Bizarre Stats for University of Chicago

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<p>Hi there,</p>

<p>I'm an international, recently started considering applying to University of Chicago. First thing I always research for these things is the incoming class student profile, which I found for UChi here: <a href="https://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/apply/class-profile"&gt;https://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/apply/class-profile&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>As you can see, it says the SAT score range for admitted students is 1110-1600. I don't know if I'm missing something but I'm baffled to the point of concern at how low that is. My SAT is quite a bit higher than that, and I wonder if they wouldn't accept me based on it being too high. Weird logic but I heard "lower" schools often reject applicants who are clearly higher than their normal because they're obvious safeties and the school wants their stats to show them as competitive.</p>

<p>But that doesn't make sense, because admit rate for UChi is less than 10% so it's obvious they're extremely competitive already. Can somebody help me out with this? It's seriously confused me.</p>

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<p>It’s out of 1600 :). And the 1110 is for specific kids, such as those from the Chicago ghetto, where the schools are horrendous. Their average is 1450-1550 (out of 1600) so… I doubt anyone can be “too high”. :)</p>

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<p>I expect that that range is out of 1600, rather than 2400. They’re probably writing off the writing part of the SAT already; many colleges don’t regard that section as meaningful anyway, and the College Board has already announced that it won’t be a part of the SAT in the future.</p>

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<p>OH. That makes a lot more sense, thank you!</p>

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<p>The following link may shed some light for your concern. </p>

<p><a href=“Colleges With the Highest SAT Scores”>Colleges With the Highest SAT Scores;

<p>If the writing portion of SAT is not taken into the consideration, Chicago is ranked #2 this year with Caltech being #1. </p>

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<p>Don’t believe anything from this article above about the SAT scores. The person who wrote this article clearly didn’t attend a high school that offered algebra 2. The so called average SAT scores here are not actual average SAT scores. They are the sum of averages of each section. In case you don’t understand what I am talking about here, you probably shouldn’t apply to UChicago IMO.</p>

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<p>@ustc1979‌ I understand, thank you for condescending :)</p>

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<p>I’m sorry but did you say UChicago is a “lower” school??</p>

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The stat just means that they may have admitted one applicant with an 1110/1600. The reason the figure seems low is that few colleges even reveal this information to this degree of precision. Chicago has the 2nd highest average SAT scores in the Nation. I’m not sure what @ustc1979‌’s point was … an irrelevant distinction between the average of the sums and the sum of the averages I suppose.