<p>My Schools for application in order of Preference are as follows:
UChicago EA
Grinnell
Wash U
Kenyon
Brown
American
Notre Dame
Oberlin
Dennison
Beloit EA
Truman State by priority deadline
Kalamazoo EA</p>
<p>Chances?</p>
<p>Senior
White Male from Missouri
Public school
Here are my stats
unweighted GPA 3.78 weighted: 4.1
Rank 23/515
Courses: AP World AP US , AP Euro, AP Geo, AP Lit next year taking AP Bio, Stats
I have never taken a normal course all honors and AP and college credit
ACT: Composite 31 (been studying and i can now achieve a 33-35 on english so i should have a composite 33 or 34)
sub reading: 34
sub science: 35
sub math: 28
sub english: 28
Will probably have good recs from teachers and a perfect rec from counselor.
Essays will be good possibly great</p>
<p>EC's
VP Stuco as a senior. Publicity as a Junior on stuco since freshman year.
NHS Historian since Junior Year, when we were inducted
Class Liaison since feshman year
4 year varsity wrestler, wrestled since freshman year. Captain this year
German Club President
Quiz Bowl Founder and Captain
Church youth
President of my junior achievement company </p>
<p>Volunteering
50 hours of tutoring
'60 hours of middle school wrestling
60 hours/ year for special olympics planning committee
Counselor at leadership camp</p>
<p>Others:
2 seperate Leadership camp (for stuco and sent by school)
Boys State
Missouri Governors School program (top 1/2 of 1% based on IQ, Test Scores, or grades)
Honor Roll (lol) </p>
<p>I will be a first generation college student
my parents income is around 100k Will apply for financial aid
I also work 15-20 hours a week.</p>
<p>Assuming you get at least 33 composite on the ACT…</p>
<p>UChicago EA: high reach
Wash U: mid reach
Brown: mid reach
Notre Dame: high match
Oberlin: high match
Kenyon: high match
Grinnell: mid match
American: low match
Beloit EA: low match
Kalamazoo EA: low match
Denison: low match / safety
Truman State by priority deadline: safety</p>
<p>Your GPA is a little low for UChicago, Wash U, and Brown, so use first semester senior year to raise your GPA (therefore don’t apply EA to UChicago), and keep taking rigorous courses.</p>
<p>Good luck! :)</p>
<p>I agree with Thebeatlestoday. Don’t EA to UChicago. EA applicants generally have very high scores and gpas. The pool for EA is very competitive.</p>
<p>I mean i understand what you guys are talking about but with UChicago 95% of admits are from EA because they don’t want all the ivy rejects coming in RD. So even if it may be for the more competitive applicants it is actually less competitive numbers wise and I’ve been working my rear off on my UChicago supplement.</p>
<p>missouriboy: You definitely SHOULD apply EA, but your logic is a bit off. </p>
<p>EA admit rates are higher than RD admit rates across the board, because there are a great many applicants from tippy-top high schools during the EA cycle. (This is because tippy-top high schools highly encourage their students to apply EA/ED somewhere to enhance their chances of getting into a top university.) As such, the EA applicant pool tends to have higher numbers and is more competitive overall. </p>
<p>That being said, UChicago’s EA admit rate is about 2x its RD rate, so you should definitely apply EA anyway.</p>
<p>Note also that UChicago doesn’t really care about whether its admits are Ivy rejects, so this has nothing to do with it. Usually, those who were rejected by all Ivies wouldn’t get into UChicago during the EA or RD cycle anyway, considering that UChicago has a lower admit rate than Cornell, Penn, Dartmouth, and Brown.</p>
<p>Uchicago all comes down to the essays, so obviously you need to do well on those. Your gpa is a bit on the low end for some of the more selective schools in the country, and your ACT is also on the low end, though if you improve it to 34 then you’re doing pretty well. What are you going to say is your major of interest, and do you have some level of achievement in that area? For example, if you wanted to studying engineering, I would hope that you would have like science fair experience or something. Since I don’t see any sort of specialization, I think that could work against you as well.</p>
<p>I’m working on getting an internship or something right now. I’m not completely decided what i want to go into though probably econ or poli sci maybe english</p>
<p>Also I am now an AP Scholar with /distinction, and just as extra info my school doesn’t allow students to take weighted classes until junior year unless involved in the S.T.E.M. programs., which I am not.</p>