<p>hmm im desperately waiting for my uchi fin aid package…its nice to hear that you got a nice package…</p>
<p>the find aid pacakge is gonna determine if i go to uchi or not</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Stats:</p>
<pre><code>* Fee Waiver Used?:no
- SAT I (by section): 2260 (740 M, 800 V, 720 W)
- SAT IIs: 700 Bio, 720 US History, 720 Spanish, 750 Lit
- ACT: 32
- GPA, Weighted and Unweighted: 3.8 (unweighted)
- Rank: n/a
- Number of Apps from Your School: at least one other person applied
</code></pre>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<pre><code>* ECs listed on app: fencing, yearbook, lit mag (editor), quizbowl (captain), speech (captain)
- Job/Work Experience: summer jobs
- Essays (subject and responses): made up my own prompt and explored diversity using a talking house as my main charecter
- Teacher Recs: how would I know? who wrote this bloody survey thing?
- Counselor Rec: see above
- Interview (feel and general location): oh god. interviewed there. started talking about international events. my interviewer happened to be majoring in Foreign Affairs, the last time I read a newspaper happened to be a year ago. It was not…pretty.
- Hook (if any): multi racial
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<p>Location/Person:</p>
<pre><code>* State or Country: MN
- School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): competitive private
- Ethnicity: mix of 2.5 (I mean 2.5) asian groups
- Income Bracket: upper middle
- Gender: female
- Strengths/Weaknesses: essay, ECs / test scores? weakness: 3 on the Spanish AP, lowered GPA due to taking mutiple math and science AP classes when I happen to suck at APs
</code></pre>
<p>strengths: fairly decent writer, took challenging classes
* Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: no bloody idea</p>
<p>Other Factors: ?
General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: if anyone happens to read this next year…
Stay off of CC while you’re waiting for your decision okay? It makes the stress 500 times worse and there isn’t anything really that these stats will tell you other than the fact that at a certain level this is a luck of the draw.</p>
<p>I cried-- We are in the same boat. SO anxious for finaid.</p>
<p>Decision: Waitlisted </p>
<p>Stats:</p>
<ul>
<li>Fee Waiver Used?: No</li>
<li>SAT I (by section): 2210 (800 CR 610 M 800 W)</li>
<li>SAT IIs: 800 US History 760 Lit 800 World History 720 Bio-M</li>
<li>ACT: Didn’t take</li>
<li>GPA, Weighted and Unweighted: 95.5 UW, don’t have W</li>
<li>Rank: 9/105</li>
<li>Number of Apps from Your School: Only one.</li>
</ul>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<ul>
<li>ECs listed on app: Student government (student body president this year), founded JSA chapter, four years of golf/theater/newspaper, DECA.</li>
<li>Job/Work Experience: 35 hours per week for the past two summers.</li>
<li>Essays (subject and responses): Did the string one, wrote about the human body… I thought it was probably my best of all.</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: Well they both said I was the most unique/intellectually curious student they’ve ever had… </li>
<li>Counselor Rec: Similar content, also excellent.</li>
<li>Interview (feel and general location): In a coffee shop in Ithaca (I had two drive 2.5 hours to get there… she’s a law student at Cornell)… it was terrific, much better than the Princeton one. </li>
<li>Hook (if any): I guess that coming from a crappy school/intellectually stifling background means nothing.</li>
</ul>
<p>Location/Person:</p>
<ul>
<li>State or Country: Western NY</li>
<li>School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Poor public</li>
<li>Ethnicity: White</li>
<li>Income Bracket: Bottom middle</li>
<li>Gender: Male</li>
<li>Strengths/Weaknesses: Academic interest, 5s on AP US History and Bio (only ones I could take)/Class rank? </li>
<li>Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: I thought I was a lot more likely to get in here than JHU or UVA… somewhat flummoxed.</li>
</ul>
<p>Other Factors: ?
