<p>Hi Everyone!</p>
<p>Im kinda new here and I was just wondering why it is so hard for someone to get “chanced”. I mean, this guy just had their thread subject as practically screaming for a person to chance him and I still dont think he got any replies.</p>
<p>People! What does one do to get chanced?!</p>
<p>Maybe if it were in the right forum…</p>
<p>[What</a> Are My Chances? - College Confidential](<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/]What”>Chance Me / Match Me! - College Confidential Forums)</p>
<p>where do you find all the forums? i only see top forums</p>
<p>Neither of you are missing out.</p>
<p>Shrinkrap what do you mean?</p>
<p>Just put the thread in college admissions lol.</p>
<p>How do you do that bzava72? Im still trying to figure out how to use this site.</p>
<p>Put it here [What</a> Are My Chances? - College Confidential](<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/]What”>Chance Me / Match Me! - College Confidential Forums)</p>
<p>Because they are a waste of time. It is impossible even for people very familiar with the admissions criteria for a particular school to make an intelligent guess on the chances of admission of a particular applicant because you don’t know what the applicant pool looks like and you don’t have all of the data concerning the applicant (essays, for example). Most people who do respond to chance requests are high school students who really have no idea of the probability of admission. </p>
<p>The best you can do is to look at a particular schools’ admission rate last year and its average high school GPA and standardized test scores. If your scores are better than average, than your chances for admission go up some what. The reverse is also true. That’s really the best anyone can do.</p>
<p>What he said</p>
<p>Ah, I see.</p>
<p>The best way to get an idea of your chances of admission to a particular college is to check their Common Data Set. You can find it on their web site and it will give you a detailed set of admissions data from the prior years regarding the range of GPA, test scores, etc. of applicants along with the criteria they consider most important in their admission decisions. Please note, however, that many admission decisions are subjective at best so someone with superior credentials can still be rejected from a particular school or can be accepted to a college that seems out of reach. </p>
<p>If your high school uses Naviance than you can get an idea of your chances relative to others in your school.</p>
<p>the all-purpose chance answer: anyone who derives comfort from the amateur analysis of anonymous strangers working with incomplete data and knowledge lacks sufficient intelligence and/or self confidence to succeed at the institution they ask about.</p>
<p>Yeah chance threads are incredibly pointless for the number of them that there are</p>
<p>So many people want to be chanced, its cazy.</p>
<p>Chance threads are only useful for reassuring highly qualified applicants to less competitive schools and quashing the dreams of under qualified applicants to selective schools. Most everything else is meaningless drivel driven by the angst and insecurity of both the chancers and chancees.</p>