<p>yeah but if even the 20% SUPER-qualified have a 1/3 chance, the 80% qualified pretty much have no chance, right?</p>
<p>My rather arbitrary guess on cutoffs (apps getting thrown out after 0/1 reads):
- If your SAT is lower than 1800
- If your GPA is less than a 3.0
- If your EC list is blank
- If your essays get scores below 20% overall
- If your essay states that you don’t want to attend, or is intended for (and mentions) another school</p>
<p>Other than these applicants, which I would guess make up around 10% or so, your application will probably be read at least 2 times. After that point, I would guess they start winnowing off the lower echelon.</p>
<p>^If your essays are spectacular and the rest of your app is reasonable, I would say you have a good chance.</p>
<p>What would qualify someone to be in the top 20%?
Anyone here have any insider information on what goes on when the adcoms look over our applications?</p>
<p>i’d guess that if your sat is <1950 or less than 2100, you have very very very little chance of getting your application properly read and scrutinized</p>
<p>face it, there are just too many applicants and too little spots. there is no opportunity cost to throwing away all applicants below a certain benchmark score, because the more exceptional applicants would tend to have higher scores anyways</p>
<p>yale can definately live if it turns away those below 2100.</p>
<p>Sirensong – they score essays out of 100%? I didn’t know that…</p>
<p>“What would qualify someone to be in the top 20%?”</p>
<p>yeah i’m wondering that too…</p>
<p>gah gah gah gah this thread is getting me more jittery. 24 days oh my</p>
<p>or fb says: 23 days, 23 hrs, 8 min</p>
<p>i think i’m gonna wet my pants one of these days</p>
<p>i agree with mifune, alot of the ives have applicants that are qualified but they have not room to admit them.</p>
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<p>Your excitement/anxiety is really unhealthy, and I say that in the most serious of ways. And please, if it’s at all possible, could you refrain from writing how many days remain in literally every thread in the Yale forum? I’m trying not to think of how many days there are left as much as I can, and for the most part, I’m succeeding. I, and definitely many other people in this forum, would appreciate not seeing unwanted reminders plastered throughout CC. If counting down is your thing, that’s perfectly fine, but just keep it to yourself.</p>
<p>^^^^^I believe that they score essays out of 100–my English teacher gave out this packet on college essays, and both Harvard and Princeton had scored sample essays, explaining why they got the scores they did. I think it makes a lot of sense for them to try to objectify the whole application, considering how many apps they receive.</p>
<p>Personally I think countdowns are fine…I count anyway. But it is reasonable to hate them…
Back to the topic. The problem is not, I think, the percentage that has no chance, but the percentage that is well-qualified but shoved away by more stunning applicants. After all, knowing that I am in top 20% (hypothetically) won’t make me any happier if I got the “we’re sorry to…”</p>
<p>Sirensong, Are you sure they score essays? Essays are for applicants to convey what they can’t in other parts of their application…so how exactly, since you got that paper, does the AOs score essays?</p>
<p>i guess they score in in terms of “academic promise” and “will this applicant succeed in life and contribute to yale” because those are the things that admissions look for</p>
<p>Backkk to the discussion- basically the Admission guys just want to find someone who’s passionate and will be an asset to their community. and essays are a way to show them that, and if your essays have done that then ur pretty high up on that percentage scale 
But id like to know if theres any objective way of doing it. which would completely destroy the purpose of original essays, but stil :P</p>
<p>I think most of what they want is sincerity, strong voice, and a response that suits what they are looking for. Actually, looking back at the packet, only Harvard actually provided scores…</p>
<p>i believe yale when they say that they dont look at only scores, and i doubt they have cutoffs per say. </p>
<p>i think they look for a basic competency (which can be demonstrated in more ways than gpa and sat scores) and then consider people based on their app. </p>
<p>there would be no other reason for yale denying the amount of perfect score candidates that they deny.</p>
<p>All right, chill~I think marking a calendar is a great idea, as that is what I am doing. Get yourself busy and do great things can ease the anxiety. But we all count down to New Year after all (for a shorter period of time), so it almost qualifies as celebration too.</p>
<p>there’s gonna be a SCEA RESULTS THREAD after december 15th hehe and im probably gonna post a big defferred or rejected there hahahahaha</p>