<p>On CC, everyone seems to have either been accepted or deffered..very few, if even, rejected...whats the deal?</p>
<p>Based on the pattern, there should be a round of rejections coming soon…Sorry, guys.</p>
<p>Plus, CC members are a self-selecting pool. I’m sure there have been rejections.</p>
<p>^^ Exactly. I don’t think people who have been rejected are all that willing to post about it right now.</p>
<p>Will the exact numbers be released at some point?</p>
<p>One one of these threads, ChicagoPSAC said that accept, defer, and reject were all possibilities this year. I can’t find which thread it was in, but I know I thought… okay - a deferral isn’t the absolute worst I could have gotten, although it sure hurts.</p>
<p>Just found it - post #11 in the “No more private messages” thread. I’d really like to see this confirmed, but I hate to even ask.</p>
<p>There are some who were rejected. They are unlikely to be posting at this time, but wait a while and they’re resurface.</p>
<p>ye i know what u mean…at least getting deferred u r curious about what kind of ppl got deffered to…to see if you still stand a chance!</p>
<p>This is why deferral is the worst… no idea what to make of it.</p>
<p>Would I love to get into Chicago? You bet! But I’m also mature enough to accept it if that’s not going to happen. So what’s the deal? Are deferrals polite rejections at Chicago (it differs school to school), and even if it wasn’t, what else can I possibly do?</p>
<p>Besides keeping my grades up,</p>
<p>Up my test scores? Too late…</p>
<p>Do something wicked amazing outside of school? There’s like a month or so before they start making decisions again…</p>
<p>I don’t know.</p>
<p>jack2010…i agree…i dont quite know what to do either…unfortunately ive started slacking in my classes way too much so my grades for the 1st semester can only hurt me</p>
<p>and i guess they we r supposed to do something “wicked amazing” to convince them that we r amazing. </p>
<p>i hate deferral…its like a pause…and it gives hope…but i hope it is not false hope…if me and u chicago are not meant to be…then id like a rejection–right NOW…cause i dont wanna be hopeful for NO reason!</p>
<p>jack2010 and 2468, I empathize.
lol jack2010 same here with the grades
anybody have ideas for wicked amazingness?</p>
<p>I also feel stupid for even being upset… It’s not like I’ve been deferred from state or something. This is the University of Chicago, for god’s sake… I knew it was a high reach with my stats from the beginning, so just not being rejected is something that I should be (but am not) proud of.</p>
<p>My academic stats are not very impressive. I got a 2020 on the SATs, top 15% of the class. But I’ve done some really cool things outside of high school. I’ve taken a full semesters worth of classes at a community college over the past four years because my high school didn’t offer them and I wanted to take them. I started an online business in 2007 that made $20K last year. I started a grassroots campaign that made my city the first in the state to ban smoking on its beaches… etc etc etc whatever. So Ive been applying to these places hoping they could see a big picture they like.</p>
<p>Anyway, I’ve gotten into Tulane so far. I really think it’d be a great school for me. But hey, it’s no Chicago. So the issue for me personally is that I’ve heard back from Cornell and Chicago so far. Both of them deferred me. If I was rejected by both of those, I would just be able to accept that I’m aiming to high, and I could send in the deposit to Tulane and be happy. But with these deferrals, I have no bearing to determine if I am aiming to high or not! Just to be deferred, I may very well have taken a deferral away from someone with a 2300 on the SAT, from the results posted on this site. So obviously these schools see something in me! But I have no idea if they see enough to admit me, so here I am most likely being strung along… lol</p>
<p><em>end rant</em></p>
<p>you sure do have some awesome EC’s there Jack:) Guess all we can do now is try and conjure some semblance of resilience and wait wait wait til April. ugh. and finish other apps through a lens of disillusionment and depression. I didn’t think deferral would sting so much :/</p>
<p>Sucks more when your grades and test scores are well above average and not accepted.</p>
<p>I worked my butt off on those essays, and they were probably the only part that could have hurt me…but I went through 5-6 editions of them, but still not good enough. ECs are pretty decent with sports, music, community service, lab research, part-time job. BLEHHHH</p>
<p>That’s my little vent…I’m done now =P</p>
<p>I got deferred by the way. Congrats to those who got in.</p>
<p>jack, u have uhhhmazing extracurriculars…that website thing is very good</p>
<p>one thing i have noticed is that the ppl that u chicago has accepted have very very very high sat scores. and it seems like the one thing that all the accepted ppl have.</p>
<p>^ well…isn’t that kind of expected? haha</p>
<p>I took the SAT twice but my first sitting was a waste…I wonder if improving my SAT score by 320 points between these two sittings affected anything negatively haha</p>
<p>I didn’t take the SAT and my superscore on the ACT is very high, but I’m sure that the disregard of Reading/English isn’t helpful when, in the end, I got 36 on both of those sections and worse scores on the Math/Science. Eff my life.</p>
<p>I got defered but I know a guy who had a 2300 on his SAT and was ranked 8 (out of a 1100) in his class and got a straight up rejection. I’d say Chicago criteria is something hard to pinpoint at best.</p>
<p>omg…tiecardigan…u chicago def wasn’t thinking straight when they rejected ur friend…</p>
<p>so on another thread it said that u chicago likes intellect more than ivy leagues or something like that…</p>