General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: I’m very happy for everyone who got in… Chicago is truly a great school. As much as I don’t want to be bitter, I kind of am about this one… with the “Life of the Mind” and all that other stuff, I think I’m a student whom the university would think is a perfect match. I told them exactly what they supposedly want to hear because that’s exactly how I feel… I really don’t like saying this, but it’s just as much their loss as mine. Just really illustrates how random it is, I guess.</p>
<p>I have a pet theory that crappy interviews actually help. Or maybe I’m just bitter because my Pton interview was fabulous- the interviewer actually mailed me two books later that week.</p>
<p>Anyway good luck to you. And you’re right. It is their loss. I’m shocked that you didn’t get in.</p>
<p>burr-it’s definitely their loss. but it does depend on the general feel from your app. if they thought that what you wrote was tailored to what they wanted to hear, irregardless of whether or not it was true, they might have gotten a bad vibe.</p>
<p>Exactly- and that’s why it sucks so much. I talked to my brother a lot about it, he pretty much just said, “Thing is, they don’t really know you. If they did, I’m supremely confident they’d love to have you.”</p>
<p>the decision better be coming by regular u.s. mail. i just got my nyu acceptance today in an ups express envelelope, sent on 3/29. so please tell me acceptances were mailed by regular u.s. mail–and thus would be slower. please please please.</p>
<p>they were sent by regular mail…big white chicago envelope.</p>
<p>Sorry for your nay. I am Asian too. I got accepted. I guess you do not want to hear this but the truth is, I am better than you.</p>
<p>White people suck and they never succeed! Mao Tse Dong.</p>
<p>I got accepted to Chicago, this proves that I am intellectually superior to you, you distorted white.</p>
<p>My mother always used to tell me that right before sleepy time.</p>
<p>Decision: Waitlisted</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 1980 (M800 CR 580 WR 600)
[</em>] SAT IIs: 800 Chinese 730 Math2c 710 Physics
[<em>] GPA: 3.8uw around i guess
[</em>] Rank:no rank
[<em>] Other stats: IB diploma+IGCSE, international student
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: i like my short questions, the essay was weird i guess
[<em>] Teacher Recs: Good i guess
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Dont know
[<em>] Hook (if any):dont think so
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country:Hong Kong
[<em>] School Type: Private, 97 students
[</em>] Ethnicity: Chinese, Malaysian
[<em>] Gender: Male
[/ul]Other Factors:[list]
[</em>] Extracurriculars:Below CC average
[<em>] Why I think I was accepted/deferred: maybe my essays were too lame
[</em>] Other thoughts: sucks…</p>
<p>Decision: Waitlisted</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 2100 composite 780M, 660CR, 660WR
[</em>] SAT IIs: MathIIC: 800, Physics: 800, USH: 750
[<em>] GPA: 7.80/8.3W, 3.95/4UW Note: At my school, it’s almost a physical impossibility to get an 8.3W GPA.
[</em>] Rank: 2/287
[<em>] Other stats: APUSH: 4, Harvard Book Prize, National Latin, etc
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: Very good
[<em>] Teacher Recs: Very good
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Persumably good
[<em>] Hook (if any): I don’t know?
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: New Hampshire
[<em>] School Type: Large public, 1300 students
[</em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[<em>] Gender: Male
[/ul]Other Factors:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars: Math Team (tri-captain), Project Search, Tech Crew, NHS, Granite State Challenge quiz show, School co-webmaster/Student Technology Group
[<em>] Summer stuff: Harvard SSP (Analog & Digital Electronics)
[</em>] Why I think I was accepted/deferred: I don’t know. Low-ish SATs perhaps?
[li] Other thoughts: N/A[/li][/ul]</p>
<p>just got accepted!</p>
<p>Descision: ACCEPTED</p>
<p>ACT: 25
Rank: 7/225
GPA: 3.845</p>
<p>Subjective
Essays: Outstanding, risky
reccs’ great, but realistic</p>
<p>Location/Person
Gender: male
Ethnicity: URM
School type: Public, Disadvantaged</p>
<p>Other Factors</p>
<p>EC: beyond belief, nearly (not really…lol)</p>
<p>Reason for accpetance- definately not stats</p>
<p>I’m so excited, but I was waitlisted at PENN, so I’m waiting for the next few weeks.</p>
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<p>w00t! Are you definitely going, Eric?</p>
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<p>YAY! I hope it works. :></p>
<p>YAY, looks like booptroop is joining the UChicago Class of 2010! Feeling foolishly happy at this moment.</p>
<p>Best of Outcomes trying to persuade that POV…lol</p>