<p>1) Where you’re from
new jersey
2) When you submitted your application
10/17
3) How long/hard you WORKED on your app (very applicable for UChicago :P)
about three months and quite a few drafts
4) Did you do the optional favorites essay?
nope
5) The topic you chose for your creative essay?
between living and dreaming
6) In your opinion, which was your best essay?
probably common app, but the extended essay was my favorite to write
7) What you want to major in
psych
8) Whether Chicago’s a safety/likely/reach school for you
hahahahah reach. my scores and essays are good but my gpa is…no
9) How badly do you want to go on a scale of 1 to 10?
10…tried to pretend it wasn’t my favorite school to keep my expectations down but it’s not working haha</p>
<p>Hi, everybody! I submitted today, I’m super nervous. I’m not sure I’ll be able to wait a month and a half for decisions… fingers crossed! </p>
<p>1) Where you’re from
Minnesota</p>
<p>2) When you submitted your application
Today at around 1:00</p>
<p>3) How long/hard you WORKED on your app (very applicable for UChicago :P)
I started thinking about the essay over the summer, and I ended up going with an idea I had mediumly early, but I didn’t start really working until a few weeks ago. I’m not sure exactly. And I worked pretty hard. I hope with all my soul it was hard enough… :)</p>
<p>4) Did you do the optional favorites essay?
Yep, I wrote about my deep love of superhero movies</p>
<p>5) The topic you chose for your creative essay?
between living and dreaming there is a third thing.</p>
<p>6) In your opinion, which was your best essay?
probably living/dreaming, but it’s a very different style than all the others, it’s not really an essay. My common app is also pretty good.</p>
<p>7) What you want to major in
undecided. (cinema & media???)</p>
<p>8) Whether Chicago’s a safety/likely/reach school for you
ummm, I don’t know, I’m fairly middle range in terms of numbers, and I’ve got decent ECs (not totally crazy like some of the people claim to post on here), I hope my essays are good enough… I’d say slight reach.</p>
<p>9) How badly do you want to go on a scale of 1 to 10?
Probably 10. It’s my top choice, I’m really nervous that I won’t get in. So much anxiety.</p>
<p>1) Where you’re from
NJ
2) When you submitted your application
2 nights ago 
10/30
3) How long/hard you WORKED on your app (very applicable for UChicago :P)
OMG IT TOOK FOREVER. I worked really hard on all of the essays, especially the extended essay. Probably 2 months.
4) Did you do the optional favorites essay?
Yes. I want to go Chicago so badly, I wasn’t going to risk it by not writing the optional one.
5) The topic you chose for your creative essay?
Between living and dreaming.
6) In your opinion, which was your best essay?
Idk. My extended essay was very analytical/philosophical. My Commonapp essay was more personal.
7) What you want to major in
Spanish, International Relations, PoliSci.
8) Whether Chicago’s a safety/likely/reach school for you
HAHA. I don’t like anyone can say Chicago is a safety. For me, it is a reach, but I think I am a competitive applicant.
9) How badly do you want to go on a scale of 1 to 10?
100000000.</p>
<p>1) Where you’re from
California!
2) When you submitted your application
5 minutes ago (I had no idea people submitted apps so early…)
3) How long/hard you WORKED on your app (very applicable for UChicago :P)
Pretty consistently over the last few weeks, probably a total of 6-8 hours. Not too many drafts.
4) Did you do the optional favorites essay?
Yup.
5) The topic you chose for your creative essay?
Antonio Machado
6) In your opinion, which was your best essay?
Antonio Machado. I recieved really good feedback for this one. No one read my Why Chicago essay, so…
7) What you want to major in
History? Polisci? Econ? Only time will tell.
8) Whether Chicago’s a safety/likely/reach school for you
Likely-reach, heavily leaning on reach.
9) How badly do you want to go on a scale of 1 to 10?
9.</p>
<p>1) North Carolina
2) 10/30
3) Spent ages working on my essay, then ditched it on the last week for a new topic…bleh
4) Yeah, about drum corps!
5) Nonscientific method
6) The creative one. My optional essay was me unashamedly babbling about drum corps.
7) Music and Chemistry
8) Reach, hopefully not too high.
