<p>[ b]Stats:[ /b][ list]
[ *] SAT I (by section): 800CR, 770M, 720W
[ *] SAT IIs: 790 Biology E, 780 Math IIC, 760 US History
[ *] ACT:Didn’t take it
[ *] APs:Didn’t take any
[ *] IBs:Didn’t take any
[ *] GPA:4.0/4.0
[ *] Rank:1/23
[ *] Other stats:National Merit Scholar (woot woot!)
[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] ECs listed on app: Football (2 years all-district), Band (3 years all-region, 2 all-area, 1 all-state) Student Council (2 years treasurer) Wiley Lecture Series (local policy lecture series, 2 years), Academic competition team (Spelling & Persuasive Speaking state champion)
[ *] Job/Work Experience:none
[ *] Essays (subject and responses): Common App essay: being a geek on the football team; U Chicago Essay: Powers of 10 about the battle of Gettysburg; optional essay: The Cruxshadows, my favorite band.
[ *] Teacher Recs: pretty good, I would imagine
[ *] Counselor Rec: awesome
[ *] Applied on: really close to deadline
[ *] Hook (if any): Don’t think I had one.
[ /list][ b]Location/Person:[ /b][ list]
[ *] State or Country: Texas
[ *] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Small crappy Catholic school that has never sent anyone to a legit college in its short history.
[ *] Ethnicity: White
[ *] Gender: Male
[ /list][ b]General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: Congrats to everyone that got accepted! Chicago is an incredible school and I’m very thankful to be able to go there. If you got waitlisted, it’s not the end; keep in contact with the university and keep your hopes up. Just to be waitlisted to U of C is an honor. I don’t know where I’m going yet but odds are I might see some of you guys next fall![ /b]</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (by section): Math 800, Crit 730, Writing 780 (essay 11) Total: 2310
[</em>] SAT IIs: Bio M 720, Math 1 730, Chem 770, Physics 800 (<em>was totally brain-dead when I gave the test, shifting house every week for a few months)
[</em>] GPA: 4.0 on a 4.0 scale
[li] Rank: 1st in 91 kids</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] ECs listed on app: Debate Society (VP of debate club) , House team captain in B.ball, Self Taught Musician
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: working at Capital Hospital, Backing dancer in theatrical production of the play (ironically) “Chicago”
[<em>] Essays (subject and responses): The Road essay, I plan to post it somewhere on here
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Bio rec: great I’m sure; Physics teacher: not so sure, he tolerates me =/
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Awesome… (she told me herself it was her greatest one to date… didn’t get me any ivies but oh well)
[</em>] Hook (if any): nope
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: n/a
[</em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): private… I’m basically in the less-studious branch of Roots School System; the one without the 21 A’s in A levels and kids going to Harvard and Yale =/ (parental error in choosing school… oh well)
[<em>] Ethnicity: Pakistani (Asian)
[</em>] Gender: Male
[/ul]General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: just lucky to get in I guess =P … hope to see you all there</p>
<p>what’s depressing is that most acceptees don’t know how to use the whole [ size=+2][ color=green][ b]Decision: ACCEPTED [ /b][ /color][ /size] thing/… </p>
<p><em>sighs</em> and I thought I was technologically braindead =/</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (by section): CR:770 M:720 W:690
[</em>] SAT IIs:
[<em>] ACT: 32
[</em>] APs: US History-4, English Lang-4, also taking tests for Spanish, US Gov, and Physics B
[<em>] IBs:
[</em>] GPA:3.89w
[<em>] Rank:42 out of 302
[</em>] Other stats:
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] ECs listed on app:
Exchange Student in Catalonia, Spain(bilingual region)-first semester, senior year
Poverty relief work in Honduras-3 summers, one week per summer
Poverty relief work in Navajo Nation-week and a half
Asian Cultural Society-member
Robotics team- member/mascot 2 years
Guitar/Mandolin in local folk/rock band(occasional gigs around town)
[</em>] Job/Work Experience:
Tea Chef at Tea Bar-7 months
Fact Checker at local publishing company-8 months
[<em>] Essays (subject and responses):
Thought it was pretty good. I wrote on “live the question”. I wrote a ghost story. Wrote common app about growing up in uber-conservative rural MS.
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Good I guess
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Probably pretty good.
[</em>] Applied on: Dec 27
[<em>] Hook (if any): Mississippi, Exchange student in bilingual region, lost house in Katrina? I don’t know.
