<p>I didn't do that well on the ACT (well the problem is basically with my English score) :( and I did well enough on the SAT, so do you think I should bother sending my ACT score?</p>
<p>English: 28 (I don't know how I got that low. Hopefully the essay will bring it up, but I doubt it)
Math: 33
Reading: 34
Science: 31</p>
<p>Composite: 32</p>
<p>Thanks in advance for your advice!</p>
<p>Robespierre21–You could always retake the ACT (I’m retaking it in September). What’s your SAT score?</p>
<p>I don’t know anything about the ACT or its scoring, having never taken it, but Chicago takes either ACT or SAT, and you do not need to submit SAT IIs. If you’re really worried about the English, I’d suggest just taking the ACTs again and, if it’s better (I don’t know what constitutes a “good” ACT score; the ACTs are not popular where I am currently), perhaps submitting both ACT and SAT? Who knows.</p>
<p>CMK92- I’m most likely not retaking because I’m already retaking the SAT. I got a 2140 on the SAT. I’m pretty sure I could raise the SAT score because I made quite a few stupid errors when I took the test… </p>
<p>Do you think the university would look down on a 28? I’m just wondering if I should bother sending the score or just ignore it.</p>
<p>If you can raise the SAT to about 2200, you’ll be perfectly good, I’d say…I got in EA with a 2240 SAT and absolute crap distribution (800, 800, 640 math). Keep in mind that, at least before the Dean of Admissions change that’s coming up July 1st, Chicago ONLY looks at it on the old 1600 point scale (reading and math only, so I had a 1440), so if it’s your writing score on the SAT that’s holding you back, no worries. Again, though, the DoA is changing in July, so who knows what will change regarding score policies, etc. The new dean has been at Yale and at RPI, and I suspect that testing will be tightened up (looking at SATs on the 2400 scale, requiring subject tests now, stuff like that) within his first few years. Just a hunch, though, no links or anything to support that. :]</p>
<p>Ugh, writing pulled my grade up 
My CR/M score is only 1400. Hopefully the DoA doesn’t tighten admissions immediately, I really want to go to UChicago :|</p>
<p>1400 is solid enough…it’s nothing to run around being excited about when it comes to a school of Chicago’s caliber, but it’s certainly not something that’s going to pull your application down, particularly if your grades are good, you’ve taken challenging courses, you have good recs, and, most importantly, your essays show that you know what makes Chicago different from the rest. It never really hurts to try again, though, and see what comes of it.</p>
<p>I had a 33 on the ACT, and a 1400 on the SAT, and I got in EA. I often worried about my test scores being too low, but they were apparently good enough. I had a 32 the first time I took the ACT, and I retook in October of my senior year. Since I applied EA, I sent both my old score and my new one, since I had to submit before I knew what my new one was. It all worked out well. After test scores reach a certain level, they don’t mean much. I’d say you should retake either the ACT or SAT. Don’t waste your time on both.</p>
<p>How were you guys (JBVirtuoso and MilesAndEvans13) grade wise? My grades are okay. I didn’t do as well as I could have in my first two years of high school (I got a 97-99 for my eighth grade high school level classes, a 93 average in ninth grade, a 96 in tenth, and 98 in eleventh), but I am still going to be 9th or 10th in my class of 752 with a 96.5 overall average (101 weighted) and I’ve taken the hardest classes available.</p>
<p>And did you two choose to send SAT IIs? I just got my scores today and I don’t really like them (though my scores are all above 700). I will be retaking the tests since all the other colleges I’m applying to if I don’t get accepted EA to UChicago require at least two subject tests.</p>
<p>Sorry to bother you with all these questions, but your help is greatly appreciated.</p>
<p>1380 here. i got in. don’t worry.</p>
<p>Grade-wise, I had a 4.0, but my school had no APs or weighting of any sort, so it’s not as impressive as it first looks. Your grades look good enough. Actually, on a 4.0 scale, those grades would average out to at least a 3.9 by most standards. If you have APs under your belt, you’re really better off than I was.</p>
<p>My SAT IIs sucked. Horrendously. I had a 730 on Math 2, a 640 on Spanish w/out listening (I took it in June), and a 600 on literature. I was seriously hoping they wouldn’t look at those. I don’t know exactly how the new score reporting policy works, but last year, the SAT II score report was included with the SAT I score report. I like to think that they overlooked these scores, as they could have very easily kept me out.</p>
<p>Grade-wise I had a 106.something weighted and a high 90s unweighted, cumulative, over all four years, and I was valedictorian of my class. Frosh year I had a B in geometry both semesters, I think. I had no B semester grades again until I hit senior year and physics/calculus. I had five APs over all four years (APUSH, Calc AB, Physics-C Mechanics only, and both Latins), but all honors classes besides those APs…there were definitely people even from my own school with more APs than what I had. I took English senior year at a local tier 3 4-year public university. I come from Maine, however, and although my public school (1000 kids) was by no means horrible, I would not consider it a particularly challenging or competitive school. Mostly just playing the public secondary education game.</p>
<p>I too took SAT IIs and submitted them to Chicago; I was planning at the time to apply to Ivies, Williams, etc., which all require SAT IIs, even though I ended up just accepting my place at Chicago in early January. I got an 800 on US History, a 780 on Literature, and a low 700s (can’t remember the exact score, sorry!) on Latin. Chicago claims to ignore SAT IIs, but I’m sure they notice them, they just don’t use them as a make-or-break part of the application. If you have to take them for other schools anyway, you might as well submit them to Chicago as well; they basically can only help you.</p>
<p>I was admitted EA to Chicago '13.</p>
<p>Chicago doesn’t worry much about test scores, it’s their essays that you have to worry about, their essays are very unique and requires a lot of creativity. Their essays are not like other schools.</p>
<p>Yes, I agree with the essay comment. My essays were a bit out there.</p>