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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]17:57 again. I forgot to ask - how are his writing skills? As you can guess from the essays, Chicago does spend a lot of time evaluating those.[/quote]

Excellent! (I think, but I'm biased, ha) This is part of the reason we think Chicago is less of a reach for him than other schools, a lot of focus on personality and essays. I'm pretty sure he heard about the school by reading a list of "25 Strangest College Application Questions" or something and noticed how many were from Chicago, then decided to look into the school from how much he liked the essays. I'm pretty sure he's already started drafting out some possible questions for the "Write your own question" question. So I think this will work mostly to his benefit.

[quote=Anonymous]I loved Chicago.  But the school is rather Jewish.[/quote]

We are Jewish! This is a plus...I would love it if he could have a well attended hillel and at least the option of kosher food. If this is what's stopping people from attending Chicago, I'm glad.

[quote=Anonymous]If you are worried Chicago is a reach, then Columbia would be unattainable.[/quote]

Oh, we aren't worried about Columbia as a reach because his stats are out of range. He's towards the 75th percentile for reading and math, 25th percentile for writing, and his GPA is fine. Plus he's taking a ridiculous amount of AP classes (5 right now; he's taken 3 already and gotten 5s; he's signed up for 5 more next year), and doing great in them. I don't think they'll reject him for stats, they'll reject him because it's just so competitive these days. Everyone's applying and it's really a bit of a crap-shoot.

He has a big advantage at Chicago because most of the competition is busy applying REA and ED (he doesn't want to apply anywhere restrictive, so if he applies to Chicago it will definitely be early), there's a regional advantage from not being in the Midwest, and then there's just the stock advantage of applying early. That's what makes Chicago easier to get into for him, it has nothing to do with whether or not he's qualified. [/quote]

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