Hadn’t read the middle few posts. And this I think is quite telling-those around her/him " who do not share my clarity and my ambition.". Most of the OP’s focus in on humanities and soft courses. Change will e brought about by people who have a good understanding of history and can write-but who have skills in science, computer science, and math. Good natured students who are good with getting behind causes don’t usually contribute much to changing the plight of the poor or to “global human rights” unless they have a good grasp of science, math and computer science. Where are the advanced classes in math and science? The Psych AP is known to be easy and not the equal to anything but a high school psych class. Chemistry counts but what about physics. Where is computer science? Is this it?
“2014 Music Theory, World History, Spanish Lang, Human Geo- all 5’s
2015 Chemistry, US History, English Lang, Spanish Lit, and Psych pending
*self-studied”
Where is Calc BC (and Calc III if you have a 5 in Calc BC), Physics C, Computer Science A, Micro/Macro Economics (less important than the others I’ve listed). I’m pretty sure a school like Yale would want to see at least those courses and maybe more (taken at the local college) covered by someone who feels she/he has already conquered what their school has to offer. Taking advanced soft courses and claiming to be done with what the school has to offer is probably a mistake unless the student has already taken these courses as a freshman or sophomore and did not list them. .
Is the OP’s school a small rural school that does not offer much?
The fact that the student does not seem to have done anything significant seems problematic to me. I don’t think Yale is in the cards anyway. In other words, staying or not, Yale seems a high high reach unless the OP is a legacy. There is nothing here suggestive of anything exceptional. I say that because nobody seems to be willing to lay thing on the line truthfully. Yale is by no means a given if she/he stays in school. Unless the courses I’ve listed have been taken with scores of 5, I can’s see that there is much here to suggest Yale. Being valedictorian is not a hook at all.
And calc 2,3 not stats (lol).