<p>Hi, I am currently a senior and want to major in finance or accounting. Here is list of the schools I am applying to. If I somehow got into all, which schools would you pick (top 3 please)? Below is the list of the schools and what I think my chances are of getting in. </p>
<p>Indiana- Already accepted with DA to Kelley
Michigan- 40 percent chance of getting in
Tulane- 40 percent chance of getting in
Boston College- 30 percent chance of getting in
Wisconsin- 70 percent chance of getting in
Penn State- 90 percent chance of getting in
Santa Clara- 65 percent chance of getting in
Emory- 20 percent chance of getting in</p>
<p>This has to be the dumbest post I’ve seen in a while.
If you’re already applying to these schools, why does it matter? Wait until you get in and ask again.
Your percentages. Not only do they seem off (I think most people would agree that madison is harder to get into than tulane, Michigan is a hell of a lot harder than the rest if you’re out of state), but seriously, who posts percentages like this in an open forum.
I’d be curious to know what exactly makes you believe you have a “65% chance of getting into santa clara”?</p>
<p>I could go on.
If it’s not too late/if it’s still possible, I’d seriously try to delete this post to save yourself from further embarrassment.</p>
<p>Go to Michigan. Ross is an amazing business school. </p>
<p>and dont worry, this thread is totally fine, and you dont need to be embarrased. ur just a curious highschool kid like everybody else. angry elf lives up to his name, i guess.</p>
<p>Thanks delmonico I really hope I got into Mich although it Will be a tough choice between Mich and da to Kelley. Those percentages were based of my schools scattergraphs of kids that got in from my school with gpa and scores similar to mine. Thanks for input!</p>
<p>Indiana, Michigan, and Boston
I know Indiana has had good rank as well as the other two. Boston will probably provide more internship/job experience due to its location.</p>
<p>Side note: Where are the two jealous, spiteful people who called his percentages ridiculous? Sorry your terrible high school didn’t use this method which a lot of good high schools have been using for years. Not surprised Mr. Wikipedia himself Tosh was one of them.</p>
<p>A scatter-graph does not give you an accurate predictor as to your chances.
By posting these percentages, it suggests he actually believes them to be a solid indication of his chances, which frankly is ridiculous.
Besides the obvious fact that colleges take into account much than grades and SATs, the sample size for a lot of these colleges are very small, even if a given high school has 2000+ people. </p>
<p>I’m also still curious as to how you gathered you had a 65% chance of getting into Santa Clara by looking at a scattergraph. Did you honestly just pick a range and divide the number of people accepted by the total number of applicants?</p>
<p>As I said earlier, it’d be somewhat more reasonable if he was using them as a very rough indication of his chances when deciding where to apply.</p>
<p>Side Note:
Making fun of people’s high schools is low, even for you.
Most people have very little say in terms of what high school they attend
Would you also make fun of someone because their parents were poor and lived in low-income housing?
If anything, it’d be all the more impressive for me to get where I am today if I had gone to a terrible high school.</p>
<p>^^You want to come on here and whine and cry about me insulting your school’s failure to use a method that has been giving VERY REASONABLE depictions of students chances to get in to schools, fine. However, after you say things like “this is the dumbest post I’ve ever seen”, “who posts percentages like this in an open forum”, and “If it’s not too late/if it’s still possible, I’d seriously try to delete this post to save yourself from further embarrassment” who do you expect to feel bad for you?</p>
<p>YOU are the one who should be embarrassed. You blasted the guy for what you ignorantly assumed were made up percentages and the fact that you came back on here to argue against using this method after people expressed the fact that their schools had used it with reasonable amounts of success is quite bold. Do some research on this method and you’ll find out why it is successful for depicting the admissions process. </p>
<p>Seriously, your attempt to deflect by using some sob story about bad high schools is pathetic.</p>
<p>They are made up percentages…
A scattergraph is not the same thing as percentages.
At least for me, my school simply indicated by use of dots on a graph whether someone was accepted, waitlisted or denied with given stats.
Unless it follows some sort of distribution, there is no way to accurately approximate a percentage. This is common sense.</p>
<p>Also, who here has expressed that they had a reasonable chance of success?</p>
<p>He’ll obviously know for sure by april, but do you honestly believe these percentages are accurate?</p>
<p>Btw, I never once complained about my high school. I swear you don’t even read posts before attacking them.</p>
<p>First of all, I finished a Gymnasium and then a Lyceum outside of the US, so I don’t really know how the school system here works. In addition, my reply was posted before he explained those percentages, and that they were associated with his school.
When I saw this post for the first time, I thought that he somehow derived a magic formula which helped him to determine his chances, or he was just so confident. </p>
<p>P.S.
It seems that the work at the big 4 really stresses you out. I recommend you to chill out and laugh a little bit.</p>
<p>BTW, It would have been funnier if he said that he has a 65.35% chance…hahahhah</p>