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Typically, Yale's acceptance rate is 13%, meaning 13 students out of
every 100 applicants are admitted. Facing such immense competition,
students need to distinguish themselves in more than one area. Yale is
not just looking for a well-decorated star athlete or a talented
musician. The admissions committee selects, for example, the all-state
athlete who, on the side, edits his school newspaper, heads the
community-service organization, and graduates with distinguished
marks. The admissions process thus begins as a freshman, when the
nascent high-schooler must set goals to become a leader of his school
activities and to excel beyond any established standard on the athletic
field, stage, physics class, etc. Whatever one chooses to pursue,
excellent must be the goal. This distinction translates to a more eye-
catching admissions essay-topic, and it also makes interviewing much
easier. Interviews should not be intimidating. "Know who you are" is
my greatest advice, and what makes you special, and exactly why you
want to go to that specific school (residential colleges, contact with
top professors, seminars, etc). You must be confident, but this should
not pose a challenge, for if you applied to Yale, you must have had
something to back up that decision in the first place.
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