<p>Hello fellow ccers! Thanks for taking the time to read this. Ok so lately i have been touring some pretty prestigious schools such as WASHU, duke, upenn, northwestern and u of Chicago. For those more selective schools i was just wondering what their admissions counselors look at. Ik they look very heavily at standardized test scores gpa and class rank. My question is do they just pick the students with the best stats or do they look to see if you fit a certain profile (like a 30+ act) and then pick the kids from that group that are the most well rounded social or personable? So basically which student would try rather have... A kid with a 32 act but weaker essay/ Ecs or a kid with a 30 act but stronger essay/Ecs? Thanks in advance for the help!</p>
<p>Pantherman, they are all looking for “fit.” As in, where do your gifts fit in with the rest of the class? They all want a well-rounded class, which doesn’t mean every person has to be well-rounded, only that when taken as a whole, the class should be interesting in terms of talent, background, and ethnicity.</p>
<p>That said, they still need to know the work won’t be too difficult for a student, so they do want scores and GPA on the high end. However, a student with a strong, compelling essay is probably as attractive as a student with a high SAT or ACT and a run-of-the-mill essay.</p>
<p>Just be who you are and you’ll end up at the school where you’re meant to be.</p>
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<p>It is true. There are many examples in the actual result thread that people with great stats got rejected while people with lower “chances” got accepted.</p>
<p>Where are the results threads?? Im new to this website:p.</p>
<p>threads like:</p>
<p>Official XXXXXXXX class of 20XX thread.</p>
<p>We can’t chance anyone. really. just take a close look at the results threads. you will know if you have chances of getting in.</p>
<p>Use the data from the colleges themselves to gauge your chances. You can find them at any good college search engine such as [College</a> Navigator - National Center for Education Statistics](<a href=“http://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/]College”>College Navigator - National Center for Education Statistics)
More detailed info can be found in section C of the Common Data Set that each college sends to the federal government and that most post on their websites.
The “chances” threads are too random and unreliable to have any useful value.</p>