<p>it was an honest question here - why do you want to be chanced? because if it is for a reality check, i think the problem with chance threads especially if you have already submitted an application is that if you get bad news - is that better than just receiving no news? i’m thinking from an education perspective, what is healthiest for you.</p>
<p>i choose not to participate in chance threads because i think they are unnecessarily fatalistic, and proved by the fact that you have bumped your thread hoping for something. my effort here is to extinguish the desire to ask for chances than necessarily to fuel it. i thought about my comments, and though i was more annoyed at another post, sure it carried over, i sometimes think that a bad guy is fine on these fora. i am not here to make you like me, i am here to push things in appropriate directions. chance questions are best for people who know you - guidance counselors, private counselors, friends with more insight. especially as none of us have expertise on this matter, we are novices trying to help, and that can in fact hurt.</p>
<p>i will however break my rule because i guess i think it might demonstrate the problem with chance threads. i have a feeling you know your chances are not that great, which prompts the chance forum in the first place. in reality you are on the borderline, there are some students who look like you who may be admitted, but the vast vast vast majority will not. you are a good student who seems to be doing everything right, but nothing about your application is outstanding or would help you stand out in a pool, even in an early decision pool. without knowing everything, we might veer to negatively, or perhaps we might be too positive.</p>
<p>like how good are you at executing your essay about being insecure, the problem with ‘weakness’ essays is that their attempt often to make it seem like you rose like a phoenix comes across as contrived and ultimately uninteresting for a reader. what if your personal reading of your essay is not the way your admissions officer sees it? your work in writing seems to be a focal point, but your sat IIs don’t really showcase your talents. key club certainly might be something of interest, but it is unclear from just this thread what it actually means - how much time, how important is it to your school, what have you done that is different than your predecessors, perhaps this is answered in your essay, perhaps not. </p>
<p>the biggest factor that folks for the most part on chance threads don’t know - and i must admit i don’t know how to weigh this either - is deal with the question of context. are you impressive coming from tennessee? i guess that depends if you’re applying from knoxville, memphis or somewhere smaller. it depends on your socioeconomic background, what do you have access to. is your family from eastern tennessee and the applachias? these are context clues that would massively change how to read your application. if i were to do a snap judgment on your profile, i’d say you stand a very poor chance of being admitted, but would i then be helping or hurting you? making you feel less good about yourself and your amazing accomplishments by refocusing the gaze on how good are you at the admissions game instead of concentrating on how good you are as a person? would i be properly contextualizing your experience and providing the right kind of support? i think not, i’d rather you read the above with deep skepticism. and hopefully you will come to trust your own instincts about things.</p>