<p>Hello everyone! I plan on applying ED and here are my stats...</p>
<p>Florida resident
Cuban Male</p>
<p>ACADEMICS
3.4 unweighted gpa 3.99 weighted (low because freshman year avg gpa 2.9, sophmore-junior year consecutive 3.66)
SAT(taken once) 670 reading 600 math 610 writing
ACT(taken twice,one just last weekend) composite-30
Top 10%
Junior year APs-AP Bio /Ap Eng language/ Ap US History
Senior year schedule- AP English Literature, AP Macro/Microeconomis, AP Psychology, AP Spanish Language, AP Enivronmental Science, AP Government and politics, AP Calculus AB</p>
<p>EXTRACURRICULARS
nhs (11th-12th) Vice president(senior year) (tutoring students)
Spanish Honor Society(10th-12th) state competion team
FBLA(10th only, sponor left) President(organized county wide Relay for life)
JSA Debate team(12th) founder/ President (organizing school debates)
Academic Team(11th-12th)
Student Mentor(11th-12th)-50hrs
Florida Blood Services (10th-12th) 100hrs
Teen court volunteer(11th-12th) 100hrs
Volunteer work at local attorney office(9th-12th)Summers(100hrs)
Job at Tropicana Field(11th-12th) EVERY GAME!!! crazy 8hr days</p>
<p>AWARDS
County recognized top student mentor(one among others)11th
State runner-up Hydrogen car race(construced a small model car that runs off of water)
Honor Roll(9th(2ndsemester)-12th)
Deans List(10th-12th) During grading periods not semesters
Lifeguard Certification(9th grade)</p>
<p>Sports
Soccer(9th-12th) Captain Senior Year
Baseball(9th-10th)
Tennis(11th-12th)</p>
<p>Jordanmisa has no intention of applying EA (or ED if he’d like to think so) to Chicago. If you look at his post history, he copied and pasted this post in multiple forums including Tulane and Vanderbilt. He has no genuine desire in the UofC, it is just another school on his list… at least according to his behavior.</p>
<p>or maybe it is that i dont have an interest in vanderbilt and purdue but instead chicago?
so the problem is? if i wanted to know my intentions i would have ask myself, thanks though
anyone have some positive feedback?</p>
<p>1870 SAT kinda hurts…but they’ll take the 30 which is a bit better at the equivalent SAT scores of like 1920ish?
2.9 GPA Freshman year? That’s like a C average right? </p>
<p>Anyway, a 3.4 overall kinda hurts.</p>
<p>ECs look good. Course rigor = good</p>
<p>At Chicago, grades and test scores aren’t valued as high as the essays. If your essays are just sensational and mind-blowing, you will have a good chance of getting in, but they have to be phenomenal. There’s people with 4.0’s, 2200+'s that get rejected because they write awfully and display themselves as boring individuals. </p>
<p>Also, playing the race card in your case won’t help you that much. Yes you are Hispanic, but you aren’t that competitive compared with other URMs with better statistics.</p>
<p>But, Good Luck, and apply by November 1st for EA</p>
<p>I was just making the comment that your actions don’t result in me thinking you are very interested in Chicago. For all I know, it could be your #1, and if it is, I apologize. But you must know that it is EA, not ED. </p>
<p>Just like the people above said, your GPA is quite low, however you say you’re top 10%, so maybe your school just has a severe lack of grade inflation. I dunno. Your SAT is… not very good. You will need to bring that up, or submit the ACT which is also not stellar. It’s good, but not outstanding (the middle 50% ACT score for the class of 2013 was 29-34). So you’re in that range, but not the upper half. As well, your EC’s are fabulous (but I have to say that the Red Sox > Rays). </p>
<p>But it all boils down to your essays. Looking at your stats, I’d say you’re going to need mind-blowing essays. But you never know. What I’m saying is you’ve got a shot, but it’s a long one (currently).</p>
<p>I’ll pop my head in here one last time to teasingly argue with Neo :p</p>
<p>I looove the Rays! Never watch the sox, so I can’t say anything bad about them. But my obsession with Chicago has led me to love the Cubs the most :3</p>
<p>Anyways, onto the topic at hand! <em>Charges into battle</em> O.o</p>
