We are super excited to announce another exclusive live forum event featuring Justin Klein (a.k.a. @JustinAdmUChicago), Associate Director of Admissions at University of Chicago, and Caroline Webber (a.k.a. @UChicagoAdmissions), Admissions Counselor at University of Chicago.
The event will take place here in the comments section below on Monday, Oct 23 from 8-9pm ET.
With most of the EA/ED deadlines just a few days/weeks away, this is a great opportunity to get your questions answered and get last minute tips and suggestion from an admissions insider.
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Make sure to submit questions for the live event by commenting below. Also, fill out the poll below and let us know why you’re excited about this event.
**Please note that the event will cover only admissions or student life related questions, anything off topic will be dismissed and comments may be removed.
The U Chicago team is very forthright with answers and provide great UC specific information as well as info that translates at similar schools. We loved it when the came to our school and did an event to share how they review applications.
Thanks for doing this! My question is: for those students who initially apply EA and then convert to ED2, as part of the process of converting, do any applicants receive anything other than a form email presenting this as an option when the time comes?
For kids offered acceptance in next year’s class (i.e. “take a gap year and then you can enroll”) what if any expectations does U Chicago have for those kids during that gap year?
Which colleges and universities do you consider to be peers of the University of Chicago and why ?
Assuming an interest in studying liberal arts, if you had college aged children and they were prohibited from attending the University of Chicago, which colleges or universities would you recommend to them and why ?
Are dual enrollment students considered transfer students or first-year students?
Do you have a Speech and Debate team?
For you, what is the most important part of the application? What makes a strong applicant? What are you looking for in a student?
How are research and internship programs? Can you start as soon as in your first year? Can you do research/internship with the University while studying abroad? Are there any scholarships available for study abroad programs?
What resources are available for First-gen, low-income, and BIPOC students? Scholarships, mentoring, guidance?
Any commentary you have on what you are looking for in the Uncommon Essay prompts would be very helpful. In particular, I’m struck by the fact that the instructions begin with “We think of them as an opportunity for students to tell us about themselves,” and then the prompts themselves are … impersonal. None of the prompts, including the historic prompts, ask students to say anything about themselves, making these prompts quite unique (uncommon!). Do you see these mainly as a demonstration of cleverness/wit/unusual thinking (not a bad thing!), or is it your experience that most applicants find a way to steer their prompt response around to the personal?
Same question. I have seen conflicting statements of “1-2 pages” for both the Why UChicago essay and the extended essay, but also have seen 250-500 words for why Chicago. Would like to have that clarified.
Thank you everyone for attending today’s live AMA w/ UChicago! We’ll go live shortly and I’m excited to welcome @JustinAdmUChicago and @UChicagoAdmissions to another exclusive College Confidential event. Justin and Caroline will answer your questions in the next hour. Make sure to ask all your questions by commenting below.
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