<p>Hey, I am a white male from Georgia, and I was wondering what are my chances at UChicago (EA)? I also plan to major in economics.</p>
<p>Sat: 2200
GPA: 3.97 uw/numeric average: 95
(11 A.P's and 8 Honors)
Sat II's: Chemistry: 780, Math IIc: 780, APUSH: 740</p>
<p>President of Habitat for Humanity/member and officer(11-12)
President of FBLA/member and officer-(10-12)
Captin of debate team/ member(11-12)
Class council vice president/class rep./secretary(10-12)
Captain of hockey team(9-12)
Captain of crew team/Top 5 in state(9-12)-Contacting coaches
Citizens of the world: Vice President/President(10-12)
Officer of NHS(11-12)
member of SNHS/officer(10-12)
member of SADD(9)
Community Service hours: 500+Hopefully doing another 1,000 hours
Many other awrds
Worked through out high school</p>
<p>Not so fast. A friend of my S had similar numbers & EC's and was not admitted. My S read his essays after he sent them in and said he was afraid they would not cut it. Apparently, my S was correct. The young man eventually chose to go to Duke.</p>
<p>I also wouldn't count on those ECs either. They may be manifold, but they're boring, frankly. I don't see anything interesting; just Habitat for Humanity and other staple clubs.</p>
<p>Your question is unanswerable; that's the point of an interesting EC. An interesting EC is something that you look at and think "hmm, that's interesting; I haven't seen that before AND it seems like an interesting activity...one that would be meaningful/edifying for its pariticipants."</p>
<p>Yes, mine is a personal opinion. Also, your offer of admission/letter of rejection is also the personal opinion of the admission committee. It's not that your ECs are bad; you've put a lot of time into them. most likely. I personally just don't see something that jumps out at me as intriguing, and that makes me want to learn more about you as a person. I see activities that everyone else has, and that have become trite and hackneyed.</p>
<p>I think you have a fine list of ECs. Plus, you are in leadership positions in most of them, whether sports, community service or academic (debate).</p>
<p>Don't worry, your EC's do not need to involve teaching blind kids horse-back riding.</p>
<p>okay, i don't think essays make or break the decision in every case. i wrote my essays without much effort cause i didn't take uchicago seriously (at first), and what did i get? i was deferred EA and accepted RD.</p>
<p>oh yeah, i think my essays could have contributed to it (or maybe they found me unworthy in some other respect), but then later didn't they disregard my not-creative essays?</p>