letter of recommendation from a professor @ HPS

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<p>Hi, I’m considering an internship with a professor at one of the HYPS (harvard, yale, princeton, stanford) schools.</p>

<p>If I go to the internship and get a letter of recommendation from that professor, how much of a hook would that be at that school? </p>

<p>I think currently I’m a pretty average HYPS applicant, 2300 SAT (single sitting), 3.84 GPA (at elite private school, so this is not that bad), president of a few clubs, first place at a mid-level national competition for a political science project, varsity sports, important position in an statewide organization, ~300 volunteer hours, internship @ leading medical university, activism w/ ACLU, etc. I would major in Economics and I’m an asian male. Would I stand a chance at that HYPS school without the internship and letter? Would the letter of recommendation and internship significantly boost my chances at the school I interned at?</p>

<p>Also, my dad is a professor at Yale and my brother will be a freshman there next year. Are those connections enough to get me in? Also, the internship isn’t yale.</p>

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<p>also, said internship would be paid and full time with a professor in economics</p>

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<p>honestly having gone through the process this year, you’ll get into a lot of top colleges with what I can discern from your post. whether it is the said college that you will intern at and get a rec from is left to be determined, but i can tell you that you’ll have great chances at almost all T20s. </p>

<p>this internship looks pretty promising too, how did u get it?</p>

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<p>it turns out emailing professors and professionals actually works</p>

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<p>It’s not a hook. Profs have a hard time getting their own kids in.</p>

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<p>could i get some more opinions?</p>

<p>I know a kid who went to Stanford who swears that she got in b/c a Stanford Prof. wrote a rec.</p>