<p>someone mentioned before on Facebook that someone already received their decision. ill paste what the person said on Facebook:</p>
<p>"girl from my school who is really under-qualified already got in to u of chicago.
to list a few of the issues: she has never taken hard/honors classes in school, she only has mediocre grades in the classes she did take, she left junior year to go to an arts school where she became addicted to coke and had to go to rehab, and she's just overall a really underwhelming person.
evidently she has killer test scores (2220 on the SAT), but u of chicago claims that it doesn't really look at those numbers."</p>
<p>i dont know if this is true or not, but theres been a lot of dicussion going on in that University of Chicago 2008 applicants Facebook group.</p>
<p>A 2220 is a great score, but it would never be a reason to admit a student to an elite school by itself. It's in Chicago's midrange, and would not stand out among the applicant pool or admitted students.</p>
<p>Either there's an exceptional, exceptional, exceptional case going on here (not even merit kids are notified early, as far as I know), or it's a hoax.</p>
<p>I doubt it's true. The two girls obviously don't like each other. Maybe the girl got into U-Illinois at Chicago, which is probably releasing decisions now on a rolling basis, or maybe the girl was lying just to make the other girl angry. It's possible that this is a strange and exceptional case, as Unalove said, but I'm betting on it being false.</p>
<p>Look, everyone's saying there's a kid at my school who's not only international, but got a 36 on his ACT and has already been accepted to Stanford and Northwestern.</p>