<p>No, Divy1234, your guidance counselor has MORE experience. You have NO experience, and clearly very little knowledge aside from hearsay. Hearsay is not acceptable evidence. And, as WoollyMammoth suggests, it does seem like you are projecting, hence the emotional overreaction on someone else’s thread.</p>
<p>In fact I am not similar to this applicant at all: 2180 and a 4.0 and my interest lie in different areas. But yes I have been told I have no chances also here while other people who no of the process say the contrary. I just don’t think this applicant should be discouraged by what some anonymous posters who are no older than him have to say.</p>
<p>Ill listen to my guidance counselor than a 18 year old whos claim to fame is his parent and his books, sorry that’s the truth. Thank you. @poster, don’t let your brother be discouraged by these people, they don’t have very much knowledge.</p>
<p>A ORM with a 3.5 uw GPA, 2140 SAT, and few ECs has little to no shot. Pick 2-3 and apply for kicks, but focus on match schools and attainable reaches as well.</p>
<p>Divy1234, you are making some extremely off-base assumptions about the age of the posters providing the ACCURATE information that is so upsetting to you.</p>
<p>In fact I am not as most are her posting chances for themselves and cortana actually is in the Rensselaer 16 class. That is not off base. This information is a little off base, I never said the applicant had great chances it’s just that he can’t be told he has no chances, by your comments it sounds like he has a 2.6 GPA and a 1650 applying to the schools. I’m just pointing that there are no guarantees that is not ill informed.</p>
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<p>I’m devastated. And why is it a bad thing to give an applicant their realistic chances? Better to give them false hopes and waste perhaps hundreds of dollars in application fees to schools he has basically no chance in getting into? No. </p>
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<p>Any unhooked applicant applying to HYPMCSC has a great likelihood in getting rejected. In this case, more so than others.</p>
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<p>I actually also got accepted to Cornell, Carnegie Mellon and Columbia but turned all of them down due to financial aid (received huge scholarship from RPI). Nice try. </p>
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<p>This statement alone shows you don’t know what you’re talking about.</p>
<p>I understand to give chances that are realistic. However, last year I had an applicant at my school who had a 200-something and a Chinese ethnicity with NO clubs or leadership positions. She got into Cornell. All I’m saying is there could be something extraordinary that the applicants application will show, which will never have been shown if he didn’t apply.</p>
<p>Divy1234, the OP’s brother has EVERY right to apply where ever he wants. And, he should dream. But everyone is telling him to also be REALISTIC. The chances of him getting into these schools are NOT HIGH at all, let’s be honest here. And if OP’s brother ONLY applies to these reach schools, HE MAY NOT be going to college. He is being urged to come up with a list that will assuredly get him INTO college. He needs realistc matches and safeties. With this list alone, he may not attend college at all. That is all he is being told, really. To be realistic!!! And smart!</p>
<p>It doesn’t. At all. My point was that you are what 18? 19? That translates to not much older. I was not criticizing your school. And why does it show I don’t know what I’m talking about? He is competitive enough for a look if anything. That means he has a chance and not an almost definite rejection.</p>
<p>Tough GPA for sure, but good stats otherwise… if your concern is getting into an ivy league school, you might be able to get into cornell, other schools to look at is maybe university of chicago or nyu… make sure when you apply that you choose some schools that are good schools, but not as high as the ones you listed ie. u of illinois, texas, somewhere in that range because you definitely have a shot with those.
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1345182-chance-rising-senior.html#post14434558[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1345182-chance-rising-senior.html#post14434558</a></p>
<p>I also said he needs safeties. Everyone does. However, rope are telling him he has No shot. That’s as bad as saying he has an outstanding shot.</p>
<p>Well you think that a 2.6 GPA and 1650 SAT is what immediately counts you out of top schools when, in reality, the stats above are close to what would give you zero chance. (Unless you were exaggerating in which case i apologize).</p>
<p>But Harvard, Yale, Princeton, etc? Just look at the stats in the respective ‘Class of 2016 Regular decision results’ Threads of those respective boards. Those kids who get in are generally at the very top of their class with higher scores and above average - great ECs. Compared to the OPs brother, his stats are pretty low. Especially the indians who get in.</p>
<p>I was exaggerating. I was simply saying his stats give him a look. A 2140 actually will not disqualify (this can be seen in almost all of these schools ranges). Yes his GPA and ORM status hurt, but he will be looked at and who knows I wouldn’t call it an almost definite rejection. I already said have safeties line up, however.</p>
<p>However the stats on collegeboard or their profile show a range more close to a 2130-2400. Those boards are a very small sample size. Seeing as the outlier on sat scores here is 2000.</p>
<p>I’m not saying his SAT score is the biggest problem, it’s his class rank.</p>
<p>I agree the GPA could be higher, but his rank is top 10%.</p>
<p>… Which is very very low for those schools. Especially for male Indians. Unless he attends a school like Thomas Jefferson high school that sends 50+ students to top 20 schools a year.</p>
<p>Certain aspects could be better for sure; however, I still think this applicant should give it a try, but also be very aware that there needs to be safety schools. Absolutely.</p>