Mini-Rant About This Forum

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>First of all, for the people asking:</p>

<p>1) If you've done adequate research into this whole college admissions game, no outside opinion is going to change your mind. Therefore, I see no real point in your post. As a corollary, if you've done more than adequate research into this whole process, your opinion is probably more accurate than the opinions you will get on this forum. Therefore, don't ask what your chances are.</p>

<p>2) Do not expect posters to sugar-coat their responses.</p>

<p>3) If you have an 1100 SAT/3rd decile rank/no hook sort of portfolio, don't ask for your chances at a top 25 college. That is stupid, and you should know the answer.</p>

<p>4) There is no need to "defend" yourself in response to criticism. You either respect that person's opinion or you don't.</p>

<p>5) If you're a minority, there's no need to tout it like it's your ticket into college and the one defending aspect of your character. This is annoying.</p>

<p>6) If you're not honestly open to changing your college selections because of outside input, then there's no point in asking, is there?</p>

<p>For the people responding:</p>

<p>EDIT:
Just remembered, this comment should be at the top:
**"With a 1530/4.00 GPA, you might barely just get into community college."</p>

<p>If you say something like this, you're not even close to as sarcastic or funny as you think you are. Something like this has been said thousands of times before you even thought of it, and nobody needs to hear you say it again. Take your jealousy somewhere else.**</p>

<p>1) If you see someone who doesn't have a shot in hell at the college of their choice, it is okay to tell them. You don't need to tell them fairy-tale stuff like "well, I guess, theoretically, everyone has a chance!" Acceptance is a binary system; either you'll make it or you won't. "10%" chances might as well be 0%.</p>

<p>2) If you see someone with above-mentioned 1100 SAT/3rd decile rank/no hook, please, for the love of God, tell them they are not going to make HYPMS. Tell them to not apply, because they shouldn't. Even if they're a 1400/2nd decile rank/minimal hook, please for the love of God, tell them that their chances are close to nothing. </p>

<p>3) Politeness is overrated. It's better to crush someone's dreams than it is to have the college crush that person's dreams and have them lose 65 dollars on top of that.</p>

<p>4) As a side note: if someone's essay sucks, tell them it sucks. If it needs to be rewritten from the ground up, don't tell them to just fix it up.</p>

<p>Okay, maybe I'm just in a bitter mood, but I think if everyone just followed the above guidelines, this forum would be a much better place.</p>

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<p>You say people should follow these projected guidelines, yet you'd have to be an idiot to think people WILL. This post can be compared to those which you observed in the sense that they both are insignificant, and (in the long run) affect nothing. Good job, bud.</p>

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<p>Yeah, you have a point. It's one of the reasons I (more or less) completely ignore this subforum these days.</p>

<p>Still, if I can just change one person's mind, I'll have done my good deed for the day.</p>

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<p>Yeah, so ubercollegeman, do you wanna rate my chances? lol</p>

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<p>3) Politeness is overrated. It's better to crush someone's dreams than it is to have the college crush that person's dreams and have them lose 65 dollars on top of that.</p>

<p>Yet somehow, <em>somehow</em>, I think the college has a smidgen more of authority than any of us do. Some people think it's worth finding out. Especially if they're borderline. And even those who are way out of these schools' leagues--it's their decision, their money, and what do we care? If they apply in spite of our flamatory criticisms, more power to them--if nothing else, it displays a strong sense of character. Of course, skipping the whole process of posting stats in search of comforting lies and ambiguous truths from a group of strangers in the first place would display an even stronger sense of character...</p>

<p>Even so, anyone who allows their dreams to be crushed by either a bunch of adolescents/"young adults" on a message board or the admissions decision of X college, obviously isn't serious about their pursuits. We've all heard the stories reiterating the principle of it's not where you go, it's what you do once you get there. There are complete idiots at Harvard and geniuses at state colleges.</p>

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<p>I like the mini-rant, it drives me nuts when people ask "what are my chances?" and then ARGUE with the opinions raised! Why do that? Have the argument inside your own head and then decide to blow the $65 or not, as your disposition decrees.</p>

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<p>For me, I would try to be straight as well as polite. We can add some words like 'please' and 'if' to show more courtesy. Anyway no one expect lots of messages saying 'it sucks in all ways', or he won't even paste it here, will he? </p>

<p>Furthermore, there would be people sarcastic anywhere. Just don't listen to them. Sometimes people will give me good advice and enlighten me. Something I haven't considered seriously before. </p>

<p>Anyway, I can't control what others think, but I can control myself. I treat posts respectively. Sometimes I try to dig more at some posts, and sometimes I would like to delete meaningless posts, if only I could.</p>

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<p>Lol.. How funny :)</p>

<p>We all know that most of the people that reply to the "What are my chances" threads are not experts themselves..
And yet people still post... just for the hell of it.. To either get buttered up or to hear negative opinions (although I can't imagine why anyone would enjoy negative feedback).. Whatever the case.. people like to do it..And they will continue to :)</p>

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<p>I believe we should be polite, but give the blunt truth as we see it. I always am completely blunt, but I try to be as respectful as possible at the same time. It's ridiculous that people will change there mind about where they'll applying based on the opinions of complete strangers. It's there loss if that's how they're going to play the game.</p>