<p>@mazewanderer
thanks for those links. I’ve read both all the way through and have had many of my questions answered, as you said.</p>
<p>@T.A.D
Thanks for your input!</p>
<p>I apologize if I sounded like I was making excuses. I just hoped to give a sense of my context. But I do take responsibility for all my shortcomings.</p>
<p>By the way, I know the whole “chance me” request is pretty ridiculous, which makes me a complete hypocrite I know. I guess it’s just a way we here at college confidential name a thread that’s supposed to read “Tell me what you think,” or at least that’s what I did.</p>
<p>More Questions</p>
<p>1)I ultimately should have asked in my original thread: how do I communicate my context properly to adcoms? </p>
<p>2)I read that Caltech (and many other top schools) look at each applicant in context of what they have grown around and by doing so they review school profiles. Where are these school profiles from? My school? Or is there some type of database?</p>