wow. i’m not going to be able to get into any colleges at all.
<p>and give your reaction is from this site, by any colleges you must mean top 15 in the nation.</p>
<p>i'm just freaking out right now, none of my hard work is paying off. these stupid SATs are going to keep me out of every college.</p>
<p>Try this on for size.</p>
<p>TTG</p>
<p>crazykids ..
chill man. You know that people here constitute what..like less than .001 percent of the actual people applying to top 30 schools. crazykids again..some of these stats are bogus. really, if all these people had the scores they said they did and the ec's they have, then no "average joe" would get into college. if you are shooting for the top schools, trust me, they do not have all their applicants who have the greatest scores, GPA, ec's. jst relax and do your best.</p>
<p>crazykids, trust me you'll get into a college. Relax, go play outside for an hour for the fresh air.</p>
<p>thanks. i guess that is true that a lot of these stats are most likely made up. i'm just freaking out out after a weekend of studying for SAT II's when everyone else is out at the beach enjoying their memorial day weekends. I just wish i tested better...</p>
<p>While these results are a bit dated, my understanding is that it's still true that the majority of students in this country are accepted by their first choice college:</p>
<p>" Seventy-one percent of students are accepted by their first-choice college, and another 20 percent attend their second-choice college, according to the 1999 survey of college freshmen by UCLA's Higher Education Research Institute. Those are pretty good odds. " <a href="http://www.pta.org/parentinvolvement/helpchild/oc_collegebound.asp%5B/url%5D">http://www.pta.org/parentinvolvement/helpchild/oc_collegebound.asp</a></p>
<p>HPYS and similar colleges with one in 10 admission odds are a lottery ticket for anyone. When one is looking at less competitive colleges-- second and third tier colleges -- those colleges accept the majority of students who apply.</p>
<p>thank you for that site. that was interesting to read.</p>
<p>crazykids, by the way, get off this site immediately before you become hooked/addicted and miss your real work(lol). My husband is complaining that I spent way too much time on this site.</p>
<p>i'm working on it, believe me.</p>
<p>"crazykids, by the way, get off this site immediately before you become hooked/addicted and miss your real work(lol)."</p>
<p>I swear this site emits nicotine</p>
<p>crazykids, wat are your stats??</p>
<p>Post your stats and see if you're really college-eligible.</p>
<p>1920 on sats
680m/640v/600w</p>
<p>4.3 gpa weighted
don't know unweighted, why?</p>
<p>Those are some decent stats. Not HYPSM-caliber, but worthy of the top 50.</p>
<p>i know i'm college eligible, but i don't know if i'm eligible for the schools i want to get into.</p>
<p>crazy you can definitely get into a college</p>
<p>i know i can get into a college, but i don't know if i can get into the colleges i'm looking at.</p>
<p>If your SAT scores are not as high as you think you need, then study over the summer using the college guides and practice tests. SAT scores typically go up a lot between junior and senior year. The best way to improve math and writing is to take the practice tests. The best way to improve verbal is to read. You can take the SAT again after senior year starts or as late as January if you are applying regular admission. Don't take it more than three times. Otherwise they will average the scores instead of picking out the best ones from math, verbal and writing. Also, more than three times looks a little obsessive.</p>
<p>However, that probably isn't the real problem. I think that you have picked out some of the most prestigious schools and set your heart on going there. I would recomend that you actually look at the other schools. You should decide whether you want urban/rural/suburban/small town, public/private, university/LAC, large/small/midsize, and etc. Do you care if the frats dominate the social life? Do you care if the school has Division 1 sports? Do you want a school where they party, or a school where everyone works hard and wants to go to grad school? Visit some local colleges just to see what the difference in personality is between a large public school and a small LAC. You don't have to actually plan on going to the schools you visit, but just check out the different types of schools. Once you open up and think about these types of issues, you will not be so fixated on the USNWR rankings. If you like warm weather, Emory outranks Harvard. The rankings would be different for a biology major versus a history major. There are enough great schools out there that you shouldn't have to either go to (blank) or feel that you have failed. The admissions at the most selective schools is a lottery anyway. For every applicant accepted, there are four or five almost identical applicants who are waitlisted. Being waitlisted means that you are just as good as anybody that we accepted, but we don't have room for you. There is a saying that everyone is at their first choice by Xmas break of freshman year. </p>
<p>Use CC as a source of information (in addition to the college guides), but keep away from the "What are my chances?" threads. Those threads are just a bunch of people posting the stats that they have, or wish they had. The responses are mostly from teenagers giving uninformed, sarcastic, useless advice.</p>