Standardized tests

[shp938]

<p>I just found out my act score and I am so depressed at my score…
Can anyone tell me the act range for UChicago?</p>

[metonymy]

<p><a href=“http://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/level3.asp?id=377[/url]”>http://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/level3.asp?id=377&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>these numbers should help</p>

[PoeticExplosion]

<p>UChicago says that they don’t consider test scores to be very important, and I think they’re telling the truth. If you can write a brilliant essay, you can still get in with bad test scores.</p>

[menloparkmom]

<p>Well, standardized test score may not be AS important as other factors, but these are the stats for enrolled students-
<a href=“http://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/level3.asp?id=377[/url]”>http://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/level3.asp?id=377&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

[phuriku]

<p>Then again, there is a correlation between standardized test score and quality of essay, which would explain why the averages are so high. Take it from a white male who got in EA with a 560 R, 670 M, 660 W SAT.</p>

<p>When I went on a tour, they pretty much pounded it into my head that **they do not care about SATs<a href=“and%20this%20was%20from%20the%20admissions%20office,%20not%20a%20tour%20guide”>/b</a>. Whether that’s 100% true or not, I don’t know, but I assume it’s somewhat valid.</p>

[physicsphun1]

<p>i have a 1900 (i retook them, expecting 2100+) but still… i have so much original research and awards… i think, so people tell me, I can get in EA its all a dream to me</p>

[unalove]

<p>If it makes you feel any better, good standardized test scores won’t help you get in, not here nor anywhere else in the US News top 15 or so. If people’s “results” threads can be taken to be true, there are a ton of kids with strong SAT scores who were turned down in favor of people like phuriku and yours truly. (White, female, from NYC, no money bump or anything like that).</p>

<p>Found this in an article:</p>

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Well, that’s not quite true, according to Mr. O’Neill, who proudly points to what he thinks is one of the biggest improvements to the University of Chicago in the past few decades–diversity. The school used to be about two-thirds male and overwhelmingly white. Now the gender ratio is about even, and 7% of the student body is black, 9% is Hispanic and 1% is Native American.</p>

<p>How has this happened? For one thing, Mr. O’Neill tells me, he has de-emphasized the SATs in the admissions process. They’re used as “corroborating evidence” for what his staff learns from teacher recommendations, high-school records and essays. Ultimately, Mr. O’Neill believes that “there are some things that are more important than test scores.”

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<p>Source: <a href=“http://www.opinionjournal.com/taste/?id=110010660[/url]”>http://www.opinionjournal.com/taste/?id=110010660&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;