<p>EarthPig: “In addition, no one can evaluate someone’s extracurricular activities from the brief summaries that prospective applicants list here.”</p>
<p>Yes you can! People here typically list most of not all of the info one writes on the commonapp, so you can evaluate someone ECs on here as well as an admissions officer.</p>
<p>@lookingforward</p>
<p>Although I tend to agree with your view on just sending in an app to see if lightning sets it afire, only the OP can make that final determination. The reality is that with a low GPA and marginal SAT, the OP’s odds are small, very small. Is it one in a hundred or one in a thousand? Who can say? But if someone knows that going into the process, then what’s lost except a $100 or whatever the fee is these days.</p>
<p>Some entire career fields, like film studies, are about getting the one in a million break so why not give it a try for the ap process?</p>
<p>I’ve read about people who got accepted with SAT scores below 2000 to Ivy league colleges. U should definitely apply. It’s better to apply than to regret never having tried.</p>
<p>^^There was a kid here a few years ago who was waitlisted, and then accepted, with 600 on each section of the SAT. On the other hand, he was an URM refugee with a compelling story. Another kid was a football player with a 29 on the ACT. Recruited athlete. (And from a helmet sport, otherwise a 29 would probably not have cut it. One of the track recruits I know was a Presidential Scholar qualifier.)</p>
<p>You get the picture.</p>