what are my chances at ivy

Gogreen19
Wed, 14 Aug 2019 14:54:43 +0000

@austinmshauri thank you for your input, and given all you know about me, your reaction is warranted, but you don’t know everything about me. I have many friends and family members who go to these schools and have been deeply involved in researching these schools for a long time and, not to mention, have been a kind of unofficial college counselor to my classmates and others for a long time. In fact, I was trusted more than the official counselors after a while, since my advice actually worked for people more often.

And, by the way, one does need to know more to give the detailed chance analysis that I like to give. I always look deeply into a student and their ECs and interests when I give them chance analyses. Also, the various awards and ECs are crucial to understanding whether a student has excelled in a number of fields or focused on say, one specific field, which in turn helps identify a student’s academic fit for type of uni. Not to mention, the intended field or fields of study (and whether or not the ECs are related to it) should also help decide which uni to apply to. It’s not just me saying that. Other admits, college counselors and admission officers say various versions of the advice I give to applicants all the time.

Do I think I’m the repository of all wisdom and can tell for sure if someone will or will not get in? Obviously not, it’s a crapshoot. But can I in some respect help identify academic fit, and give advice that may give students some help in raising their chances? I think so.