<p>Andy</p>
<p>Show them you really want to be there via email and or a call, perhaps another recommendation letter, as well as your midyear grades. You may want to search last year's RD results threads, there were students deferred or wait-listed that described what they did to ultimately get accepted.</p>
<p>Congrats! Just curious.. did you get a big envelope with your acceptance letter? I've heard mixed rumors about letters at U of Chcago. I am still anxiously watching my mail box...</p>
<p>I was deferred last year and eventually accepted RD...I emailed my admissions officer once or twice in Jan/Feb to express continued interest, and I also sent a new recommendation from a professor I had that semester...it also helped that my grades had improved.</p>
<p>I plan on scheduling an overnight stay, and my mid year grades are looking decent. Should pull 2 A's and 2 B's in my AP classes and then very A's in two of my social studies electives.</p>
<p>Do you think it would be better for me to send in another rec, that I just recieved from my English teacher last year?</p>
<p>can we keep to this a results thread only guys?</p>
<p>Bill: Accepted!</p>
<p>3.6 GPA/27 ACT/****ing really good essays</p>
<p>why don't we use this.. fill in the info and remove the brackets to make a nice little post! congrats to all who got accepted :D</p>
<p>[ size=+1][ color=blue][ b]Decision: [ /b][ /color][ /size]</p>
<p>[ b]Stats:[ /b][ list]
[ *] SAT:
[ *] SAT IIs:
[ *] GPA:
[ *] Rank:
[ *] Other stats:
[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] Essays:
[ *] Teacher Recs:
[ *] Counselor Rec:
[ *] Hook (if any):
[ /list][ b]Location/Person:[ /b][ list]
[ *] State or Country:
[ *] School Type:
[ *] Ethnicity:
[ *] Gender:
[ /list][ b]Other Factors:[ /b]
[ b]General Comments:[ /b]</p>
<p>Decision: ACCEPTED!</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[ *] SAT: Didn't take, my ACT was a 35
[ *] SAT IIs: Math IIC-800, Chem-790, US History-750
[ *] GPA: 4.66
[ *] Rank: 23/530 (4%) ... competitive high school
[ *] Other stats: All As in honors/APs except freshman year</p>
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[ *] Essays: very good
[ *] Teacher Recs: very good
[ *] Counselor Rec: very good
[ *] Hook (if any): none</p>
<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[ *] State or Country: IL
[ *] School Type: Suburban, competitive
[ *] Ethnicity: White
[ *] Sex: Female</p>
<p>[/ul]Other Factors:
General Comments: Happy as all hell!</p>
<p>as you should be. your stats show you deserved it!</p>
<p>*Decision: ACCEPTED *</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 1260, I really didn't care about this at all.
[</em>] SAT IIs: n/a
[<em>] GPA: idk exactly. They made a mistake when they sent it in for me and said 3.3 some weighted, but it's more like 3.5-3.6 weighted.
[</em>] Rank: See above.
[<em>] Other stats:
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: Amazing. People consider them as good or better than the essays from a kid from our school who went to Harvard last year, who won many national writing awards and was a nat'l champion in debate. I am very proud of my essays.
[<em>] Teacher Recs: Great. They didn't tell me what they said, but both were great writers and like me quite a bit. I am sure they wrote good things.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Okay/Good. He is also my track coach and my best friend's dad. He wrote good words, but nothing amazing.
[<em>] Hook (if any): Recruited Athlete (see Other Factors as well)
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: PA, USA
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: White
[li] Gender: Male[/li][/ul]Other Factors: AFS Foreign Exchange program for 6 months // Extenuating circumstances affecting GPA (parental death)
General Comments: I AM SOOO HAPPY. The portfolio type thing it comes in is BEAUTIFUL.</p>
<p>In!
2130
1/770
760 680
Lots of class leadership and interests</p>
<p>anyone south of tennessee receive their decision?</p>
<p>Decision: ACCEPTED</p>
<p>ACT: 35
GPA: not sure...4.41 ish?
Rank: Officially unranked, but I'm top 5 out of 450.
Other stats: 5s on the three AP exams I've taken: Biology, World History, US Histiry</p>
<p>Essays: VERY awesome. My u of chicago essay is the one I'm the most proud of, no doubt.
