<p>From a musicality point of view, the U Orchestra was fine. There are some good players in it, and Barbara tends to not select music beyond their reach. That's the good news. And, for more good news, there are other performance opportunities, such as chamber ensembles, for which the department provides a limited amount of decent coaching. Of course, when looking at the chamber ensembles, the quality varies from excellent to not listenable. But at least a lot of kids get opportunities that way.</p>
<p>I have a bit of an interesting situation. I am homeschooled, but my parents have hired a teacher to oversee my education. So basically, I have two teachers, the hired teacher and the a teacher whom I am taking a class with at my affiliated charter school. However, this second teacher also happens to be my school-assigned counselor. I have not taken any other outside classes. Thus, it appears that I have only two people to spread over three different recommendations (Science/Math, English/History, Counselor).
My question: Who should be writing which recommendations?</p>
<p>Why don't we advertise our school? At all? I mean, almost no one knows about our school on the west coast; I only applied after my parent told me about it. Serious, we are good and we deserve our reputation. We would like to advertise our school so to reach more "Chicago types" who have had the chance to hear from us. Thank you.</p>
<p>Not sure if you will know the answer to this one, but I was wondering about transfer admissions. On the website, it states that approximately 125/575 applicants were accepted last year. Of those, do you know about how many came from two-year colleges? I am not looking for an exact number - only an idea. I was told by someone else that no CC students were admitted last year. Is that true?</p>
<p>brand_182 - It doesn't look like many students apply from community colleges; most of them come from universities and four-year colleges. We do have a few enrolled students from community colleges.</p>
<p>Libby,
I'm not quite sure if this is the right place for this question, but I know that
U of C offers a National Merit award and I was just wondering about the amount of this award. </p>
<p>I'm going to the open house on Sunday. Is it too late to have an interview on campus? I tried calling the office today, but no one picked up. Also, for sports, will we have a chance to talk to coaches even if we just want to play club? Thanks for any help!</p>
<p>Another question about ECs. I know you don't like "serial joiners", but what about people who are only involved in one activity (Project 540/RSVP) or maybe two by the end of school? My high school really doesn't have much to offer but I still do many other EC things that just aren't school involved. I write a monthly column for a paper with a circ of 30,000 and run a music review blog. I also do a few other things which I think are good, and that I like to do, that aren't at all school related. Does Chicago put more weight on school EC activities than normal EC things? Thanks.</p>
<p>darkrulerII - the open house was actually today, and interviews were all booked up a while ago. You don't have to contact a coach to play club, but you may want to contact the club president to get a feel for the team.</p>
<p>This is basically a chances post for me, but
Do u think you would look at me with
3.4uw (kinda low)
32 act
217/508</p>
<p>and
im in
fbla
Key club
and i have other ok extra curriculars.</p>
<p>but ide say my most important extra curricular to me is
i have 300+ hrs volunteer tutoring,
because i enjoy doing it.
I plan on becoming a highschool teacher, or possibly just a languages teacher, maybe for college, highschool, overseas, or intensive language training teacher for the military (teaching and languages are my passions)
But yeah
im thinking about majoring in japanese, and minoring in some other language
and then going on to education gradschool.</p>
<p>Well
anyway,
with languages, im very dedicated.
so far in highschool, ive taken spanish 1,2,3 and Honors spanish 4.
And, Japanese 1 and 2.
For my senior year i will be taking AP spanish, japanese 3, and honors japanese 4.</p>
<p>Basically, i just really would like to know if dedication like that(to my prospective major) would help give me a better chance of acceptance.</p>
<p>And those arent all im gonna learn.
In college i plan on taking, more japanese and spanish, italian, and possibly latin, greek, hebrew, or maybe chinese.</p>
<p>Libby , is UC looking for much more African Americans? I havent looked at the current % of African American Students...And any chances to show the Student Body (GPA Wise) Its not posted on Collegeboard.</p>
<p>I requested my alum interview a month ago, on the first day it was possible, but I haven't heard anything beyond the confirmation e-mail, and it seems like most of the people on this site at least have already had their interviews. My area is not isolated or anything. Do these things just take some time?</p>
<p>Also, I went to a leadership summit in the summer of 2005, where I earned a college credit. It was pass/fail and I really don't care much about the credit. All we had to do was participate in the program and write a journal. Do you need anything official from the college the credits went through? Or can I just not bother?</p>