<p>2380 SAT I
800 US History, 740 European History, 730 Math 1 Sat II's
3.65 GPA (my gpa would be a lot better, but i had a lot of personal issues sophmore year, resulting in 3 B+'s) at really tough renowned private school, taking only a few honors classes until this year, my senior year, when i'll be taking all AP/Honors classses
my extracurriculars are that i'm really good at tennis and play for the tennis team, that i have done debate club, that i have done chess club, and that i went to governor's school.
i also want to major in econ and minor in philosophy
please list your estimates of my % chances of acceptance for early action and also for regular decision
thx</p>
<p>bump please</p>
<p>While your numbers are good, you haven't shown in your post whether or not you're a good fit for Chicago. They're looking for students who are excited about the life of the mind.</p>
<p>You are doomed. Students from elite high schools with near-perfect SAT's <em>never</em> get in. And they cannot forgive any B+s from two years ago.</p>
<p>I'm kidding. Explain what you mean to write, why Chicago, and the like. If you want to go and apply intelligently, you have a good shot. But sending in a common app with no supplement gives you a 0% shot, and a really disinterested and poorly written supplement shouldn't put you over 10 or 20%. Otherwise... 70%s, 80%s, 90%s?</p>
<p>The odds of getting in between EA and RD are the same.</p>
<p>This about says it all.
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-chicago/403810-before-you-post-your-chances-thread.html%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-chicago/403810-before-you-post-your-chances-thread.html</a></p>
<p>"They're looking for students who are excited about the life of the mind."</p>
<p>Isn't the only way to do this somehow addressing it in the essay? It seems a rather abstract concept.</p>
<p>First of all, idad, thanks for doing what I usually do on these threads!!!</p>
<p>My extracurricular passion (singular, not plural), overall transcript, essays, and teacher recs probably spelled out, in ways subtle and obvious, something to the effect of "Unalove is an enormous dork who thrives on academic challenge and wants to be in the kind of social and academic environment that the U of C can give her."</p>
<p>Also, you have a whole essay to write about why you want to go to Chicago. That seems like a direct address to the admissions office about why you fit in there (as opposed to your other essays, which might not be directly about you).</p>
<p>My S would gleefully associate himself with unalove's second paragraph.</p>