chances please

<p>i would appreciate any help. my school sent one person to yale last year, other than that, it's mainly ou, osu, and lower echelon private schools. I'm just a junior, but i figure it doesn't hurt to plan ahead. some ecs will be projected to extend to my senior year.</p>

<p>location: enid, ok
School: public
Gender: male
Ethnicity: white
I plan on majoring in poli-sci or something similar</p>

<p>GPA: cumulative should be a little over 4.0, weighted, dragged down by ninth grade
SAT Scores
Critical Reading: 740
Math:690
Writing:690
1st attempt</p>

<p>ACT scores
English:35
Reading:34
Math:28 (have gotten 33 in the past, should be easily raised)
Science:28
Composite:31 (should easily get up into 33 range as long as i don't flub the math again)
2nd try</p>

<p>SAT IIs
About to take Literature and math 2. I sort of missed the boat on these because everything in ok is so act oriented and we have so few high achievers around here that i didn't really realize i needed to be taking these.</p>

<p>AP Scores:
Euro history-3 (highest score of anyone at my school last year, and only 2 others got it. we have a terrible teacher and hardly anyone ever passes)
Calc BC-taking this year, should easily be a five
Lit and comp- should be a four or five
physics- should be around a four, maybe five </p>

<p>Freshman Year
Enriched Biology-B (teacher did not like me, but i recieved higest grade on end of instruction, but can colleges see that?)
Contest speech-A
ok history/am govt (would have taken enriched, but did not fit in schedule)-A
yearbook staff-A
Enriched algebra 2-B
Enriched world literature-A</p>

<p>Sophmore Year
Enriched american literature-A
AP european history-A
Spanish-A
Enriched chemistry-A
precalculus-B
Astronomy 1 and 2-A</p>

<p>Junior Year
AP calc bc-A
AP physics-B (highest grade in class)
Spanish-A
AP lit and comp-A
Botany-A
Zoology-A</p>

<p>I have gone out of my way to take the hardest schedule offered, and have other high school level classes i took in 7th and 8th grade to boost my gpa later. I am in the top ten percent of my class.</p>

<p>I played football last year and would have this year but time did not permit. I ran cross country in ninth grade and have run track since ninth grade. I have not lettered yet but probably will this year in track. I am active in my church and help out during the service every week. I have gone on mission trips with my church to alabama, florida, and mexico. I have been in all the honor societies for as long as possible. I will probably be at least a merit semifinalist. I was on student council in 9th grade. I have a job at a local radio station and could get a glowing rec from my boss. I have done various other things during summers that can augment my application in a pinch. I plan on trying to be a page in dc over this summer. I have a whole year ahead to add to my ecs and academic resume, so if there are any suggestions for good things to do both extra curricular and schedule wise i would appreciate them.</p>

<p>I'm also thinking about penn, rice, northwestern, emory, wustl, etc.</p>

<p>From a person accepted with a 28 ACT and no stats at all near yours...</p>

<p>quit bragging. You'll get in. Just put effort into your essays and you'll be fine.</p>

<p>sorry. i've seen people start these threads with top class ranks and 35 acts. and my ec's seemed pretty weak to me.</p>

<p>I second Dannon...</p>

<p>UChicago does not accept based on numbers or a set formula. I've heard people (even people who go there) refute this...but I (and presumably, Dannon, and many others) are living proof of this. Focus on your essays and grades, you should be fine. Do some research into the school to make certain it's a fit for you, and then put a lot of energy into the essays.</p>

<p>thanks. i visited northwestern this fall and really enjoyed chicago but didn't have time to visit the u. i mainly started this to see how my ec's would hold up.</p>

<p>THIS according to a UChicago tourguide during my visit: </p>

<p>"NU is a mediocre trade school compared to Chicago"</p>

<p>OF course this isn't true!...</p>

<p>when i was up there i wasn't even really considering uchicago, but then evanston left me relatively unimpressed and chicago sent me some intriguing literature. i'm a sports junkie though, so nu and rice still have the edge cause of d1 sports programs ;)</p>

<p>To be honest, while I agree that Chicago does not put a great deal of emphasis on numbers, I still think that your lack of extarcurriculars might be detrimental to your app. On the other hand, Chicago really values essays, so make sure you do well on those.</p>

<p>you cant chance when it comes to chicago. Its just not possible</p>

<p>yeah uchicago's admissions process may be a little too subjective for these posts unless of course some genius comes up with a way to quantify creativity, curiousity, and determination. i wonder what the units would be called.</p>

<p>And then bottle it- sell it for BILLIONS! </p>

<p>Gray- you looking in on a business opportunity?</p>