URGENT: Prospective Yale Transfer Student has Question

yalie343
Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:07:09 +0000

They don’t publish the lowest score, but I’m sure some students in the class of 2012 have scores below 1900 with mediocre GPAs. That said, these students probably have INCREDIBLE life stories:

E.G. Raising their younger siblings on their own after their parents died from cancer, dropping out of school and becoming a drug dealer and then pulling their lives back together after an arrest, world class/olympic athletes, etc.

Your SATs are very low, your GPA won’t help you, and you haven’t fully elaborated on your life story (maybe it is compelling enough – I just don’t have enough info to believe it is yet). Unless you got something big going for you, you don’t really have a shot. Sorry to be so straightforward – transfer admissions is EXTREMELY hard…