Chicago is my new first choice...chance me?

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<p>Cumative GPA W: 4.04</p>

<p>General Info
School Type: Public, academy program for students interested in Health Sciences
Location: Virginia
Size: 2000 students total, 100 per year in Academy program, senior class of 405 total
Gender: female
Year: senior
Ethnicity: white</p>

<p>Academic Stuff
Class Rank: 8/405
Weighted GPA: 4.04</p>

<p>Schedules:</p>

<p>Freshman:
Honors Bio
Honors English
Honors World History
Intro. to Health Occupations
Health/PE
German III
Algebra II/Trig</p>

<p>Sophomore:
Honors Chem.
Honors English
AP European History (5 on exam)
Academy Honors Human Anatomy
Health/PE
German IV
Math Analysis (precalc)
Academy Forensic Medicine</p>

<p>Junior:
AP Calc AB
AP English Language & Comp.
AP Psychology
AP Biology
AP US History
Physiology/Pathophysiology I
Dual Enrollment Emergency Medical Tech.</p>

<p>Senior:
AP Government
AP English Lit.
AP Statistics
Academy Honors Physics
Physiology/Pathophysiology II
Scientific Research and Writing
Medical Microbiology/Hereditary Medicine
Keyboarding/Desktop Publishing</p>

<p>Tests
PSAT: 1330 (on 1600 scale), 2140 total, national merit commended
SAT:
verbal: 800
math: 680
writing: 710
essay: 10
Sat 2: taking biology, math 1, literature this weekend
ACT: taking Oct. 28
retaking the SAT Nov. 4 to improve my math score.</p>

<p>ECs- 4 years on scholastic bowl team, 2 as varsity captain. joined the debate team this year and love it. Medical Honor Society and National Honor Society member. Presentation coordinator for school recruitment/information/orientation nights. Junior Prom committee last year. I'm on the city's Mayor's Youth Council and attended by invitation a meeting with the Governor on the state of high school education.</p>

<p>Work Experience: I have 200 or so hours volunteer work teaching horseback riding to elementary school aged children (including 100 with mentally handicapped kids) and now do so for pay (6-8 hours/week). I'm a camp counselor/barn manager during the summer. I've broken & started training several horses for pay.</p>

<p>Summer Stuff: Last summer I attended the Governor's Foreign Language Academy for German Immersion</p>

<p>I hope to major in biology with a concentration on neuroscience or neurobiology.
I have two amazing teachers writing me really good recs. and my essay should be pretty excellent :)</p>

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<p>Apply EA if you can, write good essays, and everything should work out fine.</p>

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<p>I am planning to apply early action. Chicago's EA is nonrestrictive, right?
Thanks for the input idad :)
And also, does anyone know what type of merit aid (if any) I could expect? My family is in a horrible grey area where we make plenty of money...too much for a lot of financial aid, but not enough to afford Chicago (or anything but state school, really)</p>

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<p>you should take math 2 instead of math 1</p>

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<p>On chance threads, everyone needs to stop putting such highly detailed ECs and writing out their whole schedule. Just say "hardest courseload" and be done with it. No one reads those huge posts anyway. But to actually address the topic, you are probably good, but the decision likely hinges on the essays.</p>

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<p>Uh oh... looks like I have some Virginia competition... good luck!</p>

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<p>motpasm, I forgot to change that...I'm switching to math II. Thanks!</p>

<p>Drummerdude, I don't post here often, but I followed a form posted by another user suggesting that all chance threads be formatted this way. Sorry.</p>

<p>threnody, good luck to you, too!</p>

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<p>Can you retake your SATs?
If you can, and can score 710+ on math, you have a good chance.</p>

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<p>I'm retaking Nov. 4th. If I send my scores at the time I take test, they will still consider them if I'm applying EA, right?</p>

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<p>The last scores that they will accept (for EA) are the ones from towmorrow's SATs.</p>

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<p>even if I put Chicago as one of my schools when I registered for the Nov. 4th test?
Weird, most schools would take that.</p>

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<p>You will get in with good essay.</p>

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<p>thanks data :)</p>

<p>question about making up your own prompt:
I have a good idea of what I want my essay to be. Now I have to make up a prompt that asks a question that my essay answers. Did I go about that wrong? Does the question have to be one that someone else could just as easily respond to?</p>

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<p>I would make it something that other people could respond to, and also something at least equally outlandish as the ones they have. And I consider this year's topics mild to some of the ones I've heard about in the past.</p>