<p>Just realized, with all the excitement from post #130, I forgot to post myself. =)</p>
<p>**Decision: ACCEPTED **</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (by section): CR/MA/WR: 800/680/800
[</em>] SAT IIs: Physics 690, Lit 790 (or 780, something like that)
[<em>] ACT: N/A
[</em>] APs: World History (3), Engl. Lang. (5), Engl. Lit (5), Euro (4), US Hist. (4), Chem (5). Senior year (as yet unknown): BC Calc
[<em>] IBs: Junior year: Physics SL (7). Senior year: Chem HL, English A1 HL, French SL, Theatre HL, Math SL, Hist. of Americas HL
[</em>] GPA: 4.0 unweighted, 4.77 weighted
[<em>] Rank: 9 out of 72
[</em>] Other stats: National Merit Scholar
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] ECs listed on app: NHS (Recycling committee, historian), Theatre (3 years, secretary, acting/directing/tech, ITS cords), Literary Magazine (2 years, senior editor), Study guide blog (1 year, senior admin)
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: 1 summer housekeeping for neighbors
[<em>] Essays (subject and responses): Rilke’s quote “Live the question” (I wrote the essay entirely in questions, a la Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead). Why Chicago?–wrote about my interest in the little digital bars on stereos and segue’d into interdisciplinary work, creative writing, and the Core. Didn’t do the optional essay (and wish to goodness I had, just for the effort!). I forgot what my common app essay was. That means it was boring…
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Math/physics teacher (knew him for 3 years), theatre teacher (all four years), and junior English teacher (famous for her powerful/strange recs)
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Nice. She slightly exaggerated some things (out of ignorance, not nefarious purposes), but it was cute.
[</em>] Applied on: The last hour of the last day–when common app started to fail. Anyone remember the panic on these forums?
[<em>] Hook (if any): None.
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: Florida
[<em>] School Type, Average Stats of School (if available): Public school with an IB Program founded to save its D-/F on the FCAT (Florida’s standardized test)
[</em>] Ethnicity: white
[li] Gender: female[/li][/ul]General Comments/Congratulations/Venting/Commiserations,etc:
After typing all those test scores, I have come to realize how helpful they were at the time, and how meaningless they seem now. After typing what I wrote for my essays, I realize how much more helpful they must have been at the time, and how glad I am that I applied for and am going to Chicago. It’s perfect, and I love it! =)</p>