<p>@maxxwell. ahahahah thanks. that really made me laugh :D</p>
<p>And you wonder why UC rejected your application. Your negativity shone through loud and clear.</p>
<p>@madhukar so your saying the reason why your “black” friend was accepted to UC is solely because of her ethnicity. WOW</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:</p>
<ul>
<li>SAT I (breakdown): 800 CR/640 M/680 W</li>
<li>ACT: 31</li>
<li>SAT II: 730 Lit; 710 US History</li>
<li>Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.69</li>
<li>Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): N/A</li>
<li>AP (place score in parenthesis): World (5) US (5) </li>
<li>IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A</li>
<li>Senior Year Course Load: AP Spanish, World Religions, Civics, AP Composition, AP Euro, AP Stats, Journalism, Forensics</li>
<li>Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Commended Scholar</li>
</ul>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<ul>
<li>Extracurriculars: Varsity Swim Team (Captain), Literary &Art Magazine (Editor-in-Chief), School Newspaper (Features Editor), Theater (Costume Manager).</li>
<li>Job/Work Experience: House Page in WA D.C.; Nanny this summer</li>
<li>Volunteer/Community service: Mostly local homeless-relief organizations, plus I volunteer as counselor at a natural science camp for underprivileged 6th graders. </li>
<li>Essays: One started with the line “The beast’s nostrils twitched with uncontrolled bloodlust” and utilized the mortifying way I was caught on a kitchen chair, crying and convinced I was going to die, by my demonic new foster baby bunny and segued into an examination of my daily life and what led to me to react that way. Another pondered the meaning of life in relation to my personal education goals, without (hopefully) sounding so psuedo-philosophical.<br></li>
</ul>
<p>Other</p>
<ul>
<li>Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes</li>
<li>Intended Major: International Relations/Tajik (Foreign Language)</li>
<li>State (if domestic applicant): WA</li>
<li>Country (if international applicant):</li>
<li>School Type: Private Jesuit</li>
<li>Ethnicity: White</li>
<li>Gender: Female</li>
<li>Income Bracket: about $100,000</li>
<li>Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): white girl who speaks fluent Spanish, passable Mandarin, and some Arabic</li>
</ul>
<p>Reflection</p>
<ul>
<li>Strengths: Essays! That’s it entirely. </li>
<li>Weaknesses: Grades for sure.<br></li>
<li>Why you think you were accepted/rejected: My essays. Plus, my interview went spendidly.</li>
</ul>
<p>General Comments: I’m absolutely stunned to learn I was accepted. For all of you who were waistlisted, there is still hope because, although I’ve desperately considered all possiblities, there is no way I can afford University of Chicago and still go on to grad school. Good luck!</p>
<p>Decision: Waitlisted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): LOL. Bad. I don’t even remember.
[</em>] ACT: 30
[<em>] SAT II (if submitted): Bio M: 690
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.993
[<em>] Grades in AP/IB/honors classes (if applicable): A’s. And a B in French and TOK.
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 3
[<em>] AP (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): SL History (5)
[<em>] Senior Year Course Load: Full IB Course Load
[</em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Nada
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership and number of years participated in a certain activity in parenthesis): Volleyball (4), Science Olympiad (1), Recycling Club (2), Dive (1), Sinag-Tala Filipino Dance (2),
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: None that were on my application
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: Camp State Struck (100 hours), Filipino Medical Mission (40 hours), Christmas Caroling for Retirement Homes, yadda yadda, I had an extra Additonal Information page.
[</em>] EC short answer (subject and personal opinions on it):
[<em>] Common App Essay (subject and personal opinions on it): Pretty good. Wrote about Biology and Art and the death of creativity.
[</em>] Optional Favorite Things Essay (subject and personal opinions on it):
[<em>] Why Chicago (details in the essay and personal opinions on it): Pretty generic. Talked about undergraduate research.
[</em>] Extended Chicago Essay (subject - if you want, include essay prompt if you did #5 - and personal opinions on it): I think I wrote about how I didn’t get caught stealing cookies past bedtime when I was younger. Haha, I don’t recall.
