Today, January 11th, 2019, I was accepted into the University of Chicago. I applied Regular Decision in late November of 2019. As you can probably infer, this was a major surprise! Was anyone else accepted? Can anyone explain why a Regular Decision student might be accepted MONTHS before the RD Decision Release date in March?
In case you were wondering, I'll post my stats below (from a template I copy-pasted from the ED thread).
[ b]Objective:[/b]
[ *] SAT I (breakdown): N/A
[ *] ACT (breakdown): 33C, 34 Superscore (35E, 29M, 36R, 35S)
[ *] SAT II: 700 Biology E 720 Literature
[ *] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.91
[ *] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 26 of 471
[ *] AP (place score in parentheses): Biology (5) Lang (4) World (4)
[ *] IB (place score in parentheses): N/A
[ *] Senior Year Course Load: Human Anatomy & Physiology, AP Lit, AP Art History, Pre-Calc, AP Psych, AP COGO, APUSH
[ *] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): None!
[ /list][ b]Subjective:[/b]
[ *] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parentheses): Sos Club for Mental Health (President& Founder) Various Volunteer work, nothing special
[ *] Job/Work Experience: Senior Lifeguard (Management Level) Swim Lesson Instructor (Management Level), other experiences at dog kennels
[ *] Volunteer/Community service: Volunteer at Five Acres Animal Shelter in St. Charles, Missouri (low commitment)
[ *] Summer Activities: Work, nothing special
[ *] Essays: Both were very strong, I spent much time on them. I'll let you read them if you'd like, 9/10
[ *] Teacher Recommendation: 7/10, I ended up asking different teachers for more recommendations about a month after sending my Uchicago application because I thought my initial ones were weak (I waved my FERPA rights but my teachers chose to show me). However, UChicago received the ones I considered to be weak rather than the stronger ones.
[ *] Counselor Rec: I haven't read it, but I assume it's alright lol
[ *] Additional Rec: From the Sponsor of my club, which I spend most of my after-school time on. 9/10
[ *] Interview: Didn't Interview!
[ *] Supplementary Material: N/A
[ /list][ b]Other[/b]
[ *]Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes, idk why
[ *] State (if domestic applicant): MISSOURI!
Country (if international applicant):
[ *] School Type: Public
[ *] Ethnicity: Black
[ *] Gender: Female
[ *] Income Bracket(mention if FA candidate): Greater than 400k
[ *] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): URM
[ /list][ b]Reflection[/b]
[ *] Strengths: Essays, I spent much time on them. I guess my ACT score was okay but not extraordinary. My Recs might have been the reason I received random Early acceptance?
[ *] Weaknesses: My class rank-- I am in the top 5% of my class but I am not Valedictorian. I didn't have any MAJOR awards other than AP Scholar with Honor, which isn't all that special.
[ *] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I HAVE LITERALLY NO CLUE
[ *] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I was accepted to Loyola University Chicago with a 23k Scholarship, and Deferred from Harvard Early Action.
[ /list][ b]General Comments: [/b] :)) :)) I LITERALLY FEEL SO LUCKY LIKE I AM AN AVERAGE JOE AS COMPARED TO THE REST OF YOU... and my friend who is Valedictorian of my school was deferred early action :( I am beyond elated and will be heavily considering taking a place at the University of Chicago for 2023!
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