<p>Thank you for your information.</p>
<p>Thank U Chicago for answering all our questions. I know the admission process for international students is need-sensitive, is financial need a big factor in deciding whether or not an international student gets taken off the waitlist? If yes, then does that mean an international student who needs full financial aid will almost guarantee to remain on the waitlist regardless of their interest?</p>
<p>s2smile, I am not an international admissions counselor and know that the process may be different for international students seeking aid-- I would encourage you to email this question to <a href=“mailto:internationaladmissions@uchicago.edu”>internationaladmissions@uchicago.edu</a></p>
<p>Thank you for answering questions UChicago! Can you tell us when admission statistics will be released?</p>
<p>I do not know yet-- but I will post them once they are published.</p>
<p>It is recommended that we email our regional counselors regarding our continued interest in UChicago is we are waitlisted. Where do we find our regional counselors and their contact information?</p>
<p>I am from the westcoast and live in Los Angeles.</p>
<p>@UChicago,
I would like to thank you for taking the time to answer our questions. We are very grateful that you are doing this. I am on the edge of my seat waiting for your response.</p>
<p>@shootyoup After you agree to be on the waitlist, you should see another message thanking you for doing so. In this message, it gives you the email to your regional admissions counselor.</p>
<p>Your regional counselor may be found here: <a href=“https://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/contact/map.shtml[/url]”>https://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/contact/map.shtml</a></p>
<p>International students should send all e-mails to <a href=“mailto:internationaladmissions@uchicago.edu”>internationaladmissions@uchicago.edu</a>; please note that we also have several states that are split between two or several counselors-- California, Illinois, Maryland, Virginia, and New York. Please use the map feature to find out who you should speak with if you are from any of those areas; if you are still unsure, e-mail <a href=“mailto:collegeadmissions@uchicago.edu”>collegeadmissions@uchicago.edu</a> and the e-mail will be forwarded to the appropriate person. </p>
<p>shootyouup, specifically, your regional counselor is either Mitchell Salm or Graham Rosby (have a look at the map to check-- the distribution is broken down by county in most cases).</p>
<p>Also, thank you, Troy. Although I am not able to answer every question or give much beyond information, I am glad that the information is useful to you and others.</p>
<p>I still can’t believe that I got waitlisted. I’m so honored to know that UChicago thinks I’m good enough to attend their school, even if they don’t have the room. :)</p>
<p>Is there any particular time that would be “best” to contact our regional admissions counselor?</p>
<p>Again, thanks for answering all our questions! I have two more if it’s not too much of a problem!</p>
<p>First, you may have answered this in response to my first post here, but would submitting a list of accomplishments we’ve made this year be advisable? I have a few state/national level accomplishments but don’t want to bother you guys too much.</p>
<p>Second, do you guys have an opinion on taking gap years? I’ve been doing research and am now considering a gap year rather than attending my local university as an alternative to UChicago. The opinions on this subject seem quite variable, but I’ve noticed a lot of the “popular” universities like Harvard, Cornell and Georgetown view gap years as a possible way to get equally as much if not more education during a gap year than a year in college.</p>
<p>coruscating-- I would suggest waiting until you have heard back from all of your other colleges, but before May; early April would be an excellent time to contact your counselor.</p>
<p>willmh, it is really not necessary to send any award updates unless they represent significant achievements that you were unable to include with your original application. If you would like to send them and feel that they are relevant in this light, you may feel free to do so. </p>
<p>As for gap years-- good question, and there is really no right answer to it from my side. If you feel that a gap year will better help you consider your options and explore something you find interesting outside of school, you should feel free to do one-- we (and any other college) would just suggest that you have some sort of concrete plan in place for how to spend your time, whether it is work, travel, volunteering, or some other option. We would not want you to take a gap year just because it is something you feel you need to do to improve your likelihood of admission to UChicago if you were to reapply-- but rather encourage you to do it only if you feel that a gap year would be the best use of your time, resources, and interests, and would allow you to do something that you wish to explore.</p>
<p>Do you have an advice for a Waitlisted National Merit Finalist? I believe mid-April is the last chance to name first choice school.<br>
Thanks!</p>
<p>As an international waitlisted student, would early-april still be a good time to email Mr. Nascimento (international admissions counselor)? Even though I am terribly eager to be taken off of the waitlist, I do not want to seem too pushy. If not, is an email saying how important it would be to me to get in be just enough?</p>
<p>Univ of Chicago College Rep - I know you said that waitlist numbers for this year have not been released and that every year is different, but do you have statistics from 2010 and 2011 on the number of students waitlisted, and the number of students from these lists that were eventually offered admission? Also, if you were to be offered admission from the waitlist, how does the process work- do you have to put a deposit down immediately or within a certain time frame? thanks.</p>
<p>So as a confirmation to a question already answered, we can find out if we were admitted at ANY point between May and June? Also, are the waitlistees told at once or is it a trickle effect (some admitted at one part later on others find out)?</p>
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<p>Assume that the gap year is taken as a non-athletic “PG” student at a top boarding school (Andover, Deerfield, Choate, etc.). Since the gap year wasn’t taken in service for poor in Calcultta or in some research project, but rather in improving academic foundation, is that year viewed (generally) as a kind of waste from the perspective of offering anything new or compelling to an application? I would presume UChicago gets tons of regular admit candidates from these schools, so why would they think anything special of a PG applicant? Any guidance here?</p>
<p>Two things:</p>
<p>1.) Are final grades looked at when the waitlisting process is happening? </p>
<p>2.) I’m confused on how an unranked waitlist works. Once a spot opens, all the applicants are reviewed, or an every applicant has an equal chance of being admitted?</p>
<p>To where should letters of recommendation be mailed/emailed?</p>
<p>Hi,
I want to start by saying that I think it’s great that representatives from UChicago are on this forum to answer questions for waitlisted students. My question is similar to one already asked: if the waitlist is not numbered, how is one chosen from the waitlist? Also, since it is not numbered, is there anything one can even do to improve his or her chances of being chosen off of the waitlist?</p>