<p>Decrescendo,</p>
<p>Most people – not just high school students-- have a need for reassurance. Even I have a need for reassurance.</p>
<p>What I don’t understand is people seeking reassurance by posting chance threads. I don’t understand the point of asking uninformed strangers who mostly are high school students about one’s chances at getting into college. There’s plenty of information available including even here where one can see how one’s stats and ECs stack up against students accepted to and rejected by specific colleges.</p>
<p>Anyway, getting reassurance from strangers on the Internet isn’t the same as getting college acceptances, and in many cases is just setting up students for disappointment in April.</p>
<p>Why not admit the odds are long for acceptance to a place like Harvard, and then submit the best application you can while assuming that you’ll go to your match school? Seems that would set oneself up for less disappointment or a happy surprise in April, and would be more stress reducing than pinning one’s hopes on the empty reassurances of random, uninformed teens.</p>