@NotVerySmart thank you for your answer,
Can you elaborate on the schools that you consider matches for me?
@strivingforanivy while I thank you for the compliment, I seriously can not fathom what you find so impressing about me. You are doing quite well yourself :
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/sat-act-tests-test-preparation/1833792-is-a-low-math-sat-a-dealbreaker-for-barnard-how-to-prepare-for-math-section-in-2-months-p1.html
@Soheils Hmm, let’s see. Try the fact you’re a 16 year old genius who will likely find incredible success at an amazing school at the age of 16 
If you get the chance, this is my ~official chance post~ at the moment if you could check it out, even though I offered so substantive help in return.
@strivingforanivy
while I thank you for your compliment, of which I am undeserving IMO, I would like to remind you that this is all mere speculation, and that nobody knows what the admission committee thinks. So I would recommend that you reserve your praise for people who have actually been accepted :D.
Will I be forced into particular dorms if I get in?
I have not been on this forum for a long time simply because my son has graduated from college a couple of years ago. All I can say is that UChicago used to be THE college that would accept high school students at a very young age. Quite a few other colleges did not like the idea at all, but UChicago was renowned for its very different view concerning this subject. I repeat the words of my son’s high school councilor: “Chicago likes them young”. He was right and my son (by then your age) got in. Things may have changed though, but somehow it would surprise me.
@TaiTai Thank you for your answer.
was your son a senior? I would not be considered an “early entrant”, it seems, because I will have my HS diploma by the time of my matriculation. correct me if I am wrong.
Also, was your son forced into special dormitories?
There are no special dorms for young students, at Chicago or anywhere else you are applying. Whoever suggested that in another thread had no idea what he or she was talking about.
If you enroll at Chicago, you will be asked to rank a few dorm choices, and also to answer some questions about what’s important to you in a dorm. Then you may or may not get one of your preferred dorms. You may be “forced” into a dorm you didn’t choose, but it won’t have anything to do with your age, nationality, or anything like that. It will mainly turn on when you committed to Chicago, and which dorms are most popular.
Chicago has been tearing down or selling old dorms and building new ones for the past 15 years, and has plans to keep doing that, so year-to-year there are often changes in the stock of rooms available. There are definitely dorms that are more attractive than others. In recent years, some students have had to be placed in buildings that no one thinks are optimal, but they’re available, and they work OK. It’s not worth worrying about.
@JHS that was one of my worries, thanks. Somebody had said that in the other thread made by a young student, though the student in question was much younger than I.
I have no problem with being in a dorm that is not the best, so that is not a concern.
BTW, I did not know that committing earlier can effect dormitory situation. Are all schools like that?
It’s not universal, but it’s very common. Actually, it probably IS close to universal once you get past a thin layer of elite private universities and LACs, but it won’t be true about many of the other colleges to which you are applying.
I know someone who was 18 when he graduated from Wake Forest University. He is from Saudi Arabia. Now he is 19 and attending Stanford for graduates school for Computer Science. I don’t think age will hurt you. You are obviously mature, which is the important part.
All I have to say is this: Say you waited a year or two (whenever it is normal to start college from your school), imagine how much more you would be able to accomplish in high school. You are 15, and already did all of this with a 34 on the ACT. Like my god.
But seriously, don’t worry about your age.
@JHS That is an extremely uninformed thing to say about Iranians and Hezbollah.
Do not confuse a terrorist organization with an American Labeled Terrorist Organization. Hezbollah? American Labeled. Basic research on them and their goals would lead any sane person to this answer. I could get into the politics on why the US, and the rest of the Western Empires for that matter, considers them a terrorist organization, but this is not the place for that.
You’re a lot more impressive than I was when I was 16!
@waddups thank you for your response.
I will graduate from high school in june. I have no option of staying or taking more than one gap year. The NZAGA will come and draft me the minute I hit 18 unless I am in college, and I can’t exit the country in the second half of my 17th year.
Also, I am sure @JHS was joking about my involvement with them. I replied seriously because I wanted to use this admittedly minor tribune to correct the misconceptions of any non Iranian who might be reading this.
Had I known that jhs went to Yale, I would have probably said something like " if I wanted to join a strong cult drunk on something, I would have applied to Yale." (This is a quite lame joke, and is not meant to offend. Sorry, I couldn’t resist.)
@blue147 thank you for the compliment.
@waddups :
- Soheils is right that I was joking, although there is a serious point there. Twelve years ago or so Yale admitted a very impressive Afghani refugee who had largely taught himself English and advanced mathematics under very primitive conditions. Several influential alumni who had met him were privately funding his tuition. It became public that as a teenager he had served as a special assistant/translator to a high-ranking Taliban official for 7-8 months, something he had fully disclosed to Yale and to his benefactors. (They took it merely as confirmation that everyone who had ever met the guy had been bowled over by how smart he was.) Nevertheless, there was a huge furor, and Yale ultimately had to rescind his admission.
I think with a candidate from Iran, colleges will be cautious about vetting him or her to avoid that kind of situation.
- On what basis do you conclude that I am ignorant and/or unsophisticated about Hezbollah? I may actually agree with you, or at least not disagree anywhere near as much as you have assumed. That doesn't change the hard truth in my joke: No mainstream U.S. college will knowingly admit and fund an applicant associated with Hezbollah. Is that really good policy? Should it be more nuanced? Reasonable people could debate that (but on some other website, not this one).
One of the great things about the University of Chicago, by the way, is that it’s one of the few places in the country where I can imagine people having a reasoned debate about Hezbollah. At most universities, including the most famous ones, any attempt to do that would immediately devolve into grandstanding, shouting, and sloganeering by both sides. But at Chicago, the culture of discussion that is both rigorous and respectful generally rejects ideologues of any stripe.
@JHS it is nice to be right.
I think the furor you mentioned was unjustified. I don’t think he had much of a choice, especially if he was barbari or hazara, which is likely since Pashtuns were not as likely to seek refuge.
In my particular case, I think my essays do a good job of putting me in the clear.
BTW, I have to repeat that both quds and hezbollah are largely devoid of non high ranking Iranians.
@JHS I did not mean to infer that you are ignorant/uneducated (there is a difference between being uninformed and ignorant. I don’t mean to be condescending or negative in any way, but we are all uninformed in different areas, and I personally choose to not make any kind of conclusive assumption about something in an area that I am uninformed. I do not know if you are uninformed in foreign politics, but I claimed your statement was).
My statement was a statement about U.S. domestic politics, though. That’s what you failed to understand.
As it turns out, I WAS uninformed, in that I failed to understand there were no Iranians in Quds Force or Hezbollah.
@JHS Technically Hezbollah is a Lebanese political party, thus no Iranians. However, they share very similar interests, and is largely fueled and funded by the Iranian regime.
At first, your joke seemed to be delegitimizing, therefore insensitive. However, I understand now.