<p>The University of Chicago is the school that I am most striving towards getting accepted to. I would just like to know what high school credentials recently accepted students of this school have had in terms of GPA, class rank, and ACT score. Thanks</p>
<p>1450 SAT I, 750/740/750, high 90 GPA all honors/aps U of Chicago EA deferred, then accepted.</p>
<p>-tennis player/violin player</p>
<p>Read through this thread:</p>
<p>Thanks. I found some great info within that thread and regained some encouragement consequently. :-)</p>
<p>I am a transfer student from a community college. My high school records weren't stellar by any definition: SAT 1370, GPA: 4.06, rank 13/564. Very little committed EC participation. My college records were much better--especially my recs--I read two of them! My essays were (I consider) the best I've written because Chicago was where I truly wanted to be.</p>
<p>I am from from a good, yet relatively podunk, High School in Northeastern Ohio. I had a 3.6/4.0 GPA unweighted whiched ranked me at 37/275 at the time I was applying. I had a combined 1490 on the SAT (790V,670M) after two tests. I had three very good SAT IIs: 790 Chem, 780 Writing, 750 IIC. Also, I had a couple of OK ones: 700 World History and 670 Writing (1st time). I had one AP under my belt, a 4 in Computer Science A test.<br>
Beyond numerical stats, i was active in Boy Scouts, Science Olympiad, Robotics, and Drama for most of High School, holding leadership positions in three of the four. I thought my essays were great and showed a heluva lot of thinking on my part (oh, the little bit of arrogance did show up a tad too). Finally, I had a fantastic interview that lasted for an hour and a half at the University, which I would definately reccomend any prospective students visit if at all possible</p>
<p>Hope this helps
Astrobobocop</p>
<p>i got in early with:</p>
<p>750V, 800M = 1550
3.7 GPA top 15%
I thought good essays and recs
average on top 3 SAT2's was around 780
few activities
AP Chem and Calc AB taken, both 5</p>
<p>I got in early with
690V 710M = 1400 (though my ACT was 33 which is a better score and the one I preffered even though I was mad that I did something bad on it).
3.9 overall I think (its been 4+ for the last few semesters) and I was the top 10% cutoff at the time I applied. I am no longer top 10% even though my GPA and rank went up (enough people dropped out).
No SATII (ick)
Violin (orchestra officer) as well as two years captain of downhill ski team and senior captain of tennis. I also had 2 part time jobs (one was VERY part time but interesting).</p>
<p>i will provide some of you underdogs with hope</p>
<p>1420 SAT...which is the highest in my school. can you believe it? and i didn't even take classes to help me. two of my friends got into Johns Hopkins with high 1200's, and one, our valedictorian, got into UPenn with 1360. perhaps you should go to my school. (oh yea, we had a lot of UPenn vs. Chicago matches in chess and scrabble and other mind games. i just want to share to all of you that Chicago never lost. bahahahaa.)
Rank all four years: top 24 percent,
Rank without freshmen year: top 5 percent without a doubt.
AP: none. school only offers two in senior year and i didn't bother.
Honors: only took honors 11th and 12th.
SAT 2: none</p>
<p>clubs: president of the two largest clubs in school. 4 clubs in all
recs: two were awesome. one didn't read. one generic
essay: yea, kicked some ass here...in a good way</p>
<p>your scores doesn't matter that much i think. you just need to prove that you are highly intelligent. work your brain like a slave when you are writing your essay. if you write something dumb, i think they will pick it up right away. i read a few people's essays before they applied and most of the time i was right about who would get in or who would be deferred or rejected.</p>
<p>Going to be entering my second year this year...but this is what I was:</p>
<p>33 ACT, 3.5GPA, top 25% rank</p>
<p>My S. was ranked 185/405, a 3.46 (uw) GPA, ACT of 33, no SAT's. Tough curriculum (completed AP Calc BC in 10th grade) where many students had 4.0's. He wrote killer essays, and had unusual EC's (international athletic competition championships of a sort, learned another language so he could train abroad), as well as some usual ones. Apparently, Chicago looks beyond GPA and class rank.</p>
<p>Rank has nothing--NOTHING-- to do with intelligence once you are at the top 50 percent level. this is just my experience.</p>
<p>your school must be very competitive throughout the entire studen body rather than just a small group of strong preformers (in some sort of advanced program) because at my school being above the 50th percentile would not be something to be proud of.</p>
<p>Though, I do agree that it doesnt have much to do with intelligence. The people at the bottom are either stupid or not smart enough to apply their intelligence but because we have unweighted grades, there are many people at the top (even vals and sals) who are quite clueless.</p>
<p>At my S's school making the top 50% is an accomplishment. Most of the top 50% were admitted to very good college and universities. </p>
<p>If anyone is interested in seeing a partial list it is at:</p>
<p>no, my school is not competitive. you can be on top 10 percent and still go to the community college, which is not uncommon, trust me. over 50 percent of college bound students are going to THE CC. i have many friends who didn't graduate HS but, I think, are very smart. i am the first in my school to get accepted to chicago. we set a record this year in sending students to elite universities: 3 out of 180-ish. it is soooooooooooooooooooooo easy here it isn't even funny. for me, being in the top 5 percent (every year since freshmen year) or the bottom 15 percent (me, freshmen year) means 3 more hours/week of studying (up from 0 seconds of studying/week), inculding homework and projects.</p>
<p>from this statistic, you can see why my 1410 is the highest SAT score (avg. is 980)</p>
<p>average ACT at my schools a 19</p>