OFFICIAL University of Chicago EA Decisions - Class of 2013

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101

<p>*Decision: ACCEPTED! *</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (by section): 800 CR, 800 W, 800 M
[</em>] SAT IIs: didn't submit scores to UChicago
[<em>] ACT: straight 36s
[</em>] APs: U.S. History, Biology, Chemistry, English Lang., European History, Calc BC; all 5's
[<em>] IBs: n/a
[</em>] GPA: 4.0 uw; 4.51 w
[<em>] Rank: 1 out of 375
[</em>] Other stats:
[/ul]</p>

<p>Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] ECs listed on app: Quiz Bowl (all-state teams, national champion on all-star team), NHS (President), Key Club (tons of service hours and a district-level award), more unimportant stuff
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Cancer research lab internship this past summer
[<em>] Essays (subject and responses): Influential person for Common App; particle accelerator for Supplement (I collided existentialism with quantum mechanics)
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Far better than I could have asked for.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Basically a list of my activities
[</em>] Applied on: 11/01 :)
[li] Hook (if any): Writing skills, love of interdisciplinary study and thus the Core[/li][/ul]</p>

<p>Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: Illinois
[</em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): citywide Gifted Academy within a poor neighborhood school (our city had problems with school segregation, so the Gifted Academy went to a predominantly African-American school)
[<em>] Ethnicity: Indian (as in from South Asia)
[</em>] Gender: Male
[/ul]</p>

102

<p>Decision: Accepted!!!</p>

<p>Stats:
* SAT I (by section): 610 m, 700 cr, 750 w...2060 total
*SAT IIs: suckage 630 bio, 680 us history, 690 literature
* ACT: N/A
* APs: 5 Bio, 4 Us History, 4 Eng Lang, 2 Stats lol
* IBs: N/A
* GPA: 3.94 UW....4.69 W
* Rank: 2/290
* Other stats:....</p>

<p>Subjective:
* ECs listed on app:
--NC Governor's School for Social Science
--Editor of School's Award Winning Newspaper
--SGA- 4 years currently VP
--President of National Honor Society
--Treasurer of SADD
--Tennis Team- 2 years
--Key Club
--Volunteer with Red Cross
--Volunteer at local food pantry
--Volunteer with Teen Court
---etc etc a lot of extracurriculars </p>

<ul>
<li>Job/Work Experience: Babysitting and Tutoring...hardly any</li>
<li>Essays (subject and responses): The troubles of a refrigerator on Uchicago...significant experience on common. My essays were pretty good. </li>
<li>Teacher Recs: Awesome</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: Awesome</li>
<li>Applied on: EA</li>
<li>Hook (if any): First gen college, from rural area</li>
</ul>

<p>Location/Person:
* State or Country: North Carolina
* School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Horrible public school, does not meet state standards, highest drop out rate in the state.
* Ethnicity: White
* Gender: Female
General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: I am beyond excited. I honestly have no idea how I got in, it must have been my essays/ extracurriculars. My SAT scores are so much lower than all the other accepted people. I had an interview, that may have helped.</p>

103

<p>pinkfire-</p>

<p>I haven't read your essay, so I can't judge. But blatantly stating why you need Chicago, or how you're different from your peers may not come off so well. Obviously, you're a strong applicant. That's why you weren't flat out rejected. I suggest writing something about a passion. </p>

<p>ie. I wrote about piano. I wrote about being in a piano class in my magnet middle school that had kids of all different levels, and having only been playing piano for two years, I was at a way more elementary level than the other students; however (and this is true) I realized that effort could substitute experience, and despite the taunts of some more advanced students, I managed to learn a piece they were learning--Rondo Alla Turca. It reshaped my life as a musician and as a person. </p>

<p>I know someone who focused her entire essay on another person; an elderly man she met at a retirement home who could not speak (he communicated by sliding block letters around on a tab). One day he asked her,"Do you love?" She asked him,"What do you mean? A parent, a boyfriend?" He said,"No. Do you love yourself?" And she described a process of self discovery through another person.</p>

<p>Again, essays do not have to be emotional or O.O There was one amazing essay I heard about thumbsucking. Seriously.</p>

<p>Ultimately, the essay needs to speak about you. Not about why you want to go to Chicago. They have a separate prompt for that, and obviously, if you're applying, you want to go (hopefully). Your essay doesn't need to say,"And that's why I want to go to Chicago," or "that's what Chicago will do for me," at the end. The college admissions officers will infer that from your writing.</p>

<p>How do you know what they will infer from your writing? When you're done writing your essay, have a teacher check it for grammar/punctuation mistakes. Have a friend or two read it to see if it really speaks about you. Then have a few people you hardly know read it and ask them what they think about you after reading it. If they're on target, great. If not, it's back to the drawing board. </p>

