<p>Deferred. I wish they gave me some actual decision, this just makes me wait for another four months. However, right now I feel this peace of mind. I can move on, send other applications as back-ups and wait.</p>
<p>Decision: Deferred</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (by section): didn’t take
[</em>] SAT IIs: 680 Math II, 780 Literature
[<em>] GPA, Unweighted and Weighted: 3.65 UW
[</em>] Rank: 125ish/580ish
[<em>] ACT: 32, 32, 34; 35 composite
[</em>] APs (including this year’s): 5,5,4,3
[<em>] IBs (including this year’s: n/a
[</em>] Senior Year Courseload: toughest possible
[<em>] Number of Apps from Your School: at least 3, 2 accepted
[</em>] Other stats (AIME, AMC, etc.): n/a</p>
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] EC’s listed on app: Newspaper Editor-in-Chief, Debate/Speech/Student Congress, MN teen literary council, novelist, Student Ambassadors, writer/copywriter Polish-America newsletter, teacher @ Polish Saturday School
[</em>] Volunteer/Community Service: NHS
[<em>] Awards listed on app: multiple writing-related ones and others
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: counselor for autistic kids, grocery
[<em>] Common App Essay: Excellent. About how I’ve discovered myself by pursuing a very quirky hobby - sitting in churches.
[</em>] EC Short Answer: I don’t remember.
[<em>] Why Chicago Essay: Talked about favorite departments, quirky things about Chicago’s spirit, etc.
[</em>] Optional Favorite Things Essay: Listed a bunch of stuff and explained how the dynamics of my interests have allowed me to define myself both parallel to and independent of my environment.
[<em>] Extended Supplemental Essay: Law & human personality - talked about how humanity is defined by our ability to be creative and how law cannot be justified by our own quirks.
[</em>] Teacher Recs (if you saw them): One excellent, the other I don’t know.
[<em>] Counselor Rec (if you saw them): Excellent.
[</em>] Interview (feel, interviewer and general location): Thought it was very good.
[li] Hook (TASP, RSI, Research, etc.): Polish-American, first generational American college student.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: MN
[</em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): very tough, sends grads to top school
[<em>] Ethnicity: Caucasian
[</em>] Gender: F
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid: Yes
[</em>] Strengths: My essays and the additional writing supplement I sent in.
[<em>] Weaknesses: My GPA and maybe one of the recommendations. I don’t know for sure.
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: My GPA.
[<em>] Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: Deferred from Barnard ED, and that’s it.
[</em>] Where else are you applying? Lots of other schools now that I haven’t been accepted anywhere.</p>
<p>[/ul]Other Factors: Not really anything.</p>
<p>General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: I can’t believe it. I’m aware that UChicago defers very few of its applicants, so this is–more than anything–an honor and I look forward to competing against everyone in the RD round. Will be submitting a whole bunch of supplemental materials for the consideration of the admissions committee.</p>
<p>Decision: Deferred </p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (by section): 690 CR 750 M 740 W
[</em>] SAT IIs: World History 640 Math II 650 BioM 720 <em>dreadful</em>
[<em>] GPA, Unweighted and Weighted: 3.92/4 UW, 4.69/5 W
[</em>] Rank: 11/617
[<em>] ACT: 32
[</em>] APs (including this year’s): World History 3, Biology 4, AP Lang 4, APUSH 4, AP Env Sci 5, Chem…2… -___-
[<em>] IBs (including this year’s: N/A
[</em>] Senior Yr Courseload: AP Cal BC, pre-ap physics, AP gov, AP eco, AP lit, HST, pre-ap computer science
[<em>] Number of Apps from Your School: 3 EA, the other 2 are twins
[</em>] Other stats (Awards, etc.): National Scholar with distinction</p>
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] ECs listed on app: NHS secretary, HOSA secretary, Choir, Piano, Lifeteen, Confirmation youth leader, hospital volunteer, Ecology club, Asian Honor Society…other random stuff. around 500+ hrs of community service
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: summer internship at an international business
[<em>] Essays (subject and responses): How did u get caught, and all the other ones
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Decent I guess…
[<em>] Counselor Rec: I never saw, but hopefully good?
[</em>] Interview (feel, interviewer and general location): Nope
[li] Hook (TASP, RSI, Research, etc.): None</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: TX
[</em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Public…not a very good school
[<em>] Ethnicity: Asian (■■■)
[</em>] Gender: Female
[<em>] Income Bracket: $200,00
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None
[<em>] Strengths: Good EC’s and essays? I worked pretty hard on the essays
[</em>] Weaknesses: Horrible test scores. especially my math II score -____-
[li] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: but test scores, and my asianess</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other Factors: idk
General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: Congrats to all who were accepted!!!
I’m happy that I at least got deferred :)</p>
<p>I just got my e-mail half an hour ago - after I had seen my decision. So the timing on the e-mails is weird, try not to worry about it.</p>
<p>deferred…</p>
<p>Did anyone even get rejected?</p>
<p>am i the only one who still cannot log on due to a “busy server”?</p>
<p>Decision: Deferred</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (by section): N/A
[</em>] SAT IIs: N/A
[<em>] GPA, Unweighted and Weighted: 3.67 UW
[</em>] Rank: 15/300~
[<em>] ACT: 35
[</em>] APs (including this year’s): Psychology (4), Physics, Calculus, US History, Literature
[<em>] IBs (including this year’s: Not offered
[</em>] Senior Yr Courseload: Most rigorous available
[<em>] Number of Apps from Your School: Just myself
[</em>] Other stats (Awards, etc.): National Merit Semi-Finalist</p>
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] ECs listed on app: There were like 7 or 8, and I was/am an officer in 3.
