<p>It's my senior year and I am very nervous about getting into the schools I want, I know that College's dont really look at senior year so all my grades are basically finished. I want to email a couple colleges right now asking if I have a chance at getting into there school, the problem is I have no idea what to say. I was thinking about starting off like this:</p>
<p>Hi my name is ___ I currently attend (high school), I am very interested in attending (college name) I was wondering if you would be able to take a look at my grades and SAT now to give me a generally idea of where I stand with you guys admission wise?</p>
<p>I am not 100% sure what to say, thanks in advance to all the replies!</p>
<p>Why is that hoopser77? I figured it would help colleges get to know me better and hopefully increase my chances by a little. My grades aren’t that bad where I have no shot of getting into the college and am just trying to suck up to them praying I will get in (thats not the case). I really have a 50/50 shot of getting in and I am trying to do anything I can to make it happen :P</p>
<p>First of all, the colleges should have gotten to know you in your application essays. Secondly, the admissions team will perceive you as trying to suck up, even if you aren’t. This will be the case no matter how you word it. The admissions staff will NOT provide you with this information even if you ask. The most of stats type stuff you are going to get is from their website, which you should have ready looked into if you have already applied. If your stats are near that of previous classes and you wrote decent essays, then you have a good shot at getting in.</p>
<p>If you absolutely, must contact them, just make an anonymous phone call and ask, but don’t tell them who you are or give them any information that could reflect on you negatively. </p>
<p>Nothing you do at this point will positively affect your application.</p>
<p>I plan on submitting my application as soon as I get my October SAT score which should be around October 25th. I am really nervous, according to college board I fall in the 23% had h.s. GPA between 3.0 and 3.24 range ( [College</a> Search - SUNY University at Albany - UAlbany - At a Glance](<a href=“College Search - BigFuture | College Board”>College Search - BigFuture | College Board) ) This school looks easy to get into but what really worries me is UAlbany’s acceptance rate is only around 47%!</p>
<p>I didn’t realize you hadn’t submitted your application yet. </p>
<p>But you should be fine. The admissions staff doesn’t want to be bothered with nervous prospies. Sad but true. Also my above statement still holds. If you feel you must do it, call them. Don’t leave an electronic trail. A phone call also gets and immediate response, whereas an email does not. I still advise against it though.</p>
<p>@Hooser77, Thanks for the advice I decided that I won’t call/email them and just hope for the best, my GPA is an 84%/100% (maybe a 3.0) and my Sat is worse then I thought (1040/1600), I do a lot of extra curriculars but I know in reality it all comes down to your GPA, SAT, as well as Class Rank which I am praying is Top Half. Thanks a lot for help and i’ll be posting here in a couple months with the outcome.</p>
<p>Glad you didn’t do that. Colleges will evaluate your application – not give advice on relative chances. That’s not their job. It’s your job to carefully craft a realistic list of target schools. </p>
<p>It’s akin to calling up a prospective employer and asking your chances for getting an offer before you’ve submitted your resume. Totally crass and unprofessional.</p>
<p>Your guidance counselor should be able to help. Best of luck to you.</p>
<p>If you send an email to admissions with your grades and test scores and perhaps some other info and ask what are your chances what you are likely to get back is an email thanking you for communicating with admissions and showing an interest in the college and informing you that they do not evaluate chances of admission and tell you where you can go to get an application for admission. Moreover, the only people who will read your email and respond to it are employees who have nothing to do with making any decisions to admit and those who decide admission and review your file won’t even know you ever sent the email.</p>
<p>You are not the only who has thought of doing this before and the many who have actually done it (annually) have received the standard response.</p>
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<li><p>They won’t answer. I volunteer for admissions. One of the first things they tell us on the list of things not to discuss is chances of admission.</p></li>
<li><p>They may put it in your file, which could look bad.</p></li>
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<p>I realize that OP’s method (emailing several schools) would come across as unpolished and naive, but my D went to a summer college fair and was able to discuss the same issues, face to face, with an admissions officer from her #1 choice. In fact, while they were chatting the AO brought it up. AO then told her she was very qualified compared with the applicants they ordinarily accept. It’s all in the presentation…</p>
<p>OP, if you want to assess your chance for admission, check out the Common Data Set for each school you are interested in…it will give you a realistic assessment of your chances.</p>