If you ask people to chance you...

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<p>prepare to be demoralized. You won't get the answer you want, so don't even bother. Just try your best and submit your application to your dream school.</p>

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<p>Excessive ECs and community service hurt applicants more than they help them imo.
Did “you” actually do these, or did you just blindly follow what your parents and counselor told you to do?</p>

<p>That is my only issue with chance threads. People try to make the longest laundry list possible for ECs and it just ends up looking like the applicant never even chose any of the activities; the parents did. Penn isn’t recruiting helicopter parents. Penn is recruiting students.</p>

<p>The person who helped me with my Penn app is the mother of many Ivy alumni. Two or three top-ranking roles in ECs is enough. Anything more (in her opinion) starts turning an applicant from a dedicated student into the sheepish drone of private schools, over-attached parents, and zealous counselors.</p>

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<p>I have chosen all of my EC’s and I pursued them independent of my parents. In turn I have done a lot, will UPenn judge me on the amount of ECs I do, despite me being only one pushing myself?</p>

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<p>^as long as there’s focus, it’s fine.</p>

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<p>Yeah…I guess</p>

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<p>@aaron exactly. 4 years of marching band > 1 year of track + 1 year of spanish club imo</p>

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<p>Chance me! <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=1426439[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=1426439&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>did you really just pick the thread where the original post was about chance threads being demoralizing to ask people to chance you?</p>

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<p>Yeah, why not? Haha. I take everything with a grain of salt.</p>

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<p>alright, props to you then.</p>

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<p>I think people want to be “chanced” because they 1.) need some kind of reassurance from others, 2.) want an ego boost, 3.) unsure and need an outside opinion. </p>

<p>Besides, I think if you wanted a numbers based opinion, go to parchment.com. They immediately match your scores/GPA/class rank to schools and then calculate if you’re up to par. </p>

<p>Things like EC’s, awards, and essays are holistic. Nobody can chance you based on that - it really depends on the admissions officer.</p>

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