Please, chance me. Yale. SCEA

stepay
Tue, 14 Apr 2015 17:44:32 +0000

The fact is that ALL the Ivy Leagues are a reach for everyone, and Yale, Harvard, and Princeton are the hardest of the bunch. So, even if you had a 4.0 unweighted and a 2400 SAT, Yale would STILL be a reach for you…though you would be a crazy strong candidate, but ALL of those schools deny students with a perfect SAT every year. 2200 is nice, but certainly no guarantee, and you haven’t gotten that yet.

You certainly SHOULD apply there if that is your dream school, and it is not silly for you to do so, but in looking at your stats, there isn’t anything there that would distinguish you from the thousands of applicants with similar stats who will be denied.

Also, and I could be wrong on this point, but my sense of dual enrollment is that it really only helps you take fewer classes mainly at non-elite colleges. I don’t know that at Yale those classes would help you in any way, and I’m pretty sure Yale won’t be impressed that you took some dual enrollment classes or impressed with the Associates Degree. I throw that out there so that someone who knows for sure might comment, as I admit this is more of a feeling than something I know to be true.

My general sense is that unless you’ve left something out here…like you are a recruited athlete or you have some amazing EC that you didn’t list…that you will be denied.