Will this affect my admission at Yale?

Hunt
Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:00:18 +0000

I’m going to repeat an answer to this kind of question that I’ve posted before: Everything in your record that is good will “help” you and everything that is not so good will “hurt” you. But what’s important is the overall picture, and each item is viewed in context, with grades, scores, ECs, recs, and more. There may be some things that are so bad that they will kill your chances (i.e., a felony conviction) or so good that they make you a shoo-in (star football player with a billion dollars), but for most things, they only have meaning in context with all the other things. So, while it’s better to have no Bs, one B, in context, is unlikely to be a deciding factor.