Please, DO NOT CHANCE ME

Colleges and Universities A-Z Yale University
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<p>Yeahhhh.</p>

<p>I thought I'd start a thread on the Yale forum that condemns the satanic art of 'chancing'.</p>

<p>To all you 'chancers': The truth is that you CANNOT just give someone a completely arbitrary number out of hundred based on test scores, gpa, and a random list of activities. There is a lot more that goes into the admissions process (especially at a place like Yale) than just 'stats'. I know someone who scored in the 1700s and got into Penn. I know another person who got a bloody 2370 and got deferred EA by Yale (ok well that's just me... damn you Yale).</p>

<p>So please, LEAVE THE YALE FORUM ALOOOONE.</p>

<p>Anyone willing to expressing their views on this issue please go ahead and rant. If you ask me to chance you in exchange for some mutual 'chancing', I will shoot you.</p>

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<p>I think Yale is a low reach for you.</p>

<p>Please chance me back!</p>

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<p>Thank-you Inert! I try to be helpful to the Chancers but I’ve just about gotten pretty annoyed. We’re not adcoms. Are our comments going to stop/push them to apply? It’s too late in the game anyway! If these people want help, they can ask for constructive criticism. Asking for ego-boosting yes’s and no’s is annoying. Besides, if they really want a chance, they should use the Chancing forum and leave the uni forums alone.</p>

<p>Admissions are crazy. I’ve seen people who are far better than me get into Yale and my heart really went out to them.</p>

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<p>^^^ Well said.</p>

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<p>And mutual chancing is just funny. You can’t predict your own chances, and you’re going to predict mine? hahaha</p>

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<p>Many of these people are also lacking in self-esteem. If one really wants to go to X college, then go and apply.</p>

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<p>I have a dream…</p>

<p>That one day we will be judged not by the underqualified ‘chancing’ of CCers but by the content of our character.</p>

<p>I hope you ‘chancers’ get the hint. Leave Yale alone and go bug the Harvard forum…</p>

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<p>In my post I meant people who are far better than me get rejected, deferred. Just wanted to clarify. Sleepiness is making me make typos. hehe</p>

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<p>Who the f*** got into Penn with a score in the 1700’s?
This person better have every hook imaginable and straight A’s…</p>

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<p>^Yeah, it was something like that…</p>

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<p>HAHAHAHAHA fireshark</p>

<p>I completely agree about the chancing. It’s perplexing and in most cases will hurt more than help because either A) You are statistically qualified and receive good “chances” and end up deferred/rejected or B) You are not statistically qualified, but are an amazing person who just ends up suffering a lot of grief via bad chances.</p>

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<p>Yay Inert101!</p>

<p>I was waiting for someone to finally show how clearly purposeless “chancing” (is that even a verb?) is for applicants. It just makes you feel worse, in most cases, and it’s not like we all know exactly how it works to be able to give sound advice. Each applicant is different. What worked for you might not work for someone else. And there are always those elusive “intangibles”.
And wasn’t that 1700 admit like a development ($$$) case or something?</p>