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: Mississippi
[<em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Best public in MS. I guess that’s kinda impressive.
[</em>] Ethnicity: White
[li] Gender: Dude[/li][/ul]General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc:
Congrats everyone that got in. I’ll be canoeing and eating gumbo in New Orleans while y’all are workin your asses off in sub-zero weather. Good luck.</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2300 total, 700 CR
[</em>] ACT: 35
[<em>] SAT II: 800 770 750 740 740 740
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 99.5 out of 100
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): unranked, top 2-3 percent
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): 5 5 5 5 4
[<em>] Senior Year Course Load: 7 AP’s
[</em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): eh not much
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): 4-yrs of track/winter track/cross country, Captain + MVP senior year Mathletes 4 years, Research various awards etc etc
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: 3 summers doing accounting work
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: a lot of track/school related
[</em>] Summer Activities: work, volunteer, running, driver’s ed
[<em>] Essays: Pretty good, worked real hard on them
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: Didn’t read, should be decent
[<em>] Counselor Rec: She said it was great
[</em>] Interview: Probably nothing too special
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yeah
[</em>] Intended Major: Econ
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): NY
[</em>] School Type: Very competitive public… we send like 30+ to Ivies
[<em>] Ethnicity: Chinese
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] Income Bracket: 200k+
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Strong stats/courseload in a tough school, a lot of dedication to running, and people like my writing in general
[</em>] Weaknesses: Asian on Long Island… my school sent some strong students to HYP
[li] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I put a lot of work into my Whraton app, contacting the school and whatnot. Luck played a factor as well.[/li][/ul]General Comments:</p>
<p>I’m pleased. Most likely going to Wharton next year. Also got into Dartmouth (likely letter), UChicago, Duke, Northwestern, NYU Stern (20k scholarship), Tulane and Binghamton. Waitlisted Cornell AEM, Rejected HYPS; ouch. Thanks College Confidential for all the help; I’ve been here for like a year.</p>
<p>congratulations. Have you decided (UChicago or Columbia)? Anyways we are in the Portland area and my daughter has decided to go to UChicago. Send me a note when you have time to talk or meet for coffee.
Best Regards.</p>
<p>Congratulations. Big school in Oregon? You mean Westview? Anyways congratulations. Have you decided? My daughter has decided on attending UChicago.
Best Regards.</p>
<p>The university made arrangements with alumni in our area and they held a meeting at somebody’s house for the new students. Remember that school starts on Sept. 30 this year so there is a lot of time. I’m sure it’s common practice and they will have one in your area.</p>
Senior Year Course Load: Full IB, 4 HLs and double A1 HL.
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<p>Subjective:</p>
<pre><code>* Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): (Student newspaper, Social Outreach Committee)
Job/Work Experience: Sold newspapers, interned at Minister of Trade office
Volunteer/Community service: a lot.
Summer Activities: work, volunteer, summer school
Essays: Concentrated a lot on this, took chances, was a bit creative.
Teacher Recommendation: Should be pretty good
Counselor Rec: My career counselor said it was brilliant
Additional letter of recommendation: was a glowing one
Interview: Did not do an interview
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<p>Other</p>
<pre><code>* Applied for Financial Aid?:No
Intended Major: Political Science
School Type: Sent people to HYMPS, but rarely and dependent on year level.
Ethnicity: Chinese
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: 200k+
Hooks: determination?
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<p>Reflection</p>
<pre><code>* Strengths: Strong stats/courseload in a tough school, a lot of dedication to volunteer activities and student newspaper, and decent writing ability
Weaknesses: SAT scores
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I put a lot of work into my essay, additional letter of recommendation and multiple student leader positions.
