Please Chance these TWINS for Y A L E!

Colleges & Universities Yale University
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<p>Please Help us evaluate our chances of acceptance into Yale, and also if we should consider EA and if you have any insight on Yale’s past of twin acceptances.</p>

<p>Twin One
White Male, from NYC, Huge NYC HS- 1000+in each class
ACT:30 E-31 M-31 R-32 S-25 8 Essay (retaking in sept)
SAT II’s: USH: 790 Math IIC: 650 (will retake) Planning on taking physics SATII.
3 AP’s junior year (most possible) 5 on psych and USH, 4 on English composition
GPA, don’t know out of a 4.0 scale but it’s 99+ (weighted) probably 97 UW</p>

<p>Twin Two (also a male)
ACT:33 (36 eng, 33 math) 9 essay
SAT II’s: USH 800 MATH IIC 710 (will retake) Also will take Phys SAT II
SAT I: 2020 (700 cr + 660 on writing/ math, 11 essay(hopefully Brown will neglect this score for the 33 ACT).
3 AP’s (same AP’s), 5 on all
Same GPA (slightly lower, but ever so slight) as twin one</p>

<p>Rank (both): Top 5% of a moderately competitive Public High School (school sends a few to top colleges and Ivy’s every year).</p>

<p>Senior Courseload for both twins: 4 AP’s (BC calc, Chem, Gov, lit) also other courses (senior Band), honors everything possible.</p>

<p>Extracurriculars (for both twins)</p>

<p>BBYO (Jewish youth organization), 8+ hours a week (twin one has a leadership position for two years, twin two does not)</p>

<p>Student Advisory Council to the Queens District Attorney (only two selected from school, out of 1,000 candidates)- 11th grade</p>

<p>Key Club (Twin two is secretary, but both are very active members) 10-12
Community service hours estimated around 120 hours from 10-12
Went on 7 walks for a plethora of causes (Leukemia, Aids, Breast Cancer, etc)</p>

<p>Saxophone, 7-12th grade (not a music major)</p>

<p>Both members of Arista (National Honor Society), co heads of tutoring department (10 hours/week)</p>

<p>Co-founded school’s Law newspaper, developing a staff for my senior year</p>

<p>Graduating our HS with a “law” diploma for doing several law courses and completing a law program.</p>

<p>Both volunteered in school’s book room everyday (5hrs/week)-11th grade
AWARDS
2nd twin- Questbridge collegeprep scholarship award winner + Edward Fein scholarship award winner, national commendation from PSAT, First place science fair- 10th grade
Both Twins
Presidential Award for Academic Excellence - 9th grade
Honor Roll, every semester- 9-12th grade
Merit awards in science, foreign language, English
Special recognition in chemistry (Teachers assistant credit as well)</p>

<p>Work Experience: Both volunteered in an inner city nursery school in a very economically disadvantaged neighborhood (Summer of 9th grade)
Counselors at another inner city day camp for economically disadvantaged youth (last summer and this summer).</p>

<p>Twin two looks as a stronger candidate than Twin 1, do you think they will reject twin 1 and admit twin 2/ accept both as a package? I am really interested in knowing Yale’s Twin admit history. Thanks for any feedback.</p>

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<p>There were a couple of sets of twins at Yale when I was there and based on another recent twin post, it sounds like there are usually 2-3 twins at any given time at Yale. I don’t think anyone here can tell you if they are more likely to do a package deal or just accept the stronger person.</p>

<p>I would leave out info like 7 walks for various causes. I’d also be wary of putting down awards just inside your school–like if the special recognition and merit awards are only from your high school. It’s better to list the big stuff and not weigh an app down with minutiae, that is, if you have big stuff to include.</p>

<p>I’ll leave the actual chances portion to others.</p>

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<p>I’ve heard the admissions office is loath to deny one twin while accepting the other, especially if the accepted one has a lower GPA. So actually, while twin #2 might be a stronger candidate, it’s very possible that both would get in.</p>

<p>In terms of general chances, both sets of scores could be a little higher. right now, I would guess “reach”.</p>

<p>Also: it would be more helpful to list everything separately so that people could evaluate each twin instead of hunting through the list for each twin’s accomplishments/resume.</p>

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<p>I couldn’t agree more with the above poster. If you really want people to chance you, you need to make the chance thread easier to follow by separating the twins…</p>

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<p>There are at least 3 sets of twins in the class of '11, so there are probably several more currently in the college.</p>