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation (only if you saw it): NA
[</em>] Counselor Rec (only if you saw it): NA, but she’s known for writing notoriously amazing rec letters, so I know that it was awesome.
[<em>] Additional Rec (only if you saw it): NA
[</em>] Interview: My interviewers never contacted me back after I missed their calls and called back and left messages. It’s really saddening, actually. I was out of town when they were in town, and I was in town when they were out.
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Three Areas of Interest Listed: Bio and Art
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant): Missouri
[<em>] Country (if international applicant):
[</em>] School Type: Public IB World School
[<em>] Ethnicity: Asian American- Filipino
[</em>] Gender: Female
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.):
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: Essays, Course Load, maybe GPA, ECs, maybe?
[<em>] Weaknesses: Test scores
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Test scores, for sure. Maybe the lack of an interview.
[/ul]General Comments: Pretty bummed, but it’s not the end of the world. Honestly, with this year’s pool, I thought I was doomed for a rejection letter when I found out one of my good friends also got waitlisted, and her scores were definitely better than mine.</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): math 800 reading 740 writing 760
[</em>] ACT: n/a
[<em>] SAT II (if submitted): math 740 chem 780
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.6
[<em>] Grades in AP/IB/honors classes (if applicable)
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):
[<em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Ap calc AB (5), Ap stat (5), ap Eng lang (4)
[</em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[<em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Physics C, Ap Chem, Ap Calc BC, AP eng Lit
[</em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership and number of years participated in a certain activity in parenthesis): Track and field, school activities, NHS, XC, etc. I polevault 
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: worked at local restaurants. promoted a few times.
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: In school with NHS, organized read-across america at local elementary schools
[</em>] EC short answer (subject and personal opinions on it):
[<em>] Common App Essay (subject and personal opinions on it): losing my mother, and my movement form turkey to US and how i was able to overcome this difficulty
[</em>] Optional Favorite Things Essay (subject and personal opinions on it): Did not write. (They are truly Optional! Chicago can have me with some secrets 
)
[<em>] Why Chicago (details in the essay and personal opinions on it): Research opportunities i want to participate in, and the community that i would like to come “home” to after school/work.
[</em>] Extended Chicago Essay (subject - if you want, include essay prompt if you did #5 - and personal opinions on it): i did #5. I don’t want to discuss my essays really
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation (only if you saw it): i saw one, it was good. the other, she wouldn’t let me see it, but she said this will get you into anywhere you want.
[</em>] Counselor Rec (only if you saw it): did not see
[<em>] Additional Rec (only if you saw it): n/a
[</em>] Interview: n/a
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Three Areas of Interest Listed: Physics, astrophysics.
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant): Pennsylvania
[<em>] Country (if international applicant):
[</em>] School Type: Med Public HS
[<em>] Ethnicity: Turkish
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.):
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: Standardized Test Scores, maybe my chosen path as a scientist?
[<em>] Weaknesses: GPA, Extracurricular volunteer activities.
