Hi! Would you mind chancing me for UChicago EA?

screennamessuck
Tue, 03 Dec 2019 00:50:14 +0000

(For the purpose of confidentiality, I’ll go by E for this thread)
I applied for UChicago EA and I’m new to this community, so I’m sorry if I’m doing something wrong, but could you chance me? I’m applying for 1st english 2nd poli sci.

Demographics: White female, middle class, Nevada, very large and highly competitive public school

Grades: weighted 4.6 unweighted: 3.8 (only B’s for middle school classes and a couple math classes)

Scores: 35 ACT (35M 35S 36E 33R) SAT (790ELA 750M)
APs are all 5s and they’re in Human Geography, Biology, Seminar, World History, US History, Eng Lang, Research, Environmental Science, Calc AB
(Taking 6 more APs this year)

ECs: Speech and Debate is my life

lots of local tournament wins in a bunch of events (debate and interp)

2 years of debate captain

vice pres this year

a few nationals qualifications, early elimination rounds at Nats 2019

couldn’t go to many out of state tournaments because of financials (explained in additional info section)

volunteering at local middle school speech and debate team 2hrs/week

Board Game Club president at my school (more a personality thing than academic, but whatever)

About 30hrs of political volunteering

National Merit Semifinalist

Other small clubs

Writing+Letters of Rec

I’d say writing is my strongsuit. My personal statement is about rediscovering the power of writing and it’s what I’m most confident in on my application

UChicago is my dream school and I poured my heart/funny bone into the essays. A few very picky English teachers told me they were solid

I know my LOR are solid because they all decided to show me them already (I cried a bit reading them)

Overall, I guess I’m most worried about ECs and them not standing out too much and of course no one is a shoe-in at schools like UChicago. I’d just really like an outsider’s perspective on how my application weighs.