<p>You won’t get any sense of ‘the competition’ if you just look at these numbers alone.</p>
<p>You can skip anything that has too many words in it for your liking… it is “too long” because it already has “the competition”'s stats all listed in it!</p>
<p>I agree with the above poster. Don’t do this to yourself. There’s no use getting worked up about the competition since you’re decision will be made in a month or so. And after that, you’ll feel good if you got in no matter what and just even more depressed that you’re below all this “competition” if you get rejected. If Yale doesn’t accept you, there’s nothing you can do about it but you shouldn’t feel stupid or lesser than anyone else.</p>
I think that’s somewhat hypocritical considering you wouldn’t EVEN BE ON THIS WEBSITE AND MORE SPECIFICALLY THIS FORUM if you weren’t worked up about your college admissions prospects and you weren’t concerned whatsoever about the <em>competition</em>. Come on, we’re all a little competitive here or we wouldn’t be applying to Yale otherwise. A friendly stats comparison might even ease the nerves of those CC users who have insane credentials but are still obsessively nervous while it might help the overly confident CC users who aren’t very competitive at all prepare for their impending rejection/deferral.</p>
<p>Me-
~3.8 unweighted GPA(10 AP’s and 2 college math classes)
35 ACT(32E,35M,36R,35SC)
faster than a speeding bullet, master cook, history nerd, idealist, live in a rich spolied town, hot Jewish girlfriend, etc. etc.</p>
<p>I don’t see how what I said is hypocritical at all. I’m not on this forum to compare my SAT’s and grades with everyone else’s and then, forgetting the hundreds of other nationwide applicants who aren’t on this forum and the fact that grades aren’t everything, make a totally unsupported guess at whether I’m going to get into Yale or not. Like I said before, of course you may be worried about the competition(which is involved in pretty much all college applications, not just Yale by the way; competition is an inevitable part of wanting a spot in a school that has limited space), but there’s no point in comparing yourself.</p>
<p>lollipop - The GPA is less good than it sounds; my school doesn’t weight minuses and my schedule, despite being “most rigorous,” was probably easier than yours.</p>
<p>And ultimately I’ve come to accept that I probably won’t get in for reasons I don’t care to explain here, so I guess the SAT won’t matter much, either.</p>
<p>your GPA is still good ( I have a 4.0 now but that will probably die by the end of this year :/) and your test scores are amazing. no matter how hard i try, i cant get my SAT scores up and since ivies seem to hate the ACT…</p>