<p>Truthfully I was almost expecting a rejection due to my sub-par GPA, but I guess it really shows that UChicago doesn't look solely on GPA and test scores. I think my essays and my ACT scores were the 2 main things that gave me a deferral as opposed to a rejection. But hopefully my first quarter grades will show them I can handle the course work.</p>
<p>me too.......i got defered..and Chicago is my top choice...</p>
<p>I got deferred. Man, it really was my top choice.
Whatever.</p>
<p>it sucked, but then i went to bed and now i'm over it. i'm just annoyed because i have absolutely no inspiration for my common app essay whatsoever. (i could submit my UChicago one, but i don't think it would work) oh well. i'm sure it will come to me somehow.</p>
<p>question: so i had a 1550/2230 in my SAT scores the first time around, and then i got a 1600/2400 in my SAT scores the second time, when i took it in November, which was too late for UChicago. since the college doesn't look at Writing scores, would it still be worth it to send that second score in?</p>
<p>Of course, send them in..try your best,.</p>
<p>Yeah, definitely send them in. Every little thing helps.</p>
<p>I was deferred, and looking through the "EA Class of 2012" thread, I personally think I am more qualified than some of the people who were accepted. Granted, there are MANY people who are just amazing and will get in anywhere, but I don't understand why people who seem borderline were accepted, when their credentials are no better than mine overall. I'm so puzzled!</p>
<p>I agree. One thing I'm thinking may have hurt me is that I wrote my Why Chicago essay the day the app was due... it was kinda rushed and didn't contain much in the way of specifics. I think that maybe this year they based the decision between acceptance and deferral on (among other factors, of course) the likelihood that the applicant would enroll, given the huge increase in EA apps and the fact that many of those apps are from people with their sights on Harvard and Princeton. Just a thought.</p>
<p>I think some Dean of Admissions from some really competitive school said that getting into college is a little like a crap shoot. One thing about college admissions I learned about, is not to care about anyone but yourself, at least in terms of who gets accepted. You haven't read the other person's application, so you will never know if they "deserved" or "earned" their acceptance.</p>
<p>I totally agree with Smirkus. The "profiles" tell a very small part of the story. Every person is different, every high school is different, every admissions officer is different. There's no way to stabilize all the variables of college admissions and draw a firm line between "qualified" and "unqualified."</p>
<p>There were a few surprises this year in my neck of the woods-- Chicago has traditionally accepted most, if not all of the applicants from my high school, provided that they have taken mostly honors courses and have done well in them. This year, a student who fits the profile of admitted students from my high school from the past few years, was deferred. Had he applied last year, he would have very likely been accepted.</p>
<p>That's a very fancy way of me saying that I think that a lot of deferred applicants are probably just as qualified as the admitted applicants. Again, though, the crapshoot. Not everybody who is qualified makes it in.</p>
<p>i got deferred and i'm very upset. my parents moved to the dominican republic last year without me because i really did not want to go. at the end of the year, i applied early to the university of chicago, but obviously didn't get in and now i have to wait another four months. i feel like i've been waiting my whole life. i had to move to the dominican republic this year because i no longer had a place to live in new jersey, but i've been having a really hard time and i just really wanted something good to happen. i wanted to not have to worry about colleges because i would be going to my dream school...</p>
<p>oh well...</p>
<p>made4uchicago,</p>
<p>I don't know that there's much I can say right now... but really it is going to get better. One of the dangers of striving for excellence is that your path will frequently be rocky ... as it is right now. It is hard, right now around the holidays - but you are not alone. Something good is going to happen. Could be Chicago, could be another fine school. </p>
<p>Once you feel more like yourself, please make sure that your school list is solid. Once you are sure of that, <em>then</em> work on reserving your deferral.</p>
<p>I got defered too..I am an intl applicant...
and made4uchicago, I really hope that u'll get what u want, don't lose hope~</p>
<p>It turns out that the one guy we sent to UChicago from my school last year was deferred EA too. So that makes me feel better. I'm gonna get in contact with him. I actually know the guy, too, but I don't think he knows me (he was an aide for my Honors Chem class, and he was in the cast of the musical when I was in the pit orchestra).</p>
<p>i got deferred, too. this sucks, because everyone else around me seems to be getting in to the colleges they applied to. ugh...i can't wait until april...</p>