<p>I would like to know which of you UChicago 2013ers are doing the CAAP program (see caap.uchicago.edu for info). I am doing it, but I would like to see if anyone else is too. I would also like to hear from current students who have done it.</p>
<p>I am also, don’t really know what it is though</p>
<p>Does the CAAP pay for your work study only or your work study along with your expected student contribution?</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>I think they pay off your entire student contribution, which should include your Work Study, Summer Job, Student Loan (if applicable), and savings contribution. But I am NOT 100% sure, but I think that’s what it covers.</p>
<p>yeah, so how do they choose who they want???</p>
<p>and for those who have been selected how soon do they let you know after you fill out the app? </p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>I don’t know their acceptance process, but I recieved an email that I was accepted in exactly a week I sent in my application.</p>
<p>I really wish I knew how the choose who they want to apply. ha ha ha</p>
<p>Do you know what the program is for? Is it just like a program for minority kids for remedial classes, or what? My brother’s school does something similiar, and it’s pretty much for all the kids who need remedial teaching, so I was just wondering if this was similiar.</p>
<p>Wow, I feel like I was called stupid…</p>
<p>I’m sorry, that came out wrong. Obviously anyone who got into CHicago isn’t stupid, but the website said something about “establishing a baseline in chemistry and calculus” during the Summer Academy, so it kind of sounded like the program at my brother’s school.</p>
<p>If you’re going to UChicago, you’re brilliant! 
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<p>This sounds like a program my friend is doing before she goes to MIT called “Project Interphase”. That program is for minority and underprivileged students, and basically helps the transition from a regular high school into the super fast paced, crazy intense college environment of a top university.</p>
<p>Ha ha ha, I kinda think its for poor kids, because of all the financial support that is tied to the program. I will be mad if I later find out that it is some sort of special ed. program lol</p>
<p>to apply you have to qualify for the odyssey scholarship, meaning your parents make less than $75000 a year. Meaning it is for basically poor people, and has nothing to do with your intelligence. I think its like the MIT program, trust me, if you got into Uchicago, you aren’t stupid. (except you paid ur school to ‘fix’ your transcript, then you kind of are, stupid)</p>
<p>Just to rephrase a little bit (I was not in CAAP but I have a bunch of friends who are):</p>
<p>Income and level of high school prep are very closely tied together and has nothing to do with intelligence and more to do with quality of teaching you’ve received. Like KMad suggested, the program is a booster/support program. As far as I know, it has been very successful in creating a sense of community and providing academic services. I do not know how students are chosen.</p>
<p>My suggestion to the OP is to check to see if there are CAAP groups on facebook. I also have to put out there that some of the CAAP students I know are the smartest people I know period, and that makes sense-- these are the students who continued to shine despite less stellar backing from teachers, peers, and high school guidance counselors.</p>
<p>And $75,000 per year is hardly “poor.”</p>
<p>$75k would be the maximum someone’s parents could make, but I’m sure that most cases (like mine) the parents make much less than $75k. It may also be linked to students who attended public high school?</p>
<p>I wouldn’t say the type of school is a factor (or not a huge factor at least) since I went to a private Jesuit school (a good one at that), but I think it depends mostly on your parents income.</p>
<p>Hey im doing CAAP this year too? I read that they do not allow us to work during the school year, so how are we suppose to support ourselves?</p>
<p>They pay for your student contribution and for your work study…</p>
<p>but, if you need additional spending money i’m sure you could make it on the side if you are hush hush about it. Get what i’m saying?</p>
<p>To those of you accepted to the program already:</p>
<p>How many documents did you have to fill out as a part of the application?</p>
<p>Also, was there a phone interview or anything of that sort?</p>