<p>Rejected. It’s my first decision too but strangely enough I’m more disappointed to not have a chance to go to Chicago with the friend I pledged to go with. It’s also the only school I actually cared about, but I’m off to Thailand on spring break to forget this whole thing.</p>
<p>I woke up to find myself wait-listed. This is my second wait-list so far after WashU! But I’m feeling alright because I’ve already gotten into MIT- one of my top choices.
I’m kind of struggling over whether i should stay on the wait-list though… I do like uchicago quite a lot.</p>
<p>Accepted:</p>
<p>SAT 2030
Full aid!!
International from Sri Lanka.</p>
<p>:) :)</p>
<p>I am happy I got wait listed but it looks like a lot of people did. I just have to make a killer interest letter for them to accept me, but honestly I hope this isnt the beginning of a long line of rejections to come. My little heart might not be able to take it.</p>
<p>Waitlisted.</p>
<p>Not too disappointed to be honest; UChicago did not seem like a fit for me.</p>
<p>Hmmm didn’t know UChic gave out so many waitlistings a la WashU. Interestingly I’m not even that dissapointed even though it was definitely one of my favorite schools out of the ones I applied to. Congrats to everyone who got in!!!</p>
<p>Lol well I got denied not even waitlisted so I must suck. It’s ok, Im still waiting on others school before I get sad.</p>
<p>To One Blind:</p>
<p>Sui generis. Everyone would like to think that there is something special about them, something powerful, allusive, great on to it self. It takes a few adolescent years to learn that this is a wet dream of sorts, that one is not gifted with supernatural powers and that the same limitation apply to one as everyone else. This is when the mature mind realizes its limitations. And now we live our lives, we feed our pets, write our papers, work at our soup kitchens, brush our hair, sweat and smile, cry and kiss. Through persistence we may have some success. And all live their own Life, in all its beautiful complexity. And so we have the human condition, and poets and philosophers may discuss it ad infinitum. And then there is the University of Chicago.
Are you person or a thing? Are you a nightmare or a god? You must be one. You are composed of people, and yet you are a separate entity. Do cogs turn inside you great gizzard when it is time to ingest new students. You who judges, it is time to be judged. From one entity to another, I have a question. What omnipotence allows you to probe the soul of an individual and decide who enters and who leaves by another gate? What algorithm have you devised that allows you to measure people, inside and out, sum up their experiences, aspirations, and darkest secrets? Clearly you have one. Else how could you be arrogant to publicly proclaim that your standards go beyond those embraced by other institutions. I am more than my GPA or test scores. Glorious! Take note! Individuality sings forth! But wait: You have opened the door to the Id. Step carefully, for we are about to enter the twilight zone. The damn shudders and bursts and you left bear to the infinite complexity of the Person. A complexity that you can have no hope of perceiving in full. Your eyes perceive a glimmer, an essay here, a recommendation there… from which one’s life may be summarized. Get thee behind me Satan! I say thee, No! From one individual to another, I say an identity cannot be reduced to such. The smell of grass on a summer night, starlight and moonlight on a frozen lake. Bach, and Goethe, and a loved ones embrace, this is life, this is the individual. I know of only one judge worthy of such responsibility and he is not thee.
So is it all a pretense? Or is it an active delusion? Are you blind to the futility of judging an individual’s character or is an intentional ploy? I do not know. Can you tell please? Can you make me feel there is good sense left in you, that the individual may still have a shred of dignity. If not, your only option is to have to the decency to return back to the artificial standards other are honest enough to use. Let the individual be measured by test scores before he judged by personal qualities! Pause… Rewind… Play: your childhood, the feeling that you were something special. Seductive, Sweet, Enticing. And now one realizes a fact that for many is only found at the edge of death. Sui generis.</p>
<p>From:
One who left by another gate</p>
<p>Deferred and then rejected. This is ****ty, especially because it seems almost everyone who was not accepted was waitlisted (obviously I’m exaggerating). I’m not totally shocked though, and at least having gotten into USC presidential, washu, and ucla give me some optimism for the ivy week. To all those rejected, stay confident, we are all qualified and our luck will come through elsewhere. To the acceptees, congrats!</p>
<p>I feel like UChicago really looks at the essay. If you’re essay isn’t good, I don’t think you’ll get in;. What do you guys think? How big is the influence of an essay?</p>
<p>I feel that essay and fit are truly important to Chicago…</p>
<p>Honestly, after skimming some of the people waitlisted and rejected, I think they truly must put a high standard on the essay because I seem fairly average in comparison to a lot of the people. It’s funny though because I thought my essays wouldn’t be what chicago adcoms wanted (not quirky, particularly humour, profound, etc)…but I guess being honest and not compromising my fairly frank writing style helped me out in the end.</p>
<p>Accepted! </p>
<p>IB: 40
ACT: 28
SAT: 1800
SAT II: ranges from 400-600
EC: “brilliant”
Essay: Could have either been extremely good or extremely bad. I guess they liked my approach!</p>
<p>My standardized scores SUCKED- hopefully this suggests my commonapp is a good one and more admittance will come my way!</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>Accepted - I still can’t believe it. Too good to be true!</p>
<p>Accepted 
Are we getting packets in the mail?</p>
<p>WOW Cong!!! Great job!!! :)</p>
<p>@ilnodrog
Wow, maybe ur essay didn’t fit U Chi? Don’t worry, I’m sure u’ll have good news rollin’ in when ivy week comes!!</p>
<p>@princetongirl93</p>
<p>I recall reading that Chicago mailed out accepted packets today.</p>
<p>PS: Congrats!</p>
<p>Yeah I def feel like they stress essays a lot. A LOT of super qualified people with nearly perfect scores and rank and ECs were waitlisted including me while lower scores were accepted with presumably good essays. I guess I’m not creative enough for uchicago lol.</p>
<p>Waitlisted.</p>
<p>It seems that a lot of qualitfied (and I mean very, very qualified) applicants were waitlisted… May I be so bold as to say Tuft’s Syndrome?</p>