Chances???

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Any insight would be greatly appreciated.. just finished my junior year and this summer im heading to boston universities summer program. I live in NC so obviously with the price of unc is very appealing. im also interested in Uchicago. I want to major in Molecular biology, astronomy, or chemistry not to sure yet. what wouldnt be too far of a longshot thats still pretty top tier?</p>

<p>White male
North Carolina
ACT:32
SAT: math 690 (1330/1910) took the sat begging of this school year so<br>
reading 640 hopefully it will improve
writing 580
Gpa 4.9 wieghted 3.95 unwieghted
rank 6/400
AP's junior year- Chemistry Statistics English (havnt gotten scores back yet)
By the end of next year i will have Calc 2 and 3, ap physics, ap lit, and a college astronomy
EC's</p>

<p>Vice president of science olympiad
Key club
National honor society
Marching Band Concert band Percussion ensemble (only fresman year)
Bowling team
Spanish club, Spanish honors society
played drums almost every sunday in church band
student ambassador (people to people)
School of global studies (highschools specialty program thing)
150+ hours volunteer random places
100+ hours chemistry tutoring
helped with organization of food drives
Architectural engineering society
Academy of scholars (state supported program)
National Academy of high school scholars
American red cross junior society</p>

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<p>Well I'll have to be quite frank with you, the University of Chicago is largely driven by essays in the application process. Your writing score on the SAT is very low and this may or may not show that you aren't the strongest writer. Any hopes at U chicago I would suggest you get a 700 plus on your writing section</p>

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<p>Doesn't even matter about your SAT you got a 32 on your ACT which schismmanifesto fails to see. The fact you got a 32 is ~ to a 2130 and the fact you have a 3.95 gives you a math for Chicago, just write good essays.</p>

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<p>thank you both for replying. i doo see how my sat is a little low but i took it a while ago and im farly confident ill do better. time will tell. thank you both again for your help</p>

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<p>If you want to take the SAT, then that's fine, but with that ACT score, I honestly wouldn't bother. Your score is already in the 99 percentile. On the University of California concordance scale, it equates to a 2160-2210 or a 1440-1470 (w/o writing). That is a great score. As people have said above, just write good essays, and you will have a very good chance of getting in.</p>

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I would definitely bother to re-take the SAT. A score of1470 reading/math puts you barely in the 25th percentile of students accepted at UC. The average there would be about 1500.

From what I’ve read, test scores count very heavily at this particular school.