<p>I hope I helped. If you need anymore help, feel free to PM me.</p>

104

<p>Do they reject anyone this round?</p>

105

<p>*Decision: Deferred *</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (by section): Math 610 (yikes), CR 760, Writing 770 (so 1370/ 1600 or 2140/ 2400)
[</em>] SAT IIs: US History 770, Literature 760, Latin 740
[<em>] ACT: None
[</em>] APs: US History 4, Eng. Language 5; currently taking Latin (Vergil), US Gov., and Eng. Literature.
[<em>] IBs: none
[</em>] GPA: 4.0/ 4.3 (weighted, I think)
[<em>] Rank: around 15/ 100? Technically unranked.
[</em>] Other stats: National Merit Commended Student
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] ECs listed on app: Orchestra (1st-chair percussion), School Paper (editor-in-cheif), Service Team Co-Chair, NHS (treasurer), Independent French study.
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: volunteer for a cat shelter; worked for Obama campaign.
[<em>] Essays (subject and responses): Oh, a lot of crazy </em><em>. I'm a pretty good writer, though, and I was proud of my essays.
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Should be solid, but I didn't read them.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Most likely nice, but generic.
[</em>] Applied on: On-line early action, I guess?
[<em>] Hook (if any): None- just my quirks, I guess :)
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: Pennsylvania
[<em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Tiny, private, all-girl's Catholic school.
[</em>] Ethnicity: Caucasian
[li] Gender: Female[/li][/ul]*General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: * Well, congrats to all admitted, obviously :) I was thrilled just to be deferred, and I really hope to be joining you there for the Class of 2013!</p>

106

<p>Accepted! Will post more later, but it HAD to be the essays and teacher recs! :)</p>

107

<p>Rejected.</p>

<p>I didnt spend as much time on the essays as I should have? Maybe?
I'm not sure, and now I have to start all over...:(
Congrats to everyone who got in though.</p>

108

<p>*Decision: ACCEPTED *</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (by section): 800M, 730R, 780W = 1530M+R
[</em>] SAT IIs: 760 MathII, 780 US History, 760 Chemistry
[<em>] APs: 5 on Calc BC, AB subscore, World History, Biology, English Language, Chemistry, US History
[</em>] GPA: 4.0uw
[<em>] Rank: 1/323
[</em>] Other stats: National Merit Commended, NCTE Writing Award
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] ECs listed on app: Cross country 4 years (I'm on JV but our team won Nationals), drama, varsity tennis, piano, choir
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: working at a family business
[<em>] Essays (subject and responses): Zoom in zoom out, about neurons, the brain, and consciousness
[</em>] Teacher Recs: One good but run-of-the-mill, one "creative" (his words)
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Good, doesn't know me that well
[</em>] Applied on: 10/30
[<em>] Hook (if any): Geographical location?
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: WA
[<em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): average public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[li] Gender: male[/li][/ul]General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: YAYAYAYAY</p>

109

<p>Decision:Accepted</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT I (by section):Math-660, Critical Reading-740, Writing-730
[</em>]SAT IIs:U.S. History - 630, Math I - 560, Literature- 670
[<em>]ACT: Composite 29, Reading 30, Writing, Math 30, English 30, Science 27
[</em>]GPA: 3.5 Unweighted, 3.7 Weighted
[<em>]Rank: My school doesn't rank, but on apps they put top 10-20%.
[</em>]Other stats:
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>]ECs listed on app:
Youth Council Fellowship Chair
Appalachia Service Project Youth Leader
Varsity Soccer
Student Parliament
Varsity Cheerleading
Summer Exchange to Mexico
Theatre
Choir
[</em>]Job/Work Experience: Nannying
[<em>]Essays (subject and responses): I was absolutely in love with them.
[</em>]Teacher Recs:
Really good!
Well, the math one was debatable.
[<em>]Counselor Rec: I really don't know him that well, but when we've met it's been decent.
[</em>]Applied on:10-30
[<em>]Hook (if any):
I'm in love with UChicago, like, creeper through the window love, and it showed in my essays and interviews. Other than that, no hook.
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>]State or Country:
Indiana
[<em>]School Type, Average Stats of School (if available):
Residential Public, on the campus of BSU
[</em>]Ethnicity: African-American
[li]Gender: Female[/li][/ul]**General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc:</p>

<p>CONGRATS EVERYONE!!!!!! I HAD NO ABSOLUTELY NO HOPE AND NOW I CAN'T STOP GRINNING!!!
Yo, deferred kids, honestly, don't give up, please.</p>

110

<p>flat out rejected! don't know why, should have been deferred</p>

<p>SATI: M 750 CR 670 W 670
SATII: world history 770 Math II 720 biology M 680
rank: 4 of 470
school: one of the best in the region, public
awards: grand winner at regional fair, Intel ISEF finalist, ap scholar with distinction, governor school of science
EC: founder and president of volunteer based club at school with 30 members
supplement: had research mentor write one, extremely good (i read it) and 2 reserach abstracts
teacher recs: really good - got me into georgetown
consulor: really good
ethnic: asian sex F
why!!!!!</p>

111

<p>ColdWind, only about 70 of those 774 are in the Highly Gifted Magnet, which is the program that require a 145 IQ. The rest are in the resident school.</p>