9) 9.5 (Holding out for Music Ed at Northwestern, I’m determined to go near Chicago though)</p>
<p>Good luck everyone!</p>
<p>Ahhhhhh just submitted application, supplement and payment! I am so nervous that I am not going to sleep tonight (well of course because I also have lots of homework to do now).</p>
<p>UW: 3.85
W: 4.35
Top 20%
California
SAT: 2320 (760 Math, 780 Writing and Reading)
SAT II: 770 Chem, 790 USH
AP: 11 APs, 5 tests taken (all 5s)
ECs: decent
Prez and founder of two clubs
…</p>
<p>I hope I get in (so many top applicants apply from my school and I’m only in the second decile now 
) and good luck everyone!</p>
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<p>Hi everybody! I just submitted my application last night, and I’m so awfully nervous! Apologies if I’ve missed anyone - but I think I’m the first international student here? You all seem like such strong candidates, by the way, even those of you who have described themselves as otherwise, I’m a tad intimidated by all of your test scores, haha.</p>
<p>Anyway, I’m Egyptian, living in Egypt. I’m an IB student, predicted 44/45 points (Level 7s in all of subjects except Maths SL + 3 bonus points for ToK/Extended essay - top of my class), which I’m completely stoked about. However, I only have a maximum combined score of 1970 in my SAT I, which appears to be completely rubbish compared to everyone else here, and haven’t taken the ACT/any SAT IIs. I don’t really have much an excuse, but due to the current political situation and disruptions, they sort of… came a far second to catching up to my other studies (I missed 2-3 months of school). Ah well, what’s done is done, I suppose!</p>
<p>On the brighter side, my ECs are alright:
- MUN for the past 5 years, participated in 4 international conferences
- Editor-in-chief/layout editor of my school newspaper
- Muay Thai/Kickboxing/MMA
- Long-distance running, nothing official yet, but I’m running my first half-marathon in March! So excited.
- Head Girl at my school (it’s a British thing, sort of like student body president? But more focused on academics and student welfare in class)
- Founded a student organization which raises funds to renovate schools in impoverished areas in the country
- Teach arts and crafts, science and maths (sometimes English, too) to young children in ill-equipped (and quite honestly, generally dismal) government schools
- As well as some other volunteer work, a little bit of dabbling with music, INJAZ (the Middle-Eastern equivalent of Young Enterprise - my school’s company basically) and some other things.</p>
<p>Apologies for blabbing! As an English HL student, I tend to get a tad carried away when it comes to writing (which was an absolute nuisance concerning the required essays). I answered the one about finding a path between Play-Doh and Plato, I’m not sure which one is my best, honestly. To say I’m absolutely desperate to get accepted would be an understatement, it took me forever and a day to convince my ultra-conservative father to agree to the idea that studying abroad was not a completely awful idea, and he agreed on the condition that the university is UChicago - otherwise? Hello, Cairo University. And seriously? One of the Econ professors there refuses to answer any of the girls’ questions, with the excuse: “you have no reason to be here, you’re just going to get married off and stay at home anyway”. Err, yeah.</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone here, especially to those of you with upcoming interviews!</p>
<p>1) Where you’re from
IL
2) When you submitted your application
10/30
3) How long/hard you WORKED on your app (very applicable for UChicago :P)
not long, actually. it just took me a while to think of interesting essay topics, but once i had the initial idea, the writing was easy.
4) Did you do the optional favorites essay?
yep. wasn’t planning on it, but then i had a random epiphany on the 29th & decided that it was worth my time.
5) The topic you chose for your creative essay?
write about a time you found something you weren’t looking for.
6) In your opinion, which was your best essay?
optional favorites
7) What you want to major in
political science
8) Whether Chicago’s a safety/likely/reach school for you
reach
9) How badly do you want to go on a scale of 1 to 10?
omg, 10+</p>
<p>can you do Northwestern ED along with UChicago EA at the same time?</p>
<p>1) Where you’re from
IL
2) When you submitted your application
Oct.9
3) How long/hard you WORKED on your app (very applicable for UChicago :P)
Since summer
4) Did you do the optional favorites essay?
Y
5) The topic you chose for your creative essay?
Plato
6) In your opinion, which was your best essay?
7) What you want to major in
Ecom/Math
8) Whether Chicago’s a safety/likely/reach school for you
likely
9) How badly do you want to go on a scale of 1 to 10?
