<p>Someone with an average score in the 2000-2100 range can get in with a high GPA, class rank, good essays and strong ECs too.</p>
<p>I got accepted RD with approx 2100.</p>
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Are you saying this as if it were a bad policy? Because if Chicago took everyone with 36 ACTs/2300+ SATs it would be a remarkably less selective school (I say this in general terms and by no means as a judgment of you). </p>
<p>And though I enjoyed seeing myself on the OP’s list, I think a few things have to be said about its importance:</p>
<p>1) This is, as someone else said before, College Confidential. The list has most likely been skewed upward of what it would typically be.</p>
<p>2) Chicago already had an EA round, so the RD round is going to be more selective in comparison than it would be at Harvard. Let’s say the average SAT scores of a school were rated on a 100 point scale. Chicago’s overall average might be 96 total, and Harvard’s 98. If we accept that Chicago’s RD round lent itself to higher scores than it’s EA round, the RD scores for Chicago would be somewhere north of 96 (let’s say 97). But at Harvard, where there is only an RD round, the RD scores will be what they are–98. In other words, because Chicago has a less selective round taking many of its applicants early on, the stats of the RD pool more closely reflect Harvard overall because Harvard’s overall is their entire accepted pool, versus a smaller, more selective (albeit slightly) pool of Chicago’s total students.</p>
<p>3) It’s not really all that uncommon for schools to accept mostly kids in the 2200+ range when there are no hooks. If you go to page 8 of the PDF here, [SSRN-A</a> Revealed Preference Ranking of U.S. Colleges and Universities by Christopher Avery, Mark Glickman, Caroline Hoxby, Andrew Metrick](<a href=“http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=601105]SSRN-A”>http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=601105), you’ll find that for HYPM the probability of admittance rises dramatically after passing the 98th percentile. Take a look at the collegeboard’s percentile-to-score chart (available here: <a href=“College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools”>College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools), and you’ll see that the 98th percentile corresponds roughly with a 2200 three-section score. Note that a large chunk of the accepted students below the 98th percentile in the original chart were most likely hooked applicants.</p>
<p>4) Going off of the first three points, I think that if you were to make the same list for MIT, Stanford, or Yale this RD round, the average SAT score would be close to or above Chicago’s on this thread (probably above).</p>
<p>What’s up with Princeton’s curve?</p>
<p>Perhaps those who write essays that Chicago is looking for also tend to have high SAT scores, but those who have high SAT scores do not necessarily write essays that Chicago is looking for.</p>
<p>Update</p>
<p>2015 RD Chicago Admits (No hook applicants from Official 2015 RD Results Thread)</p>
<p>ACT: 35 SAT II: 800-790-740
SAT: 2380 ACT: 36
SAT: 2400 ACT: 36 SAT II: 800-800 (Silverturtle!)
SAT: 1440/1600 SAT II: 800-720-720
SAT: 2210 SAT II: 800-790
SAT: 2280 SAT II: 720-800-750
SAT: 2370 SAT II: 800-800-800-780
SAT: 2340 SAT II: 800-790-740
SAT: 2310 ACT: 34
SAT: 2280 SAT II: 780-750-730
SAT: 2400 SAT II: 780-730
SAT: 2380 ACT: 35 SAT II: 800-750
SAT: 2120 ACT: 34
SAT: 2210 SAT II: 670-670-800
SAT: 2280 SAT II: 800-790
SAT: 2300 ACT: 35 SAT II: 790-770-750
SAT: 2280 SAT II: 790-750
SAT: 2370 SAT II: 800-770-730
SAT: 2370 SAT II: 790-760-740
SAT: 2310 SAT II: 800-780
SAT: 2360 SAT II: 800-800-770
SAT: 2350 SAT II: 800-800-740-740
SAT: 2250 SAT II: 750-740
SAT: 2310 SAT II: 800-800-780
SAT: 2340 ACT: 34 SAT II: 750-740
SAT: 2320 SAT II: 800-800-780
SAT: 2370 SAT II: 800-730
SAT: 2320 SAT II: 800-800-800-800-800
ACT: 33
ACT: 36 SAT II 800-800-800-780
SAT: 2300 SAT II 800-800-780-780
SAT: 2160 ACT: 34 SAT II: 800-760-670
ACT: 35 SAT II: 800-800
SAT: 2320 SAT II: 730-740
ACT: 35 SAT II: 800-800-790
SAT: 2100
SAT: 2300 SAT II: 800-800-690
SAT: 2200 SAT II: 720-750-690
SAT: 2350 SAT II: 750-780
SAT: 2250 SAT II: 800-800-780-750-710
ACT: 34 SAT II: 750
ACT: 33 SAT II: 750-730
SAT: 2240 ACT: 34 SAT II: 800-750-700
SAT: 2300 SAT II: 800-800-770
SAT: 2390 SAT II: 800-800-800
SAT: 2030 SAT II: 750-760 (Unbelievable ECs)
ACT: 36</p>
<p>I think essays are definitely more important than SAT’s. I definitely think it was my quirky essay that got me into Chicago, not my 2400 (Missed my interview too :&). I used some of my essays for other schools though, and got rejected. The quirky essays should only seem to be used for Chicago.</p>
<p>I got in with a 2070 SAT and 28 ACT. Didn’t even take the subject tests.</p>
<p>Somehow I do think essays are very important for Chicago. I only had a 2130 and I got in. A guy I know in my class was waitlisted and his SATs were near 2300.</p>
<p>Daughter in with a 2350 and SAT II of 800 and 780.</p>
<p>Accepted with a 1920… Still so speechless.</p>
<p>Sent from my SPH-D700 using CC App</p>
<p>I got in with 36 ACT, 2400 SAT, 800s on Math 2 and Chemistry SAT IIs…770 on Literature SAT II. </p>
<p>A guy at my school is waitlisted with a 30 ACT, no SATs taken.</p>
<p>I got in with a 2080, and a 30. I honestly think that Chicago advocates a lot of importance to essays, especially the “extended essay”. Although scores are important, they are used as a mere indicator of whether or not one can cope with the academic rigor UChicago offers its students. Remember, they also want a good mix of students, not just the 2400 genius’.</p>