Strengths and Weaknesses for Yale?

<p>I’d play up the Black female angle. Although I get the impression that your socioeconomic status might not a lot of diversity to colleges (e.g. you seem fairly well off), the Black female angle will give you a boost. </p>

<p>Unfortunately, your ECs seem rather a dime-a-dozen, although I’m sure that you spent a lot of time with them and worked hard on them. The most intriguing ones to me are some of your more unique volunteer work (World Changers - A camp where we fix houses for those in need); so I would delve deeper and at a higher level on some of those and let some of the other ECs go.</p>

<p>Of course Tennis team captain and Math team captain look just fine. But you have to realize that THOUSANDS of tennis team captains and math team captains are applying (also regional/state athletes and mathaletes) . Thus, the volunteer work is what sets you apart (or find something else which sets you apart).</p>