112

<p>ACCEPTED!!!!!!!!! </p>

<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): M: 700 / R: 710 / W: 730
ACT: 34 (English: 36 Math: 33 Reading: 36 Science: 30)
SAT II: Literature: 680 Math II: 670
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): not entirely sure, 3.7-ish
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 20th
AP (place score in parenthesis): English Language (5) Psychology (5)
IB (place score in parenthesis): -
Senior Year Course Load: AP Lit, AP US, AP Calc AB, AP Bio, French 4 Honors, Irish Literature, Choir
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): does best indie rock band in fairfield county count?
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Teen Center Governing Board (President), School Theatre, Select A Capella Group, Midi & the Modern Dance (my band; local awards, finishing album), Newspaper, Lit & Nonfiction magazines, wandering
Job/Work Experience: Guitar lessons, Bus monitor, IT person for small company
Volunteer/Community service: Library (teen board and volunteering for book sale), helped plan an environmental festival
Summer Activities: summer @ Amherst college, various gigs, summer physics, work, library volunteering, recording an album, reading incessantly
Essays: honest, allusive, dripping with passion, james joyce and sufjan stevens and theo jansen referencing, one finding the correlation between squirrels crossing the road too late and high schoolers procrastinating (which definitely got me in)
Teacher Recommendation: great, exactly what the school was looking for I'm sure (probably talking about how active I am in class discussions and my overall zeal to learn)
Counselor Rec: very heartfelt
Additional Rec: my music supplement was great
Interview: AMAZING, told me that I belong there
Other
State (if domestic applicant): Connecticut
Country (if international applicant): -
School Type: Public (#1 in state)
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: upper middle
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): poet/literati in the making, lots of singing, exponentially improving grades
Strengths: i guess what i said above; i simply adore columbia for all it is
Weaknesses: junior year courseload and rocky freshman and sophomore years
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I think that I showcase a great deal of growth, and my standing as an intellectual most likely helped. A bunch of kids from my school were accepted, and though I was towards the bottom of the heap--I think, at least--maybe I have some potential. I just adore the school and am always willing to work my hardest no matter what the outcome. I am so inexplicably excited!</p>

113

<p>wowww apologies apologies apologies i cut and pasted from columbia deferral and didn't take something out but you can replace it with Chicago because I adore it equally, seriously I actually started bawling when I was accepted; all I had been thinking about was my inevitable denial. im so excited!!!!!!!</p>

114

<p>I don't understand. I'm trying to, but I just don't.</p>

115

<p>are my stats that bad?! i got into georgetown with them. georgetown only admits 18 percent in early, what's chicago admittance rate?</p>

116

<p>Accepted! Ahhh</p>

117

<p>Accepted! I'm too wired to post stats right now because I'm waiting on a decision from MIT (26 minutes to go!!!) but I'll post them later. Congrats to all others accepted!!!</p>

118

<p>Note: Just because you get into one school early with certain stats doesn't mean you'll get into all of them.</p>

<p>Each school is looking for something different, something that stands out.</p>

<p>I've been so happy today because I got into the University of Chicago. In twenty minutes I find out my MIT decision. It's unlikely that I'll get into MIT with the same stats. And I won't be crushed. That's just how it is. We'll see how it rolls.</p>

119

<p>It's unlikely that any other schools will really value me the same way as well; I'm glad I found somewhere where I fit in.</p>

120

<p>*Decision: ACCEPTED! *</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (by section): CR: 720 M:650 W:710
[</em>] SAT IIs: Did not take
[<em>] ACT: Composite: 34 English: 34 Math: 34 Reading: 36 Science: 31 Combined English/Writing: 33
[</em>] APs:World: 5, US: 4 BC Calc: 3 Spanish: 3 Lang: 5 Bio: 4 Taking 4 more this year as well
[<em>] GPA:4.0 UW, 4.32 W
[</em>] Rank: 1/410
[<em>] Other stats: National Merit, um...don't know what else to put here
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] ECs listed on app: Mock Trial, Newspaper, Key Club(district position), Piano, other commuity service- all leadership positions
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Office Assistant (since freshman year), held three jobs this summer office, temping, and catering ( I also still work)
[</em>] Essays (subject and responses): Common App: Wrote about how my activities don't look like a wanna-be surgeon, but then connected them to specific qualities Extended App: Chose zoom in/out, wrote about the DNC and meeting Madeleine Albright there. I felt like my essays were strong.
[<em>] Teacher Recs: Fantastic. I love my teachers.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Also fantastic.<br>
[<em>] Applied on: Finished everything on 10/31
[</em>] Hook (if any): Published author
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: Colorado
[</em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Has the most APs in the area, but it varies. We are pretty diverse
[<em>] Ethnicity: Asian (yes if you look above I am an asian stereotype) However, I did not include race on my app
[</em>] Gender: F
[/ul]******</p>

<p>Congrats to everyone who was accepted! Good luck to everyone who was deferred in the RD round!</p>