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<p>~ATTENTION: In addition to the above data, please post your favorite sentence from your UChicago essay. If you want to give more information about your essay, such as which prompt you responded to and your specific topic, please do.~</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 2180
[</em>] SAT IIs: 800 M2, 760 Chem
[<em>] GPA: 3.75+ Un, 4.6+ Weight
[</em>] Rank: NA
[<em>] Other stats: 8 APs all 5s, Full IB, ACT 34
[/ul][ b]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: Last minute junk--stayed up till 12 AM Baker Island time to get it done and submitted at the very last minute.<br>
[<em>] Teacher Recs: aight
[</em>] Counselor Rec: doggone pimpin
[<em>] Hook (if any): research @ NIH
[/ul][ b]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: MD
[<em>] School Type:Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Azn
[li] Gender: Male[/li][/ul][ b]Other Factors:** General Comments: Word</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: Didn't take, took ACT. My best was a 27.
[</em>] SAT IIs: See SAT.
[<em>] GPA: 5.0 on a 5.0 scale, 4.0 on a 4.0 scale.
[</em>] Rank: 33 out of 535 or 525.
[<em>] Other stats:
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: I chose the fifth option and made my own prompt which asked me to define myself and the traits and qualities that make me who I am. My essay was very family-centered.
[<em>] Teacher Recs: Well, since I got accepted (Yay!!), I'm pretty sure they were good.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: I was pretty sure my counselor rec. was going to be good, and I'm sure it was because I got accepted (yay!).
[<em>] Hook (if any): No, not really.
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: Illinois/Chicagoland
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Mixed (Black/Puerto Rican)
[li] Gender: male[/li][/ul]Other Factors: General Comments: Did I say yay yet? Yay! Also, congrats to everyone who was accepted, good luck on those still waiting for a decision, and have a great day everyone!</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 2170 (700M/800CR/670W)
[</em>] SAT IIs: 800 Bio E / 780 Lit / 730 Math IIC / 730 Physics
[<em>] GPA: 101.5 or so weighted? (We don't operate on a 4.0 scale and I'm too lazy at the moment to find a conversion tool...)
[</em>] Rank: 1/85ish
[<em>] Other stats: My school has no APs, so in lieu of those, I've taken classes at my local colleges and one at UChicago itself. In total, I've amassed about 36 credit hours with a 4.0.
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: The two shorter prompts were okay, but I'm very pleased with the extended one. I chose topic #2 and wrote about an Ecuadorian village that I had the incredible luck to live in two summers ago while I built a school there.<br>
[<em>] Sample Line: The village sits atop one of the area’s higher hills, so when one looks beyond the slopes of sugar cane and palms, all one can see are the surrounding hills and mountains appearing like green islands in a sea of grey clouds.<br>
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Should have been very good-- I have a very close relationship with two out of the three teachers I had write them. (Er, obviously sent a supp rec, too...)
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Likewise-- we know each other very well, both in school and out of school.
[</em>] Hook (if any): None, really.
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: upstate NY (think very north, on Lake Ontario)
[</em>] School Type: exceptionally tiny, very poor, rural public
[<em>] Ethnicity: white
[</em>] Gender: female
[/ul]Other Factors: General Comments: I am soooooo happy!! I haven't been able to sleep well for the past week or so.</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 800 M 770 V
[</em>] SAT IIs: Chicago doesn't require but...
800 Math II
760 US History
740 Physics
[<em>] GPA: 96.5 UW 103.3 W
[</em>] Rank: 3/750ish
[<em>] Other stats: AP: Stat 5 Calc AB 5 USHistory 5 Microecon (self study) 5 Macroecon (self study) 4
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: Math Essay (#4)</p>
<p>I did the Why Chicago essay as a parody to Kokomo by the beach boys:</p>
<p>"A maroon maybe soon, I hope to learn
From the Core, and there’s more that’ll be in store
Embryo, I will grow, soothe my need to know"</p>
<p>[<em>] Teacher Recs: Um 3 great ones all explaining different aspects about me
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Another Great one, I had an independent study program in econ that is going to get made into a class.
[<em>] Hook (if any): Student Council President, Theater, Male Beauty Pagent Winner
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: Jersey
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: WASP but an Atheist
[li] Gender: Male[/li][/ul]Other Factors: My essays kicked a whole lot of ass. My name was in the Maroon for the admission article. I visited and showed a lot of interest.
