<p>Honestly, I have realized that we keep chancing each other... but what do we know? We are not admissions officers. We are students, some of us are in different years, and some of us are competing against each other. Some of us give sincere advice, others are too buttery, and some are maliciously caustic.
We don't know unless we apply. I know a kid with a 2280 SAT as his highest, little to no ECs, an essay about snow, and a 92 something average who made it to Harvard. Congrats to him----and so who are we to judge?</p>
<p>And no, I don’t think it was affirmative action for that kid.</p>
<p>really,who are we?
Basically we just make logical predictions based on the stats of every school but we can never be sure!</p>
<p>Well of course we know it’s not accurate, and of course we know that we don’t know. But we are living in the “me” generation fueled by our opinions and those of others.</p>
<p>As for College Confidential, think Facebook, except more college-oriented. Both are probably (the former IS) a bad use of time, but we do it, nonetheless. </p>
<p>And why? Because human beings are, by nature, socially active animals. We want connections, we want networks, even to anonymous and essentially faceless people, over a virtual world like the internet.</p>
<p>Because it makes us feel good about ourselves.</p>
<p>chancing never means that it must be true.
there are a lot of factors that can change the mind of the admission officers …
but in most cases the basic chances are right
in your case, the applicant must have written an amazing essay or whatever, we don’t really know</p>