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<p>Hi everyone, I was wondering if UChicago is a possibility for me
for its undergrad business (and advertising?) program (I plan to do a major in business and choosing between a double major or a minor in advertising)</p>

<p>i was wondering if any of you can give me some pointers and advice to get in...</p>

<p>brief summary of myself:</p>

<p>Currently a Junior, live in Duluth, Georgia. Indian</p>

<p>GPA: Not really known, our school does not do GPA, However, I do currently have a 95 weighted cumulative avg. (Its basically the same unweighted)</p>

<p>Decent SAT: 1980 (2nd time) 700 writing, 650 math, 630 reading, Essay: 10</p>

<p>Class rigor- pretty rigorous, by the end of senior year i'll have 7 APs under my belt (oddly enough, I chose the APs that College Board recommends if I want to go into Business by chance), and just about every honors class to think of (except 3). Our school has been named Best Public High School in GA for 3 consecutive years. Unfortunately, even with a 95 average, I'm still only under the 17-19 percentile.. =(</p>

<p>ECs: Red Cross Club, Habitat for Humanity, Kaleidescope (aka Diversity Club), Model UN ....most importantly, I am the Creative Director of our school website (only 10 applicants in the entire school are chosen to work on the website...and being a REALLY competitive school..its a big deal.)</p>

<p>Countless volunteer hours in service organizations....Hospital Volunteens, Hindi School Volunteer (over 3 years)....lots of it. Not including top honors awards, National Honor Society, Legion of Honor, Honor Rolls, etc etc., VIP Award; its a teacher nomination award for excellence in character (2 nominations)</p>

<p>Duke TIP participant for 2 summers (its a lot like one of those Leadership conferences)...President of Model United Nations, Treasurer/Co-founder of the Red Cross Club.</p>

<p>Also, some of my friends and I have started a web design and graphics design company..its pretty intense. We've had a decent amount of clients and our numbers are increasing. We've gone the whole nine yards..everything from business emails/phone calls and marketing schemes. In fancy terms, I've been appointed Chief Design and Marketing ..and work on almost all the designs and deal with marketing issues and pricing</p>

<p>Interning at 2 companies in the coming year....an advertising agency and in a statewide Indian Culture Magazine. I interned at a small company 2 summers ago, Royal Gems Inc. I am volunteering with the Red Cross this summer.</p>

<p>Another thing, I'm currently in the process of setting up a fundraiser to get money to produce brochures about HIV/AIDS (which I am designing) to the Indian Red Cross who will then distribute them to some schools who do not teach sex ed..(My family has huge connections to the Red Cross in India, its unbelievable)...We'll see if this works, I've been really concerned about India's fight against AIDS, my interest started up after a pretty profound conversation about the state of India on a trip to Virginia Beach.</p>

<p>I also have about 3 AWESOME teacher recs. My essays will be great!</p>

<p>That being said...will UChicago see my passion for business and advertising, and my joy for community service? Anyone think I have a genuine chance? ..could me being an Indian do any justice?
I plan to send in a portfolio of all business/advertising things i've done (business emails, website work, brochure copy, etc.)</p>

<p>I'm not sure if this is an important addition or not..but Financial Aid might be a bit of concern (Not too much though)</p>

<p>Thanks so much! =)</p>

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<p>I don't think Chicago has an undergrad business program.</p>

<p>So, reading your description, I guess I don't see Chicago as a good match. I don't hear about it much as an entrepenurial school at the undergrad level. As I said, I don't think it has an undergrad business major at all. Is there something in particular about Chicago that interests you?</p>

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<p>Edit: Oh, duh, He's one of those lame "post asking my chances at a zillion schools without even bothering to check if they have my major". </p>

<p>No, kid, Chicago will not be that into you. Have you considered Emory? </p>

<p>Just checked. No business or advertising for undergrads. Are you thinking of graduate school, maybe? There's nothing similar to what you're seeking there, it appears, except maybe a Public Policy major, but you seem to be interested in business more than that.</p>

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<p>That said, most of my extracurriculars was business related (internship at local company, sales rep., donations to Rotary) and I got in just fine. However, TrinSF is right in saying that you should take a deep hard look at Chicago and see if it's non-business style fits you. Personally, I choose to major in Econ. before jumping into a MBA degree, and there are many posters who have said they have gotten into prestigious internships while studying in Chicago, so it's no impossible.</p>

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<p>Emory is actually harder to get into than Chicago...I was waitlisted at Emory but accepted at Chicago so Emory might be a bit of a reach...</p>

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<p>
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Emory is actually harder to get into than Chicago...I was waitlisted at Emory but accepted at Chicago so Emory might be a bit of a reach...

