Yale SCEA rejection- Ivies/top schools still possible?

Agree with others: your activities, especially the president of SWE, strongly hint you want engineering/STEM. However, you only took one physics class and did not do well, plus you did not take AP chem or Bio, at least one of which would be expected with someone of your interests (in addition to higher level physics if your school offers it).

Since Yale lets any freshman study anything, any admit could take engineering or Stem. Applicants who have murky or overlapping interests have to show they would succeed in any area of study. Your transcript is not competitive for this specific situation. I think most highly competitive schools that do not have a direct admit to Engineering will have similar reservations.
Do not fret, though, as this only applies to a few schools in the country! There are so many great schools outside of the Cc-favortie-top20 that would love to have an excellent student like you withthe interdisciplinary interests!

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