<p>SAT:
2030
retaking in dec and aiming for 2300(=</p>
<p>SATII:
Japanese 800 , Math2 710</p>
<p>APs:
Chinese 5
World History 5
U.S. history 3
AP language 3
Psych 5
Bio 2 (lol fail)</p>
<p>APs currently taking:
English literature
Japanese
calculus AB
+ all honors science courses</p>
<p>total of 9 aps when i graduate</p>
<p>Extra Curricular:
-co-captain for two years of a vars sport that i've been involved in for three years
-honor society at school
-csf
-volunteer at hospital annually for 100+ hours</p>
<p>Awards:
a few sports awards and ap scholar award and random small awards</p>
<p>do i have a chance of getting in? and if so, how high or low
Thank you!</p>
<p>I think you stand an OK chance of getting in, but definitely re-take that SAT.
I would say your ECs don’t seem to be very strong, but as long as your essays are good - you will make it.</p>
<p>ROFLLLLL. haha we’re not the same person. hahahaha
& does u of chicago superscore? i was also wondering if they penalize you for taking the SAT more than twice</p>
<p>^
its funny how narrow minded you can be. do you even go to the university of Chicago? you can’t even bother to read the posts and see that we’re two completely different people who just have similar user names. </p>
<p>and yes we did plan that OBNOXIOUS formatting. just for your viewing pleasure (=</p>
<p>but thank you to those who actually chanced me.</p>
<p>No I don’t go to the University of Chicago, and I’ll be lucky if I get in, but that really is an obnoxious format. I don’t see how it makes me narrow-minded at all (even if it makes me seem like it, what about everyone else who posted in this thread?). I simply commented on what I saw when comparing the two threads and then asked a question. Any sign of narrow-mindedness that that post could have given off would have to be based on an inference (a wrong one on that) on your part. If I said that since you both had the same obnoxious formatting, you must be the same people, then it might be debatable. However, all that I stated was that it appeared as though you had the same formatting which I thought was obnoxious. So, stop making unnecessary inferences from my posts.</p>
<p>Now, want my honest opinion on your chances? Of course you do (otherwise you wouldn’t have posted this on a public forum). </p>
<p>First off, your ECs/awards aren’t anything special. You show no passion in absolutely anything and seem to have simply gone to school, played a sport for a bit, and then went home and sat on your a**. Sure, you say, I played a sport, but you just played it for 3 years and did nothing else for it. You’re just like nearly every other applicant. On top of that, you have no academic clubs, no research experience, no university classes, or - to put it shortly - no academic passion besides school (you didn’t even state a major of interest in your post!).</p>
<p>Second off, I’m hoping that you didn’t take AP Chinese as a class(whatever the class would be called), and just took the test. Considering how you’re Chinese (and I’m going to assume that you speak Chinese at your house since you are Chinese), it makes it seem as though you just took the class to get an A and just took the AP test to get a 5 on yet another AP test. Nice job simply buffing your profile instead of actually going to school to learn. You could have taken a class that was actually challenging to you, and maybe it wouldn’t have been an AP or maybe you would’ve gotten a B, but maybe you would have emerged from it as a more knowledgeable human being instead of simply being another student with another A and another 5. Again, another sign of a lack of a true love of learning and a true yearn for anything academic. Not only that, but your GPA is low and based on your posts, I can’t help but assume that your essays will be lacking in creativity and intellectual bite. As for the SATs, not even a 2410 will save you hun. Apply if you want, but don’t be expecting any positive news once decisions roll around.</p>
<p>this thread is hilarious. kuropanda:i dont understand how you can support that evaluation when its based on assumptions. </p>
<p>hoping that thisgirl and thatgirl are different people:
my little sister was accepted to chicago last year, and her stats where a bit higher than yours, on the SATs, but her EC’s were weaker. so i’m guessing you have a fair chance. you should retake SATs because they don’t count that against you. 2300 is a big jump, but good luck.</p>
<p>If you were to look at my post, you would see how the one assumption I made is not only reasonable, but almost unnecessary. It’s only there to strengthen the argument that she just goes to school, gets A’s, and thinks that that’s all that she needs. Besides, I was basing the assumption on personal experience. Many of my Chinese friends are fluent in Chinese, and they claim that many Chinese-Americans are fluent in Chinese as well (I’d assume that is why an 800 on the SAT II Chinese only allows one to be in the 56th percentile). Of course, I couldn’t just state it as being a fact as I don’t really know this person, so I stated that it was an assumption.</p>
<p>So what if your little sister was accepted to chicago with those stats? A student from my school who had a 4.6 (the maximum at our school) and a 2360 got rejected from Chicago. I opened up my school’s naviance stats and starring right at me was that 4.6 and 2360 coupled with acceptances to Harvard and Yale, but a rejection from UChicago. At first I was shocked and nearly gave up all hope, but I scrolled down and a student with a 3.9 and a 2050 SAT got accepted. I asked my GC why he thought the top student had been rejected, and he said that he knew her. She lacked any intellectual ‘pop,’ so to speak, and it showed through her UChicago essays (hence, rejection). On the other hand, the 3.9 had that intellectual ‘pop’ in her essays and she got accepted. So, using simple deduction, if she isn’t showing any signs of intellectual curiosity besides getting good grades (and your grades aren’t that great anyways), then it will show through her essays. Again, whatever you get on your SAT isn’t going to matter once you get to this point.</p>
<p>As a parent whose child is applying to Chicago, I’ve been browsing this forum for information that I can use to help her with her application (e.g, the info about changed requirements for teacher recs.) I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the way the U of C applicants seemed to avoid the nastiness that prevails in some other schools’ forums, and by the way the posters seemed to truly support one another. To me, it spoke well of the maturity of the U of C applicant pool, and reinforced my conclusion that this might be a good school for my daughter.</p>
<p>This particular thread has been quite a disappointment to me.</p>
<p>To the OP: Your grades and scores are certainly competitive, but no one - not myself, not Motion, not even Grace - really knows your chances of acceptance at the U of C. Good luck to you - I’m sure you will do well at any school you attend.</p>
<p>Sorry :(. I really didn’t mean to come across as harsh in any of my posts. I thought that it was implicitly assumed in these chance threads that the responses to the OP were merely subjective to the poster and the poster’s experience and not any ‘final’ decision. Again, sorry for any harsh feelings.</p>
I am totally rooting for you!</p>