Yale '14 - International Applicant

portugueseninja
Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:06:58 +0000

No matter what, your chances are always going to be slim. But they’re slim for everyone. It just depends what Yale are looking for. Do your best on the SAT, work hard on your application. And then keep your fingers crossed, that’s all you can do.

Don’t worry about ECs. If you look through the stats posted by people on decisions day you can see a lot of people with gigantic lists of ECs get rejected. Colleges don’t want to see that you can join every single club available, they want to see your PASSION for something. If you are only in one club but are passionate about it, then that’s better than being in fifteen clubs that you don’t really care about.

Similarly, colleges will appreciate that as an international student the opportunities available to you will be different than if you attended a regular American high school. They won’t be judging you in the same ways because they will know you have a different background.