<p>"@anon46631281 - If I had been on CC before applying to MIT, I wouldn’t have applied. Keep the hope "
Oh I immediately dropped MIT after first being on CC but eventually I looked in between the cracks and found that although no one is guaranteed admission into MIT or any top college for that matter that I still had a fighting chance and I shouldn’t let the negativity of others bring me down. </p>
<p>At the end of the day I’m going to be the second person ever in my family to go to college, first being my brother who went to community college and then the state flagship(KU), and either way you look at it getting into a college period will be a huge accomplishment .</p>
<p>Like everyone else has said, chances on CC can’t tell you much for the top schools. Just keep your grades up, try your hardest and follow your passions and APPLY. You lose every battle you don’t fight and there is no way to compare yourself to others. Just put all your best cards on the table and let colleges choose.</p>
<p>The greatest analogy I heard for college admissions was on these forums it went something like “College is like a play, an adcoms job is to cast for certain rolls. There can be hundreds of qualified actors but not all of them are best fit for the parts they are trying to fill. Don’t take a rejection as a sign of inadequacy.” If anyone has the specific person/post that said it I’d love to have it for future reference. I just paraphrased best from my memory.</p>