Chance me...I chance back!

willay
Sun, 06 Dec 2015 02:22:52 +0000

@ivybound456 Forgive my inner cynic here, but I don’t fully believe you. If you’ve actually done all this, take this as a compliment – you’ve achieved so much incredible stuff that it’s unbelievable to some. On the other hand, if you haven’t, just know that while you can embellish your accomplishments on an online forum for a sense of security and recognition from others, it won’t change your admissions decision. So yeah, my chancing for you is heavily contingent on the veracity of your claims:

If you’re 100% not lying (which I hope), you’re pretty much in. Seriously. You’re an incredibly high-achieving Native American, which makes you a VERY coveted resource for any student body. I recall in last year’s result thread, there was a Native American girl with a 23 ACT and low GPA who got in (and she wasn’t an athletic recruit). You’re way, way above that bar and definitely have a greater chance at admission than pretty much anybody – only, of course, if you’re truly telling the truth. Only, of course, if you actually have that 36 ACT and valedictorian status at an exclusive NYC prep school on the Upper East Side like Chapin, Dalton, or Brearley, if you’ve had an influential member of Congress write you a LOR, know 4 languages, interned at the UN in Bangladesh, and teach English in Africa with a non-profit org.

Indeed, when I frame it that way, it sounds incredulous – and that’s because it is. It’s hard to believe that because of your consistent grammatical errors in sentence structure and capitalization. I know you’re probably not proofreading your stuff (I don’t, either) and potentially writing on your phone, but it’s hard to believe somebody with a perfect ACT would write with such phrases as “Chance me…I chance back” and “Whitehouse”. That’s just my impression – an impression that, to be fair, I’ll recognize as very cursory and cynical.

I want to believe. I really do. If everything’s true, you’re one of the most impressive people I’ve ever heard of. But I believe I’m expressing the thoughts of the silent majority here. It’s simply very rare that a URM would be the valedictorian at an èlite NYC prep school and do all of this other exceptional stuff. Like I said, if you have, all the power to you; you’re in.

And @IvyObsessed1955 You’re not a URM. A URM is an underrepresented minority – Asians are overrepresented minorities, as they’re only 5.6% of the population yet comprise 22.6% of Stanford’s student body. So, if anything, you’ll actually have a harder time getting in.