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<p>General Comments:</p>
<p>I’m super happy!!! I’m for sure going to UChicago, it is my dream school</p>
<p>Just realized, with all the excitement from post #130, I forgot to post myself. =)</p>
<p>**Decision: ACCEPTED **</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (by section): CR/MA/WR: 800/680/800
[</em>] SAT IIs: Physics 690, Lit 790 (or 780, something like that)
[<em>] ACT: N/A
[</em>] APs: World History (3), Engl. Lang. (5), Engl. Lit (5), Euro (4), US Hist. (4), Chem (5). Senior year (as yet unknown): BC Calc
[<em>] IBs: Junior year: Physics SL (7). Senior year: Chem HL, English A1 HL, French SL, Theatre HL, Math SL, Hist. of Americas HL
[</em>] GPA: 4.0 unweighted, 4.77 weighted
[<em>] Rank: 9 out of 72
[</em>] Other stats: National Merit Scholar
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] ECs listed on app: NHS (Recycling committee, historian), Theatre (3 years, secretary, acting/directing/tech, ITS cords), Literary Magazine (2 years, senior editor), Study guide blog (1 year, senior admin)
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: 1 summer housekeeping for neighbors
[<em>] Essays (subject and responses): Rilke’s quote “Live the question” (I wrote the essay entirely in questions, a la Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead). Why Chicago?–wrote about my interest in the little digital bars on stereos and segue’d into interdisciplinary work, creative writing, and the Core. Didn’t do the optional essay (and wish to goodness I had, just for the effort!). I forgot what my common app essay was. That means it was boring…
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Math/physics teacher (knew him for 3 years), theatre teacher (all four years), and junior English teacher (famous for her powerful/strange recs)
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Nice. She slightly exaggerated some things (out of ignorance, not nefarious purposes), but it was cute.
[</em>] Applied on: The last hour of the last day–when common app started to fail. Anyone remember the panic on these forums?
[<em>] Hook (if any): None.
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: Florida
[<em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Public school with an IB Program founded to save its D-/F on the FCAT (Florida’s standardized test)
[</em>] Ethnicity: white
[li] Gender: female[/li][/ul]General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc:
After typing all those test scores, I have come to realize how helpful they were at the time, and how meaningless they seem now. After typing what I wrote for my essays, I realize how much more helpful they must have been at the time, and how glad I am that I applied for and am going to Chicago. It’s perfect, and I love it! =)</p>
<p>**Decision: ACCEPTED ** Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (by section): 740 CR 710 MT 740 WR = 2190
[</em>] SAT IIs: 740 US History 700 Physics 740 Literature
[<em>] ACT: N/A
[</em>] APs: 5 English Language 5 US History 5 European History
[<em>] IBs: N/A
[</em>] GPA: 92.9 (we grade out of 100) 3.7/4.0
[<em>] Rank: not ranked, mad competitive school
[</em>] Other stats: AP Scholar, Posse scholarship finalist.
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] ECs listed on app: Martial Arts, Chess, Figure Skating, Theater
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Social Science Research at Columbia this past summer, few acting jobs.
[<em>] Essays (subject and responses): Common App: How I’ve changed through high school, how academics have become off-radar to central core in my life
Chicago Essay: Picked the one about outgrowing something, talked about how I used to skate really competitively but ultimately gave it up to pursue a better education.
[</em>] Teacher Recs: One was from a teacher I’ve known since before high school, because he lives in my neighborhood. Had him for US History, and I assume this was really good. Other was pretty solid, from my physics teacher. Final one from my martial arts teacher who’s known me for 13 years.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Also good, in a school with over 3000 kids, she knew my name, my mom’s name, and I always hung out with her during frees junior year
[</em>] Applied on: 1/1 FTW !
[<em>] Hook (if any): Multi-Racial, I was really competitive in all of my ECs (as in state/national level) and have been doing them all of them for at least 10 years, single mother, low income lol.
