Sep 19, 2017 12:09 PM
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My thoughts:
The college Yale is highly ranked, and one of the best colleges in the world. Their acceptance rate is 4.3% so it is really hard to get in. You will be paying about 500 000 USD per year, so it is also really expencive. This university will give you a high title if you graduate sucsessfully.
What yale is looking for:
No Score Cutoffs
There are no score cutoffs for standardized tests, and successful candidates present a wide range of test results. During the most recent year, test score ranges for enrolled freshmen were:
SAT-Verbal: 710-800
SAT-Math: 710-790
SAT-Writing: 720-800
ACT: 32-35
You should have modest SAT scores if you are looking to get accepted.
Bringing Your Application to Life
Just as teacher recommendations are meant to give the admissions committee a glimpse of what you are like in the classroom, the counselor recommendation may provide us with a picture of your place in your high school class and in the larger school community. Your counselor can help us assess the degree of difficulty of your program, tell us what a particular leadership position means at your school, provide information on your background, and, in general, provide the sort of textured comments about you that would help your application come to life.
The Yale application tries to get at the personal side of the applicant through the use of two essays whose scope is broad enough to accommodate most writers. We encourage you to take the writing of the essays seriously and to write openly and honestly about activities, interests, or experiences that have been meaningful to you. What is most important is that you write in your own voice. If an essay doesn’t sound like the person who writes it, it cannot serve him or her very well as a personal statement. As with every document in the application, we read essays very carefully and try to get a full sense of the human being behind them.
