<p>Caucasian Female
SATs: 770CR, 780M, 800W
French: 770
Math II: 780
Chem: 800
ACT: 36
Rank: 2 or 3/320
GPA: 4.72
Courseload: Most difficult possible for my school.
AP Scores: AB Calc 5, US History 5, English L+C 5, French 4, Chemistry 5, Bio 5; will take Physics, English Lit, Environmental, Both Econs, Euro, and BC Calc.
ECs:
FBLA: Community Service VP; regional, state, and national awards; I am on 2 national FBLA committees. Won some other awards too.
Mentoring 10-15 hours per week.
French Honor Society President
Took 2 college courses in Spanish and 1 in Latin (got As and A+s in them)
Math/Science Club: Public Relations, Membership VP, lots of awards in Chemistry, Physics, and Math
Temple Youth Group Treasurer for 4 years
Girl Scouts–I worked with the town historical society for my gold award project. I’ve since written articles for them and given presentations at meetings.
History Club–Public Education Officer, Community Liaison, History Club Member of the Year (07)
Drama Club–Printed/sold tickets and worked on sound since I was 12.</p>
<p>Summer Stuff:
Latin at Stanford (06)
ASA Oxford (05)–Studied Shakespeare at Oxford, England
Worked in chemistry lab (07)</p>
<p>Don’t know how to interpret your GPA (W? UW out of 5?) but it’s probably sky-high like your test scores. Your ECs are OK and they’ll like your study of Latin and Shakespeare – you look like a real scholar – so you should be in assuming good essays.</p>
<p>As long as you talk about why you want to study at Chicago in your essays, I’d say statistically your chances look good. You need to reveal the person behind those stats.</p>
<p>Actually, the ec I like is running sound in drama; you’ve got all the academic stuff plus you can actually make things work behand the scenes. </p>
<p>You certainly have the numbers and outside interests for Chicago; you’re worked hard and are not in the position of trying to make up for test scores or your gpa or anything. You can concentrate on visits and interviews and the applications themselves. Unless it conflicts with a school to which you are applying ED, I would encourage you to apply EA wherever possible (provided that you are happy with your essays). </p>
<p>None of us has a crystal ball, but for listmaking purposes, I think you could consider Chicago a match (remembering that match <> sure admit).</p>
<p>You have the resume of a privileged, ambitious, sophisticated, very successful student.</p>
<p>You are not living under a rock, or attending Outer Mongolia Regional High.</p>
<p>You know perfectly well that you are competitive for admission at any college on this continent, and probably a whole bunch that aren’t on this continent, too. You probably know people at most of the ones you’re planning to apply to. You know that the only real problem you face is that you aren’t the only smart, driven, accomplished Jewish girl in the applicant pool who can speak a bunch of languges, living and dead. You know a bunch of your competition. You know that all of you are going to be going to great colleges next year, even if some of them are someone’s third choice rather than her first.</p>
<p>You are going to get no additional useful information out of a CC thread. You are going to increase the anxiety levels of kids out there who only speak two or three languages, none of them studied at Stanford. “How can I possibly compete with her?” That’s not fair.</p>
<p>Basically, I guess what I’m saying is that its ungracious for someone with your stats to be anxious in public and to ask for reassurance.</p>
<p>good point JHS…
she’s one of my competitors for Chicago… and yea, the thread made me think… but after all… we all have our stuff…
She doesnt have the chit I have, I dont have some crap she has; it all comes down to who you are w/ chicago… so its not a bother to me,.</p>
<p>BUT, JHS has a good point… this thread will be looked upon as discouragement in a sense to some applicants =( </p>
<p>Okay, I see your point too, and I do feel kind of sick at myself now for having posted it. However, despite what I have, I’m anxious too; I don’t know what to expect at all, to be completely honest. With the rising level of competition among applicants everywhere, the things that I used to think mattered in the admissions process are suddenly not as important as they were. Looking at the students who were rejected from schools that I would have thought they’d be accepted to is pretty scary, so I suppose the reason I posted this thread was as a reassurance that I really do have a chance, too. I hadn’t thought of the effect it would have on other applicants, and for that I sincerely apologize. No more chances threads for me…</p>
<p>Interesting you would all attack her…How do you know that her hs wasn’t one of those where all of the top kids were rejected from their 1st choices last year? Granted, her stats are amazing, but isn’t it possible so were theirs??..It makes those amazing kids very anxious if that is the case…and rightfully so…</p>
