<p>Hi guys. I want to apply to early action to UChicago, and I completed my ACTs yesterday. How am I supposed to submit my application by the November 1st deadline if my scores won't be in for 5-8 weeks? </p>
<p>Can someone explain this to me? I'd hate to miss the deadline.</p>
<p>Is this the first time you take the tests?</p>
<p>No, but I want to send my latest ACT score. I’m an older student, so I had take it again. The early application says “while we would of course like to receive your scores before the appropriate deadline, for the Early Action deadline, we will accept November SAT scores and October ACT scores.”</p>
<p>Can I apply and then wait for the scores to be sent to UChicago? Did they mean I had to take the test in August and the scores that arrive 8 weeks later (i.e. October) are the scores they mention?</p>
<p>UChicago is my only college choice, so I think missing the early action deadline will hurt my chances.</p>
<p>The October ACT is allowable as they state. Wow. Your only choice?! I think you should look at more schools. It is hard to get in!</p>
<p>I agree, it’s going to be extremely tough to get in, but if I don’t get into this school I’m likely going to pursue entrepreneurship and start my own business of selling my writing (novels and things), so that’s my current plan.</p>
<p>Why does it have to be EA? All you can do after you apply is wait. Let’s say they don’t accept you EA and you are deferred to RA, why not continue to pursue your business plans regardless of being admitted?</p>
<p>Without a major amount of aid, there’s no way I’ll ever be able to attend UChicago if I were to get in. I’m under the assumption that a lot of the aid is given out to early applicants because there’s only so much money the school can give out, and once it’s gone, it’s gone.</p>
<p>No to mention that four years at a school like UChicago will offer me a wealth of experiences that will only serve to enhance my prospective writing career. It’s an institution rich with opportunities and resources.</p>
<p>I’m a UChicago student, but I highly recommend you apply to other schools as well. There is no guarantee as to your admission and there are many others schools that can offer you rich opportunities and resources.</p>
<p>The OP’s thinking is screwed up in a number of ways, but the one most easily corrected is the OP’s incorrect assumption about aid. While it is true that a number of colleges give out aid essentially on a first-come, first-served basis, that’s not even remotely the case at Chicago (or indeed any of the top private universities). If you are an American citizen or permanent resident – and that’s an important “if”, because it doesn’t work this way for international applicants – the university will offer you a financial aid package that meets 100% of your “need” (as they, not you, calculate it), whether you are accepted EA in December or taken off the waitlist in June. There’s really no difference based on when you are accepted. They also offer merit scholarships of varying amounts that are not based on “need”, and those are carefully doled out between people accepted in the early and regular rounds, mostly to people who don’t otherwise qualify for need-based aid.</p>
<p>The most common result of an early application is getting deferred until the regular round. If that happens to the OP, he or she should not assume it means that there won’t be any financial aid. On the other hand, the OP should clearly do some research to figure out what a 100% need package will look like in the OP’s circumstances, so he or she can figure out whether that will be do-able.</p>
<p>JHS is right. If you want to know how the AdCom works take a look at this:</p>
<p>[Inside</a> The Admissions Game - Newsweek and The Daily Beast](<a href=“http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/1999/04/04/inside-the-admissions-game.html]Inside”>http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/1999/04/04/inside-the-admissions-game.html)</p>
<p>Which means if you are a candidate that they want you’ll be accepted and then you’ll get the FA they decide you need according to your circumstances.</p>