Yale 2024 Applicants Discussion

biearbe
Mon, 30 Mar 2020 10:48:21 +0000

Waitlisted
Black Female from NYC

SAT 1420 (700 math, 720 reading)
SAT II: Lit- 700 World History - 610
Rank: 2
4.0 unweighted GPA
English Major
Amazing essays and recommendations

ECs:
Editor-in-chief of newspaper since soph. year
President of National Honor Society for 2 Yrs (In NHS since soph)
President of the Student Government (Public Relations Director, 11th Grade President, SG President)
Founded my school’s Black Student Union (2 Yrs)
VP of STEM Club (2 yrs)
Model UN (4 years)
400+ Volunteering hours
Organized service trips through NHS
Tutored kids in English, History, Physics, Algebra 2, Trig & Calc
Color Guard
Varsity Swim for 2 years
Varsity Track for 1
Participated in this summer entrepreneurship program, designed a prosthetic and a prosthetic startup & then won the contest at the end

I got into Boston College, Colgate, Franklin & Marshall, Ithaca, Northwestern (Medill School of Journalism), Syracuse (S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications), Washington University in St.Louis (WashU), Wheaton, and Tufts, Wesleyan, Bucknell, Cornell, UPenn, and Dartmouth, and Columbia, Brown
Waitlisted: Harvard & Yale

NYU comes out today, so we’ll find out.
Any other questions, happy to answer!