Yale Students Tell Us How They Got Into Yale | SAT Scores, GPA, Common App Essay & MORE

what was the lowest grade on your report card I think it was like an a-minus from middle school hi everyone my name is Khalil green my name is Gabi Ortega my name is Aman hi my name is flattened I'll say I'm Evan Blasi my name is jocelyne I'm a sophomore at Yale University I am currently majoring in poly SCI maybe concentrating in yharnam I'm a major in history and economics as of right now and I'm also the undergraduate student body president I'm a first year in Berkeley College here at Yale and I'm potentially going to major in modern Middle Eastern Studies and global affairs I'm a first year Yale studying ethnicity race and migration I am a first year and I am a prospective political science and ethnicity race and migration double major I'm class of 2021 at Yale and I'm a computer science major I am NOT No well my sister went here so I don't know if that makes me legacy but my parents didn't go no no no I'm not I'm not a legacy student I went to a public high school it was magnet specifically public I went to a public magnet school public but it was a magnet testing program I went to a public high school I actually don't know at the end of my senior year I just I didn't check my transcript we didn't have rings I'm one country County Maryland I was third in my class I was number two out of 700 kids I believe my school actually did away with class rings at the year that I was a junior so I don't know my official class rank high school GPA I think four point seven ish around there I also didn't check my trip I think it was around like a I once it was like a four 34.0 I think about a three point eight maybe three-point-eight ish I think it was like a four point six something get be a B that I got and not a B so I think the lowest grade I ever ended up with was like maybe a 91 or something b-minus SAT was a 15:30 1390 my SAT score I believe was a 1530 AC t-34 I previously took the SAT got a 1440 but that a CT did me right so I took the SAT back when I was still in a 2400 scale and I got a 23-20 three times the first two times I took it I got the same score and I just really had to push for that last that last try I only took the SAT once twice twice twice 1213 I I can't count probably like dozens I like just pinch it out as many ones I could find online and that I just took each test once I never really did a full practice test I went online and I found a bunch of practice problems and I would drill those over and over again and every time there's a problem where I really messed up I would write it down and put it aside somewhere so I could come back to it later on not many I didn't really study that well for the SAT which standardized test is easier I think a CT was easier for me SAT was just a little bit too much I think that a CT is just a little easier it's faster the pace is much faster but I just think that the a CT worked out much more for me cuz it's very straightforward SAT definitely be SAT it's what I went with because the a CT is not my desk my comment essay was about my experiences in high school so I went to a magnet school is a public school but a magnet school for a stem and I was the only black person in that program so I talked a lot about advocacy to get more of black kids into STEM in higher education and talking about some of the challenges that I faced and how I hope to hopefully change those barriers for the next generation to come so I wrote about a story where my dad and I it was kind of a project that we didn't together where we had to wire up a hot tub in the back of the house and it kind of involved a few stories of us almost setting the house on fire me crawling through the dirt underneath the house and then inevitably we didn't get it done that day it was just a big like mush of like oh I love Sudan and like how much I want to reconnect with who I was and where my family comes from I wrote about the importance of truth and how that sort of been just a common theme in my life how I grew up in a household where honesty and telling the truth to people regardless of whether or not made them uncomfortable was really important and how that then translated them to a lot of the work that I did in high school and how that's just probably the value that's dearest to my heart I think I don't remember actually yeah I don't remember goodness like probably like 12 or 13 it was it was a long process six or seven probably I wrote so I had the previous draft and then I like edited it probably like three four times probably three Allah I had to go over a lot of times before it came out pretty good I wasn't the best I keeping up with my essays but I would say maybe like ten hours five plus hours probably around 15 to 20 the actual writing probably only took around four-ish but the editing was the most of the the writing process like at first I wouldn't work on it because I procrastinate it a lot but once it was like grind time I think I worked on it like 10-15 hours a week I was always working on it I'm totally spitballing by saying this is probably an arbitrary number maybe like 40 hours total how many no read your essay over I think like 4 or 5 it was like my sister my high school counselor teacher is like I just made everybody read over it at maximum I think I let like five or six people just my family members so three to I think I only had one person who was actually like editing it with me and like changing it throughout the process I did yeah I did have a Yale interview yes I did have a Yale interview yes I did it's funny because I left the interview still feeling confident but it definitely wasn't my best interview oh the first interview I've ever had so it was a little bit awkward I think I was doing a summer program here on campus in my junior summer so I had a undergraduate student actually interview me on campus say Yale summer program in astrophysics or why spa I think it went well we talked about my art a lot which was like surprising for you I took I think like nine my school offered like twelve so I there was some that I didn't take I can't remember I want to say maybe wait I think I took about five or six probably more six I think I took fifteen I didn't I don't remember I just know I got a five on in the Spanish once because I'm a Senatus Spanish speaker but other than that I did not get a five on anything else seven of them were fives three of them were three of that two of them were four is in three word no nothing - were three yeah I honestly did not do so well on APs I don't think I got I think I probably only got like one five and that was in Spanish and it was because they like I've lost my test the audio portion so they just like offered me two five most of them were good there was some test I skipped especially my senior year because Yale doesn't give credit for things so there was no incentive to take them but most of them were fours and fives maybe like a four here and there and then I got a two on a POS history so test scores do not matter I didn't I danced I did not I did swimming yeah in karate yeah I was on the wrestling team in high school I played lacrosse all four years was enough varsity track and field team University