Tips For Making a Good Chances Thread

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Here’s a list of ideas for making direct and clear chances threads … feel free to add on! :)</p>

<li><p>Don’t bother listing every single grade since freshman year–a GPA and/or class rank will do.</p></li>
<li><p>Seperate your ECs into focus areas, if applicable. It makes for easier reading.</p></li>
<li><p>Keep the list of colleges down to 10 or less.</p></li>
<li><p>Only bump if and when your thread falls to the next page with 0 responses.</p></li>
<li><p>Don’t bother listing bogus “awards”, i.e. Who’s who.</p></li>
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<p>… well that’s all i can think of. any other ideas???</p>

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<p>Don't make a chance thread if you're only a freshman, people do that, and you can't chance them because there's so much more to come.</p>

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<p>Then again, I want to make my first chances thread badly! Sometimes you can't wait.</p>

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<p>I suggest that people who are still freshies and soph's go to <a href="http://www.collegeboard.com%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.collegeboard.com&lt;/a> and start their own college list and actually LOOK at the colleges and find their SAT/ACT score ranges themselves. I sometimes think they are naively picking random schools to be chanced for, when not every ivy league that exists is gonna fit them.</p>

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<p>Actually list your ACT/SAT scores. I have come across chances threads where the scores aren't listed at all. </p>

<p>Don't make a chances thread until you have your test scores.</p>

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<p>"1. Don't bother listing every single grade since freshman year--a GPA and/or class rank will do."</p>

<p>I disagree. I think you should do that, 'cause often the person calculates GPA wrong (adding 1.25 points for AP instead of 1, using PE and art to calculate it, etc.).</p>

<p>"4. Only bump if and when your thread falls to the next page with 0 responses."</p>

<p>Or if you get few responses, or if the responses are unhelpful, etc. Don't bump when you have pages of great responses.</p>

<p>Separate the thread into the different areas of the app: grades/GPA/rank, ECs, awards/honors, rec's, essays, etc.</p>

<p>Put only the things that you can actually fit on the application.</p>

<p>Show the breakdown of your SAT score and the composite, so that we don't have to add it up.</p>