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Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Chicago ✅
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<p>Hello, I am just finishing up my application for UChicago and I'm getting pretty anxious. I know that college is always a crapshoot, but I'd like to hear what anyone's got to say about my chances. Thank in advanced!</p>

<p>Intended major: English/Creative Writing
RACE/GENDER: Korean Female
GPA: 5.5 weighted (On a 5.0 scale at my school)
Rank: 6 out of 555
ACT: 31 (ouch, I know)
SAT II: Language 760, US History 720, Math 2 800 (I took Language and US History again, I'm waiting on scores)</p>

<p>I've taken the most rigorous courses my high school offers, including AP US History, AP Language, AP World History, AP Macro/Microeconomics, AP Gov, AP Literature, AP Biology (double period), AP Psychology, and AP Calc BC. I have taken through Spanish 4.
AP SCORES: Lang - 5, US History - 5, Micro - 4, Macro - 4, World History - 4</p>

<p>**I will be graduating a semester early to pursue a volunteer opportunity abroad in Seoul, South Korea teaching English. I've already notified UChi and they said it was fine.</p>

<p>EXTRA CURRICULARS:
-Class President
-NHS Vice President
-Literary Magazine Prose Editor
-Student Newspaper, Guest Columnist
-Girls' Golf (4 Varsity letters)
-Volunteer after-school tutor twice a week at local elementary school
-Volunteer intern at Open Books LTD., promoting literacy throughout the Chicagoland area
-Creative writing...extensive portfolio, published twice in Teen Ink Magazine and won Readers' Choice Award both times, published in the Nation, self-published a poetry collection last month and have sold 50+ copies online so far
-I take a creative writing class concurrently at my local community college just for personal improvement and have the highest grade in the class</p>

<p>OTHER: I'm a first generation college student and my father is unemployed/disabled. My mother is a flight attendant and is only home ten days a month, if we're lucky. It's been that way since my little brother was born when I was four. Because my father has been bedridden almost my entire life, I've raised my brother...i.e. I'm still the one that does all the house work and cooking and cleaning and calling up his teachers for parent-teacher conferences. It really got in the way of extra curricular opportunities for me unti junior year. Consequently, my brother and I are very close and have a really atypical relationship. I wrote my personal statement about the dynamic between the two of us, but I don't mention this whole sob story at all. In fact, I don't mention my family background at all in my application...my counselor just explained in her rec letter. </p>

<p>Both my rec letters should be good and my essays are probably the thing I'm counting on most to get me in. I'd say they demonstrate myself and my level of prose accurately.</p>

<p>Sorry that this was so mind-numbingly long. Thanks again!</p>

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<p>Well if you’re counting on your essay to get yourself into the university, then I may as well give up right now. You honestly have nothing to worry about especially if your essays will be as good as you claim they will.</p>

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<p>EZ… i think standarized test scores don’t mean crap when it comes to college as long as you meet a certain bar. I would know… GPA/rank/who else from your high school thats better than you applied to same college, is what matters and is most likely the reason I did no get into the other half of my college application list. I loved that I expected to get rejected from Stanford EA because of my atrocious GPA (was ranked 9th but was like only 90% of max possible GPA, #5 was like 95% ), was defferred because they probably wanted to see my 1st semester senior year grade rise, and got rejected in the spring because it dropped instead rising.</p>

<p>You have better gpa than I did and maybe even mores extra curriculars. I’m currently at Chicago so it should be pretty ez to get in.</p>

<p>However I will say this, the two colleges whose applications I devoted the majority of time on and enjoyed writing (including the UoC), i got in. Indeed throughout last winter Chicago slowly crept from like #10 to like #3 on my college list. So if you really like a certain college (and are able to demonstrate that love in essay form) and are above the top 50% of currently enrolled students academicallywise, you have an extremely good shot of getting in.</p>