<p>Classes:
Junior Year—
AP Spanish
AP Environmental Science
AP US History
3 English H
Trig Analysis H</p>
<p>Senior----
AP Biology
AP SPanish
AP Calc
AP English
Physics H</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:</p>
<p>Significant Extracurriculars: Community Service Club, Environmental Club
Leadership positions: Camp Counselor
Athletic Status - Varsity Lacrosse, Varsity Softball, Varsity Hockey, Cross Country
Volunteer/Service Work: I did Habitat for Humanity in Costa Rica during the summer before junior year. I have helped teach Sunday school at my church for 3 years. I volunteer at soup kitchens galore.
Honors and Awards: Cook County Sheriff’s Award for outstanding community service, various other departmental awards for achievements in school, Academic All-American for lacrosse junior year
Part of a veterinary mentoring program through the anti-cruelty society of chicago
** I have held a part-time job since the summer going into junior year (12-15 hours a week)
***This summer I held 2 jobs --total of 48 hours a week</p>
<p>Even though your senior class is huge and therefore you’re in the top 10%, your rank is low for Yale as is your GPA for someone who doesn’t have a hook.</p>
<p>All you can do is apply. I don’t think you have anything that the thousands of other applicants don’t and I agree that your rank is low for Yale. You are in the running, though, based on a good package overall.</p>
<p>I understand that. Where does the top 5% of your school typically go for college? Is it just the top 10 students who go to super elite colleges or most of the top 40? Unless you go to a wildly competitive high school, I think you’re quite far down in class rank, even though you’re in a top percentile. BUT, if your high school regularly sends unhooked white students with ranks similar to yours to HYP, then disregard my analysis. Your best indication of your chances will be your school’s scattergrams.</p>
<p>You’ve got a very impressive profile relative to the vast majority of high schools students and could certainly be admitted to Yale.</p>
<p>agreeeed. We had a kid with a 34 and ECs A TON better than OP’s, (sports with state ranking), and he was rejected mainly due to being 13/200. 37 kids in front of you is quite a few regardless of class size</p>
<p>i dont know exactly, but most all of the people ranked in the top 40 go to great schools. This year (to name some) students are going to- stanford, harvard, cornell, brown, tufts, u of chicago, 11 to northwestern, columbia, williams, washu, haverford, emory, carleton, vanderbilt, amherst, claremont mckenna, colgate, wesleyan, etc… I also know that in recent years the Wall Street Journal has ranked my school as one of the top 65 high schools in the country and only 27 of them were public schools.</p>
<p>logogirl: the impressive items on your profile are your varsity athletics. Are you looking to compete at the collegiate level? Are you a standout in any of your current sports? If so, then contact the respective coach at Y and feel him/her out.</p>
<p>1MX is nice to chance you at 25% but you really can’t put weight into that. He basically gives you over a 250% chance over the statistical average of the under 10% admit rate.</p>
<p>logo–I’m not trying to belabor my point, just trying to be helpful, so please take it that way. All the schools you named are GREAT schools, but only a couple are in the under 10% admitted category that Yale is in. If the folks ranked 1-5 are getting into Stanford and Harvard, but not the folks ranked 30-40, that will tell you a lot about your chances. As I’m sure you know, hooked applicants get some wiggle room on GPA and class rank, so when you compare yourself to kids from your school, make sure you’re comparing apples to apples.</p>
<p>Best of luck. You should definitely apply but make sure there are other schools you also love.</p>
<p>what if your school almost never sends kids to top schools (they usually don’t apply- they prefer our state’s flagship school)? Is this going to hurt me in the admissions process? I am the top of my class, with stats that can compete with almost any other applicant’s… great test scores, perfect gpa, awesome extracirriculars, writing, etc. I am just concerned that the lack of competition and previous admits from my school will wiegh me down… any thoughts?</p>
<p>bmwdan: It shouldn’t be a handicap for you. Your record will stand alone. The advantage/disadvantage for schools that regularly have applicants to the top colleges is that the adcoms know them well and their offerings. In those situations, they know if the AP classes really are rigorous or not (which sometimes occurs) and since they have history there, they can spot applicants who are trying to skate by.</p>