"Chancing" for Prestigious Universities --> Valid?! o-o"

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I feel that, as the college chosen for this subforum gets more and more prestigious, the whole idea of "chancing" becomes more and more questionable. o-o" How can one expect other HIGH SCHOOL students, not even college students, to give him an accurate depiction of his chances when they have no relation with or understanding of admissions offices that reject 93/100 applicants?</p>

<p>After all, what is in your checklist for a likely candidate of prestigious universities like Stanford, Yale, and Harvard? Perfect SAT score? Valedictorian? President of various clubs? Hundreds of hours of community service? To be honest, I still don't understand how those things equate a likely chance of admission. Kids like that get waitlisted/rejected all the time; I know personally that it's true for my high school. What about the element of personality gained from your essays? For prestigious universities, isn't that also very important? How does one express that in a chancing thread?</p>

<p>I applied Early to Stanford, and I'm ridiculously nervous knowing that I'm trying to be selected from a pool of so many talented and competitive students. To hear the confidence of members who believe they have enough knowledge to chance others for such prestigious universities is very strange to me. For those shooting for the big names, is this subforum more for gaining reassurance? fishing out compliments? boosting ego? destroying other people's ego? Because, unless admissions officers or people related to them frequent this forum, I don't see how I can receive legitimate "chances" from my peers.</p>

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<p>“…is this subforum more for gaining reassurance? fishing out compliments? boosting ego? destroying other people’s ego?”</p>

<p>It’s an all of the above scenario. Some are here for some sort of reassurance after they’ve handed their applications in, so they can sleep easy knowing that someone thinks they have a chance. Others, who have near perfect GPAs and SAT scores, question their ‘lack’ of ECs, although they note they were president and founder of a club that helped poor people blah blah. People like - that I think - are just being arrogant expletives. Personal opinion of course, but it’s difficult to think otherwise when someone has the stats that could get them into any school with a scholarship…</p>

<p>I personally posted a chance thread to ask the opinions of others, to see whether they thought my grades and stats might make me a valid candidate to the my wish list of universities. On the “my chances” board, advice was pathetic and limited to “yeh good chance”, “ivies are always crapshoots” and “with those stats you have limited chance at ivies at prestigious lac’s.” </p>

<p>After a few months on CC, i’ve learned to keep away from this subforum, preferring to use the parents, transfer or international forums. There are plenty of people with some very sound advice, but it’s very easy to be disillusioned by the aforementioned ******bags. </p>

<p>i haven’t really bothered to answer all of your (rhetorical) questions because I soundly agree and there’s nothing more I can say. CHANCE ME?!!?!?!?!?! WILL CHANCE BACK
Eurgh haha</p>