(I go to a very rigorous private school which is expressed in the school profile that my counselor sends out)
UW GPA: 3.8 (My school doesn’t rank)
ACT: N/A
SAT: 1490/1600
SAT II: 750 Math II 740 Physics
AP: AP Calculus AB- 5 AP Physics 1- 5 AP Microeconomics- 5 (My school doesn’t offer AP until Junior Year)
ECs:
Varsity Ice Hockey for 4 Years
Club Ice Hockey for 4 Years
Volunteer at LVHN Hospital for 2 Years
Coached and Volunteered at Lehigh Valley Special Hockey for 2 years
Robotics Team Junior+Senior Year
Physics Lab Assistant at Lehigh University
HOSA Medical Club (Founder and President)
Chess Club (President)
National Merit Commended Scholar
Recommendation:
My History Teacher- He loved me, got an A+ in his class, always talked with him about out of class topics, likely 10/10
My Physics Teacher- Also head of our Robotics program, got A+ in both classes, likes me a lot, likely 9.5/10
Likely List of Schools:
UChicago
Johns Hopkins
Vanderbilt
Harvey Mudd
Lehigh University
NYU
Emory
How would you rank your supplemental essays to UCHIG? Those are pretty important, from what I hear.
Otherwise, everything looks pretty good aside from your GPA, which could potentially be damaging depending on what your school profile looks like (i.e. grade distribution on the school profile).
What is your current course load? What is your WGPA? What is your class rank? I need this information to chance you.
Also, if you’re a current senior, chance me threads are useless. Just wait until April to get your real decisions.
Uchicago is a pretty test score based school and course rigor school. I would say that as long as your in the top of your class with the hardest course rigor, your GPA is okay. Try to improve your test score and work on good essays. I wish you the best of luck applying.
You understand that Chicago doesn’t offer a major in “finance,” right? And, more fundamentally, that Chicago as a matter of educational philosophy essentially takes the position that finance is not an appropriate subject for an undergraduate major?
Either you are a senior, and thus you have applied and are waiting for an answer, or you have made up portions of your stats. If it’s the former, there’s no real point to this thread – you have already made all of your application strategy decisions. I don’t think it was a waste of your time to apply to Chicago, but you will have had to deliver some real sparkle in your essays and recommendations to make yourself a good candidate for admission. Your stats qualify you for admission, but probably don’t distinguish you from 10-20,000 other applicants. And there have to be a bunch of Bs on your transcript to balance out those A+s in math and physics and average to a borderline A-.
Don’t worry too much about the Gpa, because your school’s naviance will tell if you have a chance. You need to work hard on your sat/act and more importantly the essays. If you can tell an outstanding story in your essay, you have a chance. Nevertheless, I think your chance is very low. Apply edI to increase your chance.
Best chance schools on the your list are Lehigh, NYU, and probably Emory. Lehigh seems to be a match/almost safety. NYU is a low reach/possible match and Emory is a low reach.
The other schools on your list are test score driven so they are really high reaches/likely rejections.
@ma402016 I was deferred at UChicago 1500 SAT, 33 ACT with 4.0 UW GPA 4.5 weighted and #1 in my class of 236, rural public school in Illinois. My ECs include Big Brothers Big Sisters, NHS President, Band, math team, WYSE, yearbook, basketball. Astronomy/physics is what I plan on studying but that may change. I was accepted at Georgia Tech, UColorado-Boulder, IU-Bloomington, and UMich Ann Arbor. Waiting to hear on JHU, Cornell, Northwestern and the outcome on Chicago. Good luck to you!