The What Are My Chances forum in general.

Mangiafuoco
Mon, 10 Nov 2014 01:14:26 +0000

http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/1703402-chance-threads-are-pointless.html

ds0501:

I’ve been browsing this forum for quite the while now, and I am constantly seeing people ask for their chances at this school, or that school and I want to get something off my chest.

To the people who are wondering about their “chances”:

You can provide all the information you want, your SAT scores, background, ECs, or what ever, and people can tell you what they think your chances are and maybe you will get legitimate opinions, but that is all they are, opinions. The only way someone can truly judge your chances is by seeing your entire application, your entire story. The idea that people think they can adequately judge someone’s chances based solely on his or her SAT/ACT, GPA, and brief description of ECs is inane to say the least. Unless you have the full application, including essays, supplements and literally everything else the college is asking for (the recommendations included! How can you chance someone without reading one of the most important parts of the application!) you can’t get legitimate answers. Now, my last point: people! Understand that the majority of people replying to chance threads are just as informed as you are, and definitely are not experts in college admissions.

So in all, everyone should relax, take a breath, and hope for the best, and do their own real research rather than posting “chance” threads.

If you are stupid enough to create a “What are my Chances?” thread, then maybe you deserve to be put down.