Chance this EA'er!

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Chicago ✅
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<p>*Applied EA *</p>

<p>*General Stats *
GPA: The Indian schooling system does not give a cumulative GPA:</p>

<p>9- 84/100-Ranked 4/31
10- 91.2/100- Ranked 2/150
11- 67/100- New school does not rank
12- Mid years- 80/100</p>

<p>Rank: Unranked, (on inquiring the Counselor informed that Top 5% of class)
Class size: 950students.</p>

<p>SAT I: 2000 (retaking 11/06)
560 Reading
760 Math
680 Writing</p>

<p>SAT II:
730 Math 1
790 Math 2
(Taking World History and Biology M in December: won't be considered for ED)</p>

<p>AP Tests:
School does not offer, VERY rare to find students with APs in India.</p>

<p>Senior Classes:
1. English
2. Mathematics
3. Physics
4. Economics
5. Political Science(changed from Chemistry in junior year)</p>

<p>Course load:
Most rigorous possible.</p>

<p>In-School EC's:</p>

<p>-Debating
Have participated in several inter-school debates(and won a handful) in both Hindi as well as English.</p>

<ul>
<li><p>Model UN(3 year)
Pretty intense. (wrote my commonapp short essay about this too). School does not have a formalModel UN club. But I'm one of the main guys in school. Have attended around 10 MUN conferences, included 2 international as well as a few college level ones. Won Best Delegate in 9 of those. Been on the Executive Board thrice.</p></li>
<li><p>School Soccer (2 years)
Was part of the school team for grades 9 and 10. Didn't continue since changing school. Played as a defender, look forward to continuing in college.</p></li>
<li><p>Member- Computers club (3 years)
Avidly participated in/and won several Intra as well as inter school quiz and animation competitions. Including an Honorable Mention Award at Doors to Diplomacy Contest (in grade 9 in the under-19 open level) or organized by the US State Department. Also won the award for being the Best in Computers in school, and scored highest marks in Northern India a computers olympiad organized by the University of New South Wales.</p></li>
<li><p>Vice PResident Youth Congress-2 years(11- member, now in grade 12-vice prez)
A school club responsible for organizing a monthly forum for different classes to discuss various issues (organizing group discussions, poster making events, cleanliness drives, tree plantations etc.) and organize an annual city-wide event.</p></li>
</ul>

<p>-Quiz Club (member)
Not won too many. Most recently reached the quarter finals(top 32 of 450) of the Columban Open Quiz (the biggest open quiz in Delhi)</p>

<p>-SQCC-Student Quality Control Circles (grades 6-9) [F#$@, I didn't mention this on my Commonapp]
A concept based on the Japanese format of the Industrial revolution of Kaizen-continuous imrpovement. Carried out several case studies in previous school on topics such as Disaster Management, Environmental degradation, peer pressure etc. and presented them in Lucknow, India and Mauritius as well as Colombo, Sri Lanka.</p>

<p>-A few other random inter school as well as intra-school competitions won.</p>

<p>Out of School EC's:</p>

<ul>
<li>Interact Club of Gurgaon Cosmopolitan (President)
The usual stuff that Interacts club do. Associated with one of the biggest Rotary clubs in/around the city. Organize tree plantations and often fund raisers. Most recently organized a fund raising soccer tournament and collected 1100$ from an investment of only 120$.</li>
</ul>

<p>-Volunteer at Chaupal(non-governmental) (800+ hours in 3+years)
Assist visiting doctors to free medical camps in nearby villages for treatment and diagnosis of the poor.</p>

<p>-Founder-Leader of the Gurgaon Richies Cashflow Club-the only in the city
A cashflow club(affiliated with Robert Kiyosaki's Rich Dad Poor Dad Foundation) which meets every 3 months for a day-long session of Cashflow. Cashflow is a board-game which is meant for its players to learn the art of investment in a risk-free zone. (Wiki it for more!) I started this club, and it now have 100 odd members from all age groups.</p>

<p>-Selected as UN Youth Rapporteur at the World Urban Forum 2010 at Rio de Janeiro
Youngest in the world and the only Indian to be selected in the panel of 8 from around the world in the age group of 16-32.</p>

<p>-Selected to receive the Global Scholars and Leaders Award at the Global Scholars and LEaders Conference in Singapore in August 2010. Got full scholarship and air tickets to attend; couldn't attend due to mid-term examination.</p>

<p>Academics Out of School:
-a Silver medal(top 100 rank) at a national-level Computer olympaid way back in grade 8.</p>

<p>-Accepted for EPGY 2010 at Stanford University. Did not attend as did not receive scholarship. (haven't mentioned this one either, since I didn't attend)</p>

<p>Work Experience:
- Writer, theViewspaper.net (2 years-summers)
Wrote movie reviews as well as social opinions/comments for two consecutive summers for-<a href="http://www.theviewspaper.net"&gt;www.theviewspaper.net&lt;/a>, India's largest e-newspaper. </p>

