What is THE Yale Admission Factor?

AdmissionsAddict
Sun, 02 Sep 2007 18:39:05 +0000

I’m not a Yale admissions officer, so I can’t tell you a definitive answer. What I do know is there are no automatic academic cut-offs (that would be impossible because a 3.7 at one school would be more impressive than a 4.0 at another school). My understanding is that the transcript is the most important thing and if it doesn’t cut it, perfect SATs and stellar ECs won’t save you. There is obviously flexibility when you have stellar ECs, but only so much. As I said before, many applicants have great transcipts, so they have to look at other elements of the application, but it is the #1 thing.