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List your unweighted GPA, any SAT /ACT scores, and ECs. What majors are you going into?
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Hi! I’m a french international student with a US passport. I have a 43/45 predicted score on my IB and a 1550 SAT. I am a national-level fencer, have won multiple international debate conferences, and am president of the Student Council. I want to major in Gov. and math.
I was thinking about applying REA to Yale. Any thoughts/tips on strategy or things to highlight in my essays? Any help is appreciated!
Have you contacted the fencing coach to see if he can support you as an athletic recruit? That is the surest way in.
Your stats make you competitive. The key will be the strength of your LoR’s and how well you can sell yourself as being an asset to the Yale community in your essays.
Is there a place for a resume upload in the portal?
I do not think so
3.9 unweighted GPA. 35 ACT. Biology/pre-med. Clean record.
Seems REA applicants start alumni interviews in recent days (posts on Reddit). Curious how much correlation between alumni interview invitation and acceptance? Yale’s website said it optional, no advantage or disadvantage.
While the interviews are “optional”, getting an interview has become selective. While there are some applicants who do not get interviewed who are accepted, those are the exception. Please refer to the series of podcasts on Yale’s Inside the Yale Admissions Office Podcast | Yale College Undergraduate Admissions especially Episode 30 where there is now an initial cull of applications. In the last cycle there were only 9,000 completed interviews vs 50,000 applicants vs 2,300 acceptances.
I read somewhere that the date for the SCEA decisions was confirmed for 12/17. Anyone knows if that’s true and what’s the source?
Yes, the portal says December 17, 2025 at 5:00pm (Eastern)
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Thanks for the stats!