<p>Stress is the nature of the application game. The OP’s amazing stats come w/o arrogance and with a bit of insecurity. That is a good thing. We all know that students with less than the stereotypical stats can be amazing people too. So everybody apply and see what happens! Great people come in all formats and Chicago will accept as many as they can. It’s just not an easy process.</p>
<p>@Rodney: Did u look at her GPA? and her SAT score?? People with those stats go to HYPS; atleast from my school (val. 2 years ago went to Yale with worst stats than that; much worse…)…
HOWEVER…
Even though I do not have the authority to speak, but La Montagne’s EC’s are really weak. So I wouldnt blame her for being curious; for Chicago wants THE person… not A person…</p>
<p>So, I wouldnt say she’s a match, and also wont criticize her for her thread; bec/ her disequilibrium puts her in equal competition with someone who has won- lets say- ISEF… Goldwater… Olympiad… but w/ mediocre test scores…</p>
<p>;-) Good luck to you applicant, hope you get in</p>
<p>Heh, I wouldn’t call my ECs “really weak”… I mean, I do have a national award and two national officerships, albeit small ones… “really weak” to me means like… club memberships but no officerships. I have officerships in every club of which I am an active member. I personally have to agree with JHS and say that I probably shouldn’t have posted a chances thread. But yes, by the way, my school was hit pretty hard in the admissions process last year; #3 in last year’s class was rejected or waitlisted everywhere except for our state school and Northwestern, which I know is a really good school, but I would have thought she’d get in somewhere better.</p>
<p>our school’s last year vals. went to ramapo college (!) and Georgetown… had ranked 25 n 26 go to NYU… and a recruited basketball player to cornell… </p>
<p>My class will most probably send 1 girl to yale and thats it; unless I get into columbia- or chicago =)…</p>
<p>I believe it is actually ungracious for someone to criticize and pass judgement on the reasons a potential student may have to post their stats in a forum like CC.</p>
<p>All one needs is to take a look at the annual Accepted/Deferred/Rejected threads to have one’s anxiety and frustration level go thru the roof. Students post chances threads because of a need of reassurance. I say that it is rather courageous of someone to be honest and post stats here because of all the not so “kind” and sometimes out right rude and abrasive opinions that are commonly expressed.</p>
<p>JHS et al. are being rather opinionated on this one. Perhaps you should have suggested to prospective students NOT TO READ CHANCES THREADS, because of the possibility of having their anxiety levels raised when they run into someone with credentials like the OP.</p>
<p>I agree with JHS, but would also like to remind some of the posters that for some kids out here, UChicago is their preferred school (GASP!!!), ahead of the Ivies, and for many excellent and well-considered reasons. Even with stats like the OP’s. </p>
<p>Admissions can be tough, OP. You’re not likely to get shut out of a top school. It may not be your first choice, but you should land somewhere decent. The best way to make sure you’ll be happy come April is to focus on a list that where you will be happy, not one that suits your level of prestige. But complaining about the quality of a friend’s Northwestern acceptance won’t garner much sympathy, even on a UChicago thread. ;)</p>
<p>:) I know what you mean, and I’m not complaining; I know she’s very happy at Northwestern. It simply surprised (and kind of scared) me that she wasn’t accepted elsewhere as well. It makes me anxious, since this year’s class is supposedly even more competitive than last year’s, and given what she had and what I have, it does make me wonder if I’ll end up getting in nowhere and going to Rutgers. That’s one place where I know I WON’T be happy.</p>
<p>As of right now, I think UChicago is my second choice, and my first choice I have a very, very, very, very, very slim chance of being accepted to (Huntsman program at Penn).</p>
<p>Bottom line: the woman works hard, has accomplished a lot, and U of C will be lucky to have her…and her mommy’s and daddy’s money. Good for you, La Montagne.</p>
<p>Aaah, la montagne, now you’ve revealed the real issue, the one this forum might help you with. Chicago and Penn are very very different schools; do you have a feel for those differences? If yes, and your choices are still your choices, I think you should feel confident going forward. If not, then you still have a little research and contemplation to do.</p>
<p>Best of luck. No one is trying to put you down. It’s just that those chances threads are usually worthless. As you know, yours more than most.</p>
Good for you, La Montagne.</p>