<p>Me too, math isn’t my best friend. I did no studying whatsoever, and I was like “oh well, let fate decide.”</p>
<p>I consider myself below average for this website but just slightly above average for everyone else. Everyone is sure I’ll end up at UT or A&M but I really have about a slightly below average chance grades/sat wise. I’m Hispanic with 1720/ 2400 & 1140/1600 SAT scores and a 25 ACT. I’m in the top 14% of my class (95/683) with around 7 Pre-Ap classes & 6 APs (all this year). Who knows what will happen. I applied to 4 schools (U of H, UT, TAMU & Texas Tech). Maybe I’ll apply to U of Washington and some other school since I have some fee waivers… But I don’t really know.</p>
<p>You should apply to them, especially if it’s free. I always say" take the risk, what’s the worst they can do tell you no?" Yes you might be heartbroken, but just think about it: you are going to college, somewhere not everyone goes to, it shouldn’t matter whether u go to havard or csu Bakersfield, u can be successful anywhere.</p>
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<p>But that makes admissions harder for everybody. Don’t apply to places just because it’s free.</p>
<p>I’m totally average. My GPA is pretty good, my SATs are way below the national average and my course load is alright, I’m only taking 2 AP classes right now. My main concern is actually getting accepted to college. The main reach for me at the moment is Virginia Tech and I’m afraid they’ll look at my SAT score and then toss my application.</p>
<p>Technically, it doesn’t because if you have a solid app, you should be good. If the school doesn’t want you, the school doesn’t want you. Nothing will change that. I’m applying to a school where I have a 23% chance of being admitted. If the school picks me (which I highly doubt) over a 4.0 2400 SAT student, then that’s just how it goes.
I see it as just luck. I need all the luck I can get in order to admitted to a UC.</p>
<p>(Keep in mind that your individual chance of acceptance could be higher or lower than the overall acceptance rate. It’s not random.)</p>
<p>That’s true, I mean I know that there’s know way a 2.7 gpa student would be accepted at Havard. I’m just saying that for the qualified people, it can go all the way down to your topic of your personal statement in order to get in.
I hope that I at least get into UC Santa Cruz, if not I’m happy going to San Diego State.</p>
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<p>Bad advice is bad.</p>
<p>Why? </p>
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<p>You should apply to wherever you want if it’s free. Don’t worry about other people.</p>
<p>More applicants would change a school’s overall acceptance rate, but any individual’s chance of getting in is likely either much higher or much lower than the school’s overall rate. If you’re well qualified for a school, it doesn’t really change your odds of getting in if 10,000 more horribly underqualified students apply and they all get rejected.</p>
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<p>Schools get more selective over time because the quality and number of their applicants gets better. Someone who could have gotten into an “up and coming” school ten years ago might not get in today. Whether or not a given application is “good enough” changes over time. (This is why some people don’t like the Common App…it makes it too easy to apply to twenty gazillion schools.)</p>
<p>If the school is already a reach for you, you’re not really hurting anyone by applying. But if you’re applying to someone else’s reach and treating it as a safety, you’re making it harder for them. If you don’t have any real reason to apply to a school - if you wouldn’t be deriving any benefit from applying anyway - you may as well just avoid applying and make someone else’s college application process suck a little less. I know this doesn’t resonate if you’re only concerned with your own chances, but IMO if people applied to fewer schools more people would get what they want. </p>
<p>(Of course I have ulterior motives…I’m going to get rejected from Case because of all the better applicants applying because it’s free and there’s no essay, even though they probably think it’s beneath them anyway.)</p>
<p>^ I second the hating the common app. It’s too… I don’t know how to explain it? Easy,but a little dry I guess.</p>
<p>I hated the infamous lack of paragraph spacing. :/</p>
<p>I wish that schools would just have their own app online. It would be better for everyone. I like how the CSU’s application works. since you can only apply to 4 if you get a fee waiver, the.number of applicants for a school aren’t over the top. They are still impacted, but not way too impacted.</p>
<p>What, why? Common App is the greatest thing since sliced bread.</p>
<p>Also, I got an A- once, so I guess I’m average.</p>
<p>Safari keeps telling me that Common App is trying to destroy my computer.</p>
<p>Coincidentally, its also trying to destroy my life.</p>
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Same thing happened to me. I was trying to fill out the assign recommender page,when all.of sudden I was signed out and the browser told me the site was" dangerous." The worst part was that it didn’t save, so I had to start all over.</p>
<p>Yeah I mean the schools I would apply to would be reaches so I wouldn’t be hurting anyone!</p>