Chance me Chicago ED2 please!

LDNapplicantUS
Thu, 20 Dec 2018 10:54:57 +0000

@caymusjordan @JBStillFlying Thank you.

I am applying “test-flexible” - my other form of standardized testing is predicted A-levels (although in truth I reckon they’ll look heavily at GCSEs as well to verify that the A-level results I have predicted aren’t inflated).

UK schools don’t rank, and at our school, it is very difficult to rank yourself against other people who also got the best possible standardized test (GCSE, A-level) results. I think I would lie somewhere in the band of top 20 out of approx 260 (i.e anywhere between best and 20th best); I’m sure top 20 out of 260 doesn’t sound that great compared to some other CCers with 1st out of 700, but our school is very high performing and also has a lot of Hong Kong/ Singapore boarders who achieve very strong (similar to me) results.

Thanks for your advice though, I don’t like ACT/SAT and simply don’t have the time to commit to prepare/ revise and get a 1550+/ 35+; I probably would have been able to get a 1450-1500 or 33 in the Dec test with a couple past papers, but I think sending in such a score would do more harm than benefit.

NYU and U Chicago are the only schools I’m applying for in the US as a result - do you believe I’ll be at a significant disadvantage?