10</p>
<p>1) Where you’re from
AZ</p>
<p>2) When you submitted your application
10/31</p>
<p>3) How long/hard you WORKED on your app (very applicable for UChicago :P)
Spent a few hours a week over a few weeks.</p>
<p>4) Did you do the optional favorites essay?
Yes but brief and to the point.</p>
<p>5) The topic you chose for your creative essay?
Machado-living vs. dreaming</p>
<p>6) In your opinion, which was your best essay?
I liked my optional the best, my extended essay was decent and why chicago was meh.</p>
<p>7) What you want to major in
Econ</p>
<p>8) Whether Chicago’s a safety/likely/reach school for you
Very high reach. My sat score is ~2000.</p>
<p>9) How badly do you want to go on a scale of 1 to 10?
10</p>
<p>Im just being really hopeful, the wait is going to kill me.</p>
<p>And anything else you want to</p>
<p>1) Where you’re from
IL
2) When you submitted your application
11/1
3) How long/hard you WORKED on your app (very applicable for UChicago :P)
a LONG time.
4) Did you do the optional favorites essay?
yea, about my favorite book and piano song
5) The topic you chose for your creative essay?
between living and dreaming
6) In your opinion, which was your best essay?
haha the common app.
7) What you want to major in
molecular and cellular bio.
8) Whether Chicago’s a safety/likely/reach school for you
reach
9) How badly do you want to go on a scale of 1 to 10?
10!!</p>
<p>BeeLottie, I’m also international but I live in US. I’m nervous too!! If I get any financial aid (unlikely 'cause I’m international), then I will definitely go to U of C.</p>
<ol>
<li> Where you are from
Chicago</li>
<li>When you submitted your app?
Supp on 10/30 and CommonApp of 11/1</li>
<li>How long/hard you worked on your app?
One full day. From 8 in the morning until bedtime.</li>
<li>Did you do the optional essay?
Yessir. About my favorite hip-hop duo</li>
<li>Creative Essay
Between living and dreaming</li>
<li>Best Essay
Between living and dreaming (it got really trippy, and i came up with a great example)</li>
<li>Major
As undecided as can be, but usually say a math or econ type thing</li>
<li>Chicago safety/likely/reach
Likely, rather unique circumstances</li>
<li>1-10
9</li>
</ol>
<p>It seems like everyone chose the living and dreaming essay. lol</p>
<p>1) Where you’re from
TX</p>
<p>2) When you submitted your application
10/31</p>
<p>3) How long/hard you WORKED on your app (very applicable for UChicago :P)
Got the idea in the shower one morning. Wrote it at 5 am the next. Yeah, it’s probably not that great.</p>
<p>4) Did you do the optional favorites essay?
No. I don’t know if I should have in hindsight. I would have written about the Poetic Edda, Norwegian Wood, or the Unbearable Lightness of Being</p>
<p>5) The topic you chose for your creative essay?
Play-Doh to Plato</p>
<p>6) In your opinion, which was your best essay?
Play-doh to Plato</p>
<p>7) What you want to major in
Econ/Sociology</p>
<p>8) Whether Chicago’s a safety/likely/reach school for you
Reach. Low rank, and about 30 higher ranked people from my school alone, most of whom have better stats have applied early</p>
<p>9) How badly do you want to go on a scale of 1 to 10?
First-choice 10</p>
<p>1) Where you’re from
Practically Chicago
2) When you submitted your application
Halloween
3) How long/hard you WORKED on your app (very applicable for UChicago :P)
I wrote my extended essay over the summer, so I don’t really remember. Why Chicago didn’t take very long.
4) Did you do the optional favorites essay?
Nope, my love of football was expressed in other essays.
5) The topic you chose for your creative essay?
Between living and dreaming.
6) In your opinion, which was your best essay?
Between living and dreaming.
7) What you want to major in
Econ/Math
8) Whether Chicago’s a safety/likely/reach school for you
I think a likely. Chicago confuses me a little, because my stats are all above the 75th, but I still feel like this doesn’t guarantee anything.
9) How badly do you want to go on a scale of 1 to 10?
Maybe an 8. Not my first choice.</p>
<p>Has everyone here submitted supplementary material to UChicago?</p>