<p>I was just wondering chances of getting into U of Chicago for CS & EE.
I am in my junior year at private high school in Oregon, called Oregon Episcopal School.
GPA: 4.0 (Unweighted, 1st in Class)
SAT: 800 M 710 CR 790 W
SATII: 800 M IIC 800 Chem 800 Phys
AP: AP Calc BC, AP Comp. Sci AB, AP US History, AP Chem, AP Physics C M, AP Physics C E/M AP Biology, AP Statistics, AP English
5-AP Comp Sci AB and both AP Phys. C’s</p>
<p>I expect 5’s on (AP Chem, AP Bio, AP Statistics, AP Calc)
I expect 4’s on (AP English, AP US History)</p>
<p>Currently I had summer internships the last two summers at Mentor Graphics as a computer programmer.
Also I have done research project in microbiology, which I have a passion for.
-It won 2nd Place at the regional fair
-It won HM at the Northwest Science Expo
-It was top 10 project at the Oregon Junior Academy of Sciences
-It won Outstanding Science Award Presented by the US Air Force
Also I was a semi-finalist in the USA Physics Olympiad as well as nominated for the USA Chemistry Olympiad Team.
I have won the regional Math Competition for the past 3 years qualifying for the Oregon Invitational Mathematics Competition. I was 3rd place in the toughest division this year.
I have been captain of the Science Bowl Team for the past 3 years, we won 5th place out of 64 at our last tournament.
I was the team captain for the state of Oregon at the National Panasonic Academic Challenge.
I am part of an engineering team that is a semi-finalist for an MIT grant. </p>
<p>I currently am one of the leaders of an organization called Explorer Post 915, which builds PC’s for local charities. The program is finacially supported by Intel. Local tech companies donate old pc’s to us, and we fix them up, and sometimes build pc’s from scratch for charity</p>
<p>I have volunteered at the Local Public Library.
I have been a Star Cast Mentor, which basically where high school students mentor Middle School students.
I have been part of the AASK program, which basically is a program that tutors students from a low-income public elementary school.
I am part of the Metropolitan Youth Symphony.</p>
<p>Things I will do through 12th:
Mock Trial (4 yrs)
Model United Nations (3 yrs.)
Speech and Debate (3 yrs.)
Math Club (4 yrs.)</p>
<p>Thanks in advance for helping me.</p>
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If by “EE” you mean engineering, your chances are absolutely exactly zero. It doesn’t exist. ;)</p>
<p>Yeah… Chicago’s a bad plan if you want EE. You should apply to Carnegie Mellon.</p>
<p>and I hear that UC Berkeley and UIUC both have top electrical engineering programs. I bet you have a very good chance of getting into both. Carnegie Mellon has the best computer science department I think, but I’m sure that a degree from Uchicago in computer science would also be very good.</p>
<p>AAAH I’m bs-ing sorry. Hearsay hearsay and I’m repeating it over. i don’t know any of this stuff actually it’s just what I picked up from random acquaintances.</p>
<p>Investigate Chicago’s CS program further to see if it would suit you.</p>
<p>I think you have good shot at Cornell. If you are applying to CMU’s SCS - that’s hard to predict - they are EXTREMELY COMPETITIVE. Likewise P’ton. You have obviously worked very hard, though - send in the app’s and best wishes.</p>
<p>Also look at: Caltech, Harvey Mudd.</p>
<p>Likelies with a good shot at merit aid: U Rochester, Case, RPI.</p>
<p>Harvey Mudd also gives aid to top 10% of graduating high school class with sufficient SAT/ACT scores.</p>
<p>Huh? Did I miss something here? Doesn’t anybody see that he’s some kind of freakishly crazily over-qualified applicant? He could probably be accepted anywhere he wanted…What is wrong with you people? You should be amazed he would waste an application on U Chicago when he could easily get into MIT/Stanford.</p>
<p>“Easily” is hard to say nowadays… there’s basically 10 overqualified applicants like the OP for every kid that applies to HPY/MIT/Caltech/Stanford/Carnegie Mellon EE/CS, so it’s hard to say that they’ll be the one that gets the spot based purely on stats and ECs. I have a friend with better stats, similar ECs, NM Finalist/ Presidential Scholar, and a 4.0 + half a math degree at a decently respected local college as a high school student who was deferred/denied from MIT- nothing’s a guarantee. We’re just trying to give the OP a list of reasonable options for scholarships and acceptances since the aforementioned are often pretty much a crapshoot even for crazy qualified applicants.
(And an application to UChicago is never wasted.)</p>
<p>Um, prospectiveMD, no one said that he wouldn’t be able to get into Chicago. People were telling him that his prospective major doesn’t exist at Chicago and so were suggesting alternative schools. As for your later comments, he would almost certainly not be accepted to Chicago if his application stated that he wanted to major in engineering when engineering doesn’t exist. Also, I know a good number of people who chose Chicago over MIT and Stanford.</p>
<p>Prospective - </p>
<p>“when he could easily get into MIT/Stanford”</p>
<p>Nothing is for sure with schools of this calibar. A young friend (with similar stats) is now at MIT, but Stanford lost her application twice and then rejected her.</p>