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: New York
[<em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Public, one of the best in the country
[</em>] Ethnicity: white/black/asian
[li] Gender: male[/li][/ul]General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc:</p>
<p>This is one of my top schools, only an ivy could bump it off, and the day before I got rejected from a public honors school, so I really really needed this. SOOOO happy!</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] ACT: 30/31 (superscore)
[</em>] SAT IIs: 780 US History, 650 Literature, 640 Math I
[<em>] APs: 5 US History, 4 Macroeconomics, 4 English Language & Composition
[</em>] GPA: 3.3
[<em>] Rank: school does not rank
[</em>] Other stats:
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] ECs listed on app: founded summer camp for middle schoolers at my school, founded quiz bowl team, founded legal document database at Baltimore public libraries, founded political discussion club, tennis, squash
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: catering staff
[<em>] Essays (subject and responses): all amazing, Common App about my relationship with books and strained relationship with certain members of family, Chicago essays mostly about interest in economics, book essay about Milton Friedman’s Capitalism and Freedom (my actual favorite book of all time)
[</em>] Teacher Recs: amazing: one from advisor and other from Euro/US history teacher
[<em>] Counselor Rec: amazing
[</em>] Applied on: Regular Decision
[<em>] Hook (if any): URM
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: Maryland
[<em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Private preparatory
[</em>] Ethnicity: African-American
[li] Gender: male[/li][/ul]General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: </p>
<p>I wish the best of luck to those who got in. You guys are going to the best university in the world. I’ll just get my taste of Chicago for business school. See you then Professor Becker. </p>
<p>The waitlist usually translates into a rejection but I’ll try and hope that I can change that.</p>
<p>[ b]Stats:[ /b][ list]
[ *] SAT I (by section): 740 CR, 710 M, 750 W
[ *] SAT IIs: 800 Math 2, 800 World History, 800 US History
[ *] ACT:
[ *] APs: AP World (5), AP Macro (5), AP Micro (5), AP English Language (5), AP Calculus BC (4), AP Calculus AB subscore (5), AP Us History (5)
[ *] IBs:
[ *] GPA: 3.9uw
[ *] Rank: school doesn’t rank, but top 5% by my estimate. Maybe higher
[ *] Other stats:
[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] ECs listed on app:Fed Challenge (won regionals last year), Econ Challenge (highest individual score in state), Public Forum Debate (Captain 2 years)
[ *] Job/Work Experience:Volunteer at the Smithsonian museum
[ *] Essays (subject and responses):wrote about why its good to sit around and do nothing for hours on end, one on how behavioral economics is like hindu philosophy, and one on how to eliminate fear
[ *] Teacher Recs: two stellar and one good
[ *] Counselor Rec: acceptable
[ *] Applied on: deferred early and accepted ed
[ *] Hook (if any):don’t have too many ec’s, but I do well in the few that I do
[ /list][ b]Location/Person:[ /b][ list]
[ *] State or Country:VA
[ *] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): top 200
[ *] Ethnicity: Indian
[ *] Gender: M
[ /list][ b]General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: I am finally at peace[ /b]</p>
<p>[ b]Stats:[ /b][ list]
[ *] SAT I (by section):
[ *] SAT IIs:
[ *] ACT:31
[ *] APs: 6 ap’s total
[ *] IBs:n/a
[ *] GPA:3.6
[ *] Rank:school doesn’t rank
[ *] Other stats:
[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] ECs listed on app:too much
[ *] Job/Work Experience:
[ *] Essays (subject and responses):I thought they were really good
[ *] Teacher Recs:good
[ *] Counselor Rec:good
[ *] Applied on:1/3/2010(I know its late lol they still took it somehow)
[ *] Hook (if any):
[ /list][ b]Location/Person:[ /b][ list]
[ *] State or Country:MO
[ *] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available):
[ *] Ethnicity:Asian
[ *] Gender:Male
[ /list][ b]General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc:[ /b] not surprised. I whole heartedly expected a rejection letter after applying days late. But apparantly they didn’t notice. Is it possible to get off waitlist? like how big is it usually?</p>
<p>[ b]Stats:[ /b][ list]
[ *] SAT I (by section):2100
[ *] SAT IIs:Bio: 800, Chem: 770
[ *] ACT: NA
[ *] APs:Bio: 5, English Language: 5, Us History: 4
[ *] IBs: NA
[ *] GPA: 3.8/4.0
[ *] Rank: Not ranked
[ *] Other stats: Numerous state level science awards (e.g. first in NY state), national Hispanic recognition award, etc.
[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] ECs listed on app: Science Olympiad (captain), school legislative bodies, Greek club, blood drive organizer, etc.
[ *] Job/Work Experience: Various Labs
[ *] Essays (subject and responses): Argued semantics of dissolving, that dissolving is not equivalent to destroying. Common app: the smell of bacterial cultures.
[ *] Teacher Recs:I assume great, both teachers love me and speak to me frequently.
[ *] Counselor Rec: I assume great, this woman loves me and speaks to me frequently.
[ *] Applied on: Oct 31
[ *] Hook (if any): I am published in several peer review journal articles, have been an accepted speaker at conferences, and have shown extensive dedication and application to microbiological and biochemistry biological sciences and the scientific processes (no public health nonsense here!). I also boasted an extremely well written recommendation by my principle investigator. My ethnicity also assisted.
[ /list][ b]Location/Person:[ /b][ list]
[ *] State or Country: NY
[ *] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available):NA
[ *] Ethnicity: Hispanic
[ *] Gender: M
[ /list][ b]General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc:[ /b]</p>
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not surprised. I whole heartedly expected a rejection letter after applying days late. But apparantly they didn’t notice. Is it possible to get off waitlist? like how big is it usually?</p>