<p>I’m going in to my senior year with a 3.4 gpa and 1780 sat. My extra curricular activities are Varsity Wrestling, Key Club Community Service, Senior Class Rep, Church Youth Group, and I’ve held a consistent job for 2 years. I have my heart set on Pitt and I’ve applied there when I visited last weekend. Besides letters of recommendation and an essay what else can I do to help my chances of getting in? Do you think I will have any chance of getting in?
P.s I’m new to this forum thing so I’m not sure if this is in the right section…</p>
<p>@vladi12311 and Csterrett10</p>
<p>This is not a chances thread- also, neither of you have followed the advice on this thread.</p>
<p>chanception</p>
<p>Student615 will you chance me!</p>
<p>Good thread.</p>
<p>this helped</p>
<p>I have a general distaste for posts that are just in paragraph form. Don’t get me wrong, I am guilty of doing that for my first few posts, but I have learned. By the way, if you click my description and chance me, I will chance back. Please help!</p>
<p>Click on the icon that says College Chances. When you get there, a gray button that says New Thread will appear. Click it, and you will be able to start your own thread instead of just replying. Hope this helped!</p>
<p>Have lots of outside curriculars</p>
<p>chances are improved by work and dedication</p>
<p>Yes, what has been said above.</p>
<p>Hey,
Which colleges accept students with low SAT score(1600/2400) ,major must be Software Engineering or CS?</p>
<p>When replying to a Chance Me post, I would highly recommend pointing out a relative strength and a relative weakness and how to address this weakness. This will be most helpful to the asker, without being unpleasant. Additionally, just from what I have observed, both askers and repliers should be aware that colleges consider many factors… so one high AP score or one low grade probably isn’t going to be the deciding factor in terms of acceptance. </p>
<p>And honestly, the best thing I can recommend is looking at acceptance rates and necessary qualifications for each college. Even with great scores, colleges with low acceptance rates are going to be reaches. </p>
<ul>
<li>Grades first: Your GPA, in core academic courses only (Math, Science, History/Social Studies, Foreign Language, English), weighted and unweighted. No college cares about your A in woodshop or your C in gym.</li>
<li>Academic rigor: how many classes were Honors, AP,or IB? Were there more available that you chose not to take?</li>
<li>Test scores: SAT total, SAT M+CR, superscore and single sitting. ACT the same. If you tested more than once, how many times and why (and each score)?</li>
<li>For public schools, what state(s) would you be IS for?</li>
<li>Applying ED to any school? </li>
<li>Intended major (or college/department within a university)? Some are just easier to get into than others. Some receive many more applications. Some might not match up with your grades and test scores.</li>
<li>Personal demographics: male/female? Older student? Veteran? Congenitally conjoined twin? Anything unusual or notable.</li>
<li>Any clear “hook” that will definitely cause them to treat your application differently from most? Especially, are you an URM, first generation college student, orphan or other significant hardship?</li>
</ul>
<p>For most schools, your ECs don’t matter much. If you are going to a super selective school where every applicant can be assumed to have very strong numbers (HYPS etc.), then you need them to differentiate yourself from the pack. If your overall academic record is weak, then you need them to overcome that. Otherwise, they won’t matter much. List only the most significant ECs, not every activity you ever tried. You founded an outreach program to help the homeless? Great! You were captain of the varsity caber toss team? Good, but lots of people do sports - if you weren’t recruited, it won’t be worth a lot. You are published (and not just in your school magazine? Excellent IF you plan to major in something related. You were on the math team? Who cares - that’s what your math grades and test scores are for!</p>
<p>Don’t both telling us about your essays and recommendations. Everyone has them, everyone edits and polishes them to make themselves look good. You could write an amazing essay on a topic that most people would expect to be boring, and you can bomb an essay on any subject. And you won’t get to read your own recommendations.</p>
<p>Then, just list the schools you’re asking about, one line each. For each public school, indicate IS or OOS.</p>
<p>Also: please list at least some of the schools in your thread heading!</p>
<p>I just want to say that everyone should keep their chance college lists short. Pick a few favorites from each category of reach, match, and safety. If you’re just asking chances for HYPSM and the top ten liberal arts, what answer would you expect? I hate having to write ‘reaches for all,’ because that’s true for everyone. And I hate having to copy the whole list.</p>
<p>The one thing that always seems to be missing from chance threads is the school profile. If you did 8 AP courses out of the 9 that your school offered, that means something very different than if you did 8 AP courses out of the 27 that your school offered. Without knowing the school, you cannot possibly understand what your academic accomplishments mean.</p>
<p>All I ask is that anyone asking for a chance be reasonable. I also don’t often answer these threads, because OPs can get so defensive. I’m happy to help shape lists (helping define or add/subtract reach, match, safety). Just worked with one student this week who was lovely and thankful. </p>
<p>But when they have a 25 ACT (but my math was a 35!) and they are working on their Yale essay (as I just literally read) and looking for other “Top” schools to get chanced at, there’s nothing I’m going to do to change their mind that applying to the ivies is a bad idea. </p>
<p>It’s worse internationally. I think there should be a immediate steps taken here to educate those kids how applications and educational tiers work here, especially “Top” and “Ivy.” It’s actually sad to read how many kids think they have a shot, or whose parents are pushing them towards prestigious schools they have no business applying to. They are just set up for rejection. </p>
<p>I agree that all chance me threads should be eliminated. But since they won’t, there should be a caveat in the forum that they need to list at least one school in each category (safety/match/reach). When all they want to talk about is Ivies, it’s a setup for contentiousness on both sides. </p>
Too much information is listing every single club you’ve ever joined or attended.