UChicago Hopeful!

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<p>I know these threads are silly, but my parents think I can get into any school I want, but in comparison to the amazing students on CC, I'm not so sure! I'd really love to know what everyone else thinks. I plan on studying a lot more for the ACT and taking the SAT and maintaining/raising my class rank. </p>

<p>Does anyone have a freshmen profile for UChicago? I couldn't find anything. For example, GTown has a really helpful one: <a href="http://www12.georgetown.edu/undergrad/admissions/aap/documents/Profile2011.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www12.georgetown.edu/undergrad/admissions/aap/documents/Profile2011.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>I am junior in a great high school from Minnesota. I'd like to study anything business related, especially economics at UChicago. Finance, accounting, or applied mathematics would be great too.</p>

<p>Counting only freshman/sophomore grades:
UW GPA: 3.96
W GPA: 4.11
W Class Rank: 10/296 (top 3-4%)</p>

<p>ACT: composite: 30 (31 E, 32 M, 30 R, 25 S)
I took this once without any prep at the end of my sophomore year. I've been practicing a little bit the reading and science sections and I've been averaging a 33 R and 31 S!</p>

<p>Course Load: I've been enrolled in the most rigorous classes available. The only AP offered to underclassmen was AP US History (4).</p>

<p>-Junior Year (and first quarter grade)
AP Language (A)
AP Literature (A)
AP US Government (A)
AP Statistics (A-)
Pre-Calculus (required and advanced) (A)
French III (A)
Intro to Business/Sales and Marketing (A)
Physics (A-)</p>

<p>-Prospective Senior Year
AP Human Geography
AP Art History
AP Chemistry
AP Calculus BC
French IV
Accounting
(unknown other class)</p>

<p>EC's: (I will try to just list the major ones from the past year)</p>

<p>Key Club – President
Recruited, trained, and retained members, grew club from 14 total members to 80+ members; organized a minimum of 10 volunteer opportunities for each member; led bi-weekly meetings</p>

<p>Student Council – Vice President
Extensively planned, organized, and fundraised dances, Snow Week, Homecoming, and other activities</p>

<p>DECA – Vice President of Fundraising and Community Affairs
Organized community service opportunities for chapter; led fundraising opportunities (Herberger Coupon sales, Pizza Ranch volunteering, Bakers Square sales)</p>

<p>Congressman's Campaign Office – Intern
10 hours weekly; made phone calls for fundraising and event awareness purposes, assisted with local parties, and participated in parades</p>

<p>Scarlet Ambassador – Executive Board Member
Changed organization to become the face of high school; planned, led, and engaged Ambassadors in civic awareness opportunities throughout year; welcomed prospective/transfer students and parents on Freshman Orientation and throughout the year</p>

<p>Link Crew – Leader and Commissioner
One of two junior males selected by application and reference to lead Link Crew Leaders and to plan orientation and other yearly activities; co-led and co-mentored group of 10 incoming freshman</p>

<p>Special Olympics Minnesota’s Youth Activation Committee – Member
Selected by application to educate, activate, and motivate youth with and without intellectual disabilities; organized school wide assembly to enforce these goals</p>

<p>French Honor Society – Student Founder</p>

<p>Anti-Violence/Drug Committee – Student Representative
Only high school student representative in district-wide committee to help students and families in the prevention of illegal chemical use and the resolution of conflict in non-violent ways</p>

<p>High School Advisory Committee – Student Representative
One of three students selected to represent high schools in the district, providing input on issues</p>

<p>Project 4 Teens – Leader
One of three sophomore males selected by application and reference to teach 6th-8th grade students about responsible decisions, sobriety, and abstinence; successfully presented grant application to United Way for extended funding;</p>

<p>Peer Tutor – Participant
Average of two students with Geometry and Algebra II</p>

<p>Peter Pan –
Cast member of fall musical; set creation, acting, singing, and dancing</p>

<p>Race: Caucasian
Gender: Male</p>

<p>I really appreciate everyone for reading this! Please let me know if there are any schools besides these that might be a good (or better) match for me! I would definitely be interested in applying EA.</p>

<p>-UPenn
-Carnegie Mellon
-UC Berkeley
-Georgetown
-Cornell
-UWisc</p>

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<p>UChicago isn’t quick with the stats, but here’s the class profile for 2014: <a href=“https://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/apply/classprofile.shtml[/url]”>https://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/apply/classprofile.shtml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Expect your class’s vital stats to be non-negligibly higher in all key respects. Your EC’s are outstanding and your GPA and rank nothing to sneeze at, though your ACT score, while in the target range (if not just below it), isn’t quite good enough to grant you free entry into “any school you want”.</p>

<p>Additionally, I suggest you do some research on the academic programs at the schools you’re looking into. Though UChicago’s economics program is the best in the world, economics is NOT business, nor is it “finance, accounting, or applied mathematics”. UChicago’s programs, generally speaking, are not applied, and this is certainly something to be aware of as you get closer to applying.</p>

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<p>I wish they would give out more information!</p>

<p>I definitely understand the need to improve my ACT. I plan to take it in June once more, and then again in September. If I don’t like my June scores, I plan on receiving tutoring from ******. If I raised it a few points (I’m really hoping 2-3), would I be a solid candidate? I would just like to know where I can improve otherwise. </p>

<p>I understand that they’re not the same things at all, but I apologize if I came off unprepared. I originally thought that I would go into business, so I had to go to a college with a specific business school, but I learned that an economics degree may be sufficient for jobs along the finance route. Moreover, <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/business-major/714409-why-you-should-major-economics.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/business-major/714409-why-you-should-major-economics.html&lt;/a&gt;, among other resources, has convinced me that an economics major would allow opportunities much further than this. </p>

<p>I will look into UChicago’s economics program further! Thank you for your response!</p>

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<p>I got a 32C ACT this June! 35E, 32M, 31R, 31S, 09W. Anyone have any other input? I’m still very much interested in Chicago!</p>

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<p>Write strong essays! It will help for UChicago. <a href=“https://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/apply/classprofile.shtml[/url]”>https://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/apply/classprofile.shtml&lt;/a&gt; That’s the Class of 2015 profile, it was easy to find. just Google “UChicago class of 2015 profile” and you can look at other ones. There may be an admitted students profile if you look hard enough.</p>