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Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Chicago ✅
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<p>What is my liklihood of getting accepted at U of Chic? Also, how likely am I to get fin aid? PLEASE help me, i love U of Chicago, but I don't think I can afford it!</p>

<p>I am a high school junior. I have a 4.22 on a 4.0 scale (3.98 unweighted). I got a 28 on the ACT, but I am retaking it soon. I am ranked 20ish in a class of 530. A few of my literary works were published in our school's literary magazine and I am a reporter and HR manager of our school's student newpaper. Also, I am president of our school's Diversity Club, member of NHS, and co-founder/vice president of Creativity Club (formerly the corresponding secretary of History Club and a member of Art Club, but both of them were canceled last year). I participate in competitive artistic roller skating and practice about three hours a day six days per week, with this I have won eight national and regional metals and this year I won Leslie Elder Michigan Skater of the Year. For community service (I do at least 11 hours/week), I work as an assistant for my former chemistry teacher once a week, I volunteer at the Michigan Humane Society every weekend, I teach a roller skating for beginner and advanced classes, and I volunteer and job shadow at the hospital near my house (which is nationally ranked) every Friday. Also, last summer I did a medical program at Michigan Tech, this summer I am doing the medical program at U of MD with the National Student Leadership Conference. This summer I also plan on teaching French to elementary school kids. </p>

<p>Classes: Jr yr: (I took AP US History sophomore year) AP Gov, Honors English, Independent Study: Physiology (ALOT of research involved, plan on getting it published), Genetics/Evolution, Advanced Journalism, Alg 2, French 3, Physics</p>

<p>Tenative classes for Sr yr: AP English, AP Bio, Advanced Journalism, Psychology, Epidemology, French 4, Pre Calc/Trig</p>

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<p>Your artisitc roller skating seems interesting, and you seem like a hard worker. I would say you will probably get in, just get that ACT up. And apply EA. As for financial aid, how could I ever know? Chicago's FA isn't as great as like Princeton, Cornell, or Yale etc, but who knows.</p>

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<p>I forgot to add that for skating I also received the Michigan National Acheivement Award for Junior Olympic Figure Skating and the Maggie Eng Club Award for Junior Olympic National Championships in 2004, and the Michigan National Acheivement Award for Figure Rolller Skating in 2007. In Diversity Club, this year I organized a Save Darfur campaign, met with Governor Granholm for a Youth Roundtable Program Celebrating Martin Luther King Jr., organized multiple fundraisers for Freedom House (an asylem for refugees in down town Detroit). </p>

<p>I resigned up for the ACT in April.</p>

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<p>Prove to them that you're the kind of person who would fit in there, and not just a "laundry list" of activities. I didn't have a tenth of the ECs you do; it was my personality, I think, that clinched my app for me (EA).</p>

<p>I probably can't afford Chicago either, so just remember that there are other good schools that cost less, and would even love to pay you to go there -- yay, scholarships. Good luck.</p>