<p>Decision: Accepted </p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (by section): 760 V, 750 M, 800 W
[</em>] SAT IIs: 770 USH, 770 Chem
[<em>] GPA, Unweighted and Weighted: 3.9ish UW
[</em>] Rank: school does not rank, but probably top 5%
[<em>] ACT: n/a
[</em>] APs (including this year’s): USH (5), Chem (5), Eng Lang (5), Gov, World, Spanish, Enviro, Lit
[<em>] IBs (including this year’s: n/a
[</em>] Senior Yr Courseload: previously stated APs, latin, doc filmmaking, bioethics, one tri of calculus (lol)
[<em>] Number of Apps from Your School: uhh 5 or 6 EA ? i think only one other got in.
[</em>] Other stats (Awards, etc.): High Honors, Writing Award in Junior Year, Outstanding Student in 10th and 11th grades, AP Scholar, a slew of medals on the national spanish and latin exam, along with a long list of National History Day awards, which, for your benefit, i’ll omit.</p>
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]</p>
<p>[<em>] ECs listed on app: XC captain, track, soccer on competitive team outside of school, class president 11th and 12th grades, writing tutor, president of a foreign language club, student rep to school board, playing fun gamezzzzz
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: worked as a babysitter (lol once again. i included that on my app. it takes up time!) volunteered in a library for fourty hours.
[<em>] Essays (subject and responses): common app was pretty good. i wrote about my connection with an emotional song (“strange fruit”) and how it influenced my interest in history. why chicago essay was really bland. uhhh and as for my supplement for chicago, i wrote about my gawkiness as a child and how i outgrew my jeans very quickly. it was good, not great.
[</em>] Teacher Recs: probably pretty good, but i never read them.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: good… he’s nice, and we get along well, but not amazingly.
[</em>] Interview (feel, interviewer and general location): had a somewhat short interview, but we really connected. she was very personable and seemed to enjoy talking to me, although she never actually wrote anything down (which, in retrospect, was probably best since i would have been wondering what she was writing down the wholeeee interview).
[li] Hook (TASP, RSI, Research, etc.): nothing too amazing… i do a lot of activities, i suppose, but who doesn’t these days?</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: Pennsylvania!
[</em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): private school that <3 college prep
[<em>] Ethnicity: caucasian
[</em>] Gender: male
[<em>] Income Bracket: not sure exactly, but i don’t qualify for financial aid, if that’s what you’re asking.
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): didn’t you already ask me this in the previous section?
[<em>] Strengths: again, nothing too crazy about my application. i’d say that most of its components were good, but not great, so their combined powers probably tipped the scales in my favor.
[</em>] Weaknesses: a girl with high cheekbones.
[li] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/denied: i’ve got the luck of the irish, of course!</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other Factors: none that i can think of, at this time.
General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc:
Yay for us! I still need to visit Chicago, so maybe I should get on top of that. I’ve applied to a few other schools (Emory, Yale, Brown, UPenn), so when I hear back from them, I’ll make my decision. That said, Chicago is very alluring and enticing, so it’s definitely a top contender. Good luck to all as this process continues!</p>
I talked about the Core and everything I loved about UChicago. Idk how I got rejected, not even deferred. Life is over.