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I slept with… haha I mean i don’t know actually, I guess i will fit in well with the incoming class, or so i hope
[/ul]General Comments: These threads really helped me gauge myself last 2 years so i feel obligated to post. Is anyone else going to the thing in April!? see you all there!</p>
<p>Waitlisted</p>
<p>Quick Stats:
4.2 gpa (top 5%)
2080 SAT
Really good ECs (don’t really feel like specifying right now)
I’m hoping that I got waitlisted just because of my essays, which I don’t think were as good as the ones I wrote for the other schools I applied to (or at least I’m hoping that’s the case)…</p>
<p>I was accepted :). However, financial aid was not that great, so I will probably not attend. +1 spot for wait listers.</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2270 (Math 800, Reading 740, Writing 730)
[</em>] ACT:
[<em>] SAT II (if submitted): Math II 800, Physics 790, World History 790
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 97
[<em>] Grades in AP/IB/honors classes (if applicable): ~97
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 9 out of 365
[<em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): 5’s in Calculus B/C, Chemistry, Computer Science, English Language, Physics B, Physics C (both), U.S. History, World History
[</em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[<em>] Senior Year Course Load: 6 AP classes
[</em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership and number of years participated in a certain activity in parenthesis): Volleyball (captain, 6 years), Student Council (VP/Liaison to the Board, 3 years), FBLA (founder and president, 3 years), Math League (president, 5 years), Science Olympiad (captain, 7 years), NHS (historian, 2 years), Speech and Debate (4 years), MUN (2 years), Fed Challenge (1 year)
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Research Assistant in prestigious internship program
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: Fun Camp Counselor, peer tutoring
[</em>] EC short answer (subject and personal opinions on it): International Model UN trip, okay
[<em>] Common App Essay (subject and personal opinions on it): Mom, cliche
[</em>] Optional Favorite Things Essay (subject and personal opinions on it):
[<em>] Why Chicago (details in the essay and personal opinions on it): Very lackluster
[</em>] Extended Chicago Essay (subject - if you want, include essay prompt if you did #5 - and personal opinions on it): My dad made me write about how “global warming doesn’t exist”
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation (only if you saw it):
[</em>] Counselor Rec (only if you saw it):
[<em>] Additional Rec (only if you saw it):
[</em>] Interview: My old tennis coach, very chill, I told her how I didn’t really want to go though
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Three Areas of Interest Listed:
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant): NY
[<em>] Country (if international applicant):
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.):
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: APs, EC
[<em>] Weaknesses: GPA/rank, SAT, essays
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I’m not really sure
[/ul]General Comments: Congrats to all that got in!</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 690 CR, 680 Math, 650 Writing; 2020 (superscore)
[</em>] ACT: 28
[<em>] SAT II (if submitted): 770 (U.S. Hist.), 690 (Math 1), 670 (Spanish), 570 (Bio E)
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.7994
[<em>] Grades in AP/IB/honors classes: AP Bio, B; AP Stat, B; AP Lit, A; AP Span, A
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1 of 488
[<em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): 5 (Human Geo), 5 (World Hist), 4 (Comp Govt), 4 (Enviro Sci), 4 (Psych), 4 (U.S. Hist.), 3 (Eng Lang), 2 (Physics B)
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Biology, AP Statistics, AP English Literature, French 2, AP Spanish Lang, Dual Enrollment Astronomy & Meteorology
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Valedictorian, National Achievement Scholar
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership and number of years participated in a certain activity in parenthesis): Spanish National Honor Society (President, 4 yrs.), National Honor Society (Vice-Pres., 2 yrs.), Science National Honor Society (Secretary, 3 yrs), etc., Mu Alpha Theta (4 yrs.)
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Buccaneers Limited Partnership
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: 170 hrs.
[<em>] EC short answer (subject and personal opinions on it): Notaphily
[</em>] Common App Essay (subject and personal opinions on it): Spanish Honor Society
[<em>] Optional Favorite Things Essay (subject and personal opinions on it): Shakira
[</em>] Why Chicago (details in the essay and personal opinions on it): I used to live there, 13 Nobel laureates, tradition of excellence
[<em>] Extended Chicago Essay (subject - if you want, include essay prompt if you did #5 - and personal opinions on it): (5) At some high schools, a great deal of attention is paid to students learning foreign languages.
Drawing off your own personal experiences as a high-school student, present an opinion
regarding this issue. Why is learning foreign languages important? Why isn’t it?
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation (only if you saw it): good/great
[<em>] Counselor Rec (only if you saw it): good/great
[</em>] Additional Rec (only if you saw it): good/great
[<em>] Interview: none
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant): FL
[<em>] School Type: public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Black
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): URM
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: GPA
[</em>] Weaknesses: SAT
[li] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Even though my SAT scores suck, I think I was accepted because I am the first black-male valedictorian at a very white suburban public high school (I don’t think we’ve ever had a student go to UChicago).[/li][/ul]General Comments: I still don’t know if I’m going, waiting for 5 other decisions and I got into Cornell and UF. At this point it’s about the Fin Aid because I basically have a full ride to UF an my dad won’t let me leave FL if I have $100,000+ in student loans.</p>
<p>raganar, out of 5 kids who applied from my school, 2/2 IB candidates got rejected and 2/3 non-IB kids got accepted (including me). IB is not the end all and be all. It’s about how you challenged yourself.</p>
<p>@kitkatkatie: of course it isn’t the end all, be all.</p>
<p>Question though: what grades did the candidates achieve/were predicted? & You can’t rely solely on your grades to get you in, but it does help. :)</p>
<p>@jeankara, relaxxxx buddy.
