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

What’s your worst grade? Yale students: An A- Me: a negative F

I'm sorry ONLY YALE?? I could not take that kind of risk

Yale student here: 1. Lowest grade was a B 2. Went to a private high school. 3. High school gpa was around a 4.7 ish 4. Not a legacy 5. 1360 SAT, ACT 34 6. Only took either test once. They were expensive. 7. No practice tests for the SAT. 8. Common app essay was about my experience as a multilingual immigrant in elementary-high school, and then STEM. 9. I only wrote 2 drafts of the essay. 10. I didn’t work many hours on the essay: I went to my professors for help. 11. Only 2 people read my essay over. 12. I had a Yale interview. It was my only interview, I was nervous and was told that perhaps STEM wasn’t for me. He was surprised about my story. 13. I took many, many APs. Like 14. 14. I got 3-5s on most of my AP exams. 15. I didn’t play sports, but I danced. 16. I did science Olympiad, was in theater, and did some environmental advocacy, and danced/did acrobatics. 17. I applied to 12 schools. Yale was the only Ivy League I applied to. 18. I got into all the schools I applied to. 19. University is hard and diverse in terms of the ways you connect with other people. You get a lot more time with friends. 20. I call my parents maybe once a day or once every three days. 21. I sleep 4-7 hours a night. 22. Yale is the best Ivy League. 23. Huck Farvard. 24. Advice to my younger self: be more confident, and go easy on yourself. You’ll be okay. 25. Tips for getting in: be diligent, do your research, talk to people, create an excel spreadsheet, reach out. Be honest. Be confident. Take risks. Edit: for those that were wondering, my insta is @adventureswithnataly. Additionally, I majored in Biomedical Engineering with a Spanish Certificate.

"what was the lowest grade in your report class?" Guy: A- in middle school Me: aight imma head out

i’ve never felt so dumb this motivated me to do better in school

that girls teeth were distractingly pretty

Do a lie detector test and ask USC kids how they got in

When you're foreign and know nothing about GPA but you're still here.

I understand why I didn't get into any good colleges....and dropped out lol

youtube putting this on my recommended just to tell me I'm a failure

This actually made me feel better. In all of those stats videos of people that went to like Harvard or MIT, they say they started 25 clubs, they started a social movement that raised $1.2 billion, they gave a homeless man their home along with their entire live savings, but these people were just in some clubs at their school and did community service.

Let me tell you a secret. The way you get into these schools is to show passion and care about highschool. That's it. The admissions officers can sense that. Good Luck!

1. They were smart 2. Unlike most of us they tried in high-school 3. They actually prepared for months for the SAT or they basically treated it the way college students treat the LSAT ( not last minute). But the good news is (as I found out) you can make up for highschool if you do good in college. So for those that see this don’t be discouraged if highschool doesn’t go so well just make up for it in college.

when that one girl said she got into every single ivy + Stanford except for Harvard I literally died

No way these kids don't remember their GPA

When he said a- was his Lowest grade I lost hope

you should do the interview with international students!!! it would be good to get another perspective on their application process

“All I know is that Harvard sucks” 😂

The lowest grade was an F-, but that hasn't stopped me from being the best I can be. I am now a straight A’s student. Anything is possible!

clicks on the video “what was your lowest grade in your report card? “ guy: A- clicks off the video