Chances me for UChicago?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Background:
Indian, male, Tennessee resident, elite private school, intended major is undecided but something in the sciences. </p>

<p>GPA
3.57 UW (I had a rough freshman year)
4.14 W </p>

<p>Top 20% (we only have like 124 in our grade)</p>

<p>Testing
ACT: 35 (35 E, 34 M, 36 R, 35 S)
PSAT: 219</p>

<p>SAT II:
Biology- 760
Math II - 730 (planning retake and physics)</p>

<p>AP:
5- Lang, USH, Modern Euro
4 - Biology
3 - Phys B</p>

<p>Other: I took a year of Spanish I my sophomore year which in retrospect hurt my GPA but I did well.</p>

<p>Senior year classes
AP Vergil, AP Comp Sci, AP Physics Cs, AP Lit, BC Calc</p>

<p>Awards:
National Merit Semi (so far)
NLE 9-silver 10th- gold 11th-silver
National Spanish 10th- gold</p>

<p>Extracurriculars
Scholars Bowl 9-12 Captain 11-12
Science Bowl 11-12 Captain 11-12
Robotics Team 8-12 Leader/lead coder 12
Latin Club 9-12 Caesar
Peer Counseler 11-12
Student Ambassador 9-12 (toured prospectives around campus)
Sailing JV 11-12
Cross Country 12
Tennis Varsity 9-11 and club 9-10
Medical Explorers (shadowing doctors, spent night in trauma bay)
Ultimate Frisbee Club (cofounder) 9-12
Debate 9-12 Leader
Community Service Rep 10th 12th (organized service opportunities)
Math Club/Team 9-12
Medical Center Volunteer 9-12
Volunteer Tutor 10-12
Physics and Engineering Club 10
TN Governor's School for Sciences summer after 11
AMSE Camp after 10
Prom Committee 11 (made it look pretttyyyyy)</p>

<p>Volunteering
130+ at local hospital 9-12
25+ at local disadvantaged elementary school (tutoring or helping run summer camps) 10-12
50 at school camps 9-10
Organized dance for mentally disabled adults but its kind of a tradition so idk if it really counts 10
Organizing fundraiser to help buy school supplies for Headstart program which lost funding 12
Organized a "pancake supper" for previously mentioned elementary school 10</p>

<p>Essays
My English teacher likes it so theres that. But I think its pretty representative of myself.</p>

<p>Recs
1. 10th Modern Euro/debate coach. She's known me forever and loves me and will write a really good one, probably talking about how much I matured in her class and throughout high school. Also shes the faculty debate sponsor so I've interacted with her a bunch. 8-9/10
2. 9 and 11th Bio teacher. Also adored me. I participated a lot in that class and contributed a ton so I think they'll write a good one for me. 8-9/10
Guidance Counseler- its a small school so everyone knows the guy but we are pretty good friends and he does Ultimate Frisbee so we're kinda tight 7-8/10</p>

<p>Jobs
USSF Certified 8 Referee 10-12</p>

<p>Other:
My parents are both from India. They're both doctors and make 200,000+ a year. I think the worst thing about my application is my grades.</p>

<p>Other schools I'm thinking about applying to:
UVA, UNC Chapel Hill, GA tech, Duke, WashU and Carnegie Mellon.</p>

<p>Thanks a ton!</p>

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<p>If you had 3.9+ 10-12 grade, you should be okay academically. Also, unless you didn’t say some stuff, I would view your EC’s as a laundry list with no real depth. I’d still say reach given the 8% acceptance rate.</p>

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<p>Your GPA might hurt you, but the fact that you’re indian and that 35 act score could really help.
Write amazing essays and you definitely have a chance</p>

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<p>“If you had 3.9+ 10-12 grade, you should be okay academically. Also, unless you didn’t say some stuff, I would view your EC’s as a laundry list with no real depth. I’d still say reach given the 8% acceptance rate.”</p>

<p>Thanks for responding! But do you think 5 years of robotics and 4 years volunteering at the same hospital and like 4 years of debate and 4 years of scholars bowl and SGA not enough depth? I’m not trying to sound mean or ******y just wondering!</p>

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<p>@scderek4, Indian counts as Asian. I don’t think it’d help too much at all. I’m gonna say reach, here, due to that class rank and UW GPA.</p>