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Your specific experiences cannot be generalized for everyone. Emory and Chicago are both good schools and both tough to get into; I just wanted to caution that what particular schools you did or didn't get into doesn't say all that much about which school is generally tougher to get into. I know students accepted at Harvard but not Hopkins and Dartmouth but not Boston College, for example.</p>

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<p>You're right i should qualify that
Emory is that necessarily easier to get into than Chicago</p>

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<p>Well, emory, tufts and a few other places are notorious for rejecting people they think will go elsewhere to lower their acc rates and boost yield.</p>

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<p>I agree with corranged.<br>
The thing that people tend to forget is that all schools are independent of each other. Therefore, a decision at one school has no bearing on another.</p>

<p>You can't compare the "toughness" of acceptance from school to school, because they are statistically independent events, and are all different.</p>

<p>And on side note, UChicago is very very hard to get into. The students are self-selecting and so are the admissions people. The process is so subjective that it is really a crapshoot. There are Chicago students, and then there's everyone else, and the adcoms. base their selection on that.</p>

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<p>First off..no i haven't posted this at a zillion random schools so keep your assumptions to yourself. </p>

<p>Numerous people have told me that UChicago does have some type of business program. I do know that it is nowhere on the best undergrad programs in u.s. news or business week.</p>

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<p>The University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business (GSB) is the #1 graduate business school in the US. There is no undergraduate program in business, advertising, finance, or anything similar besides economics, which is a theoretical study.</p>

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<p>On the contrary, Chicago's Economics program is, along with maybe Princeton, ranked first in the US. If by business you mean finance, then no, Chicago definitely does not have it--not for undergrads, at least; the Chicago Graduate School of Business however, is one of the nation's finest programs. </p>

<p><a href="http://www.chicagogsb.edu/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.chicagogsb.edu/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Haha, cross-posted again. Basically a reiteration of corranged's post.</p>

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<p>You don't look to me like a good fit for Chicago. They're looking for intellectuals, and your profile doesn't show deep academic interests. You've taken loads of APs and done well in them, but that doesn't prove that you have a passion for "the life of the mind."</p>

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<p>

This is something I've heard a lot of people say: Chicago's Economics program is ranked first in the US along with Princeton. I've never actually seen Princeton Economics ranked so high; Chicago is always in the top two along with either Harvard or MIT.</p>

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<p>I remember looking up the rankings in economics programs a while ago, and Princeton, I think, was either tied for 1st or 2nd. But you're right; according to the 2005 USNews rankings, Chicago is tied first with MIT, followed by Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, and Berkeley for 3rd. Although this is just for graduate school; I don't know about undergrad.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/grad/rankings/phdhum/brief/ecorank_brief.php%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/grad/rankings/phdhum/brief/ecorank_brief.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p><a href="http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/grad/rankings/phdhum/brief/ecorank_brief.php%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/grad/rankings/phdhum/brief/ecorank_brief.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p><a href="http://www.econphd.net/rank/rallec.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.econphd.net/rank/rallec.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p><a href="http://www.economics.utoronto.ca/ranking.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.economics.utoronto.ca/ranking.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p><a href="http://www.le.ac.uk/economics/research/rankings/econ-rankings.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.le.ac.uk/economics/research/rankings/econ-rankings.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p><a href="http://www.wooster.edu/economics/archive/econrank.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.wooster.edu/economics/archive/econrank.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>just one advice...do good on your essay
it's definitely a big part of your apps</p>

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<p>You might want to try for higher SAT scores as well. At least for my high school, the pass five years have been "If your SAT score is above 'this' range, you're in; if not, you're out". However, that may reflect competition among the dozen-or-so applicants from the same school.</p>

<p>How are your essay writing skills? Do you have a passion to learn? Are you prepared to suffer the bitter winds of Chicago? </p>

<p>If you want undergraduate business, there are other, more preprofessional schools out there- NYU Stern, UT McCombs, Indiana, Emory, etc.</p>

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<p>I think you'd have a great chance of getting in if you really show a lot of interest. But if business/advertising is really your thing, Chicago undergrad probably just isn't for you. But grad school, definitely.</p>