thats not what i said. or meant to say at least. there might be another reason but i don’t see it. we have virtually the same GPA/courseload/grades. my scores were couple of hundred points higher than hers but her writing is significantly better than mine. that being said, my uchicago essays were some of the best i’ve ever written and according to the numerous people who read them, they were extremely well written. so now that you know all that, i was TRYING to say that her and i were practically the same applicant coming from the same school and are both on the lower end of the financial spectrum, therefore i cannot think of any other reason she got in over me besides affirmative action. i mean no disrespect to her; shes a good friend of mine and im happy for her because shes smart and a hard worker from what i know.</p>
<p>If she’s a better writer than you, there’s a good chance she also wrote the essay of her life. That alone, given the importance U of C places on its application essays, would have given her an edge over you. Perhaps she had a few other things, like ECs, a sense of perspective, leadership, and life experiences that U of C felt would better round out its class.</p>
<p>Just saying.</p>
<p>Decision: Waitlisted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2200 - Math 740, 730 CR, 730 Writing
[</em>] ACT: 32 composite, didn’t send an official report
[<em>] SAT II (if submitted): 780 US History, 720 Latin
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[<em>] Grades in AP/IB/honors classes (if applicable): All A’s
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 2/242 or so, last year it was 2/450 (school rezoned)
[<em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): APUSH (5), Latin:Vergil (3), Chem (3), Human Geo (4), Calc AB (4)
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Bio, AP US Govt, AP Lit, Latin IV, stats
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Finalist, some random JCL things
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership and number of years participated in a certain activity in parenthesis):
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: waitress/cashier (Mar 08-Feb 09)
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: ~165 hours
[<em>] EC short answer (subject and personal opinions on it): Wrote about how I volunteer every summer at the public library’s summer children’s program
[</em>] Common App Essay (subject and personal opinions on it): Hmm, a bit random; about how I’m still not sure what I’m going to do with my life, but I’m still ambitious
[<em>] Optional Favorite Things Essay (subject and personal opinions on it): Twee little list of things I like.
[</em>] Why Chicago (details in the essay and personal opinions on it): On how I’ve never gotten to go anywhere interesting and how Chicago would’ve helped me with it.
[<em>] Extended Chicago Essay (subject - if you want, include essay prompt if you did #5 - and personal opinions on it): I did the caught prompt, but my essay was a bit disconnected from it. It was stream of consciousness on my search for cookies. I actually thought it was pretty good, but you never can tell with these things.
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation (only if you saw it): Pretty good.
[<em>] Counselor Rec (only if you saw it): n/a
[</em>] Interview: Didn’t get one.
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Three Areas of Interest Listed: I don’t remember a spot for this?
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant): TN
[<em>] School Type: Med/large public, very few go to top schools
[</em>] Ethnicity: Half white, half Korean
[<em>] Gender: F
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): My parents didn’t go to college, so first gen I suppose. I didn’t play it up in my app, though.
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Essays, grades (but my school isn’t very strenuous, so grades might not have been a big factor)
[</em>] Weaknesses: ECs are sort of wishy washy and thin.
