<p>sportsman - did you intern at the Merrill Lynch near Princeton?</p>
<p>no, I am at Paramus</p>
<p>BASICS</p>
<p>Username: Enteril
Gender: Male
State of residency: California
Type of high school: Highly competitive
Prospective major(s): Music and/or Biology</p>
<p>STATS</p>
<p>GPA: 3.9 unweighted, 4.5 weighted
Rank: top 5% (I think I’m 11/511 or something, just missed that top 10)
SATs: 2300 (800 Writing, 720 Reading, 780 Math)
SATIIs: 750 Math IIC, 740 US History, 780 Biology-M
APs: 5 AP Biology, 5 AP European History, 5 AP US History, 5 AP English Language, 5 AP Environmental Science; this year I’ve got AP Physics C: Mechanics AND Electricity & Magnetism, AP Calculus BC, AP Comp. Govt., and AP Literature
Top 3 ECs/Offices Held:
(1) 14 years of violin study, 13 years of piano study
(2) One of the advanced symphonic orchestras at arguably the most prestigious performing arts school in the city
(3) Steady job during the summer and school year at a local outdoor theatre
Top 3 Awards/Honorary Distinctions:
(1) National Merit Semi-finalist
(2) AP Scholar w/ Distinction
(3) Scholarship Foundation for my state for every semester</p>
<p>QUIRKS</p>
<p>Coolest word: ostensibly
Favorite non-academic, non-EC hobby: Um…sleeping? Isn’t everything EC? 
Favorite band: Radiohead (can’t pick a song)
Favorite book: Catch-22
Favorite movie: The Godfather, pt. 2
Worst habit: Chronic laziness</p>
<p>Gah, you North Jerseyans. I know a couple kids at Paramus High. Is that where you go?</p>
<p>hahaha, no i go to River Dell. Yourself?</p>
<p>Anybody else here applying to the Directed Studies program? It’s the main reason I’m applying to Yale.</p>
<p>I thought you were offered entry into the DS program after an admissions notice?</p>
<p>How would you apply to DS? I, too, thought you’re invited when you’re admitted. And if you’re not invited you can apply/petition to be a part of it.</p>
<p>Rubinator–DS is also one of the big things I love about Yale. Enteril’s right though, you can’t apply directly, as far as I know.</p>
<p>I believe they offer a certain percent of total DSers upon admission and open the rest of the spaces up to applicants. I’m sure they will keep you well informed of the process. I myself am going to be plenty happy if I can just be the classmate of a DSer!</p>
<p>I heard that you can be offered admission to DS if, on your application, you seem like a good candidate for it.</p>
<p>I’m stressing the DS program in my Why Yale? section.</p>
<p>i can not decide between early to yale or to middlebury and i have only a week to decide… AHH!!! help!?!</p>
<p>If you’re looking for an objective recommendation, you’ve come to the wrong place.</p>
<p>if you’re not totally certain about middlebury, don’t apply there. they only have an ED program, as far as i know, and if it’s not your DEFINITE first choice with no hesitations, don’t risk it.</p>
<p>So on another note, how many applicants do you guys/girls think Yale will accept, defer, and reject respectively SCEA?? I’m willing to bet Yale will fill up half its class with SCEA applicants since our group seems self-selective(as it usually is every year) so it depends on how many apply. Also, I have heard that a deferral at Yale isn’t simply a polite rejection lke it is at Harvard. Any thoughts?</p>
<p>I found this somewhere on CC a while ago and saved it:</p>
<p>Official stats for Yale (2005-2006)
-App count: 4084 (3931 two years ago)
-Admit count: 723 (704 two years ago)
-Admit rate: 17.7% (17.9% two years ago)
-Deferral rate: 48%
-Rejection rate: 33.3%</p>
<p>More accepted, but more applied, so lower acceptance rate. A good trend or a bad one? Hm… In any case, I don’t think this year will be much different.</p>
<p>And yes, Yale deferrees get in RD at a higher rate than normal RD applicants, so being deferred by Yale means more than being deferred by Harvard, which only rejected nearly 4% of its early applicants last year.</p>
<p>Glad to hear that deferal by Yale clearly shows some hope as well. Out of curiosity, am I the only one here who is international and doesn’t hold a US or Canadian citizenship? I’m kinda curious what the stats for an international student would be. I’m applying EA to Yale because I just love love LOVE how they treat everybody equally though percentage-wise I bet stats for the international ones might be a tad different. I mean, about how many international students apply EA and RD, and how many get in? Thanks in advance! :)</p>
<p>Are all of you crazy about Yale?
I was crazy about it for about a week, when I decided to apply early. I am still applying early and would love to go there, but I’ve realized as time’s gone by that I’m not obsessed with Yale. The things that used to interest me (fluffy things like the atmosphere and “just everything!!” along with the residential system and other shiny things in the viewbook) now seem a lot more trivial to me. I am still interested in Directed Studies, and I still really like some unique programs in my major of interest…but I’ve come to understand that I can be happy at a lot of colleges, and Yale just happens to be one of them, and it happens to have a non-binding early app. If I don’t get in, I will be sad because it will mean I’m not “that good.” But I won’t be devastated because I can’t go to Yale.
Anyone else feel this way?</p>
<p>I kinda feel that way as well - I easily COULD let myself get obsessed. Get very VERY obsessed but I choose not to for 1 simple reason: it would make me all the more devastated if I did not get accepted.</p>
<p>As a human, I play favorites, I have preferences, and I have my likes and dislikes. So if I’m not accepted, it’s just living proof that yup, I’ve got faults and I might as well learn from them. But for now I think that I’ve got an edge that could just give me Lady Luck’s blessings. I love their international-friendly policy because I’ve lived in a very diverse, multi-cultural world all my life and that is what ultimately persuaded me to apply.</p>
<p>I was crazy about it for the longest time. Then I successfully convinced myself that Yale isn’t the ONE perfect school for me, though I still preferred it over all others. Then I was crazy about it for a few weeks. Now I realize how political college admissions is and that Yale’s decision is not a strict judgements on my worth or caliber. So, yes, I would love to go to Yale, but I recognize that getting in is about politics, and I’m not exactly looking forward to a letter saying “sorry, you’re qualified to do the work here, but your parents didn’t go here, you’re not a URM or from an underrepresented area, you’re not rich and famous, and we’re already recruiting two athletes from your school, so we don’t really need you.”</p>
<p>I would guestimate that only about half the class gets in based on merit alone, which, while depressing by itself, makes me want it a little bit more. So, ultimately, I’m not crazy about Yale, but the thought of being a part of it is thrilling, and I still prefer it over all other schools because of why I’ve loved it for the past 3-4 years.</p>