<p>I was browsing the Yale ASC website, which explains the admissions process in great detail, when I stumbled across something called “the slate”. According to Yale, “applicants are listed on the slate under the state in which they attend school, and they appear with all other candidates from the same school. Beside each name are tabulated all reader ratings, recommended actions, interview ratings, rank in class, and all standardized test scores.” Does this mean that Yale directly compares applicants from the same school? I thought that there were no quotas of people from the same school.</p>
<p>I don’t think there are any quotas, but it would make sense for them to compare your level of achievement with other ppl from your school. For example, if one of you is significantly stronger than the other, they’ll wonder why the weaker candidate couldn’t do similiarly in the same environment.</p>
<p>How do you think someone would do if they were the only one to apply from their school…especially from a public school that isnt well known?</p>
<p>You ask around.</p>
<p>I only know of one other person applying to Yale from my school, and she’s stronger than me, so naturally, I’m scared.</p>
<p>Well I know for a fact that I am the only in my school applying…I’m referring to the admissions process…I dont know how Yale would react to receiving a single application from the middle of nowhere.</p>
<p>Yale would be happy to consider you but they’ll put more emphasis on your scores.</p>
<p>That completely sux for me…i take the hardest classes my school offers and get A’s and a frickin B in calc (ARG!)…but i am one of the worst test takers ever!</p>
<p>i think we should all be worried about the competition from the kids nationwide and internationally than the kids from our school who apply…then again, im saying this with the peace of mind of knowing that im the only applicant to yale from my school :D</p>
<p>i often worry about being compared to the rest of the nation…especially when there are major differences in the schools and opportunities available to the students…I’d be fine by just being compared to the people I’m around…i know that I can be truly compared to them becuz they have the same opportunities as me.</p>
<p>thats true…i think more emphasis should be given upon the resources a kid had to work with…u cant expect a low-income student from south central, Los Angeles to be able to compete with a kid from Beverly Hills, whose had every advantage in the world :-</p>
<p>lol…it seems like me and you keep going over the same two posts right after each other…lol</p>
<p>Hey slicmlic, isn’t that Affirmative Action?</p>
<p>Hey Beechbum114, what part of Florida are you from? I am an applicant from Florida as well. It seems as though we are in the same boat in terms of being the only ones from our school to apply, and not being the best test takers.</p>
<p>Most adcoms from private colleges that take a lot of time and care in evaluating applicants, will do a quick look at who else is applying from the same school just to make sure that there is some internal equity. They may do nothing about it if even there is some issue that arises, but they do want to be aware that exists. It can cause all kinds of trouble to accept an athlete, URM or legacy that is not as highly ranked as an unhooked student with a superior academic profile. The reason is usually that there are too many kids in the same category as the unhooked student–he is nothing special whereas the hook literally fishes the other kids out of the applicant pool. That is probably why they call them hooks! The schools I know do this at the very end of the admissions process, they do not line up the candidates from each school and do a side by side comparison. I do not know specifically how Yale does this. I do know that 2 of the 4 kids accepted from our school thus far are both performing arts types. Sometimes there is a benefit to having some hooks in the pool as you just might be accepted because of how unfair it would look to deny you and take the hooks. Though no school will admit this, I can see how it could happen.</p>
<p>JadeRain, I’m from Kissimmee which is just south of Orlando.</p>
<p>Woot. Disney!</p>
<p>Daniel, don’t worry about being compared to everyone else. I told you a bit about my school, remember? I don’t think anyone here has ever even applied to Yale, except a girl a few years ago with abysmal grades who thought she could get into every Ivy League school because she was in…oooh…TWO AP classes. <em>snicker</em></p>
<p>hey you havent been on in a while…wassup?</p>
<p>So, you’re most definitely going to be pitted up against all the other people applying from your state, right? Not many people apply from mine, so I need to beat everyone else from my state, right?</p>
<p>Yeah…they cut everyone into regions…so you are up against those in your specific region…I’m in Florida so I won’t be compared to the billions in New York City.</p>