College Admission questions

moodragonx
Fri, 01 May 2009 01:42:07 +0000

I don’t think the OP is taking about Financial Aid. I think they mean that would it be a bad idea if:

they spoke to an admissions counselor with their transcript/EC’s/whatever and asked for a prediction in how they would stand in the applicant pool of a college presumably compared against the applicants this year as there’s no way of know how it’ll look next year.

Personally, I didn’t know that was possible but can understand how it would be frowned upon. If the admissions counselor doesn’t mind I’d say go for it if you’re that curious or something more accurate that your own judgments based off common data. Unless it’s a small enough school that the person will recall your application if you apply next year and that may put you at a disadvantage but at bigger schools I doubt they’d car enough to keep track even if it is “frowned upon”. I might try it myself.

Of course that’s all assuming you find an admissions counselor willing. I’m not sure at all but I’d think they’d be wary of doing that.