realize Yale also looks at academics with test scores being one of them but again: </p>

<p>Exhibit B: “Yale is above all an academic institution. This means academic strength is our first consideration in evaluating any candidate. The single most important document in your application is your HIGH SCHOOL TRANSCRIPT, which tells us a great deal about your academic drive and performance over time.”</p>

<p>Finally, straight from the horses mouth…"
Exhibit C: “There are no score cutoffs for standardized tests, and successful candidates present a wide range of test results.” (It Continues…) “While there is no hard and fast rule, it is safe to say that performance in school is more important than testing.” </p>

<p>I can peruse the fora or I can go straight to the site. :slight_smile: T26E4, I know very well what a ■■■■■ looks like, I am after all a 17 year old teenage boy. But again, I am not commenting on whether she is or is not a ■■■■■. ALLLLL I am saying is that we should not pass judgement on someone we do not know based on minuscule amounts of data. (ex:Tryvone Martin). That is all I am saying. :)</p>

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<p>Although T26E4 seems to have direct experience with the process that most or all of the rest here don’t, I don’t think that one needs T26E4’s experience to see that it’s beyond very unlikely that someone with an ACT score of 22 would be admitted to Yale.</p>

<p>A 22 is roughly equal to a 1530 on the full SAT. The median score for the ACT is 21. A 22 is an average score. It’s the 62nd percentile. It’s a score that would keep folks out of any number of less-selective colleges and universities, no less Yale.</p>

<p>I suppose that it’s possible that the young lady in question was involved in some great traumatic event the day of her ACT, and that she also took the SAT later and got a 2200. However, the fact there is no report of such a score, especially when others seemed to have expressed doubt about her admission to Yale, and that she apparently offers up no substantive reason why Yale would admit a student who seems completely average, suggests that it’s far more likely she’s telling fibs than that Yale admitted her.</p>

<p>Especially telling is the statement that she applied Early Action to both Yale and Harvard, which isn’t permitted.</p>

<p>As T26E4 said, “Or is the more likely scenario she’s just lying? Where does the bulk of evidence lie, even for the pedestrian observer?”</p>

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<p>Is it possible she’s a Questbridge applicant? I don’t know much about the program, but I think that could account for her earlier than usual apps to both Yale and Harvard</p>

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<p>QBridge finalists are stellar applicants – H doesn’t participate in QBridge.</p>

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<p>There’s a simple solution for the OP. Have your classmate bring her letter of acceptance in to prove it. Believe me, anyone accepted into Yale would have no problem and would be proud to do so. ;)</p>

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<p>I have asked, but she tends to “forget.” Maybe I will persist some more.</p>

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<p>Just forget it. In another month, she will say that she “decided” not to go to Yale, but prefers some much less selective place. Just smile and nod.</p>

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<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/29/opinion/kristof-from-south-sudan-to-yale.html[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/29/opinion/kristof-from-south-sudan-to-yale.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;