You’ll be compared to all applicants from WAEC nations with similar circumstances (ie., non wealthy situation) and your region with its challenges (kidnappings, lack of electricity) will be factored in.
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I’d like to remind posters that “asking for a friend” is not permitted on College Confidential except in rare cases. If the friend wants to be chanced or otherwise wants advice, they should open their own account and ask.
Similarly, sharing a friend’s information (or a stranger’s for that matter) is not permitted.
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: I’ll just put it like this: The people that I know are applying this year are much older than me and in different levels in uni. Almost all with seemingly better test scores, WAEC result intact and apparently money.
Third times a charm I guess 
What do you think? The only thing that soothes me just a little is that cuz of exchange rate, wealthy applicants don’t really have leverage when it comes to difference in EFC (in financial aspect, not ecs related) so its harder to pick who gets in and who doesn’t if it boils down to who can pay better.
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OP- I say this with great affection- every minute you spend wondering about or worrying about someone else’s application is a minute you are not spending working on your own Plan B for your education. Maybe it’s a university in Western Europe you haven’t explored yet, but which has a special program for young woman growing up in societies like yours. Maybe it’s a U in a country which will admit you and encourage you to take a Gap year- and give you a work permit right away- so you can move there, get a job, and start college one or two years after saving some money.
I don’t know what that Plan B is… but surely worrying about other applicants isn’t helping you achieve your goals.
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Noted 
I didn’t realize it was against community guidelines, I’m sorry 
and it won’t happen again 
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I know it won’t help I’m just paranoid and have anxiety over it. Knowing what I’m up against will just help get my Blood Pressure back to normal thats all
EU/Gap year and then retaking the SAT (or smth along the lines of that 
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Tell the online bully to go ahead because 1) you’re straight and 2) you will report HIM for false accusations and if he pushes, you will involve the police for such degenerate accusations when everyone knows you’re an upstanding child.
Since as of now you’re not dating anybody, you’re okay.
(I assume your search history has been scrubbed and everything deleted and that access to this forum from your phone&computer are password protected¬ automatically entered but have to actually be typed).
Once you’re in the US you can date whoever you’re attracted to. Till then, do what you must in order to stay safe. 
I’ve been violating guidelines since today omg I will do what you said, and the details will be in one of our PM chats since my response breached commmunity guidelines
Also, just to be clear, at no point was I complaining that moderation took down my post, I was just complaining that I had broken guidelines 3 times over the same reply, so that fault is from my end, not that I was complaining CC has rules 
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Idk how i missed ur reply I’m srsly considering getting a job at a nearby club once school is over so I can actually have enough money to pay for it myself. I could retake then either do 1st year (equivalent to alevels (i think)) then reapply or as you said, redo high school.
Idk I want to believe that as long as this forum exists next year, even if I get rejected everywhere, things will work out one way or the other (its not optimism at all, but rationally thinking, at least 1/4 plans would work out)
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Hello 
So, do I send in my 1280 to Denison. Niche and CollegeSimply say that their SAT range is 1320-1440 and i fall 40 points below that, and as I said before its my only form of standardized testing. I also (think I know) know that the SAT ranges for colleges posted since 2020 are a tad bit inflated (I watched one tiktok from Ivy League Roadmap guy ) so I’m actually considering submitting it.
Thoughts? Thank you!
I lean towards sending the score. Even though I can’t see your entire app, sending the score will take away any doubts that it is lower. I don’t think the admission decision is going to come down to your test score.
Relatively, the level of need you have is going to be far more determinative to the admission decision. On the one hand, the vast majority of international students at Denison receive financial aid (393 of 410 enrolled students per the 2023-24 CDS.) But, the average international award is about $45K, which tells me they aren’t choosing many (if any) internationals who need full rides. (Denison direct COA is $88K.) Still apply of course, and good luck.
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This too like they are going to see 1/15 small private school and think far from where I want them too 
Thing is I know people (few, but still) with way higher scores. Advantage kind of is that we’re all high need so its either mass rejection or they’ll be accepting very few of us, let them at least know I…tried on the SAT I’ll check with admissions if I can report it now, cuz I submitted my app sometimes back (quite early) but I will be submitting the COF and a portfolio now so I’ll just email my AO. Thank you!
CDS’s literally hurt my eyes (I’m not saying I didn’t read it, I did. I just meant I generally avoid them )
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Hello,
Its the same question but for a different college 
Thoughts on sending my 1280 to Wesleyan? I’ve decided that I’m going to send it to colleges whose SAT range is like 1320 (so for instance Reed, whose sat range is 1320-1440 consistently across diff websites). @Mwfan1921 raised a real concern for me on colleges assuming that my score is way lower (and not sure how accurate it is, but it said 88% of people in my region (Abuja) got the same result as me or lower so I guess admissions will be seeing lot of 1200s and below from Abj and I thought I might as well send it in to reassure them its not in the “änd below” category
However, Wesleyan has one of the lowest acceptance rates on my list (14%; after Wellesley, I dare not go lower than that) and their SAT range is like 1460 and above so I don’t want to be stupid and submit my 1280 and ruin my chances.
Thoughts?
(Also, the dd has passed and I submitted my app, but Wesleyan doesn’t contact students on missing info so I’ve been intouch with my AO and I’ve sent in my scores for other schools after their deadline and I have outstanding materials (like predicted waec grades) even tho it doesn’t say so on my portal).
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I think submitting a score of 1280 to Wesleyan would at least reassure them that your score is no lower than that, given the part of the world you are coming from.
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I agree with circuitrider and would send the score to Wesleyan for same reasons I said for Denison.
Reed is test blind, so no decision to make about sending or not there!
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Agreed
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I’ll go through wth it after my regional AO gets back to me, thanks
Now why the hell would college websites put up a SAT range if Reed has been test blind for five years 
(I wanted to ask the same question for some of my other schools but I’ll just send them in, idrc that much anymore ; its not nonchalance, I’m just tired 
)
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This made me curious. Reed does list middle 50 test scores on its website so I looked at their application guidelines, and they say as part of what to submit:
Self-reported SAT or ACT scores if available (neither will be used in our evaluation)
It does indeed look very strange when they explicitly say (in that sentence and elsewhere) that they will not use the scores even if you submit them …but still want you to submit them if you have them? Why? Do they use them for merit awards?
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