<p>I was wondering based on my description if I am a good match for the UofC:
I am valedictorian of my high school class. I took the hardest courses offered to me. I spent many long nights working on homework. I like to learn about something as much as possible. Every subject interests me and when I find something that interests me I try to find as much information on it as possible. I have never been to a party in high school. I have about 5 friends that I usually hang out with and watch movies with. I am a pretty quiet person, so I don't have very good debating skills. I am also friendly and modest. I plan to study biology or english and go on to med school.</p>
<p>That sounds like a lot of people I knew at Chicago. You should schedule a visit during the school year and see if it's a fit.</p>
<p>Sounds like a good match to me. Parties are overrated anyway. I was valedictorian as well, and I like to study and read. UChicago is a perfect fit for people such as you and I. ;]</p>
<p>Thanks for your posts. Hopefully I will become a part of the "life of the mind"</p>
<p>Your personality seem like a good fit for a lot of schools - MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Caltech, Yale, Chicago, Swarthmore, Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth, Penn, Princeton all come to mind. I would put Chicago in the middle of that list. Berkeley, in particular, has a strong LOTR-type contigency.</p>
<p>Thanks for your confidence in believing I could be a part of those great schools, UofCman, but the problem is I don't have a great ACT score that will keep me from getting into any of these schools: 27.</p>
<p>hey, come on now - some of you make it sound like ppl who like to socialize are not gonna fit in at UChic. thats not true, is it? i mean, im val & in IB, sure - but i'm also a pageant girl & a trained dancer.
parties are NOT overrated!!! not when there are indian ppl and/or free food around :D</p>
<p>and lotr246, i'm just curious - you say you're quiet but are you expressive on paper? If so, i'd say thats perfect for UChic.</p>
<p>No, it's not true. Socialability has no bearing on whether or not you'd fit in, really. Other qualities determine that.</p>
<p>^ Actually, beyond not completely lacking common sense whatsoever (which I would imagine is a quality you would need to fit into many places), UChicago is quite accepting of all sorts of people: partiers, nerds, poor, rich, liberal, conservative. It was all about finding your niche there. From my experience, UChicago was quite a clique school -- in other words, there were about 100-150 people in the "inner circle", who were pretty and popular and hung out with only each other, another 100-150 or so who never came out of the library, and finally 700 or so kids who were all over the spectrum.</p>
<p>Yep. Even people who hate the "Idea of Chicago," as it were, seem to find a place here. We call then economics majors.</p>
<p>hey that's not nice! I've heard that elsewhere too... will I be outcast simply by being an econ major there? I mean, I decided to go because of how I felt about the school AND the fact that their econ dept is, well, amazing.</p>
<p>You guys are funny. It is important to note one can be social without parties. From what I could tell on my visit, everyone wants to find friends and that makes it really easy to find and be a friend, regardless of where your interests lie.</p>
<p>ECON ROCKS!!!!</p>
<p>:) sorry, I just get excited when i hear about chicago's econ dept :)</p>