<p>Now wait a second, this applicant has great scores, but the resume certainly isn’t perfect. I’ve known people with her stats get rejected to schools who focus WAY MORE on test scores than Uchicago. Uchicago cares about ESSAYS. </p>
<p>Although you will most likely get in, it’s no sure thing.</p>
<p>I guess the unfortunate thing about these threads is that more information is available to the OP (or prospie) than we can discern. The admissions website posts stat profiles from year to year so that prospective students can gauge where they fall.</p>
<p>Admissions officers are humans, and though they have the power of God, they are not God. I know lots of decisions that have been made that were surprising to me, but probably made sense to somebody somewhere at some time.</p>
<p>Like your match and safety schools, and good luck!</p>
<p>La Montagne,
I don’t see any problem with stellar students posting because stuff does happen in admissions. </p>
<p>One thing about your profile is that you have had a fairly priviledged (at least financially) upbringing. That could be a negative, a positive, or entirely neutral - and we don’t know which it’s going to be ahead of time. If your school had trouble placing students last year - maybe your guidance office whizzed some colleges off. If you were from no-name rural hs, colleges wouldn’t know your GC from Adam: again, could be negative, positive or neutral. We can’t see the black box that is admissions - we can only guess based on the past history of student we have watched and the admissions statistics themselves. </p>
<p>Do I <em>think</em> you’ll get in? Yes. Am I sure? No. </p>
<p>From what I have observed with Chicago and other schools (limited data-set), admissions starts getting hard to predict (based on available information) at about a 45% admissions rate. You can’t bet the farm on one or two schools.</p>
<p>While I don’t exactly trust any one college to do what one could reasonably expect them to - I do trust in a well formulated list of schools.</p>
<p>unalove -
“I know lots of decisions that have been made that were surprising to me, but probably made sense to somebody somewhere at some time.”</p>
<p>That’s very true. What makes it more complicated is that it could have made rational - or emotional sense to someone on the particular day the application was read.</p>