<p>@Ifunanya Well I think you’ve got a chance. From your name, I can tell u are a Nigerian. If your grades are good, ur essay and every other thing are ok, then u might get admitted regardless of a low SAT score. Most of my friends that are Students presently scored
Low in the SAT test.</p>
<p>Others have commented on your possibility of Ivy acceptance. I’m going to skip that.</p>
<p>State champion in tennis is awesome, but do you have USTA ranking? If not, have you played at college showcases (which is the alternate route)? Have you checked out college rosters? They are short and, at many colleges, largely international. I have no doubt you can go to college to play tennis, and that it would help you get in, but you need requisite academics and scores for those schools. Have you registered with NCAA? The coaches don’t just come find you. I’ve also noticed that a lot of smart kids play tennis so the competition (on the court and in the classroom) is tough.</p>
<p>You know. I think the OP CAN make it if he or she is the best in his/her class/ school despite the low scores and gpa. No one here should even say anything even though we are just trying to warn him/ her. If she/ he wants to try applying, why not? It’s worth a try.</p>
<p>No one (maybe a few are) is telling them not to apply, but the OP needs to not have such a negative reaction when someone tells them that they doubt the OP’s chances at these schools.</p>
<p>^This.</p>
<p>We shouldn’t pretend that NOBODY with standardized test scores like the OP’s gets into Ivy League schools. Per Naviance, someone from my high school with a 22 on the ACT (but a 4.0 GPA, somehow - maybe s/he did much better on the SAT) got into Dartmouth, and someone with a 2.5 GPA and 26 on the ACT got into Cornell. It is a huge stretch, though; those green squares of acceptance were surrounded by sporadic red X’s of disappointment, a dirty design that was prevalent on the scattergrams well into their northeast regions. My high school is pretty highly ranked, too.</p>
<p>The OP needs to realize that we don’t not want him to get into an Ivy League school; in fact, the phenomenon of someone with such odd qualifications getting accepted could be a nice morale boost around this season. But the possibility of this happening is, again, very distant. Five percent seems quite generous. We’ll never know, though, and until the OP gets results (well, also afterwards), this shouldn’t be an emotional argument scene.</p>
<p>Well, we are past the application date, and I believe OP has applied. I’m glad that OP has full rides to U of O and LC, because honestly, all you have to do is go check out the SCEA 2017 thread if you want a realistic look at the odds. An unbelievable number of extraordinarily talented students, including many URMs, with perfect test scores and GPAs were outright denied. There are like 38000 people applying for something like 1500 slots. They just flat out do not have enough room for all the qualified (over! qualified) students. I think that as an average applicant has about an overall 7% shot and OP has way, way less than average stats, then honestly it’s better to just assume you have no chance and then be absolutely shocked if a miracle happens. But it is really not a value judgment on OP - just based on the numbers. BTW, my kid was an EA denied Stanford applicant, not that his application was over the top. If the OP is going to post “chance me” posts, especially in a lot of places, then OP should not be shocked to be told the same thing repeatedly, just based on the numbers.</p>
<p>I have a similar situation, but it is regarding grades: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/1448970-oh-no-did-i-just-ruin-my-chances-my-grades-have-dropped-1st-sem-senior-year.html#post15353748[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/1448970-oh-no-did-i-just-ruin-my-chances-my-grades-have-dropped-1st-sem-senior-year.html#post15353748</a></p>
<p>Care to answer?</p>
<p>YouKnowWho13 DONT DO IT! Hahaha Thank you everyone for replying I really do appreciate it. 
