© Copyright 2020, © 2001-2020 All rights reserved worldwide, Finding the right college for your unique situation can be challenging. Recently someone used “ventile,” a statistical term, in describing the top 5 percent of a high-school class (a nice play on words, perhaps, given all those who come here to vent). Expert tips and advice to prepare you for college entrance exams. Colleges don't just admit people on academic merit alone, they want to make sure that you can handle the course load at their specific school. Ms. Rubenstone now gets many queries, she says, from “towns with no vowels, in countries I’ve never heard of.” She’s just as likely to get questions from single mothers seeking information about a certificate program, she says, as from teenagers dreaming of Dartmouth. In 2008 Hobsons, a global education-services company, purchased the Web site for an undisclosed sum. You stumble upon College Confidential and decide to throw your “chance me” in the ring. “The idea that you can sum up the job of an admissions counselor this way,” he says, “it’s just not how it works.” For one thing, the “chance me” threads don’t account for context: what the entire applicant pool looked like, and a college’s needs in a given year. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast, More posts from the A2C_circlejerk community. Well, congrats! Chance me. They counsel and console, bicker and rant. It’s rare for even an extraordinary student to receive 5’s in every AP class they take. Nonetheless she found time to engage with prospective MIT and Harvard students in the forums. I have taken honors courses & AP courses (scored well). Members have used the term both earnestly and sarcastically. Ask Sally Rubenstone. When she comes home at night, she logs on again. Examples: Monday, today, last week, Mar 26, 3/26/04, Chance Me for a Variety of Majors at Top Colleges/LAC’s/BSMD’s, Chance kid for Harvard, Yale - complicated by extreme extracurricular classical/jazz music. Some people think “public Ivies” exist; others scoff at the idea. Do I have a chance at getting into the Ivy League and other top schools? Is this going to be your big Marshall amplifier, like Led Zeppelin used, or your Bose noise-canceling headphones?”. Sure, they knew it was a reach, but all Ivy League schools are reaches. College Confidential.

Celebi was released at Pokémon GO Fest in Chicago, but only for those lucky enough to get a ticket. “Anxiety is the key thing here,” says Chris Peterson, who directs digital strategy and communications for MIT. There’s more: “At College Confidential we can tailor a custom exposure program to meet your needs,” says the site. Harvard, Yale, and Princeton (“HYP”) are often distinguished from the five “lower Ivies” (some members include Columbia with the “upper Ivies”). She has the power to delete posts and to ban—temporarily or permanently—members who write especially rude and disrespectful messages. Hobsons promotes CollegeView, its college-search service, on College Confidential, and vice versa. There are moments of kindness and kinship, such as when Clear My Mind, rejected by Cornell, wrote, “Preety disappointed that I got rejected from the more prestigeous schools. They began ripping apart every clue and speculating whether an email from FAFSA or a glitch notifying you of activity on your application portal means you’re in or you’re not. In reality, I shouldn’t feel that way. College Confidential didn’t invent the anxiety many Americans associate with applying to college, but, like a mile-high megaphone, it amplifies that anxiety 24 hours a day. Perhaps today’s teenagers, who grew up sharing everything on Facebook, find a meaningful sliver of hope and reassurance in favorable assessments from complete strangers. “I’m helping them discover what they potentially want to do,” she says. As of late April, Ms. Woodworth, writing as molliebatmit, had written 10,647 posts, an average of about 25 a week over eight years. Perhaps other students crave the cold dose of reality that comes from hearing they have zero chance of attending Brown. These days he sees value in engaging the forum’s readers so long as colleges can direct them to meaningful content. Their questions are endless. One day she heard that someone had mocked the institute’s cheerleaders in a forum, calling them fat and ugly. I think it’s safe to say that students should stay away from chance me’s. Can we get a big round of applause for Pizzagirl, everyone? June 23 edited June 25 in Law School. Chances at Umich Ross + other bussiness schools? My grades are not the best, as I started freshman year with a 3.5; however, every semester my GPA has improved. Im currently at a major cross-roads in … And now a student who logs in to Naviance to find information about, say, Colorado College will see links to recent posts about the institution in College Confidential’s discussion forums. Nobody was setting the record straight, so he obtained an account reserved for verified representatives of colleges. (The company also owns Naviance, college-planning software used by high schools to advise students and manage the flow of applications and transcripts sent to colleges.) A high school class of 952? From April 2012 to this March, it attracted nearly 44 million visitors, receiving more than 281 million page views. Ms. Rubenstone liked answering those questions, but a couple of times, she says, colleagues called her out for relaying information that wasn’t “Smith-specific.” She confronted a fact of admissions work: Although the job allows you to advise families about the admissions process, you’re paid, in the end, to promote just one college. Although Emory’s admissions officers don’t have an official presence in the discussion forums, he lurks there, to see what people are saying about the university. No, your EC needs to match that of POTUS in order to be considered membership into CC. eval(ez_write_tag([[580,400],'studybreaks_com-medrectangle-3','ezslot_1',120,'0','0']));It seems relatively harmless, really. Here, in moderated discussion forums, people help strangers. “You’ve got to take what’s there with a grain or a block of salt.”. The forums, he believes, should be a starting point for research—not the last stop. The site, which had gone live the previous year, was founded by Roger Dooley, a tech entrepreneur, and Dave Berry and David Hawsey, authors of America’s Elite Colleges: The Smart Applicant’s Guide to the Ivy League and Other Top Schools. “My high-school counselor,” he says, “was actually useless.”, Since 2004 he’s posted nearly 16,000 times. GPA: 3.61 (UW), a bit higher than a 4.0 (W) Class Rank: N/A (Go to competitive HS with around 900 people in my grade. [4], Please help to establish notability by citing. Members often debate the role that race and ethnicity should play in admissions. Picture this: Dartmouth College is your dream. Enrollment-management strategies, with jargony terms such as “demonstrated interest,” furthered the idea that getting into a selective college is a puzzle to solve, a game rigged by colleges, with many rules to master. Pokémon Go has released another mythical Pokémon. … Sort of. (self.A2C_circlejerk) submitted 1 year ago by TheFalconGuy. July 9 edited July 9. College Confidential was founded to "demystify many aspects of the college admissions process, and to help even 'first timer' students and parents understand the process." Stay on top of the information you need to navigate the admissions process amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Some distinguish between “low reach” and “high reach” colleges. Here, members engage in the age-old art of fortune telling. “My lack of world-class ability in math and physics hasn’t stopped me from being a world-class neurobiologist,” she wrote. Good Luck! Hear from other students who shared their admissions story. Kai can provide tips and support as you research and apply to colleges, and explore majors and careers. Similarly, an article on DIY College Rankings calls out the inaccuracy of the chance me system, while at the same time, praises the site for its accessibility.