No interview. General Comments: Feels pretty good after getting deferred from MIT. Now, I'm just hoping for Merit Money. Congrats to everyone that got in!</p>
<p>Stats:
SAT: Didn't submit
ACT: 31
GPA: 3.9 UW
Rank: good enough
Other stats: AP: US His 5, Gov 4 Calc</p>
<p>Subjective:
Essays: Helad Essay (#2?)</p>
<p>Teacher Recs: 3 great ones, rec from a senator<br>
Counselor Rec: Another Great one, I had an independent study program in women's his and women's lit
Hook (if any): Music stuff, maybe family probs, good relation with college couns
Location/Person:
State or Country: MO
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Gender: F
Other Factors: Essays were pretty good, spent a lot of time on them...kept in touch w/ my admissions rep, talked to my college couns a lot, over all I just really wanted to come here, can't wait to see who else got in...extremely excited!!! YES!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 2180 (CR:690; M: 790; W: 700)
[</em>] SAT IIs: 770 MII, 730 Chem
[<em>] GPA: 3.94 UW; 5.0 W
[</em>] Rank: n/a
[<em>] Other stats: 6 AP exams: 4 5s and 2 4s
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: My two short ones kinda sucked, I thought, but I liked my long one (mad hatter essay, stream of consciousness about inviting God to brunch)
[<em>] Teacher Recs: Good I guess, the people from UNC-CH told me that one of them said I was a curve breaker
[</em>] Counselor Rec: I guess it was good
[<em>] Hook (if any): female chemist?
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: NC
[<em>] School Type: public (charter)
[</em>] Ethnicity: whitish (don't think I indicated, 'cause I dont' really know how to, I'm 3/8 Asian)
[li] Gender: female[/li][/ul]Other Factors: General Comments: I'M SO FRICKIN HAPPY. Except I haven't visited yet, so I'm not sure that's where I'll end up.</p>
<p>And I had no interview.</p>
<p>Favorite sentence from my essay?
I don’t really know what a crumpet is, but I heard they go nicely with tea, and why would God have created them if he didn’t personally like them?</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: Math: 800 CR: 750 Writing: 790 TOTAL: 2350
[</em>] SAT IIs: Math IIC: 800 Physics: 750 Chemistry: 790
[<em>] GPA: 3.7 UW
[</em>] Rank: N/A
[<em>] Other stats:
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: Cartesian Coordinates, I loved it!
[<em>] Teacher Recs: Chem and English teacher, didn't read them
[</em>] Counselor Rec: didn't read
[<em>] Hook (if any): good EC's, 4th place in NE piano competition, general well-roundedness with a focus on music and medicine
[/ul][ b]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: Massachusetts
[<em>] School Type: Private, very competitive
[</em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[li] Gender: Female[/li][/ul][ b]Other Factors: I had a good talk with my regional director when he visited my school. General Comments: relieved to get into such a great school, but i'm still shooting for Brown</p>
<p>Favorite line from essay: "Faced with the first quadrant adventures of a new cycle, I am prepared to expand my interests in all dimensions, grow exponentially from my point of origin, and reflect my perspective over both horizontal and vertical axes. "</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 2280 (800M, 740R, 740W)
[</em>] SAT IIs: 800 Math II, 730 Chem, 730 US Hist
[<em>] GPA: 4.0 unweighted/5.14 weighted
[</em>] Rank: 1 out of 1152
[<em>] Other stats: 40+ math awards
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: Good, apparently? I did the Cartesian one using the hyperbolic cosine function
[<em>] Teacher Recs: Math great, English good but somewhat generic
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Good
[<em>] Hook (if any): Ask the adcoms
[</em>] Phrase from essay: "Even other hyperbolic functions do not successfully create this mapping to the fullest. For example, the hyperbolic sine function, sinh(x), is defined as both isin(ix) and (e^x - e^-x)/2; while it also creates a mapping between the imaginary and the real, sinh(x) is negative for x < 0—that is, on half of its entire domain! "
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: Florida
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: Indian
[</em>] Gender: Male
[/ul]Other Factors: I dunno. General Comments: Awesome!</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 760 M, 760 CR
[</em>] SAT IIs: 710 Bio [freshman year, heh]
[<em>] GPA: 4something? I don't know
[</em>] Rank: top 10? my school doesn't let us know.
[li] Other stats: AP Physics B 5, AP Art History 4</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: I think my two shorter ones were pretty bland . . . I wrote my main essay about the Rubik's Cube. here's an excerpt:
[quote]
Notorious for its ability to frustrate, the Cube has caused an untold number of sleepless nights, due to either unconscious anxiety or untold hours spent trying to master its manifold intricacies. There were a few points during the learning process when an overwhelming urge to smash the cube into smithereens swept over me (another reason Im glad to be confined to a bedroom with padded walls!).
[/quote]
[li] Teacher Recs: didn't read, but presumably very good[/li][</em>] Counselor Rec: ditto
[li] Hook (if any): ??? must be my smashing good looks and scintillating wit.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: NJ
[</em>] School Type: public
[<em>] Ethnicity: white
[</em>] Gender: male
[/ul]Other Factors: had an interview that went pretty well I guess . . . General Comments: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it still hasn't sunken in yet . . . HOLY *<strong><em>ING *</em></strong> AALSKJAL'KSJGALSD!!!!</p>