Just think of me as another college bound senior freaking out over something outside of her control… I’m actually new to the cc website and didn’t know posting so many threads would get people angry, so again i’m sorry! This is definitely my last thread for sure! Good luck to everyone in where ever they want to go ^_^</p>
<p>ifunanya - Anyone on this forum who tells you that you have “no chance” doesn’t know what they’re talking about! The odds don’t look good? Yeah, I’d probably agree with that. But a categorical “can’t be done!” statement from . . . wait for it! . . . a high school student whose entire knowledge of the college admissions process is what he or she learned in the last six months? No, not what I’d consider a reliable source.</p>
<p>And, as emberjed pointed out (post #47 above), the one thing one learns very quickly from looking at Naviance scattergrams is that some college decisions just cannot be predicted! I’ve seen charts from highly competitive colleges where the kids with 2400 SATs all got rejected . . . and the kid with the 1800 got in! You just never know . . .</p>
<p>As long as you’ve had the good sense to apply to schools where you know you’ll be admitted, why not apply to one or two hyper-competitive schools? The only way any of us can guarantee that you won’t be admitted is if you don’t apply! So, to heck with the naysayers . . . and good luck to you!!!</p>
<p>It’s been said repeatedly that admissions is a total crapshoot. The heated responses directed towards OP is, as barrk said, due to his initial negative reaction and the fact that all these chances threads are getting annoying. But I think OP has changed, so good for him.</p>
<p>That being said, congrats, ifunanya for your wonderful safeties. Can we all now agree to leave him alone?</p>
<p>A simple question to the OP - if he is an athlete and hopes to be recruited, has he contacted the coaching staff at any of these top universities or been contacted by them??</p>
<p>Cause, as inexperienced as I may be (+ being an international student), that is how it seems to work. I’d like to give an example of a friend of mine. He had recently been to the U.S.A., on a 3 month long tennis tour (International Circuit - World Rank ~200) and on his tour was contacted by coaches from Dartmouth, Cornell, Princeton & some other top notch places. They were ready to offer him almost guaranteed admission on the pretext that he scored at least 1800 on the SAT!! However, he had planned on taking a drop year to pursue tennis and had not yet taken the SATs when he was contacted(In Dec.) - so he could not take up the offer. But he has been assured of a similar offer next year!!</p>
<p>Now for the OP, there is both a bright side and a sad side to this story. The bad thing is, the OP is neither an International level player nor has he been contacted by recruiting officers(correct this assumption–) and so cannot hope for an offer as simple as this. The good side is - Yes, you can get in with a low SAT score. I’ve seen quite a few stats from the past three years of people with SATs ~ 1800 get into the ivies. Most are either recruited athletes or have some unique ability and/or have other hooks. However, another thing to note would be that even these people have a gpa of 3.2+ and have a good overall academic standing.</p>
<p>So while nothing is impossible and you never know until the fat lady sings(just tweaked the saying a bit 
) - truth be told, the OP has slim chances.</p>
<p>On a side note, the OP’s and to some extent wallrus75’s rude comments were not called for at the beginning of these thread. As I am lead to believe, colleges expect applicants to be matured by now!! :)</p>
<p>first of all, ifunanya is a ‘she’ not a ‘he’ and well…she doesn’t have the best stats but the first response on this thread was actually rather rude so I don’t blame her for being so ‘cocky’ at first and also, a lot of people on this site tend to discourage people from applying to top schools with their comments. Even if she gets rejected from Stanford, she’ll have TRIED, and that’s really all that matters.</p>
<p>^ Oops sorry, just assumed OP was a he! My apologies!! </p>
<p>And that is what I said, both wallrus75 & ifunya acted rude and even though wallrus75’s got a justified reason - that ifunya was kind of spamming the forums, he could have said that politely!!</p>
<p>And well, when people ask for chances, they are asking for opinions and in most cases - the opinion is you <em>won’t</em> get in. Firstly, that is purely based on the stats from the OP. Secondly, people rarely discourage one from applying to top universities - fact is that many applicants(including me) get attracted by the belief that anyone can get into the Ivies(due to the tantalizing emails, mis-represented statistics & stories) but on CC - you kind of get to know the reality!!</p>
<p>That’s why I always feel that people who do not like criticism, should not post a chances post - cause other people won’t tell you what you want to hear. They will give opinions and it is up to you to accept them. Even if you think the advice is b.s. - which it is sometimes, just say thank you and forget it because remember - you are the one who asked for it!! :)</p>