UChance me new Pairs of Eyes!! seriously...

Colleges & Universities University of Chicago
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<p>Okay so I am doing EA for Chicago.</p>

<p>Male, </p>

<p>GPA: UNweighted is 3.98 (1 B), and Weighted is like 4.68
Rank: 6/700</p>

<p>SAT: CR 650, M 800, W 730, Essay 12: 2180
ACT: E: 32, R: 30, M: 35, S: 32, Essay:11 Composite: 32</p>

<p>APs: All 5s on 7 Exams, plan to take 7-8 more by this year, hardest courseload (hehe, I think…)</p>

<p>SAT IIs: 800 Math 2, 800 Phys, 720 USH</p>

<p>ECs:</p>

<p>Got the Governor Award in AZ cardinal stadium: view me on Channel 12:</p>

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<p>Research on Thermoelectric Materials & now Artificial Neural Networks
Publishing Papers
1st in EE AZ science fair
Boys State Superior Court Judge (Federalist-AZ)
The Phoenix Business Journal Award
National Merit Scholar
I teach Electromagnetism at my school who do labs and are going to take the AP exam (we are on circuitry ^^).
math awards, amc-aime, AZ math competition.
Orchestra-Regionals-SW Regionals Orchestra
Mexicali Missions (Mexico…)
CUSD Award for Excellence
Outstanding Delegates Model UN
2nd Place ACDEC Math
Siemens/Intel Talent Search submissions (I didn’t follow the correct procedures for Siemens)
Math Student of the Month
Student of the Months (2)
S+D Awards
Quartet with my Church (4 years)</p>

<p>I am planning to take ACT again this weekend.</p>

<p>P.S. My teachers probably wrote me good recs and I am asian, if you had not noticed my username…</p>

<p>Personal Things:</p>

<p>Work @ Kumon for 4 Years and Private Tutor for 2 years (my second year)
I may have dyslexia or some type of ADD after taking the SAT.
250+ quality community service hours from Mexicali & teaching.</p>

<p>I think I wrote too long of essays, say 4 pages… so factor that as well.</p>

<p>Thanks, any input from past Chicago students or whoever…</p>

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<p>lol</p>

<p>“expects to start classes at mit”…</p>

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<p>Oh, yes. I forgot to clarify this last statement. The journalist asked, “Where would you want to go to further this type of research on energy?”</p>

<p>I still put 1st Choice for Chicago, but I don’t think Chicago would mind putting MIT as back up (HAHA).</p>

<p>Well, I forgot MIT’s password, so now I cannot even access the site… for now. I also did EA only for Chicago.</p>

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<p>eya sorry i didnt chance you but id say you have truly excellent chances</p>

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<p>Thanks Beef. Should I retake the ACTs again this weekend for other colleges?</p>

<p>I mean … I know I can get at least a 33 on my next one, reaching probably a 35-36 range (the previous one I was feeling kind of constipated… I had Chipotle that night!)</p>

<p>Are you sure my CR score won’t affect me?!?! I am SOOO WORRIED!</p>

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<p>honestly i dont think it will…i got a 32 and thats the upper 75th for chicago…they know your great at math and thats all if it comes out in your application…just relax theres really no reason to retake…a 32 act is definetely in the middle 50th for any school that i think you would apply to.</p>

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<p>“Are you sure my CR score won’t affect me?!?! I am SOOO WORRIED!”</p>

<p>OMG i would be SOOO WORRIED TOO! </p>

<p>my sarcasm isn’t meant to be *******y or anything, but HONESTLY. your stats demonstrate your intelligence because you can get such great scores/grades, but are you really not smart enough to judge your chances based on your stats? what do you think. honestly. do you think a 650 will hurt you that much? or do you know that you have good stats and just want to make sure that other people think so too? i am just wondering how the inner workings of people like you are. like you as in, having undeniably good stats and still sounding so…well you may have figured out what i’m getting at. use the brains that got you that 4.68 GPA, stupidazn.</p>

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<p>Hmm, I see your point. Well for any college, they like a well-rounded student, but I don’t think I am. I know that my stats are good, but I have so much doubt because there are others who have 2300s who don’t get in for whatsoever reason. </p>

<p>And I have to admit too, I do have a little inferiority complex because I always want to have a reasonable doubt for everything. About Uchicago, my one HUGE error was not making my essay short and concise in detail. I did do EA, but I think I have less than a 2/3 chance at this school because my school may not be as nationally well known (grade inflation, etc, although our school churns out a lot of Ivies-graduates).</p>

<p>And If I do get in by December 15, I will buy you a burger or something through paypal. And, I would be a stupidazn if I had like 2300 SAT and be posting this (LOL).</p>