[li] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Hmm, I don’t know. I guess my ECs weren’t too great, but these things are still a crapshoot, especially given the massive app increase. If the admit rate is around 10-13% as rumored, I feel pretty good to be on the waiting list. Then again, I don’t know how this bodes for my other schools. Wait and see, I guess.[/ul][/li]General Comments: Well, at least I wasn’t outright rejected.</p>
<p>ACCEPTED and very pumped about it!</p>
<p>congrats everyone!! i am super excited for the april visiting days!</p>
<p>is anyone planning to go on the 22-23?</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>NOTE: I originally had a post with my stats, but please ignore that one because this goes more in-depth and some of my stats have changed.</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 690 CR, 710 Math, 740 Writing (took twice)
[</em>] ACT:N/A
[<em>] SAT II (if submitted): French 800, Spanish 730, Math I 690 (errggg…), Math II 720, World History 720
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):3.93/4.0
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):N/A
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): French 5, Comp Gov’t 5, taking Lang, Macro, Calc AB, Euro History, Human Geo
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: If not heaviest, then very close to being heaviest
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Debate awards at local, provincial, and national levels for both English, Bilingual, and Francophone debate (in terms of awards, I think these saved me). Math contest distinction certificates. </p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars: Debate (4 years; English and Bilingual, Head of Debate of both for the second year in a row), Public Speaking (4 years; Head of Public Speaking for a second year), Model UN (4 years; Head of MUN), Art (6 years; Director of an art show),
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Intern at local TV station, worked at translation firm
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: 400+ hours of community service
[</em>] EC short answer (subject and personal opinions on it): Bilingual debating and what it means for me
[<em>] Common App Essay (subject and personal opinions on it): Wrote an education summit speech that was delivered by the ambassador of a country I invented; describes the country’s education system and what it means for imagination
[</em>] Optional Favorite Things Essay (subject and personal opinions on it): Letter to Captain Jack Sparrow (favourite character)
[<em>] Why Chicago (details in the essay and personal opinions on it): Wrote it as though I were a product in an infomercial. I think this one was successful because it showed UChicago what appealed to me about them while stating how I’d contribute to the university.
[</em>] Extended Chicago Essay (subject - if you want, include essay prompt if you did #5 - and personal opinions on it): “How did you get caught?”; I wrote about being “caught in stereotypes about only children” and how I cope with the public’s perception of only children.
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation (only if you saw it): Never saw
[</em>] Counselor Rec (only if you saw it): Never saw
[<em>] Additional Rec (only if you saw it): No additional rec
[</em>] Interview: I loved the interview and the interviewer so much! I wish we had had more time because the interview centered largely around ideas, which made the interview fun and very animated.
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Three Areas of Interest Listed: Political Science, International Relations, Journalism
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant):
[<em>] Country (if international applicant):Canada, but with US citizenship
[</em>] School Type: Private (non-denominational)
[<em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[</em>] Gender: Female
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): I really don’t know…
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: Definitely interview and essays
[<em>] Weaknesses: SATs and I don’t think my marks were amazing either
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I don’t know the reasons, my school counselor said it was probably because they recognized that academically and personality-wise, I fit very well with their school. Although I don’t think of myself as academically strong (screw you math!).
[/ul]**General Comments: ** To those accepted, I look forward to meeting all of you (perhaps at a scavenger hunt?). To the others, I want you to know that you’re all amazing people who I hope to meet some day. Of course, you won’t know if I’m really magic_fantastic, and I won’t know you, but I can imagine that we will all learn at least one thing from each other.</p>
<p>Decision: Wait listed</p>
<p>Objective:</p>
<pre><code>* SAT I (breakdown): 2010 (700 M 660 CR 650 W)
- ACT: 31
- SAT II (if submitted): 660 US history, 730 Math I, 660 English Lit
- Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.8
- Grades in AP/IB/honors classes (if applicable) mostly As, a few Bs
- Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 61/580
- AP (place score in parenthesis): Language- 5, US government-4, Economics-4, US history-4
- IB (place score in parenthesis): find out this summer
- Senior Year Course Load: full IB
- Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): nothing major.
