Are cc chance threads misleading??

HopefulApp
Mon, 05 Apr 2010 22:58:22 +0000

Yes, definitely. The requirements people seem to think there are to get into good schools is absurd. When I did a chance thread, I got somewhat more realistic results, assuming I improve my GPA by just 0.2, which shouldn’t be hard considering I’m not far along high school.

But when someone asks “What are my chances of getting into UCSD?” (which I asked and have seen a lot of), and they have hundreds of hours of community service, in-state residency, and SAT of 2100, and an UW GPA of around 3.6 and W 4.0, it seems people often say that they don’t have great enough ECs, or their GPA needs to be higher.

I dunno it’s not a bad thing, setting absurd standards just make me try harder (something I DESPERATELY need to do :P), but it can be quite worrisome to some people.

In reality the standard to have a chance to get into a college is much lower than people here say. Not to say it’s easy to get into a school among the 50 best in the country, but you certainly don’t need a 4.0 UW 4.6 W GPA and an SAT score of 2300 to have a CHANCE getting into an Ivey league school and to guarantee into a good school. It’s stressing me out a bit but when I look at actual results it all works out fine.