hey guys,
I would love to help you guys with chance me questions, so please let me know if anyone needs help. Thanks!
“Chancing” is silly and stupid in so many ways. What makes you think you can predict outcomes? Are you an AO or just have some insider info? Please, do share.
Having one massive chance me thread may prove to be difficult. It can be a challenge to follow one student’s story on their own thread because additional information is usually needed. Mixing multiple students on one thread will probably be confusing for both the students and adult contributors.
Chance me threads, as a whole, aren’t very useful. They can sometimes direct students to a set of schools they hadn’t considered (academic safeties for the student who’s applying to all reaches) or financial safeties for the average stats student whose family can’t pay much), but very few people on this board have the knowledge to truly gauge whether or not a student can get into a particular school. We get to see only a small slice of their app, and many things that affect the outcome aren’t available to us, so the best we can do is tell a student if their stats are in range. A good look at a college’s common data set will tell them that.
The good news is that there’s an entire section of CC devoted to chance me questions. It would probably be a full-time job to answer them all and I’m sure the students would appreciate hearing from someone, but it would be helpful for them to have some information about you. Are you an adult with some experience in college admissions or a fellow student? Context matters. The information they can get from other high school or college students is likely to be much different than the advice they can get from seasoned adults.