<p>Essays:
Common App: About my experiences with people from all over the world on dad's ship(He's a sailor.), and the dilemma every summer whether to go meet him or not. Counselor loved it.</p>

<p>Common App Supplement: Wrote about Model UN, and how and why I love it, and how it helped me get recognition in my new school(with a class of 955 kids!) which I joined in grade 11. </p>

<p>UofC supplement:
1. Why: pretty sweet I'd guess.
2. Optional: wrote about why I like movies in general, and talked about three of those I like in specific(one hollywood, one bollywood(hindi), and one korean)
3. extended: wrote on two kinds of ppl. I think it has come out very well, but its only 400 words long(short!)</p>

<p>Recommendations:
Grade 11 English teacher(and class teacher): must've written good stuff.</p>

<p>Grade 12 Econ teacher and Head-of-Department - an Amazing one; I've consistently topped Econ!. she had infact offered by herself to write me a reco as soon as she found out that I'm applying to college.</p>

<p>Counselor(The school principal wrote me this)- Emphasizes that I have the most rigorous curriculum, and how I've adjusted brilliantly to such a large school in a matter of just a year and a half.</p>

<p>Other:</p>

<ol>
<li><p>Nationality: Indian</p></li>
<li><p>Gender: Male</p></li>
<li><p>Applying for Aid: No.</p></li>
</ol>

<p>Cons:
1. bad standardized testing scores</p>

<ol>
<li><p>Inconsistent school record. (Good in 9, Great in 10, below Average in 11 and 12)</p></li>
<li><p>school has immense reputation in the US, including at UChic- highly competitive , has sent some of the most brilliant students to Ivies and other top colleges: last year only 2 got accepted at UChic; my profile doesn't match up with theirs on the academic front</p></li>
<li><p>Indian-TOO many kids from India apply, and so many of them few are pretty awesome!</p></li>
</ol>

<p>Pros:
1. essays
2. recos
3. only Chicago EA'er from my high school
4. good EC's (or so I hope)</p>

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<p>I'm as anxious as an EA applicant ought to be having applied to a great college! I would appreciate any constructive criticism/feedback that comes my way. Thanks.</p>

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<p>Adding to that^</p>

<p>My predicted scores for class XII finals-</p>

<p>English, Math, Physics, Political Science- 90
Econ- 95</p>

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<p>BUMP. 10char</p>

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<p>Idk, those sat scores are low, definitely in the bottom 25%…although everything else seems awesome, and your sailing essay will be interesting (I know because it intrigued me). It all depends on who reads your essay and when they read it (if they just let in a urm, they won’t like your low scores, but they might feel better about their average if they just let in a 1580 to balance you out. In short, no way to know, you are too unbalanced. Good luck though!</p>

<p>Disclaimer: I’m a fellow EAer, but I genuinely think you should get in (not will), because you seem like a really interesting and smart person.</p>

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<p>Many top universities are pretty lenient with int’l students when it comes to the SATs. I heard of a 2000 SAT girl who got into Columbia (China), and a 1980 girl who got into Harvard (Macedonia). That said, your reading score could be MUCH higher. Because they only consider M + W, your combined is 1320/1600. I don’t think that’s even 25th percentile; a dangerous spot to be. According to college rep, only a very small percentage of the hundreds of Chinese applicants got in, so yeah. China/India are definitely disadvantaged as far as countries go. Does EA still take November scores? :/</p>

<p>College Board says that UChicago prioritizes essays, ECs and recs above grades, SATs, etc. Let’s hope that’s true.</p>

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<p>Yes. Chicago EA does accept November scores. And that is my only hope.</p>

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<p>You’re quite fine on math. Just focus on reading and writing (assuming you’re not JUST interested in Chicago). CR is more important. But anyway. check out the numerous SAT threads for strategies with CR, and do full tests whenever you can. Practice, it seems, is the key. I took around 5-6 full exams during the week’s crash course. I didn’t even listen in class. The practice alone helped.</p>

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<p>You have a very high chance of getting accepted. I echo the thoughts of the previous commentator: You seem to be a fascinating person to be around and I bet it is reflected in your essays. But why was your SAT reading so low, if you don’t mind me asking?</p>

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<p>I have no idea what has gone wrong. I haven’t been much of a reader ever since I was young, so maybe I have a limited vocabulary.</p>

<p>My practice in Math is up to the mark, and writing has drastically improved too. I still have issues with CR though, my practice test scores fluctuate in the 600-650 range.</p>

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<p>Eh. I have the reverse issue. I read a lot, but my writing scores are only satisfactory. Somehow I did not pick up the intricacies of grammar until 11th grade.</p>

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<p>UChicago does not consider the writing score.</p>