I have been reading this post for the past two days. It was reassuring to see how supportive you all were with each other. Everyone was so kind until @CogitoErgoSum16 posted. Even after his arrogant and rude post (full of errors, I might add), many of you tried to respond politely. You even congratulated him on his boasts of the programs he has been accepted into for this Summer. I was pleased that @Yalegirll spoke up and called him on his unfounded aspersions on his fellow applicants. How many of you would want to room with @CogitoErgoSum16 in the fall of 2016? I don't imagine too many hands are going up. His type of arrogant of false superiority seldom goes far in the real world. Hopefully @CogitoErgoSum16 will grow up this Summer and find some humility.
Whether you got into YYGS this Summer or not, please keep on trying to achieve your dreams, even if they seem out of reach. Take some time this Summer to decide what is important to you. Schools will define what they believe deserves praise and reward those things, but you must decide for yourself what matters to you. 2400 SATs, 5s on your APs, and an A+ GPA are all praiseworthy accomplishments, but they are not goals in themselves. What you learn while earning those A's and 5's matters and how you apply and connect that knowledge matters. The grades were merely a crude means of sorting you into groups for the benefit of your schools and the University Admissions officers. CogitoErgoSum16 is right in stating that the tests and "admissions stats" are BS. Your scores do not define you. You are the only one who can define yourself. Decide what truly matters to you and pursue that with your whole heart.
I got accepted to PLE! Looking forward to meet you guys this upcoming summer
@dropoutofschool
Asian from TX
SAT: 2370
Ap Chinese: 5
SAT II Math II and Chinese: 800
Debater, political action club, business club, cross country, other stuff
Board member on local library planning committee
Book reviewer on large scifi/fantasy site
yeah! i got in with a full scholarship… I hope you can come!
@dropoutofschool
I’m Colombian.
SAT I: 1770
Yale Summer Session 2014: Intro. to Human Rights Theory (A), The Cold War (A), International Ethics (A), War and Constitutions (A-)
Fluent in Spanish and English, and conversational in Italian.
Model of UN (Awarded Best Delegate three times), squash, VP Student Council, Prom Committee (fundraising activities), school radio, and entrepreneurial ventures that I run on my own. I’ve also worked at a lawyer’s firm during school breaks, and handling some managerial features of a local hair salon.
Courses I’m taking this year: Math, Physics, Philosophy, English, Spanish, Biology, Computer Science, Chemistry, Social Sciences, Ethics, Visual Arts, Religion. History of art (Elective) and Economics (Elective).
My school doesn’t have an Honors program such as AP or IB, but is nationally ranked on the top 30. Haven’t taken any Subject Tests and my only SAT sitting was this past january.
I got rejected, but my extracurriculars, grades, essays everything was perfect. I didn’t even request financial aid, now I disrespect you yale
Rejected! 
@coonfuuseed then I think you shouldn’t go, an internship may even earn money. price is really ridiculous, it won’t worth it anyways for 2 week
Dear @Marie1024,
I am sorry if you got offended from my post. Also I am sorry if you think that I was ‘bragging’ by listing 2 other programs I’m attending. For I do not see attending some nice summer programs would be such an accomplishment, I did not think that it would look like it did to some who think otherwise.
Also I am honest. From this whole discussion my trust in the international community of my peers has significantly decreased, as you all act like we are in a hippie community where we should all love and support each other no matter what our opinions are. I believe that we should indeed respect each other, but when one is wrong, I don’t see any problem with pointing that out. You’re talking to me about the reality, and let me tell you that my philosophy has done me quite well in the ‘real world’. If you call being honest ‘arrogance’ than so be it, I will continue calling futile anxiety stupid. If we all are, as we are supposed to be, globally aware citizens we would get anxiety from conflicts like the Iranian one and the NSA security violation and start doing something about it. But if we all are faking and we are all acting like this utopian perfect people who ‘want to save the world’, and the only thing they want is to get in a good college to get money, then I call YOU the arrogant and the selfish. From YOUR philosophy we get this generation of ‘stellar’ millenians who list their accomplishments and their grades as a medical record and don’t really appreciate what they are doing. Is this prejudice? No, I totally agree that there are exceptions; and Yes, we all know that the majority is as above described.
Tip: As I said, good colleges/ programs are like hot chicks, they don’t follow you when you follow ONLY them- but if you are doing well in whatever you like doing and are passionate about, they will follow you in your success path.
(There are always the hot chicks who will get with you if you have the money- “Summer Schools”)
Deep inside Marie you know there is truth in my words, so, please, save me the BSing.
Sincerely,
CES.
P.S: The post was indeed full of errors, as English is not my native language; it’s my fifth academic language. So yeah… expect mistakes to happen.
please take your negativity away from cc, it’s really not needed here 
I’m an Asian from Atlanta, GA.
My stats are:
SAT 1: 2310
SAT MATH 2: 800
SAT CHEM: 780
I will have taken 12 APs by junior yr (mostly 5s and couple of 4s)
State awards from DECA, FBLA, future problem solving
In several clubs that I’m passionate in
Leadership positions at school, region officer, and part of youth council for this community
TBH, I think my essay was my strongest point
Hope this is helpful for future applicants.
Wait, 12APs?
Hey guys…I am so excited…got ACCEPTED to YYGS (SPI)…but I’m not sure whether i will attend or not…i have to balance out the pros and cons as i will be missing out on my coursework…
PLEASE HELP SOMEONE
I dont really think SAT SCORES really matter…i got in with a 1940 SAT1 > i just showed them my zeal in physics and the let me in…
Accepted to PLE!!! Congrats to everyone who got in 
How much financial aid did people receive?
I still didn’t receive any email about my decision. Can someone show me where to find it? It is not in my spam inbox either…so scared…
Yeah my school’s kinda weird so I took alot of ap classes
And you still havent received anything? Did you email them?
@tryingforyale what are your stats and extracurriculars? How “perfect” are they?
Just wondering.
can someone send me the link to login the application status? i email them and they told me “You’ll need to login to your application in order to view the status.”