Calculate your chances for admission to Harvard?

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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.

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<p>You’re right about this. To be honest, I most likely posted my chance thread with this subconscious motive. It was a foolish idea in retrospect, and I received some advice that, after online research, turned out to be misguided.</p>

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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.

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<p>It’s true. I would be more than happy to attend my match school, the University of Michigan. However, I still dream about schools like Yale and Stanford, and I think it okay to keep part of my head ‘in the clouds’ on that note while staying somewhat grounded in reality.</p>

<p>I hope after this assessment you’ve come to believe me to be, as you say, ‘Harvard material’? :)</p>

<p>Just kidding…</p>