Teacher Recs: OK to good...nothing special.
Counselor Rec: Good
Hook (if any):</p>
<p>State or Country: Chicago, Illinois
School Type: Private, catholic, liberal arts
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Gender: Female</p>
<p>Other Factors:
Decent extracurriculars, including leadership in my primary interest, band. V. solid academic record--straight As up until this year. All As and two Bs this year.</p>
<p>General Comments:
VERY excited! Don't know if I'm going to attend yet but it feels so good to get the first acceptance letter.</p>
<p>Deferred</p>
<p>33 ACT
7/450
confused...</p>
<p>Decision: ACCEPTED!!!</p>
<p>Stats:
[ul]SAT: 2210...my ACT is 34, which is probably better[/ul]
[ul]SAT IIs: MathIIc, 760; Chem, 760; Latin, 640[/ul]
[ul]GPA: 3.94ish[/ul]
[ul]Rank: school doesn't rank[/ul]
Subjective:
[ul]Essays: pretty good , and very unique[/ul]
[ul]Teacher Recs: i honestly have no idea, but apparently they weren't bad[/ul]
[ul]Counselor Rec: probably really good[/ul]
[ul]Hook (if any): i dont know, although i did show lots of interest in the school and visited multiple times[/ul]
Location/Person:
[ul]State or Country: Michigan[/ul]
[ul]School Type: public, suburban, very competitive[/ul]
[ul]Ethnicity: caucasian[/ul]
[ul]Gender: female[/ul]
Other Factors: I had the drama director at my school send in a suppl. rec...
General Comments: YAY!!!!!</p>
<p>congrats guys im green with envy and nervous out of my mind...</p>
<p>Congrats all!!! :)</p>
<p>Decision: Deferred</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 740CR/690M/750W
[</em>] SAT IIs: French: 700, Lit: 720, Math IC: 690
[<em>] GPA: 4.21W/3.88UW
[</em>] Rank: second decile
[<em>] Other stats:
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: I thought they were really good?
[<em>] Teacher Recs: good I guess? I had my music teacher send in a supplemental one.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: good I hope?
[<em>] Hook (if any): none
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: Pittsburgh, PA
[<em>] School Type: public/fairly competitive
[</em>] Ethnicity: white
[li] Gender: female[/li][/ul]Other Factors:
I don't know?
General Comments: Oh well. At least I didn't get rejected?</p>
<p>HTML doesn't work for me, but I'll fill this out as well.</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Stats:
[ *] SAT: -
[ *] SAT IIs: -
[ *] ACT: 31
[ *] GPA: 4.29W; 3.91 UW
[ *] Rank: 3/~200
[ *] Other stats: AP US as a junior: 5 on test; 3 more as a senior</p>
<p>Subjective:
[ *] Essays: my best feature, IMO
[ *] Teacher Recs: great
[ *] Counselor Rec: also great
[ *] Hook (if any): The interview went better than I thought it would. It undoubtedly helped out a great deal.</p>
<p>Location/Person:
[ *] State or Country: Illinois (Elmwood Park)
[ *] School Type: Public...NOT a good reputation, by any means
[ *] Ethnicity: Polish
[ *] Gender: Male</p>
<p>Other Factors:
General Comments:..I'd say that my background as a Polish immigrant definitely had some implication on my acceptance.</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 2250, ACT: 36
[</em>] SAT IIs: Hadn't taken them in time for this app.
[<em>] GPA: 5.27/5.0
[</em>] Rank: 1/~350
[<em>] Other stats: AP Psych - 5, 3 APs this year
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: Pretty good - but I wrote them all in one night...
[<em>] Teacher Recs: Should've been great.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Great.
[<em>] Hook (if any): Pretty sure I don't have one outstanding "hook".
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: Normal, Illinois
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Caucasian
[li] Gender: Female[/li][/ul]Other Factors:
Good extracurriculars, state level in speech, math, and choir. Involved in theater and dance, founded a book club. Sent in drama and vocal supplementals. Taking AP Calculus correspondence right now.</p>
<p>General Comments:
I have a really pretty folder with even prettier words inside...</p>