Yale 2024 Applicants Discussion

randomstudentt
Mon, 11 May 2020 22:33:42 +0000

DECISION:

Decision: Waitlisted

Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 1500 (790 Math, 710 English)
ACT (breakdown): N/A
SAT II: 800 Math 2, 730 Chem
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.87
Weighted GPA: Doesn’t do this
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 2
AP (place score in parenthesis): EngLang (3), CSP (5), SpanLang (5), Phys 1 (4), Chem (4), EnvSci (3)
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load: Linear Algebra, AP Calc BC, AP CS - A, AP Phys 2, Chem 3 (orgo), English, Spanish, Latin American Studies.
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): None

Subjective:

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Environmental Club founder and president created an app that measures water and carbon footprint of products at the supermarket by scanning them, Research Assistant for a Mathematical Education Masters Thesis, Global Issues Network Service Project and Conference participant also organized a local conference, NHS, German Classes, Tennis Player (non-competitive), small 3week internship with a material scientist.

Job/Work Experience: None

Volunteer/Community service: In Extracurriculars

Summer Activities: Summer At Brown, JHU Innovation Engineering, SIP Internship Online (wrote a paper and sent it as a portfolio).

Essays (rating 1-10, details): Wrote about how I made paper at home, about lost in translation of idioms b/c I speak 3 languages now fluently, a letter to my roommate about my sustainable shopping habits, etc.

Recommendations (rating 1-10, details): All good, my philosophy teacher, chem teacher, and bio/engineering teacher
Teacher Rec #1 (rating 1-10, details): 9 (he is famous in my school for writing great letters
Teacher Rec #2 (rating 1-10, details): 8 (let me read it… pretty good)
Counselor Rec (rating 1-10, details): 9
Additional Rec (if any) (rating 1-10, details): 8 (my research mentor, he liked me)
Interview (if any) (rating 1-10, details): 8… IDK?

Other:
Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major: Mechanical Engineering
State (if domestic applicant):
Country (if international applicant): Colombia
School Type: American School in Colombia (they teach half in English and half in Spanish)
Ethnicity: Latino
Gender: Female
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): N/A

Reflections:
Strengths: research paper, app portfolio, good unique extracurriculars, decent essays.
Weaknesses: Ap scores, subj test score (chem), no major awards, could have had a more tied up story.
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: good strategy

Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:

Accepted: MIT, Columbia, UPenn, Cornell, Harvey Mudd, Georgia Tech, Jacobs, Lynn
Waitlisted: Yale, Olin
Rejected: Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, CalTech
Withdrew: Duke, CMU, Yale-NUS b/c I had already gotten into my dream school and some friends were applying here.

General Comments (if any): I am pretty Happy IDK if being an international Latina in stem helped