<p>Happy thanksgiving to all Uchicago CCer's!</p>
<p>you too, as to everyone else.
anyone has an estimate date for this year's EA decision? when was last year's?</p>
<p>tongchen1226 -- Last year's EA decisions arrived anywhere from the 15th of December to the 22nd. See Chicago's</a> Uncommon Application, 2007-2008: December 2006</p>
<p>I'm guessing they'll be mailed on the 17th. (I think that's a Monday)</p>
<p>If they can manage all the extra applications by that time...</p>
<p>Yeah, due to the increase I would expect decisions to be out by the 25th at the earliest. They have an absolutely massive pool to go through.</p>
<p>^ There's no post on Christmas : |</p>
<p>I know they have a massive pool, and I'm really expecting them to just pull out the best of the best by SAT or some other easily quantifiable measure (as much as I hate to think it) and defer everyone else. If they try to read them all, they're going to run out of time.</p>
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I know they have a massive pool, and I'm really expecting them to just pull out the best of the best by SAT or some other easily quantifiable measure (as much as I hate to think it) and defer everyone else. If they try to read them all, they're going to run out of time.
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<p>Just because they're running low on time doesn't mean they're going to resort to idiocy. Don't worry... the admissions process will be much like last year's.</p>
<p>I love how we consider looking primarily at SAT scores "idiocy." (It's a good thing. I love Chicago for it)</p>
<p>How did they manage the applicants last year?</p>
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How did they manage the applicants last year?
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<li>Give deadline of when decisions were probably going to be sent out</li>
<li>Read the applications</li>
<li>Go over the deadline.</li>
<li>Give another deadline.</li>
<li>Read more applications.</li>
<li>Go over the deadline again.</li>
<li>Read more applications until they were all done.</li>
<li>Send out admissions decisions.</li>
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<p>Worse comes to worst, they'll just keep postponing admissions decisions until late December, but they definitely won't resort to just picking out students by their SAT scores. Ted O'Neill, the dean of admissions, has been opposed to evaluating students' applications primarily by standardized test scores for too long.</p>
<p>Yeah, I understood the standardized testing thing, it's just that I couldn't think of another way for them to get through so many apps. I was wrong.</p>
<p>As long as they get me a decision before the end of December, I won't complain.</p>
<p>The blog makes it seem that they're still aiming for mid-December sometime, but I don't even know if that's even possible.</p>
<p>As a Manhattanite who is connected to admissions gossip, I can assure you that Dean O'Neill makes decisions on his own terms. He's the rep for my school (and all of Manhattan) and he has made some decisions that seem surprising to the outside community, but in retrospect make perfect sense.</p>
<p>I'm assuming all of you have already applied, in which case you really have nothing more to do than sit and watch quality reruns on TV. What are you guys watching to take you through the writers' strike?</p>
<p>Don't make me become nostalgic, unalove. :( Only 2 weeks until I get my precious television back. :) And I'll probably come back to reruns. :(</p>
<p>This is my chance to advertise some of my favorite TV shows that are all Netflixable or available on DVD...</p>
<p>--Arrested Development
--Sports Night (same writer as the West Wing! Ten times better!)
--South Park
-- LOST first season (it goes downhill after that)
-- Northern Exposure
-- Freaks and Geeks
-- Pinky and the Brain/Animaniacs (comes in collections)
-- Homicide: Life on the Streets
-- Sex and the City
-- The Sopranos
-- Dead Like Me
-- Six Feet Under
-- X-Files</p>
<p>anybody care to add more? When you think about how many seasons some of these shows run for, you have hours and hours of TV viewing pleasure ahead of you.</p>
<p>Great list, unalove! It's especially useful now, what with the TV writers' strike.</p>
<p>I'm watching Dead Like Me now, and it's so great. I'm just sad that there are only two seasons. I also especially second Sports Night, another show that ended too soon.</p>
<p>Speaking of shows that ended too soon, you have to watch Firefly; it is fantastic. I also recommend Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. </p>
<p>Another favorite of mine: the current version of Battlestar Galatica, with Edward James Olmos as Adama. And last but not least for sci-fi fans: Farscape.</p>
<p>Don't get me started with my love of campy sci fi...Babylon 5, Dr. Who and Invasion. Kudos for Firefly, Dead Like Me, X Files and Farscape, too!</p>
<p>BSG= good times. </p>
<p>I'm also a big fan of America's Next Top Model reruns. Cycles (too good for seasons, I guess?) 1 and 3 are my favorite.</p>
<p>I just got Arrested Development, Season 3 on DVD at Target the day after Thanksgiving for 10 bucks. That show is f-ing hilarious, and it's a shame the American public was too stupid to understand its humor. I've seen most of Seasons 1 and 2 with friends, but I'm asking for my own copies for Christmas. I'm not going to talk to anyone on December 26th, methinks.</p>