<p>yayyy brandeis! it's on my list. your GPA and rank are great!</p>
<p>verbal 590 * crying crying crying* i am ESL i dun speak english outside the classroom, swear to god
math 780<br>
writing 610</p>
<p>no gpa in school in school avg 91.4 around 20ish /600 </p>
<p>my biggest reach will be Umich or UIllinois</p>
<p>ok ok ok...Lets start having people with REAL reaches post here. If you want to know your chances, post on the WHAT ARE MY CHANCES thread. </p>
<p>3.6ish GPA
1850 SAT (math is a 530...isn't that lovely?)
average ECs
Ranked 60 something</p>
<p>I am only a junior, but I have 2 schools that I KNOW I will apply to:</p>
<p>Boston College (Reach :( )
Gonzaga (match-ish)</p>
<p>Schools that I really want to apply to but I don't want to waste the money:
Brown
Duke</p>
<p>^^^ Now those are all reaches. I don't expect a pat on the back or someone telling me that I can get into any of those schools. I know my chances. They are Slim with a capital S.</p>
<p>Now these are real reaches:
Yale
Brown
Dartmouth
Columbia
Duke</p>
<p>I know i probably won't get into any, but I know I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I didn't try. </p>
<p>4.0W, 3.75 UW GPA
1930 Highest Composite - 580CR, 700M, 650W
1860 Highest Sitting - 580 CR, 700M, 580W
630 Math II
680 Chem
not nationally recognized in anything, but I am passionate about my EC's.</p>
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<blockquote> <p>I know i probably won't get into any, but I know I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I didn't try. <<</p> </blockquote>
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<p>My feelings exactly, Jimmy!</p>
<p>My stats are very close to yours and yet I still applied ED to Princeton and will apply RD to Cornell. Yep, super big reaches for me as well. The other parts of my application are pretty solid and show characteristics not normally seen in the applicant pool (as my Princeton interviewer told me). If (more like when) I get rejected from Princeton and Cornell, I will accept the fact that they don't value those types of qualities in an applicant. Honestly, I would not care to attend a school that does not value my personal attributes and achievements over my 'average' SAT scores.</p>
<p>Everyone here sucks. Well, you don't but i say that to make myself feel better truth is I'm a pathetic excuse for a student. The thing is I knew I sucked just not to this extent.
SATI 550m 660v 630w I know, I know no need for the gasps I am smart but that day was just not good at all. I planned to take them again in nov. but i overslept (see pathetic)
SATII still waiting...
3.2 gpa(icky)
80/246
Good thing is I know where the heck i shouldn't even bother that's why have no real reach except BC which I applied to just for kicks.
Fee Waivers are fun</p>
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<blockquote> <p>I applied to just for kicks.<<</p> </blockquote>
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<p><<Fee Waivers are fun<<</p>
<p>You are not a pathetic excuse for a student. You are a pathetic excuse for a person.</p>
<p>"You are not a pathetic excuse for a student. You are a pathetic excuse for a person."</p>
<p>How so? I applied to a reach school fully knowing I'll probably get rejected but decided to take a chance anyway. I'm am completely eligible for six fee waivers why not use them how and when I see fit.
That comment was pretty uncalled for.</p>
<p>Sorry but perhaps I misunderstood you as indicating you applied for "kicks" because you had fee waivers?</p>
<p>I applied ED to a huge huge reach school and I find out tomorrow if I get in or not ::sob::
BAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yabba dabba doo
I'm not even kidding, I'm going NUTS.
It's funny because even though ALL of us signing on this thread claim to have huge reaches, we all on some level of consciousness "think" we'll get in, because otherwise we wouldn't even post on here in the first place...</p>
<p>um, i think i'm pretty sure all levels of my consciousness agree that brown, wesleyan, swarthmore, pomona, stanford are really really not in reach with a 3.6 uw and a 117/340 ranking.</p>
<p>Well with a
600 V (still don't know how that happened)
710 M
690 W
4.0 unweighted GPA
and rank 1/97<-extremely small number not to mention I'm tied with two other people
All but one of the colleges I'm applying to are reaches.
Stanford (EA get my decision Thursday at the earliest)
Harvard
Yale
UPenn
UVA (only safety)
And from talking to my freind in Cali, Stanford isn't looking too good right now.</p>
<p>3.9 weighted GPA
1330 Old SAT, i forget the new one
dude, im 80th in my class of 400. Im starting to think i go to a competitive school or something.
5 US History AP, 4 Bio AP, 3 Spanish AP</p>
<p>EC's aint bad. NO clue about how my recs will go.</p>
<p>UNC is my reach. Lookin at Tulane too.</p>
<p>but if that were true, why do we apply?</p>
<p>okay, even though I really shouldn't be the one to speak as I've already violated the request I'm about to make:</p>
<p>I ask for people who really feel bad about their stas that only those people who believe that they do have the BIGGEST REACHES post; people with ranks of 1 really violate the purpose of this thread...</p>
<p>If I could, I'd delete my post that claimed I had reaches...</p>
<p>^ I'm kind of with you. I think I have reaches, but they aren't HUGE ones. You come on CC though and see people with 2200s, 1st in class, 4.0 GPAs, and a million ECs applying to the same college as you and can't help but think you're kidding yourself a bit when you look at your stats.</p>
<p>Most of mine are like super reaches...my top choice is Swarthmore, I'm also applying to Amherst and Columbia (super-reaches), and Middlebury and U Chicago (not-as-super-of-reaches-but-almost).</p>
<p>I'm in the second decile (we don't rank) so probably about 40th out of 380. Rawr at class rank. I got ok scores on the SATs but I'm afraid the 'not-being-in-the-top-ten-percent' is going to kill me. :(</p>
<p>^ I feel the same way, I'm like ~11-12% at least for my ED college, it will hopefully be like ~6% after this semester, but it worries me, that I am right outside of the top 10%.</p>
<p>3.6 unweighted. 3.66 weighted. 26 on the ACT.
Reach at Berkely, Stanford, Northwestern, and Cornell.</p>
<p>I give people posting on this thread a lot of credit. It appears their reach schools are those they really want to attend and thus perhaps will make the greatest contributions to the campus if 'given the opportunity'. I know so many kids applying to schools where they have 0 interest, only because of either parental pressure, brand recognition or because their stats qualify them to apply to the most selective schools even if they aren't a good 'fit'. To me, 'fit' is defined by many other factors, not just stats just as long as one's stats put them within a range of being capable of handling the work that would be required of them.</p>