<p>although i know no one can really tell me my chance for admission, i was wondering if you (whoever you are) could offer me some idea. swarthmore is my first choice, but after talking with my college counselor i'm left feeling as if i don't have a hope or a prayer.</p>
<p>my SAT scores:
CR 750 M760 W780</p>
<p>my GPA: 3.84 (weighted) </p>
<p>my AP courses (between my junior and senior years):
biology, english language, english literature, american history, european history</p>
<p>i am a student goverment council president, president of the environmentalist club and participate in several other clubs as well.</p>
<p>my recomendations are very personal from teachers with which i've had a stong student-teacher relationship and i've been told my essay is interesting as well.</p>
<p>also, i spend this past summer conducting research through an internship in my state university.</p>
<p>your guidance counselor seems like a pretty bright person. i know a bunch of kids rejected that have the same numbers and ec's. in fact, i bet you guys even look alike. those rejects knew their numbers were really good, but went around going "i know i'm not going to get in, i know i'm not going to get in" then are actually shocked and angry when they (with similar scores like yours) actually get rejected. what a bunch of phonies. </p>
<p>that said, what makes you so special or even interesting? not your sat scores or your gpa or your ec's. everyones recomendations are from teachers they had a personal relationship with. with that in mind, i certainly hope your essay is as interesting as you say. btw, happy hollidays.</p>
<p>What race, ethnicity, and nationality are you? It's impossible to give chances without that information.</p>
<p>Give us some sense of the kind of high school and where your GPA ranks in your senior. Offhand, with that many APs, most Swatties would be above a 4.0 weigthed GPA, but that could vary depending on the high school.</p>
<p>on reflection, although the rest of the stuff you wrote is still fairly pedestrian, your sat scores are kinda high and i think that swat needs those types of scores to maintain its desired student body mix and still have the high sat numbers to feed to the guidebooks and publications.</p>
<p>also, do you have any money? maybe not so much with swat, but with the economy melting down, i think that a lot of the schools who are at a lower tier than swat like haverford, bucknell, lafayette, lehigh, colgate will admit more students that may have an ability to pay than kids looking for a handout. of course i don't think the schools will cop to it, but it only makes sense.</p>