Chance me?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Chicago ✅
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<p>I realize I have a thread in the What are my chances? forum going on, but I really like UChicago's eccentricity and about everything I find out about it and definitely applying their EA. So I would love it if you could chance me. =] </p>

<p>I was interested in majoring in econ, but I'm afraid that's an overrrepresented major considering UChicago's specialty in econ and might just go for IR or biochemistry instead (I'm stuck between humanities and science). Any help on a major for me based on my ECs? Thanks!</p>

<p>Gender: F
Ethnicity: Asian
Location: Southwest
College Class Year: 2013
High School: Public
High School Type: sends some grads to schools like duke, upenn, stanford but no harvard or yale, etc.</p>

<p>Academics:
GPA - Unweighted: 3.85
GPA - Weighted: 4.90
Class Rank: top 5% (Currently ranked 8/700, but that will probably change after 2nd semester grades go in)
Course selection: All AP or IB courses. (Tested in 2 IBs (chem and spanish) and 4 APs) Next year will be all AP and IB courses as well.</p>

<p>Scores:
SAT total: 1410/2110
SAT I Math: 680
SAT I Critical Reading: 730
SAT I Writing: 700
ACT-32</p>

<p>Will take SAT II's in US History and Math-2, chem on June 7th
Will retake SAT in Oct--aiming for 2250-2300
Will retake ACT in June--aiming for 35-36</p>

<p>ECs
-Speech and Debate (9-12), President/Head Captain (11,12), Policy Captain (10)
-National Spanish Honors Society (9-12), President (12), Publicity Manager (11)
-Key Club (9-12), President (12), Lt Gov (12)
-National Honors Society, Secretary (12) <---considering dropping
-Governor's Youth Commission(11-12), Chair of a committee and team leader (12)
-Mayor's Youth Commission, Chair(11-12)(this upcoming year)
-National Youth Council (just chosen to join)
-Independent Volunteer Project
-Science research--For the past year at the state university working with a professor. As a sophomore, independently seeked out a grad student to serve as a mentor (9-12)
-And a myriad of other stuff like MUN, and I played tennis during 9-10 but didn't my junior year so I don't think I'm putting that on.</p>

<p>Employment
This summer: Working at a university lab that I've been researching in all year.</p>

<p>Honors/Awards
1st place Congressional Speaking- Local Tournament
2nd place Expository Speaking- National Tournament
3rd place Extemporaneous Speaking- National Tournament
And a myriad of semis and finals for local tournaments..
1st place- My school and another school in my district's science fair (three years now)
2nd place- State science fair (2007)
5th place- Science symposium--also was the state delegate to the National symposium
HOBY delegate
Summer program--1 of 10 US representatives chosen to attend a fully scholarship funded international program by the US State Department
--1 of 9 girls chosen to attend a mountaineering/glacier/leadership program in Seattle
---State delegate to the Congressional Academy program funded by the US Dept. of Education
---Various leadership summits</p>

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<p>Your awards and ECs are pretty impressive, as is your employment and research by a university. I would normally advise you to raise your SATs, but I don't think they're important here seeing as how you've proven your abilities rather well in other ways. Write good essays. I think your chances are good, though not exceedingly.</p>

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<p>thanks. =] do you think my gpa will hurt me? that's what i'm worried about the most</p>

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<p>Unweighted is out of 4.0, right? If so, it's really not that big of a deal. Often enough, straight A students aren't the best students, and colleges like to see SOME imperfections on your record. You should be fine.</p>

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<p>If you are offered a place to write your major down, I suggest you write in "undecided," as it's an honest appraisal of your thoughts on the matter at this time. Being undecided is a very good thing, as it also suggests that you'll benefit from the Core rather than seeing Core classes as extraneous to your intended major.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the responses! Yeah, unweighted is out of 4.0. But I got 7 B's Junior year (semester grades) Over the year that would be like 3.5 Bs...But for soph and freshman year I got straight As. =[ So that scares me (downward trend). I</p>

<p>'m defn working on raising my SAT score and my ACT score (<-- I think I have a better chance there). Does UChicago discriminate between ACT and SAT? Because I think my ACT score will probably be higher. </p>

<p>Also, I couldn't figure out if UChicago does automatically defer like Georgetown does for EA or is there the possibility of rejection at the EA stage?</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>1) I can't imagine the admissions office cares if you send in ACT or SAT. Whichever comes out higher.</p>

<p>2) Chicago does reject some applicants EA, along with accepting some applicants and deferring others.</p>