<p>WHO are the people "chancing" the requester? Students already at the school? Alums? Someone in admissions?</p>
<p>Who knows, but mostly other high school students I think. Most of us parents don’t do much chancing because really all we can say is what you know - your scores and grades are in the ballpark (or not), your EC list is fine, but the parts that really make an application sing (recommendations and essays) are all missing.</p>
<p>Random people on the internet who may or may not have some level of insight and can probably tell a student if they have no chance, but for top schools, which received a huge percentage of their applications from well-qualified applicants, no one can really predict.</p>
<p>Chance me threads are often meaningless.</p>
<p>Chance me threads are mostly silly. After all, you already know the “odds” of admissions from the applicant to admissions statistics. You know (or can find out) what the median SAT/ACT scores are, often the 25th-75th percentile scores, and sometimes the GPAs as well. So build in a little fudge factor for athletes and developmental admits, and you’ve pretty much got the chances without asking.</p>
<p>Omg. Too often it’s other hs kids. As I see it: hs kids who haven’t even submitted an application yet. Those are the same kids so willing to review your essays. And, pass on misinfo they heard from some other hs kid or their cousin’s neighbor. There are a handful of alum interviewers, app readers and some people who have volunteer experience helping kids.</p>
<p>The phrase “Chance me and I’ll chance you back” tells you all you need to know about the validity of the chance threads.</p>
<p>If you have the GPA, test scores, EC’s and so forth, you qualify for a lottery ticket to the top tier schools and approximately a 1 in 10 to a 1 in 12 chance to possibly be accepted. I say that because there are many more qualified applicants than positions in the incoming class and the competitio is extermely fierce. A lot of your chances depend on the items not posted, namely your essays, recommendations and sometimes the interviews. Basically, the chance me threads are a waste of time as no one really knows other than the Adcoms at the schools you are applying to.</p>
<p>I have 2400 SATS, am Roger Federer’s training partner, saved an orphanage from a raging grass fire last week while wielding a garden hose with infants tucked under each arm, I fixed the glitch in the firefighter’s telecommunication equipment that delayed their response by 24 hours after a 30 minute nap post heroics, my proposed solution to the Palestinian and Israeli crisis is being studied by Obama and the republicans, I soloed on piano at Carnegie Hall as a freshman before cutting heads with Eric Clapton at Madison Sq. Garden, J.K Rowling is recommending my first novel to her publisher so I don’t go through what she did, I handcraft braille books as a hobby and donated a lobe of my liver to my best friend to save his life. However, I had a B+ in ceramics. Can some on chance me for Drexel University?</p>
<p>^^Given the devastating effect that will have on your GPA, no chance. Community college for 2 years, then transfer to your least prestigious state U. That’s the best outcome you can hope for.</p>
<p>I was afraid of that, best not apply - Thanks for the keen insight and looking out for my best interests. :)</p>
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<p>No chance – you need to get the Palestinians and Israelis to study it and agree to it for that extracurricular to count for something!</p>
<p>LOL, thanks for the laugh. </p>
<p>I just don’t get why the kids do this. Had to ask if I was missing something!</p>
<p>Totally agree with LasMa’s first post.</p>
<p>Not all kids do this. My kids think it’s nutty. But then my kids aren’t interested in being academically competitive with others, both a blessing and a curse. S2 declined on several occasions to seek credit due to him, saying that he did not need the points/improved class rank. He forgot to hand in the application for local scholarships. I went a little nuts about that!
Not all kids post about their college application process.</p>