<p>It’s really going to be based on the Essays mostly. To be honest, stats are quite worthless in predicting chances. Your SAT is low, but not much lower than mine (I got 1970) and your ACT is higher than mine (I got 29), and you’re taking the same number of APs as I am. I think…or atleast I like to make myself believe…that I have a good chance of getting accepted. I base this belief upon the fact that I visited campus, interviewed and that I am a pretty good writer.</p>
<p>But really all this stuff that you’re saying tells us nothing about you. I dislike laundry lists. What are your passions? Your dreams? Your ambitions? What makes you YOU?</p>
<p>That’s what I think most colleges want to know about applicants —^
…Not what award they got, or how many aps they’re taking or how high their SAT/ACT score is…</p>
<p>^^True arg, Litlhurry, true arg… but I still love the Sox, it pumps through my veins :P</p>
<p>And yes, stats are not the focal point of the application. It is definitely the essays, but the transcript comes in a very close second. If your grades are terrible (and I’m not saying yours are, this is all hypothetical) then the best essays in the world might not do you any good. You first and foremost have to show the university that you can handle the work and that they are not wasting a spot on you. And the primary way to do that is with the transcript.</p>
<p>thank you for the replies
i just received an email invitation from UChicago to their admissions open house and i plan on attending. I have a friend, locally, that applied to uchicago last year and got in with a 4.2 weighted gpa 3.6 unweighted and a 32 act( he is cuban american like me) but most of you have touched on Uchicago not putting a lot of emphasis on racial status. So my question now is…
if i get my act a 32+ and write stellar essays, i have a shot/good shot?
also, for some perspective,i got a perfect score on my essay section of the act so…that possibly reflects my ability to write amazing essays</p>
<p>Concerning my interests and passions, I find myself craving the highest options available to produce the best opportunities. Politics and law are the subjects that intrigue me the most and I wish to pursue a career in these fields. To be honest, George Washington University has captured my interest the most, with UChicago following closely. Sadly, the importance of education was never a subject of my interests until 10th grade. But I, and hopefully the admissions officers, see the change in my commitment to pursue a higher education.</p>
<p>UChicago doesn’t look at the writing score from your ACT. They feel that they can judge your writing ability better using their 4-5 essays than some dude reading each ACT essay in 45 seconds. The ability to write a good ACT essay doesn’t make you a good writer. It makes you good at writing ACT essays, which don’t need to be eloquent or inspiring to be good.</p>
<p>The best advice I could give you is to learn more about the school first. Little things like knowing that UofC has EA and doesn’t have a Business Major and that they don’t take the writing portion of the SAT or ACT is important to know. </p>
<p>I think most schools want students who want to go to them. I know I’m dying to go to UofC, so I stalk these boards and I’ve learned so much more on a personal level about the school, but I still know all the facts and the basics. </p>
<p>So really, if you want to go to UofC, learn more about it first.</p>
<p>^^ uhh… YEAH it does.
a) Hispanics are URMs
b) Cubans are a sect of Hispanics.
c) By the transitive property, Cubans are a URM, meaning it helps them in admissions.<br>
d) Most Cuban-Americans have terribly interesting, thrilling, and tumultuous stories about how they escaped Communism to reach the land of the free and the home of the brave… meaning they were born into interesting circumstances… giving them great material for essays.</p>
<p>let me be really unhelpful and laugh at the title of this thread: haha. ha. ha. </p>
<p>unfortunately, I think when you apply (if you don’t send all your schools the same app/essays), you will stand a very good chance at uchicago and probably everywhere else. Such is the advantage of URM’s.</p>
<p>Today’s URMs are not the ones from 10-15 years ago. Academically you underestimate URMs in general and the ones from Miami specifically, at your own risk.</p>