<p>You can see that early alternative decisions should be mailed in mid-April, and the regular notification deadline is rapidly approaching.</p>
<p>In the office, we've been trying to get the regular notification freshman decisions our the door, which we successfully did yesterday, and we are setting up a new system to read applications, on which our early alternative transfer applicants are the first to be read. We are scanning each application and will read them on computer screens. There are many huge benefits to this for both our office and for you. Credentials will always follow the application, even if they are sent in well after the rest of your application. We can quickly send files to each other or to the next stage. Our offices don't get extremely messy during reading season... the list goes on.</p>
<p>So, that is the transfer update. We are now ready to devote our full attention to these applications and get used to thi new system.</p>
<p>Also, all transfer decisions will be sent out via email this year, something we have never done. I will have more information about this later.</p>
<p>Mid-May can't come soon enough...I'm jealous with all these Freshman threads about acceptances/rejections...Well, more so acceptances. I still have a lot of work to do with my essays. I haven't even started one... :(</p>
<p>I submitted EA on the first & it recorded it as the 2nd & put me in the RD category... ahh well. one of my profs sent a letter in late & it still hasn't been put with my "pile"</p>
<p>I wouldn't have been able to complete all the essays by the ea deadline. Hell Im still working on my essays (I'd admit that I still haven't started one (or two), but I'm afraid you guys would say that Im bound for rejection and I will fail in life and die miserably (and I'm sure you will still say all that just to spite me)). Stupid college.</p>
<p>In my HS we had to write a 10 page essay in our senior year. They gave us a couple of months to do it...Now in college, I've had to write 2 10-15 essays in the past two weeks :(</p>
<p>I certainly don't mean to spite you, jacknjill, but what's your reason for transfering? The type of person that Chicago wants is also probably the type of person that feels their current college is not challenging them enough.</p>
<p>I'm not saying you should give up, but just make sure you're attempting a transfer for the right reasons. If you are having trouble with things like those two papers at your current school, be aware that at Chicago it will probably only get a lot harder.</p>
<p>But if you really want to go to Chicago and with good reasons, don't give up! But start working on those essays soon. ;)</p>
<p>I didn't mean to say that my current college is too hard...its not. The page limit for those papers was 3 and 5, but I talked with the professors arguing that its not possible to fully answer the question without writing a lot more, and told them that I wrote over 10 pages. They said that they agreed and they were impressed blah blah blah, they didn't want to make it too long for the others. Writing the papers was time consuming though, which messed me up with my college applications. Because I tend to do more and get too involved with the, I wasn't able to meet the ea deadline, and I didn't want to rush myself either. Thats all :)</p>
<p>One paper was particularly interesting. It was about George Pullman and the town he created near Chicago (called Pullman) in 1880. In America I've only lived in LA and NY, and have never been to Chicago, so it was nice to read up on the history of the city.</p>