Chance for Yale REA?? Please Reply

Stats:

  • Gender/Race: Male, Black, african
  • Income/Class: Upper Middle Class? Lower Upper Class? I'm not applying for aid if that summarizes it
  • School: Small private school in washington, d.c. Very rigorous
  • GPA: 3.88 unweighted / 4.38 W
  • ACT: 35
  • Course Load (For senior year): Calc BC, AP Psych, AP Lit, AP French, Philosophy, Religion, and Music
  • Freshman: 3.68/4.0
  • Soph: 3.98/4.0
  • Junior 4.0/4.0
  • Applying as Ethnicity, Race and Migration and French double major

ECS:

  1. Started a fundraiser in my school and community (neighborhood etc) to raise funds for educational disparities in a west african refugee camp
  2. Yale young global scholars solving global challenges session. did a capstone research project on education in refugee camps which actually inspired my fundraiser and i write about it in my why yale essay
  3. Intern at ghanaian refugee aid foundation
  4. Intern at french cultural center and co-hosted a film festival in nigeria
  5. president of my school’s french club which is the most attended club in school
  6. Squash player, i play like 5x a week and play in leagues and im ranked in the top 50 in U.S. and top 10 in d.c.
  7. volunteer at local bilingual school as teachers assistant for 1st grade language class
  8. volunteer at 2 west african refugee camps as an english teacher to french speaking refugees
  9. editor in chief of school newspaper
  10. founder of cultural appreciation club. i organized the first all school cultural showcase

Random, but i did an independent research paper with my philosophy teacher on cultural preservation in east africa.

Awards:

Ap scholar with honor

national latin exam silver medal 2x

national french exam bronze medal

national french honor society

school honor roll

essays: my college counselor and everyone who has read them say they’re very good and creative. wrote about my love for baking and how that taught me perseverance for common app.

recs: great recs from my french and my philosophy teacher.

I'm kinda worried because i feel like i dont compare to the other applicants with international awards and such.

Posted Nov 1, 2025, 7:58 PM UTC

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