<p>Does anyone have an idea of how likely an acceptance after a deferral is at Chicago?</p>
<p>I just got deferred and am super bummed out. Do I have any hope for an RD acceptance?</p>
<p>(basic stats: SAT:2230/1480, GPA 3.96, unique ECs with leadership (am an EMT with leadership positions, 1st trumpet, GS Gold Award), from a NJ public school, i THOUGHT my essays were great and all...)</p>
<p>I’m guessing around 10% of deferrals get accepted in rd</p>
<p><em>SIGH</em> Any tips for reversing a deferral?</p>
<p>any evidence?</p>
<p>I’d like to find out too. Because I hope I’m wrong by equating deferral with rejection, but really I can’t be sure. Maybe it was better to be rejected already.</p>
<p>SummerRepublic, I don’t know if it makes you feel any better, but my son (Chicago '12 and he loves it there) was accepted after deferral, with a 1470/2230/3.8+ (I don’t remember his exact GPA) from a northern NJ public school. So it does happen! Good luck.</p>
<p>I have similar feelings, but they must have saw something worthy in us to keep us around.</p>
<p>And please, may anyone confirm my suspicion that I was deferred because of my GPA:3.68 unweighted and weighted 3.93? My SAT scores were 740M/780CR/680W (1520 w/out writing).</p>
<p>nemoslolita: my school doesn’t weigh GPAs, but I have a 3.54 UW and by any given weighing scheme, +4.0 W, with 1570 (M+W) and my counselor says i’ve written some of the best essays he’s seen all year. He even used “never in my career…” in my rec. if anything got me deferred, it’s the GPA, perhaps the lack of conventional ECs.</p>
<p>I would like to see their justification for deferring so many students. I would prefer them not to defer many more applicants than they admit. My deferral just leaves me confused and dismayed, rather than hopeful. It seems to me that an unintended consequence of this “soft rejection” for many students is that the students who are more “seriously” deferred are just as down-beaten as the “quasi-rejects”, not capable of knowing which group they are even in!</p>
<p>Hey impero- 3.5 UWer high-five?!!</p>
<p>My counselor said it was one of the most interesting essays she has read in many years.
What are your EC’s, but I do not believe your EC’s could be too unconventional since UChicago seems to thrive on the weird (I’m asking this in the tone of an interested person not as a competitor)?</p>
<p>Sorry, my first sentence made me seem overly pretentious if you will excuse me.</p>
<p>I got deferred too… 34 ACT, 3.98 GPA, Decent ECs, I thought my essays were great… I don’t think I could have gotten any better recs, my teacher’s and councilor love me. I guess it just wasn’t meant to be… I definitely get the feeling that its a soft rejection…</p>
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No, no. It’s fine, as my counselor said much the same thing. I guess I really impressed him :)</p>
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<p>Most of my most significant ones are outside of school. For example, I spent a huge amount of time on piano/flute and acquired DipABRSM (according to wiki: These are professional qualifications, and entitle the recipient to append the letters after his or her name…) for piano performance. I also do calligraphy and wrote about it in my Find x essay. I moderate an internet forum, and I’m the only underage moderator. Beyond that, Principal Flute in symphony orchestra (played in Sydney Opera House), Socratic Club, officership in quiz team, and won Bronze in Manila. Not nearly as impressive as the acceptees, but I thought it was generally OK.</p>
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<p>High five! I think… I hope they’re 100% honest in their deferral letter, basically</p>
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<p>I mean, I’ve been faced with choices where I thought: alright. gonna put this decision off. Maybe they’re doing that, if what they say is true. Definitely some part of them wants to admit us, or else we’d have been axed.</p>
<p>Impero - I would have offered you a spot man. seriously, I mean it.</p>
<p>U chicago had over 50% more applicants this year then they had 2 years ago.</p>
<p>It sucks, but they can no longer afford to be a school that regularly takes chances on talented under-performers (and there are many of us!) who initially strayed off their path or had some bumps along the road. They just don’t have to! There are too many 3.9+ UWs. Maybe there is something to be said for “finding oneself” later in high school to be a character-building experience, but that’s basically all us smart-no-work-harders have going for us!</p>
<p>You should apply to Reed with me :D. Last year I got in with no extracurriculars (rescinded after legal trouble)…Reed is a school that is still taking chances.</p>
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<p>Oh duuude. I would have. It sounded like a truly excellent school. The reason i didn’t apply was… well… You know, it sounded like killer, academically and I got intimidated. But then what was I thinking. Chicago is prob the same. Too late now! But if I didn’t like wherever I go, Reed is definitely on the list. I’m doing St. John’s, Carleton, Williams and Macalester though. Any on your list? I don’t know what I’m thinking applying to Ivy Leagues and Chicago, but my counselor thinks I’m one of those “bad grade, with undeclared ADHD” kids who can actually get in and good GOD was I enamored with uChicago after spending a summer there. We’ll see. But as my english teacher says (he’s a professor), he blinks when he sees perfect grades, because that might mean grade grubbing LOL We’ll have cause to celebrate in March either way. Cheers. For winning at LIFE :)</p>
<p>Why is it too late for you to still apply? Is it a procedural thing at your school that all your apps have to be turned in by now?</p>
<p>and yeah, cheers <em>clink</em> for winning at life - although I’m still getting there!!! </p>
<p>I don’t think you are “undiagnosed ADD”. If you are like me, you probably just found a lot of classes pointless/boring. You probably don’t have trouble focusing on things you are passionate about, right? that’s my current goal: to find my passion. anyway, we are really derailing this thread. best of luck to you</p>
<p>Sorry, but I will slightly derail the thread even further.
I am nostalgic for the days of the past that I never knew when underachievers who are passionate about academics yet do not do perfectly in every class are admitted in to UChicago.
And personally, Impero, I think your Extra Curriculars are awe-inspiring and I like DoinSchool would have admitted you without hesitation. Would Socratic club be a debate/philosophy club?
How did you come to spend a summer at UChicago? And did you check out B-Level’s Men’s Room? I heard the stall’s walls flow in philosophical word play.
DoinSchool do you attend Uchicago at this moment?</p>
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<p>What?! How did this get out? The B-Level’s Men’s Room has the worst graffiti in the entire school (it’s cute, but also terrible). You can find better graffiti on the walls in the Regenstein bookstacks.</p>
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<p>No, I was deferred. I am on a gap year</p>
<p>Ok some of the puns are noteworthy, but you are right that the Reg(? May I allowed to call it that) has more interesting graffitti, despite the fact it may be sometimes more interesting to ponder than the homework on hand.</p>
<p>I found out about the B-Level bathroom through a blog now a book</p>