<p>No one here knows if you're going to be accepted.
No one has a chance calculator that acurately predicts your chance of getting in.
If someone posts that you have a 50% chance, what good is that? It means nothing.</p>
<p>Sorry.
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<p>It gives hope.</p>
<p>it helps to set realistic goals</p>
<p>sadly, i see very little hope being given out on chance threads, lol.
but yeah^, it gives u a realistic/general idea of schools that are attainable.</p>
<p>How exactly are a bunch of ignorant children going to accurately tell you your chances?!</p>
<p>Not even many of the responses to chance threads are realistic.</p>
<p>I've seen so many people say "You're definitely going to get in with those stats."</p>
<p>...when the person's stats are like 25th-30th percentile for the schools.</p>
<p>CC is just an amazing site that can provide more help in understanding colleges than any other source I know.</p>
<p>But this particular board is filled with bad advice and incorrect assessments. Kids who don't really understand the full picture tend to tell anyone with higher stats than they have that they'll get in anywhere.</p>
<p>I wouldn't say it gives hope, more like false hope.</p>
<p>What's the point of the "What's the point of chance threads?" threads?</p>
<p>Chance threads are a mechanism for disseminating "Tribal Knowledge". One way many people learn that kids with perfect SAT's are sometimes rejected by HPYS is through these and similiar boards. The knowledge that some students are accepted with 2050 SAT's is comforting to many (kind of like buying a lottery ticket with a big jackpot). </p>
<p>The point of chance threads is not the accuracy and reliability of the "chances". The point is to encourage discussion and consideration of requirements.</p>
<p>I hope that this latest generation of very computer literate people knows to take anything on the internet with a grain (or hopper truck) of salt. </p>
<p>The internet is so unlike the absolutely factual and truthful TV programming with which I grew up. ROFLOL.</p>
<p>It saves application fees.</p>
<p>That's what they should do Columbia, but I think HYPS et al get a whole lot of help here collecting application fees from every kid with a 3.7/2100 who's told he'll get in if he just shows passion! There's a reason they get to reject more than 9 out of 10!</p>
<p>This chance thread help me as a student (even though a senior) to learn everyday, i spend at least 45min a day browsing through this website and not post anything, but learn from people's mistakes or accomplishments what works, what doesn't work. This chance thread helped me weed out a lot of colleges, plus the entire website. IF you really look they are some normal people on here too, like people with average grades...</p>
<p>you get opinions from people who have expeirence on the college-acceptance field!</p>
<p>The more chance threads you make, the more likely you are to get in.</p>
<p>shiomi,
Its not nice to twit the terminally obsessive compulsive. (It is funny).</p>
<p>It can help gauge people's applications as compared to others that have posted before or been accepted. Although no two people are the same and two very similar applicants can have different results on decision day, it provides a good background to judge others and yourself by. Just my opinion.</p>