<p>If I apply through early action, get rejected, and retake the SATS, would I be allowed to A) apply under regular admission and if A) then B) submit my new SAT scores?</p>
<p>What do you guys think? My scores are borderline for the university now and I'm pretty sure I'll be able to raise them the next time I take them, so should I do early action or regular admissions?</p>
<p>If you apply EA/ED and you are rejected, you cannot apply again for that year under regular decision. You can apply say as transfer student the next year. but the idea of EA/ED is that you get an early decision not a second chance</p>
<p>Do you think it would be better for admittance and financial aid to apply through early action with lower SATs (2050 to be exact, 1390 on CR and M) or regular decision with higher SATs (most likely 2200+, 1450+ on CR and M)?</p>
<p>What about your GPA, AP classes, honors classes, activities, hooks? Please have a look at other threads to understand the (limited) role of the SAT in UoC’s application process. If you are a dream candidate as far as GPA etc. is concerned, I would go for EA. If your GPA etc. are in line or lower than your SAT results, you may want to give the SAT another chance before applying.</p>
<p>Chicago looks at SAT out of 1600 and looking at its score distributions, it doesn’t seem like they give much of a damn about it.</p>
<p>srrinath: The opinions about the importance of the SAT at UChicago differ, See the thread called word of caution for U Chicago applicants. </p>
<p>motion12345: I forgot to add that the quality of your essays is essential when applying to UChicago. Only apply EA if you are able to submit quality essays in less than 3 weeks from now (due date November 1). Otherwise you need to give yourself more time by applying<br>
under regular admission.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/790262-chance-me.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/790262-chance-me.html</a></p>
<p>there’s my info, and essay is already written</p>
<p>Many EA applicants are deferred to RD.</p>
<p>So if my essay is good will my sats (with everything else I have) matter?</p>
<p>Of course they will matter. The question is how much will they matter, and whether that would be enough to keep you from being admitted. The answers are Who Knows? and It Depends.</p>
<p>No one really knows how important SATs are, maybe not even the admissions staff. Chicago says they are considered but not very important; the score distributions for their classes would not be achievable if they weren’t considered more strongly than the official statements imply. But, at the same time, the class would look very different if SATs were the most important factor, and other factors didn’t often outweigh them.</p>
<p>It depends on those other factors, including your essays and your recommendations. The better those are, the less your SATs matter.</p>
<p>You are not going to get a more precise answer from anyone, unless they are making things up.</p>
<p>Let me suggest a strategy. </p>
<p>My sense – and probably yours, too, or else you wouldn’t be asking this question – is that your SATs are nowhere near low enough to exclude you on that basis alone, but that they are low enough to constitute a negative factor. If you apply EA, and retake the SATs, the risk you run is that your SATs improve a lot (more than 60-70 points on M/CR), but you get rejected EA before anyone considers the new scores. I don’t think that will happen – far more EA applicants get deferred than get rejected, and if you are deferred your new scores will be considered in the spring. But there’s some risk.</p>
<p>So apply EA, retake the SATs, and if your score really jumps meaningfully, withdraw the EA application and ask that it be converted to RD. You should know your new scores in time to do that. There isn’t enough advantage in EA vs. RD at Chicago to risk being rejected when you could add something really positive to your RD application. (Take into account the grades you think you will get first semester, too. If they are not going to be so great, that cuts the other way – don’t change your application.)</p>
<p>my GPA will be going up ~.1 for Weighted (not positive about non-weighted), so it should be helpful.</p>
<p>thank you for the helpful post JHS; first meaningful response to one of my threads since I’ve signed up.</p>