<p>Zotan,</p>
<p>You took a bad situation, and took your interest in athletics and decided to run XC. While this doesn’t look that great on paper, it is completely understandable otherwise and as an athlete I commend you. One B every single Semester would be a 3.8 uw? Well that doesn’t really help you at CMC considering they look for 3.9+, Stanford is out of the picture and CMC is a pretty high reach, although I would write your essay on pilot’s license to stand out… Good Luck!</p>
<p>What are your guys opinions on the consultants that help you with the applications and essays? Are they worth it? Do they give you an edge over other applicants?</p>
<p>You can get to 2200 from an 1830 if you study hard enough. I went from 1880 to 2110 in a month of studying. I only took the SAT twice though because I procrastinated until my senior year. I’m sure if I had one more chance at the SAT, I could have reached a 2200, so I’m sure you can too. Good luck.</p>
<p>try to keep up whatever EC’s you’re doing, and maybe try not to add on any extra “random” ones next year. keep up the challenging courseload into next year- colleges will appreciate it.</p>
<p>with all sincerity, i wish you luck on bringing your sat’s up. if you work hard, you can do it. that’s going to be a huge deciding factor for your college adcoms.</p>
<p>since you do have a mix of ec’s, focus on the pilots license as a factor to keep yourself unique and different from the other applicants</p>
<p>good luck!</p>
<p>Suze is one of the and most fact filled poster on this site by far. She is totally correct here. No way the OP is going to Stanford. The top UCs and CMC also won’t happen without a significant SAT score hike.</p>
<p>Consultants can help if you get one early on to direct you. They can also provide meaningful help with essays and avoiding what Suze was right in calling a negative ECs.</p>
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<p>Yeah… The truth hurts, but its the truth. No way you would be getting into any of those schools unless you raise your SAT score by several hundred points… Don’t listen to those people who want to you to get your hopes way up</p>
<p>I meant to say best posters. She goes by common data sets–the facts. Check to see how posters with the OP’s stats look at his schools. NOT GOOD. He is another “excuses” poster with stats and ECs that won’t wash.</p>
<p>Paul, if you look at the posts by people who say an OP with low stats will get in, you’ll see that the poster is usually low stats himself.</p>
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I’m sorry, you seem to be the one with a lot of BS. Don’t expect praise coming from all members of this forum who would say “you definitely have a chance of getting in” because they aren’t being honest! They just want to make you feel better. Honestly, I think you really have to work really hard on everything if you want to get into UCs</p>
<p>Why did I even bother joining this board … I’ve gotten some decent advice, but it has all been overshadowed by *******s like Bobby, Paul, and Suze. </p>
<p>The reason those schools are on my list is because I’ve had my school counselors, professional college consulatants, someone from the admissions board of CMC, and students from all those colleges tell me I have good chances of getting into them. The only one which I don’t really expect to have any kind of chance for is Stanford, which I have previousily stated. You guys keep bringing it up though to try to degrade me even more so than you have.</p>
<p>And can one of you explain how exactly discontinuing a sport due to an injury, animosities with the coach, and just not having fun with it anymore is a negative EC? If anything, that shows that I actually had a spine and didn’t continue in some meaningless waste of time just so I could throw it on a college application. Excuses my ass Bobby.</p>
<p>I’m sure they’ll see it your way. After another review, with an eye to how you see it, I suggest adding Harvard, Yale and Princeton.</p>
<p>Really appreciate the sarcasm Bobby. You’ve yet to answer my question.</p>