<p>Chance me Please???</p>
<p>Cornell, Carnegie, MIT, UCLA, Duke</p>
<p>GPA: 3.81 unweighted 4.55 Unweighted
SAT: 2170 (M 790, R630, W 750 10 Essay)</p>
<p>450 community service hours
National Honors Society
Varisty Soccer</p>
<p>I would need more info like SAT II scores and course load but as long as you have your SAT Subject tests done Carnegie Mellon seems like a perfect fit.</p>
<p>First thing, you are not an extraordinary applicant or in an unusual circumstance as your title suggests.</p>
<p>I see little passion in your ECs relating to your major. Overall, NHS isn’t much of a time commitment, soccer is 1 season, and 450 community hours is a decent amount, but it doesn’t add to anything impressive.</p>
<p>Your GPA is slightly low for Cornell, and too low for Duke and MIT.</p>
<p>Your SAT is around Cornell’s level, but again too low for Duke and MIT.</p>
<p>If those are really all you have for ECs, I don’t believe your chances for these schools are anything significant. You need to find schools at your level.</p>
<p>Thanks sbaderdeen!
I’m gonna take my subject tests in November/December.</p>
<p>wallrus75:
Anyone with a low gpa like 3.3 and sat like 1900, can apply to any school even IV.
You don’t need to FIND SCHOOLS AT YOUR LEVEL.
Let people dream big, unlike a Walrus like you!
Soccer is 4 SEASONS!
I didn’t right all my EC’S!
How is my SAT to low for Duke, but just right for Cornell???
What are you saying???
It seems you don’t know much about college.
I never ever said I was EXTRAORDINARY.
I said “Not your average”. Meaning not a 4.0, 2400
You don’t need to reply, but thanks for your useless input.</p>
<p>I think you have ok chances at Duke and Carnegie. Slightly lower chances at Cornell. And very low chances at MIT.</p>
<p>We really do need more information, though. Also, you shouldn’t criticize people who chance you: you’re the one who asked them to do so, anyway. Wallrus75 is right that the ECs that you’ve shown us, aside from volunteering, are weak for this caliber of school. </p>
<p>Oh, and a 4.0/2400 is not “average”. You’re stats are closer to average, at least here on CC></p>
<p>Your stats are pretty average for a Duke, Cornell, MIT (etc.) applicant…
A 4.0 UW GPA and 2400 SAT score are far from average.</p>
<p>wallrus75 never said, or even implied, that you can’t apply to any schools. Obviously anyone can apply to any schools they wish as long as they pay the application fee, meet deadlines, etc. You asked for people to chance you. wallrus75 simply stated what he/she feels your chances are. Isn’t that what you asked for? You were given some sound advice, and yet you make unnecessary, rude comments back. (“Let people dream big, unlike a Walrus like you!” …really?) </p>
<p>I don’t understand; what was the point of posting this thread if you get defensive when someone responds with what you asked for? It may have been understandable if the advice offered was senseless or rude. Maybe I’m missing something, but I didn’t pick up on anything like that.</p>
<p>Ivy, not IV. Don’t need to see all those Caps Lock. Soccer is a spring sport some places, a fall sport others, but not 4 seasons. Maybe you train all 4, but you don’t play all four. Write not right, how do you plan on going to good schools with this grammar? Duke is better than Cornell (IMO at least). Now that I’ve said all the specific nit-picky points.</p>
<p>Even if you have other EC’s, the fact that these are the ones you posted means these are the best, which isn’t promising. Someone with a 3.3/1900 would have a very low chance at getting in to any top college. They can still apply, they just have little chance.</p>
<p>Lastly why would you insult Walruses? Research has been done to prove that they actually are quite intelligent.</p>
<p>Low scores, not many EC’s…</p>
<p>Cornell: Reach
Carnegie: High Match
MIT: High Reach
UCLA: High Match
Duke: Reach</p>
<p>need more info</p>
<p>Based on the lack of ECs, low reading score (you want a 700 in every subject when applying to this level of schools), lack of current subject test scores and what I am assuming will not be a very high quality essay (I am sorry but you have made some extremely elementary writing mistakes) I would call all the schools high reaches.</p>
<p>Artsy, I would say that a lower writing is less devastating than a lower M or CR. They know that the SAT writing isn’t really indicative of your writing skill. Otherwise I agree. I looked at some of your posts, Smartdude. You said you were Varsity on the Basketball team elsewhere, and only on a soccer “team” not part of the school. Confused about your own ECs?</p>
<p>@Crimsonstained7, I agree, the low CR score was the biggest red flag for me. That being said I know plenty of people who were basically rejected due to the quality of their essays. I was speaking with a representative from a top school recently and they flat out said that as soon as they narrow down the applicants to those who are qualified on paper they use the essays to determine which students will be a good fit, essentially deciding who will get in. Based on how OP wrote their posts I assume their essay will lack correct grammar and/or spelling (which would reflect poorly on them), possibly content that is not the strongest as well.</p>
<p>These schools are fine to have as reaches but you need a backup plan, too.</p>
<p>Cornell: Reach
Duke: Reach
MIT: Reach
CMU: High match
UCLA: High match (match if an out-of-state applicant capable of paying full freight)</p>
<p>Artsy, I totally understand that. The essay shows more about you, your writing schools (and if it’s a Why ________ University? question, how passionate you are about their school). The writing section however, isn’t as important as the essay for most schools. The low CR score is definitely more of an alarm, though.</p>