Decision: Rejected
Applied EA and was deferred
Objective:
- []SAT: 1590 (800M, 790V, 20 Essay)
[]SAT II: 800 Math II, 800 Chem, 800 Spanish (Reading only)
[]ACT: didn’t take
[]GPA: 4.16 UW (my school does it out of 4.3; A+ is 4.3, no weighting)
[]Rank: school doesn’t rank
[]AP: All 5’s: Stat, Bio, Calc AB, Chem, Psych, Spanish, Microeconomics, CS A
[]Senior Year Course Load: Criminal/Civil Law, Investing in the Stock Market, AP Lit, Public Speaking, Yoga, AP Calc BC, AP Physics I, AP Comp Sci Principles (this was a mistake but whatever)
[]Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
- Women’s 8-Ball National Champion (Highest division)
- Jr. National 9-Ball Champion
- Went to Jr. Worlds 4 times
Subjective:
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[]Extracurriculars: copying from commonapp with some stuff omitted
- Billiards (Captain), 15hrs/week
- Robotics (captain), 8hrs/week
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Math Team (Captain), 2hrs/week
[]Other Awards: - AIME Qualifier/AMC 12 Honor Roll (just once)
- MAML Finalist
- National Merit Semifinalist
- Math Prize for Girls Participant (lol tied for like 250th out of 300 so basically one of the worst there but it’s the effort that counts)
[] Job/Work Experience: Internship (software), 40hrs/week ish during summer
[] Volunteer/Community service: Just volunteering at my local library
[] Summer Activities: tournaments and internship
[] Essays: The commonapp one was okay. I thought my extended essay was good; I did the armor one and wrote about my mind being my armor. My friend cried when she read it. Honestly, it could’ve gone either way, depending on how they read it (so like either 0/10 or 10/10). The Why UChicago one wasn’t that great. It was kind of generic and I honestly should have done more research.
[] Teacher Recommendations: Should both be good.
[] Counselor Rec: Probably generic. She had us fill out a survey with things we thought she should know about us, so it probably looked better than the really generic ones.
[li] Interview: I thought it went well. We just talked a lot about UChicago.[/li][/ul]
Other
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[] State (if domestic applicant): MA
[] School Type: Small public
[] Ethnicity: Asian
[] Gender: F
[] Income Bracket: ~$120k
[] Assets: what
[] Property: idk man what info do you want me to put here
[] Extenuating Circumstances: nah
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Nope[/li][/ul]
Strengths: Scores and pool. Also, math, but idk how much UChicago cares about that.
Weaknesses: My Why UChicago Essay. To be completely honest, I did not put enough effort into this.
Why you think you were accepted/not accepted and general comments: It was the essays. It was definitely the essays. The Why UChicago one definitely wasn’t great. Also, I had just about zero demonstrated interest.
Accepted by: MIT, Caltech
Rejected: UChicago
Waiting on: Harvard, Princeton, Stanford