</code></pre>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<pre><code>* Extracurriculars (place leadership and number of years participated in a certain activity in parenthesis): NHS (1), Senior Beta (2), Student Council (4), Blue Crew (4), Volleyball (2), Cross Country (2), oboe lessons (6), Student Leadership Team (1)
- Job/Work Experience: summer job at a park 40 hr/week, now work weekends
- Volunteer/Community service: 200+ hours
- EC short answer (subject and personal opinions on it): I described cross country and what it taught me
- Common App Essay (subject and personal opinions on it): My experiences volunteering with children and what children taught me… It started out humorous and then shifted to inspirational. I think it was good
- Optional Favorite Things Essay (subject and personal opinions on it): I mostly talked about my favorite books and a movie or two… I described what kind of entertainment I enjoyed as well. It was okay
- Why Chicago (details in the essay and personal opinions on it): It was very straight forward, nothing creative… but it was okay.
- Extended Chicago Essay (subject - if you want, include essay prompt if you did #5 - and personal opinions on it): I did the one on games… it was somewhat creative and very thought-provoking I thought.
- Teacher Recommendation (only if you saw it): didn’t see them
- Counselor Rec (only if you saw it): didn’t see it
- Additional Rec (only if you saw it): didn’t see it
- Interview: Not so good. I got along with the lady fine, but I realized afterwards I made myself sound a little less intelligent than I would have liked.
</code></pre>
<p>Other</p>
<pre><code>* Three Areas of Interest Listed: global studies… i don’t remember the rest haha
- State (if domestic applicant): Georgia
- Country (if international applicant):
- School Type: public
- Ethnicity: white
- Gender: F
- Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): none
</code></pre>
<p>Reflection</p>
<pre><code>* Strengths: Essays, I think I had good recs??, volunteer and ECs
- Weaknesses: lack of awards and leadership, SAT scores
- Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I think my essays probably stood out… I honestly thought I would be rejected.
</code></pre>
<p>General Comments: I hope to hear good news soon!</p>
<p>Decision: Waitlisted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 800 CR, 800 Math, 790 Writing (2390)
[</em>] ACT:
[<em>] SAT II (if submitted): 770 Biology E, 760 Lit, 750 Math I, 730 Math II
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[<em>] Grades in AP/IB/honors classes (if applicable) All A’s
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 2/437
[<em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Bio (5), US History (5), Psychology (5), Stats (5), English Language (5), Calculus AB (5)
[</em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[<em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP European History, AP Lit, AP U.S. Govt, AP Macroeconomics, AP Chemistry, AP Human Geography, AP Calculus BC
[</em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AP Scholar w/ Distinction, National Merit Commended Scholar
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership and number of years participated in a certain activity in parenthesis): JV/Varsity Tennis (10, 12) FFA (9, 10) HOSA (11, 12) National Honor Society (10, 11, 12)
[</em>] Job/Work Experience:
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: Youth group/mission trips/science fair project mentor at elementary school
[</em>] EC short answer (subject and personal opinions on it): Mentoring poor 4th grade students for science fair projects, helping them acquire materials, etc. Not amazing, but ok.
[<em>] Common App Essay (subject and personal opinions on it): Relatives living with us for two months. Mostly a humorous essay, I thought it was really good.
[</em>] Optional Favorite Things Essay (subject and personal opinions on it):
[<em>] Why Chicago (details in the essay and personal opinions on it):
[</em>] Extended Chicago Essay (subject - if you want, include essay prompt if you did #5 - and personal opinions on it): “How did you get caught?” - I talked about telling a bad joke in third grade and getting in trouble for it. Also a humorous essay, I thought it was really good.
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation (only if you saw it): Good to the point of being ridiculous (teacher was way too dramatic about how good I was… she actually put “I have no doubt he will one day be lauded worldwide.” Yeah…
[</em>] Counselor Rec (only if you saw it): Really good, she loves me
[<em>] Additional Rec (only if you saw it):
[</em>] Interview: Mostly the guy just talked the whole time and I sat there and nodded quietly.
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Three Areas of Interest Listed:
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant): Florida
[<em>] Country (if international applicant):
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: White
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): none
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: test scores, grades
[<em>] Weaknesses: extracurriculars
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: unimpressive extracurriculars
[/ul]General Comments: Pretty bummed, I was hoping my SAT score would make up for weak extracurriculars… guess not!</p>