Does anyone remember those UChicago emails during app deadlines?

[shadowzoid]

<p>When the EA and RD deadlines were approaching, UChicago sent us emails with a list of humorous reasons we should apply on time. Does anyone have that email or remember parts of that list?</p>

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<p>bump</p>

<p>10char</p>

[debarghya9]

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<p>Oh hey, Debarghya:</p>

<p>This e-mail is a gentle and caring reminder that the UChicago RN Deadline is January 3rd, 2011. To ease your troubled mind as the deadline draws nearer, here is a list of the top eleven reasons to get everything finished on time, compiled lovingly for you by University of Chicago tour guides who didn’t want to go outside today in the cold but still had to prove that they’d done something at work.</p>

<p>Top Eleven Reasons To Turn In Your Regular Notification Application on Monday, January 3rd:</p>

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<li><p>A New Year’s resolution that’s hard to break: get in to college. Somewhere. Anywhere. How about Chicagowhere? So, send in that application!</p></li>
<li><p>There’s very little chance that WikiLeaks will distribute the World’s Best College Application between now and January 3rd. We’d rather see yours anyway.</p></li>
<li><p>While you’re finishing your college applications, University of Chicago students in Flint House in Max Palevsky are celebrating Flintsgiving, participating in Super Secular Secret Santa (featuring only gifts purchased from our campus convenience store “Bart Mart”), watching girly (and boy-ey) movies during Estro(gen) Fest and Testo(sterone) Fest, and preparing for a traditional New Year’s Bacon Festival. Trust these housemates: the application struggle is well worth its baconey, camaraderie-ey rewards. </p></li>
<li><p>Where else will you be asked to make (and play) a life-size version of Settlers of Catan, ford the wide river Regenstein in your homemade covered wagon, and bring an elephant to campus? UChicago students have done all three! Scav Hunt, baby. Google it.</p></li>
<li><p>Research shows that the warm and fuzzy feeling you get after finishing a college application has been proven to cure Seasonal Affective Disorder. You won’t need to invest in a special lamp.</p></li>
<li><p>You know you want to go to a school where the students are known as the Phoenixes, Phoenixi, Phoenices… um, Maroons.</p></li>
<li><p>When your professor disappears for a few days, he’s probably not sneaking off to become a werewolf–just discovering new dinosaurs–or being awarded a Nobel prize. You know. The usual.</p></li>
<li><p>Did you know that you can make any single digit into the number 8 when handwriting things, without erasing any parts of the original numbers? Try it. Draw all the numbers 1-9 out on a piece of paper, and add parts when necessary to create an 8. It works. The new eights are a little wonky looking, but still. University of Chicago connection: none.</p></li>
<li><p>You will have a chance to join the (mostly) hallowed halls of learning once occupied by Enrico Fermi, Indiana Jones, and…Tucker Max.</p></li>
<li><p>If you’re preparing for first semester exams, keep this in mind: during Finals Week a year from now, you might be served Midnight Breakfast by your Professors, given free massages in the Reynolds Club, and embraced in front of the Regenstein Library by fellow students offering free hugs and hot chocolate. Sounds nice, right?</p></li>
<li><p>Nothing says “relaxing Winter Break” like finally being able to tell your parents you’ve finished applying to colleges. In fact, nothing says “hey Mom, you can quit asking me if I’ve finished applying to colleges” quite so nicely, either.</p></li>
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<p>We hope our Top 11 list has been invaluable to you in your choice to either finish your University of Chicago application or spend some more quality time on Facebook. Good luck with everything, and we hope to see you on campus next year!</p>

<p>As always, feel free to contact us at <a href=“mailto:psac@uchicago.edu”>psac@uchicago.edu</a> if you have any questions about what it’s like to be a student here.</p>

<p>Best,</p>

<p>The University of Chicago Prospective Students Advisory Committee

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<p>I love these guys. Truly.</p>

[shadowzoid]

<p>Yes thannk you</p>

[coocoocachoo]

<p>Here’s the one EAers received. </p>

<p>Dear ------,</p>

<p>This e-mail is a friendly reminder that the University of Chicago’s Early Action application deadline is November 1st, 2010, just around the corner.</p>

<p>Our campus tour guides were reminiscing about their college applications and decided to create this “Top Ten List” to brighten your day and, perhaps, relieve some of the stress you’ve been feeling.</p>

<p>Top Ten Reasons You Should Turn In Your Early Action Application on (or before) Monday, November 1st</p>

<ol>
<li> For Halloween, you can dress up as a kid who finished your college application!</li>
<li> You’ll automatically be entered in the running for Mayor of Chicago.</li>
<li> Getting into a college is, like, twice as good as getting into a collage.</li>
<li> A new video of babies eating lemons will show up on YouTube!</li>
<li> Your parents will stop bugging you about your application.</li>
<li> You are one step closer to winning a Nobel Prize! (…or, well, closer to people who have won the Nobel Prize!)</li>
<li> You won’t feel any guilt when you watch episodes of 30 Rock all afternoon.</li>
<li> You can spend the next month writing a novel instead of that application essay. It is National Novel Writing Month, after all.</li>
<li> That Hogwarts letter isn’t coming; this is the next best thing.</li>
<li> Procrastinating is only cool and fun once you’re in college.</li>
</ol>

<p>If you’ve been stressed and worried about applying to college, finish up that application and worry no more! If you send us your application by November 1st, not only will you be able to enjoy the winter, you’ll also have your decision by mid-December, putting you way ahead of the game. So stop agonizing over whether or not you found x, no need to reread that essay for the quadzillionth time, and submit that application!</p>

<p>Best of luck!</p>

<p>The Prospective Students Adviosory Committee</p>

[shadowzoid]

<p>those guys lied. I got the hogwarts letter (april fools joke =P)</p>