<p>I am homeschooled. I don’t want to go into my stats, but basically what is Yale looking for? </p>
<p>If this helps, I’d like to major in Voice or Film. </p>
<p>Danke!</p>
<p>Basically Yale is looking for the smartest, most talented students, who will grow up to be the richest, most generous donors.</p>
<p>Ha, TK I think you just gave an explanation of what every college is looking for.</p>
<p>Yale, like any other large Ivy League, is going to focus on your numbers if your home-schooled. They will want to know that your schooling still allows you to compete with the other students on the campus.</p>
<p>They will also look for extra curricular activities, especially ones that help the community. Think soup kitchen work, EMT certification and practice and helping out at a retirement home. Also any kind of publications or awards you can grab will help bolster your application. Internships help a hellava lot as well.</p>
<p>Think of it this way, first you need to compete with other applicants on a numerical level and then you really need to make your application stand out.</p>
<p>I didn’t get apply to Yale but I did get accepted to Brown, Dartmouth and JHU. I had weak(er) numbers for these institutions but I had a lot of outside accomplishments that made my application unique. For one, I audited and completed a course in performance guitar at UDC and had the professor (now my tutor) write a letter for me. I also went to an honors boarding school called Rocky Mountain School in Colorado for a semester. When I came back I used my Wilderness First Response certification to get my EMT certification and became one of the youngest regular EMT’s for DC’s Emergency Response Team. With all of this I also interned at three law firms throughout high-school and got a job at Apple, where I’m now the youngest business team member in the history of the company. It got to the point where I was going to school in the morning, holding a job at night and then going to the Maryland State Attorney’s office or Pheonix consulting over the weekend for internships. No, I did not have any friends during this time.</p>
<p>The funny thing is after all this I got a scholarship to UMD and was accepted to St. John’s College (they don’t give out merit based scholarships and my dads rich, so I got almost no money). Those are my top schools. Why? Because living a life like I just described was hell and at UMD I feel I will get the same education as someplace like Brown or JHU for free. Where at SJC I think is one of the only undergraduate programs in the country that actually EDUCATE instead of just have students read and regurgitate.</p>
<p>Hope that helps.</p>
<p>Wow Dinozzo. That’s amazing. I’ll keep all what you said in mind. Keep on workin towards your dream!</p>
<p>The point was, its not. As fun as it is to toot my own horn the fact of the matter is that I was miserable all of senior year. In the end if Yale is where you really want to go then yes, you are going to have to work hard to get there. But you might find, like me, that your undergrad is just that, your undergrad. It doesn’t matter after your first job where you went and its better to be where you should be (or where will give you money for grad school) then to be where you shouldn’t because of USA Today’s phony rankings.</p>
<p>Diversity is a HUGE factor in admissions</p>
<p>Yale doesn’t offer Film or Voice majors per se. They offer “Film Studies” - film studies would be to filmmaking as literature is to creative writing - and they offer a B.A. in Music, not a B.Mus. in Music Performance (though you can count some performance lessons toward the Music B.A.).</p>
<p>Really gadad? That sucks. :/</p>