<p>1) How does their Early admission for transfers work, is it binding?</p>
<p>2) What are the advantages or disadvantages of applying under early admission? Does it increase one's chance of being admitted, like in most other colleges?</p>
<p>3) Are there any humanities or such requirements, unrelated to your chosen major, in order to graduate?</p>
<p>4) Does anyone have the statistics on transfer acceptance rate?</p>
<p>5) Will one be disadvantaged if one were to transfer from an overseas, 4-years institution?</p>
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6) From what i understand, they do not require SAT II in the admission process, but will they take into consideration if i were to submit my SAT II results? Would it be used to make admission decision, or only for placement?</p>
<p>1) Non-binding
2) You get your decision a month earlier, and about 2/3 of their transfers are admitted from EA, I think.
3) Why are you interested in Chicago as a <em>transfer</em> if you are not interested in the Core Curriculum? Yes, there are, and it is the most rigorous Core in all of the nation.
4) Last year, 575 applied, and 125 were offered admission.
5) International transfer students are not eligible for financial aid.
6) I do not know about SAT IIs.</p>
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<p>Yes, but I've read that a lot of Chicago students end up getting married together, so if you play your cards right, you will get that greencard and aid next year :) </p>
<p>nono i am not requiring fin aid... i am just asking if i would be disadvantaged from not studying in the US...</p>
<p>anyway, can u guys outline how the core curriculum works... i was initially interested in chicago because of their strong physics program, although i really dont like humanities and liberal arts, etc...</p>
<p>I think the Core is great. Nothing is more boring than the one-dimensional man. People who want to study "only" one subject, be it something in the sciences of the humanities, drive me nuts. There's a whole world out there and you're deliberately shutting it out. How is that intelligent?</p>
<p>Although I agree, wouldn't it be to your advantage to take more classes of your major? It's all pretty different in my country (Turkey) where people start choosing majors in HS (I completely disagree with this) and apply to a colleges department rather than general admission. I like the core (or else Chicago wouldn't be my 1st choice) but I can't help but think that a student there studying economics will be exposed to more than an economics major here would. Of course theres always the quantity v. quality argument, or saying that the American system is established and is 'enough'...but still.</p>
<p>I can't speak about economics, but as a math major I certainly didn't cover any less than I would have at any other school that didn't have a core. If anything, I covered more. I was by no means the smartest or most advanced student in my classes, but I studied material that one would typically not study until graduate school, and by my fourth year I had the choice to actually take the graduate analysis course here (I chose not to so as to make my fourth year less work-intensive).</p>
<p>You are not sacrificing depth in your chosen major by choosing Chicago. Classes move very fast here.</p>
<p>I actually asked about SAT II's myself. My admissions counselor told me that they couldn't care less about them, because they usually reflect your SAT Reasoning scores. They'll look at them, but they won't be a factor in admissions.</p>