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<p>well, those 2300s are probably people who solely devoted their lives to academics and other things only to help them get into college because they think that they need to go to a top ten school to have great careers. </p>

<p>and personally, i dont think getting a 2300 or even a 2400 (OMG…not) shows how intelligent a person is at all. there are so many things that are more important that have a phenomenal capacity to memorize dates and formulas, that are more neccessary in the real world (like persistence and strong work ethic paired with character and the ability to communicate well with others).</p>

<p>i have come to find that pure academically inclined people just dont work well with others, whic might be okay when you are busting your ass studying for 4 years in hs to get into college…but what happens when you get a degree and have to have a job interview and youre not hired because you come off as a loner erudite individual? the point is, great grades dont mean success, so instead of worrying about your WONDERFUL stats (your award is impressive) you should go out and live the rest of your senior year. i mean, i dont know you, but you dont seem like the type that has been putting yourself before your future, if that makes sense. because you’llprobably end up at MIT or something, i think you would thrive there. or cal tech, i live right by it and an in n out.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the input. Right now I have a really really bad headache (not because of stress or anything metaphorical). I think there was something bad in my lunch. Yes, I had tainted nachos or something. But, ya I agree with you; when people get into the real world SAT scores really will not matter. The GRE would though. :slight_smile: hehe.</p>

<p>I need to take some Tylenol before this headache turns into something you would see in the movie Pi…</p>

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<p>"well, those 2300s are probably people who solely devoted their lives to academics and other things only to help them get into college because they think that they need to go to a top ten school to have great careers. "</p>

<p>uh…or people with high aptitude</p>

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<p>yeah…sometimes. but i don’t consider high aptitude as the ability to pay for SAT classes. i’m sure there are people out there that ARE brilliant and can do well on the SAT without classes, as well as get great GPAs. however, i’m positive there are more smart people that boost their scores with SAT classes than the former. why do you think chicago doesn’t LIKE to consider standardized tests? yeah, they do it anyway, but the key words are the fact that they don’t LIKE to. and that’s a fact that they like to stress.</p>

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<p>You’re basically asserting that people with more money have a better chance of getting into top schools. </p>

<p>Then I would argue that people with less money have a better chance because they’re more likely than people with more money to be a first generation college student. And how about affirmative action? SAT classes can help so much. You’re contradicting yourself. </p>

<p>My point is how one receives the SAT score is not considered by universities. Nobody should complain.</p>

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<p>affirmative action is only beneficial to under represented minorities.</p>

<p>i am afraid you have inferred incorrectly of what i’m saying. i’m not asserting that people with more money have a better chance of getting into top schools, perhaps it might be true i don’t know i haven’t looked into it or care enough to.</p>

<p>what i’m saying is that SAT scores cannot accurately measure one’s aptitude, because there are some people who do take SAT classes and score better because of them, not necessarily because they are smarter than others who can’t afford classes. </p>

<p>a brilliant person can get the same score as a person that is not as brilliant but took classes. the score comes out the same to the university. so is it really possible to measure their intelligence based on the SAT? i am asserting that there are many lurking variables when it comes to the SAT, which is PROBABLY why chicago considers it the least compared to other components of the application.</p>

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<p>“i am asserting that there are many lurking variables”</p>

<p>Good way of expressing it!</p>

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<p>stupidazn,</p>

<p>yes, I think that you should retake the ACT for other schools if it is not too late. Get one of the prep books and figure out what happened with your science subscore - maybe you overthought the questions. You should be able to nail that section.</p>

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<p>I think that money is not the main factor in how well you do on the SAT. Sure maybe you can pay for a class, but a study book only costs $25 and those help a bunch. I believe one of the most important factors in how you will do in high school or on the SAT (aptitude excluded) is the level of education of your parents. If both your parents have PhD’s then they are going to push you to do well, and you will have grown up in an environment where education is valued. If on the other hand you grew up in the ghetto, and every time you studied you were ridiculed by your peers, it is much harder to find the motivation to do well. We should note that if one of these kids from the ghetto does well in school/SAT it should be valued, since they probably didn’t have all the advantages that a kid who grew up in an upper middle class family in which both parents were professors.</p>

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<p>Yea, on the science section, someone told me to skip all the unnecessary introduction because it has a strict time limit. </p>

<p>I don’t know if this is true but I certainly missed one question on a vein/artery.</p>

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<p>"Yea, on the science section, someone told me to skip all the unnecessary introduction because it has a strict time limit. "</p>

<p>How close were you to the time limit on that section? Perhaps you could skim the intros.</p>

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<p>I had like a minute or two afterwards to review. But even then, I might have overlooked a lot of the questions. I hope I do get a better score, if not get into Chicago (if these events are independent) :).</p>