<p>Only top applicants from my HS (Midwest) were accepted.</p>
<p>Over the years, almost all top applicants from my HS were waitlisted at Stanford (West Coast). I guess Stanford has Tuft Syndrome.</p>
<p>I say you are overqualified if won an IMO gold medal</p>
<p>I’m just wondering how my friend who submitted his Princeton “tell us about someone who has influenced you” essay for the required essay got in, while I wrote 7-8 drafts just for Chicago and got waitlisted, if fit is that important. Said friend had 2340 SAT and I had 34 ACT fyi. Could possibly be because I am from an overrepresented country.</p>
<p>@lullinatalk I know exactly what you mean about a friend recycling an essay for one of the required chicago essays. My friend did the same thing (was admitted EA a few months ago), and I was rejected while I put thought into mine exclusively for chicago. Meanwhile chicago was my ultimate first choice, while chicago was not her first choice at all, and she even told the interviewer that! But she is was number 1 or 2 in class, basically perfect SAT, and 4.0.</p>
<p>Telling the interviewer your list probably isn’t going to impact decisions in any way, unless you say something that makes the interviewer wonder why you even applied (e.g. “Chicago is 9/9 on my list, below all 8 Ivies”). I don’t think recycling an essay is necessarily a bad idea if the essay is written well, provided that the created prompt is an interesting and engaging one.</p>
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That doesn’t really tell us anything, since we have no idea whether the top applicants at your school really are better than those who got into Chicago. For example, at my school, one person has gotten likely letters from several Ivies already, even though many of us couldn’t imagine this same person at any of these schools.</p>
<p>I totally agree with dunbar, UChicago does not suffer from Tufts Syndrome. They’re looking for a specific type of person who does not always conform to the traditional “numbers game.” It’s a top quality school - just as good as MIT or any Ivy - that can have all the 4.0s and 2400s it wants. But it doesn’t necessarily want those - it cares about fit. A “lack of flowing passion” is in itself enough reason not to take someone - Chicago wants people who love the school, not who want to collect skins.</p>
<p>Chicago is #9 according to the college board. It is not a school to say that you were rejected is due to being overqualified. To say so is just a arrogant rationalization to protect your ego.</p>
<p>I have a 36/2400/#1 rank and I was accepted - I’m going. I don’t think UChicago has Tufts Syndrome. Class of 2015!!!</p>
<p>My essays were long and creative. I was waitlisted at Princeton and MIT and rejected by Stanford</p>
<p>Did you see this blog on the NY Times site about the student who was rejected from UChicago and Yale? But accepted at Princeton and Dartmouth.</p>
<p>An Agonizing Wait Prolonged by a Cellphone Internet Hookup - NYTimes.com</p>
<p>^ The Choice? She’s an international student from an underrepresented country asking for financial aid. UChicago is the only need-sensitive school out of the four. An entirely different pool from what most of the people here are. I also suspect her Mongolian nationality had something to do with her acceptance to Princeton and Dartmouth.</p>
<p>She’s from Denver. Does that make her foreign?</p>
<p>Are you talking about that Uyanga girl? I’ve been following The Choice all year, and she makes it plain that she is an international student from Mongolia. I go to high school in Georgia but my passport is from South Korea. Does that make me foreign?</p>
<p>She’s an international student from Mongolia going to school in the US, and is considered an international applicant for the purposes of determining financial aid.</p>
<p>If I were from Mongolia I would not go to school in Denver. But if I were from Denver I would go to school in Mongolia.</p>