co-ed volleyball team I was part of the math team I volunteered at like a local community center like in my community lots of active advocacy work and some things that I created myself basic things like interact I competed with my school deca team which is like a business competition themed club I was on the local NSBE which is not so society for black engineers my school's debate team honor societies and everything I worked with best buddies class vice-president Black Student Union newspaper for three years I also volunteered on the weekend I danced her like 13 years quiz bowl i school's equity team inventing which is Robotics Competition team that we had in my high school I did theater in high school it's like I mostly directed student government for your National Honor Society mock trial and a few other small things I can't remember four I plan to attend school just you around ten or eleven I applied to maybe fifteen sixteen schools it was a lot which were Rachel's probably all the Ivy League ones that I apply to Yale Stanford Harvard Yale and Duke Princeton Harvard MIT Harvard and Stanford had Columbia Dartmouth and there might have been two or three others and Georgetown I got into all of that except Harvard none of them I think how much you get homesick like I remember I was like you know what I can't wait to leave like I would I need a goal I need to leave home like I need to step away from everything I guess is that I actually get to sleep eight hours a night for the most part so as much as like Yale I think is on more of the progressive side of the Ivy League's there's still a lot of opportunities for us to reform the campus and make it more inclusive for other communities the time you spend with your friends so when you're in high school you have at least for me it was like 7:00 to 4:00 p.m. I was in school and that's when I talk to my friends maybe hang out in the weekends but from 5 p.m. onwards you're like at your house with your parents and your family you're not honestly seeing them rise in college you can literally spend hours upon hours into the like 3 a.m. or 4 a.m. just talking to your friends like once every two weeks I try once every two weeks once every couple days I text my parents so we have a group chat I try to call them like two three times maybe a week solid seven so so far it's been like a five or six but but when the essays pile up it's like a seven and eight this year has been about an eight but not just academics has been also obviously student government actually curriculars and just like managing social and personal stuff for me like definitely a nine or ten like a seven or an eight when I was a first-year I would give it maybe a four because there are so many different resources that they have to ease you into college life it's you know the best hands down I think gales deathly the best Ivy League yes yeah but I was in bias but yes hundred percent absolutely yes it definitely is yes it definitely is without doubt I don't really know much I know I know Yale is like the chill one I've heard I don't know Harvard we just have beef with Harvard we see that a lot of Harvard kids are just like not really happy Harvard oh I don't wanna hurt people's feelings all I know is that Harvard sucks Harvard we just don't like them that's the only stereotype they came for Harvard Yale they really kind of like beefing with their own school it was kind of problematic I think Harvard is very like preppy very like competitive they're kind of always hustling like always grinding like that's kind of tiring Princeton is like terrible I've heard like people are like unhappy there could see kids are snobby and rich I don't know if certain about Princeton probably just like there's kind of their Columbia kids aren't insanely stressed like no social life other than like maybe the city company's just there I don't know it just seems like kind of depressing to me like I hope that's not what feelings but it does pen kids we see that was just really stress pen seems live 10 mm X seen people on Instagram but I don't know anything about Penn I don't know they kind of the sneaky business school types kind of competitive like Harvard I feel like I know you guys want to start your startups but like chill Dartmouth you know it's the party school Dartmouth Dartmouth kids are just living in the woods Cornell isn't like really sad I heard Cornell no comment Cornell is Cornell wants to go missing Oh Brown definitely like a big like aesthetic tumblr vibe like just like hippy just listening to tape all in the woods I guess artsy I feel like some someone the other day was like you look like you had a brown I was like okay super chill you know they're they really go with the flow very hip very chill too I think being challenged myself more and be more confident I think I was usually scared to step out of my comfort zone and because I didn't challenge myself enough I'd obviously chill out to know who you are don't stress out too much getting into college is one step in a long a long life so don't overemphasize how important it is and don't get too anxious about the results younger may really need it to like lower down on the APS and just like the testing in general it's hard to say like don't stress as much because it works out in the end but like I didn't know that at the time so I can't really say that's what I would tell myself it's like oh yeah chill you'll get into Yale it'll be fine don't stress but it doesn't really work that way there's so many I'd say the biggest one is just planned and prepared so create a time line for yourself wherever you are in the process if it's like one day away or if it's a year away everybody has different reasons for applying but if like I think they could really tell if you truly want to be a part of the yo community and I want to take advantage of their resources and things like that and I think they you could definitely like tell through your application so I think just being genuine about why you want to come here would really help you out for yourself that's that's so cheesy like I feel like if people told me that I just be like like no I need something more concrete making sure that you keep yourself busy and it doesn't even mean doing like eight or nine activities because I think a lot of people think that you should do things like that to get into an Ivy League shape everything around your passion because that's gonna come through the most make them a quality of what you're submitting robust in and exciting for all the admissions officers you have to read it it's just about being yourself I think what I love about Yale students is everyone is generally really nice and really about what they care about and I think that when you have your interview pauses and you're writing your comment up just talk about who you are and what that means to you it's good to be a well-rounded person but there should be a spike somewhere along that circle if you liked this video today please make sure to give it a ginormous thumbs up make sure to smash that subscribe button and press the bell to get notified when I post again have a good day [Music] [Music]

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Published: Tue Mar 31 2020