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Since 10th grade, solid. Service, though, so nothing special.
[<em>] Essays (subject and responses): Basically how much I loved the school, then how I’d survive a Zombie apocalypse. I was told it was fantastic.
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Didn’t see both, but one was outstanding.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Didn’t see, but probably great.
[</em>] Interview (feel, interviewer and general location): N/A
[li] Hook (TASP, RSI, Research, etc.): I’m a white male who lives in the middle of nowhere. There’s no availability for hooks out here.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul][ b]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: Wisconsin
[</em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Average public
[<em>] Ethnicity: Anglo-American
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] Income Bracket: $120,000ish
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): First generation college
[<em>] Strengths: Essay/ACT
[</em>] Weaknesses: GPA
[li] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: GPA, definitely.</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul][ b]Other Factors:
General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc:
I’m pretty depressed. It was my number one, and I don’t really even want to go anywhere else, and for some reason deferral just feels like delayed rejection.</p>
<p>It’s looking like deferral is just more common this year. As in, deferral is less likely to result in acceptance, IMO.</p>
<p>I wish they’d just rejected me instead!</p>
<p>DEFERRED</p>
<p>I felt like lead for a few minutes but now I’m ok.</p>
<p>Looks like the time at which we got our decisions did matter.</p>
<p>@GoingForAReach nope, you’re not alone. I’ve been waiting for 3 hours but still no yellow box. I can’t log in anymore either. Congrats to acceptees and goodluck to deferred, you still have hope!</p>
<p>Oh really? Look at the trend… First a ton of acceptances. Then a ton of deferrals. What do you think is next?</p>
<p>I second @baburov. Sorry to say, but that’s what it looked like, and I’m sure that’s what it will remain.</p>
<p>If that is the trend, I highly doubt it was intentional.</p>
<p>Seems like an awfully big mistake to make for a school that’s top-tier (I was gonna toss in a supposedly, but that just seemed excessively ****y.)</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (by section): 2400
[</em>] SAT IIs: Math Level 2 770, U.S. History 780, Literature, 780, Biology M 720
[<em>] GPA, Unweighted and Weighted: UW 4.0, W 4.5
[</em>] Rank: 2/200
[<em>] ACT: didn’t take
[</em>] APs (including this year’s): Chemistry 5, Physics B 5, U.S. History 5 (this year: Calculus AB, Biology, Spanish Language, English Literature)
[<em>] IBs (including this year’s: none
[</em>] Senior Year Courseload: aforementioned AP classes, H Accounting, Psychology, H Humanities Seminar, gym, health lol
[<em>] Number of Apps from Your School: probably just mine
[</em>] Other stats (AIME, AMC, etc.): none haha</p>
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] ECs listed on app: Creative writing, Academic Decathlon, mock trial, Liberty Science Center, Biology/Art Club (don’t remember which)
[</em>] Awards listed on app: Scholastic Art & Writing Gold Key in Poetry for region-at-large, 1st place team & individual in NJ, AP Scholar, National Merit Commended, finalist for acceptance into NJ Gov School on Public Issues, URochester Susan B. Anthony & Frederick Douglass award, Rotary Youth Leadership Award, honor roll stuff
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Writing and beta testing internships for DemiDec Resources over two summers
[</em>] Common App Essay: About my experience at the ’09 RYLA conference… not that good. I’m replacing it with something else for the other colleges I am applying to.
[<em>] Why Chicago Essay: Not very specific… I never visited… About the general culture and economics program.
[</em>] Optional Favorite Things Essay: I wrote about my favorite authors: Kurt Vonnegut and Meg Cabot
[<em>] Extended Supplemental Essay: The one about games—wrote it in narrative form. Was pretty much hit or miss. I tried to go for a stereotypically UChicago flavor, and I suppose it worked. =]
[</em>] Teacher Recs (if you saw them): Didn’t see them, but one from my AD coach/AP English teacher, the other from my H Precalc teacher
[<em>] Counselor Rec (if you saw them): Didn’t see it, but she is an excellent counselor and I am glad that I have her out of all the counselors at my school
[</em>] Interview (feel, interviewer and general location): Very casual, lol, semi-awkward, about 30 minutes. He recently graduated from law school and said that I would fit in at Chicago because a lot of my favorite things that I told him about were science fiction (book= anything by Vonnegut, movie= Illusionist). Starbucks
[li] Hook (TASP, RSI, Research, etc.): I don’t think so… maybe low income?</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: NJ
[</em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Suburban public, not very competitive
[<em>] Ethnicity: Chinese-American
[</em>] Gender: XX
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid: Yes, I had a fee waiver too
[</em>] Strengths: Numbers, probably recs, maybe essays
[<em>] Weaknesses: Extracurriculars, nothing very special, maybe essays
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: Numbers + luck = acceptance? :o
[<em>] Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: None yet
[</em>] Where else are you applying? MIT EA, UPenn, Princeton, Harvard, Cornell, Swarthmore, Rutgers</p>
<p>[/ul]Other Factors: Nada
General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc: I can’t believe it. I’m so grateful to have been able to apply to Chicago and even more grateful to have been accepted. Congratulations, fellow acceptees! Good luck to all those who were deferred, and to those who were rejected, fret not! The universe has a good reason for everything. :)</p>
<p>Good luck to those still waiting on a decision–you’ll definitely hear soon. Kick back and relax!!</p>
<p>I got deferred…=[</p>
<p>deferred as well.</p>
<p>since I am mexican, i thought that would help me out…but it didn’t</p>
<p>Deferred. Oh well.</p>
<p>do we all still have a better chance then the regular applicants? Or, do we start the same process again…</p>