I'm frightened, what should i do?

Question

i really want to get into yale, but my grades have been lacking my junior year.

i had all a's my freshman year, but i did really bad my sophmore year. i had a couple a's and bs, but not many

i'm already in honors&&ap

but do they look at your sopmhore year

if i make striahgt a's my junior and senior year, have a killer essay, and score extremely high on my SAT'S

will at least have a chance of getting in

this is my dream, it's what i've been working for my whole life

Answer 1

hmm, yeah.. maybe if you are dedicated and do extremely well in everything from here on out, it will look good that youve improved. have extra curriculars and volunteering as well.

if you have time, could you answer my question?

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;...

Answer 2

Well, you have to start doing as much community service and extracurriculars as possible. Get a uuber high SAT score, i mean 2200>, and take as many AP classes as you can, it will increase your weighted GPA.

Start Studying for the SATs, increase your vocab, and read a lot. It will help and do brainteasers and review middle school math such as probability.  Make sure you know all of ALG 2. That should help.

Answer 3

It's quite distressing when I hear a student say they have worked their whole life to get into one college. It's just plain silly, especially when a college is one like Yale that rejects the vast majority of fully qualified applicants.

The truth is that you probably have a very slim chance at Yale if you got several grades below A soph year. Sorry, but they reject thousands of valedictorians and 2400s every year. One C often derails applicants at colleges far less selective than Yale.

While colleges check your senior grades, they are looking moistly at grades and rank for your first 3 years.

Start falling in love with colleges that are realistic. There are thousands of colleges in this Country and hundreds of truly good ones.

Answer 4

first of all, my friend's brother recently got into yale and this is what he had:

4.18 GPA

2300 on the SATs

34 on the ACT

6 AP classes

and 200 hours of community service.

it doesn't matter if you're in honors or APs; the colleges want to see you trying your best (don't go below B +s) and see that you're keeping up your grades.

yes they DO look at your sophomore year, including freshman year, honestly.

if you want to score high on your SATs, get a tutor. take a class for about 100 hours and take it in october. yale has a higher chance of accepting people for early decisions, so definitely try that.

if you get straight As in both junior and senior years, well that's good but they want to know if you're taking challenging classes or not. and something that will match your major.

have fun.