Does Anyone Have Any Suggestions?

chichichiquita
Wed, 02 Aug 2006 13:46:28 +0000

Hi Joker,

I just want to tell you that your situation sounds very similar to my own - when I applied to college, I was really convinced that I wasn’t that impressive and wouldn’t get in anywhere. I’m currently a sophomore at Yale (obviously, my doubt in myself was a little misguided), and it sounds like a lot of my scores and such were really similar to your’s (and I definitely wasn’t all that great in the realm of extracurriculars). I applied to Univ. of Maryland, William and Mary, Wesleyan, Amherst, Middlebury, UPenn, Yale and Colby. I was waitlisted at UPenn and accepted at all the rest (1590 old SAT, 1st in my class a public school in the middle of nowhere, a really weird variety of extracurriculars, none of which I did for more than two years). Anyway, it sounds like you have a good chance at a lot of really good schools. I say just apply to a bunch that you really like and just see. I thought I would only get accepted to one or two of mine, and it worked out really well for me.