<p>kameow – </p>
<p>First, you should probably be aware that the University of Chicago does not have an undergraduate accounting program of any kind. There is one class in the business school (a professional school) that undergraduates are allowed to take if they want, but there is nothing remotely like being an accounting major at a college that has that kind of program.</p>
<p>Accounting is a popular choice of major for American students, as for students all over the world, but many elite universities do not offer undergraduate accounting programs (some do). If you want to study accounting seriously in college, the University of Chicago is not a good place to apply.</p>
<p>Second, at the University of Chicago, students do not apply to a particular major or program. You won’t be helped in your application by saying you want to study accounting, and in fact it may hurt you because it could look like you hadn’t spent any time figuring out whether the University of Chicago was an appropriate place for you given your educational goals.</p>
<p>Third, regardless of a student’s main focus of study at Chicago, every student has to go through the university’s Core Curriculum, which is VERY heavy on reading and writing. If your English and Reading scores are both 20, and that reflects your current performance ability in English, you may want to re-think whether you really want to be at the University of Chicago. Even if you don’t care about accounting. Compared to other colleges, Chicago makes even science and technical majors do lots of difficult reading and lots of writing. It could be very hard for you to do well there.</p>