US Top 50 · Chicago, Illinois · Extreme Reach

University of Chicago芝加哥大学

US News 2026 #6 (US News 2026 National Universities)

Crescat scientia; vita excolatur

At a glance

University of Chicago is a Extreme Reach school on our readiness map — that label describes how demanding the preparation is for international-school applicants, not an admission probability.

Based in Chicago, Illinois (US Top 50, US News 2026 #6 per US News 2026 National Universities), it reviews both AP and A-Level curricula, so the question is not which system you study but how strong your core-subject evidence is.

The benchmarks and admit-case chart below come from anonymized application records of Chinese international-school students, aggregated with percentile ranges to protect every individual case.

Case benchmarks (anonymized aggregate)

Median GPA3.93P25-P75: 3.874.03
Median SAT1570P25-P75: 15001600
Median AP count7P25-P75: 411

Ranges use P25/P75 percentiles instead of extremes so a single outlier cannot skew the picture.