Chance Threads - A Tale of Caution

cptofthehouse
Thu, 23 May 2019 03:54:58 +0000

I think everyone should apply to the schools they most want. They should also cover their bases. Here on CC , there is a tendency to go right to the most selective schools, the name recognition schools, easy to pick them from any college book, list, internet search. That’s the easy part of the search.

Yes, sometimes someone gets accepted which is wonderful. It’s always wonderful when someone gets what they want. But the fact of the matter is that’s Rare. The statistics clearly bear this out. When it works out, all is well; it’s when it doesn’t and the kid didn’t have a sure pick and some reasonable chances as well, that there are problems. Or if the family can’t afford the school after all is done.

To say anyone has no chance of getting into a college, has no business applying, shouldn’t apply is not appropriate or true. We don’t know. We never know the whole story. We don’t even know if the sequel is true.

So we try to give the odds as they are, and suggest that alternatives are researched. Not just picked at random while salivating over the lottery tickets, but putting sone thought into the realist choices.