<p>I doubt this means anything, but today in the mail I got a letter and a card that said this:</p>
<p>applicannot, you've been selected to apply before your senior year to the University of Chicago. Apply by November 1, 2009 and you'll received a nonbinding admission decision by mid-December and a provisional financial aid decision by early January.</p>
<p>Then it has a direct link to a place with my account, which links forward to the Common Application.</p>
<p>I'm assuming this is just propaganda mail, but if UChicago offers Early Action, what's with "you've been selected" and the special link with login/password? I'm just curious if anyone has heard of this before.</p>
<p>It could mean that they want to admit you for whatever reason, but I did not get that card last year, so I wouldn’t know that much about the significance of that card. It may very well simply be advertising, because last year their EA numbers were dropped a lot compared to the Class of 2012 group. (Fortunately more people applied during RD)</p>
<p>If you’re going to be a junior, there are some schools that send out invites for students to apply as a junior if they have a very high GPA and test scores. Some colleges I’m aware that do this are USC and (I think) Cornell.</p>
<p>I think anybody who is going to be a senior can start applying to colleges right now, so all I think you were selected for was receiving the e-mail.</p>
<p>I got a card too. I think it’s strange that the website it told us to go to was “uofchicagoinfo.org”, not “uchicago.edu”. Do you think this is legit? (I hope so, because I didn’t question it at first; I logged into the website and let it take me to the Common App website, where I logged into my Common App account.)</p>
<p>One of my daughters, for whatever reason, has been inundated with mail from Univ. of Chicago. She has been looking within a 4 hour radius of our home in CT but is intrigued by the beauty and what she hears of the school. She also got this mail today but didn’t log in. (yet) Her sister hasn’t had as much but she did score a bit lower on the SAT which might be the catalyst.
I didn’t see the word “free” though, which has been included in other early app mailings.</p>
<p>Well, if you go to <a href=“http://www.uchicagoinfo.com%5B/url%5D”>www.uchicagoinfo.com</a> or whatever the website is, it says it is the website responsible for special mailings from the U of C.</p>
<p>Yeah I got this mail right now and I’m kind of surprised. First of all, they send me an e-mail, in which they say they got my contact information from the ACT. I have never even shown interest in the University of Chicago since they do not have an engineering program. I am not sure why they are so interested in me, but I would change my major (probably to computer science) if I actually had a chance of getting in. But, as a few other people have said, I think it’s just propaganda for you to apply to U of C. I do have good scores and a decent GPA, but I looked at the essay topics and I have NO clue what to write about. I am probably not going to apply, just because it’s a waste of time. I always get emails from schools saying “You’re in a special group” etc etc, which I am really not in, they just want me to apply.</p>
<p>The mailing means nothing. Every applicant who applies by the November 1 Early Action deadline will receive a nonbinding admission decision by mid-December.</p>
<p>This may mean that you reached a certain ACT cutoff and that you’re good enough so they want you to apply so that they can inflate their application numbers and depress their admit rates. Many schools do this. I remember Yale and Harvard doing a similar thing to me when I applied to schools, though I didn’t necessarily apply to those schools. Usually, Chicago lags behind its peers in terms of admit rate, but the admit office should know by now that Chicago is a good fit for SOME people, not everyone. That said, their admit rate has dropped in recent years. As recent as 10 years ago, their admit rate was 60%, whereas nowadays it’s somewhere around 25%.</p>
<p>^Makes sense, does Chicago do this with every person who reaches this cutoff? I got a 31 on the ACT, I’m not sure what Chicago’s range is though.</p>
<p>I got this in the mail today as well. I’ve also gotten a lot of other letters from them in the past year. I don’t think it means anything. I think it’s based on the PSAT, so if you did good on that they probably sent it to you (I’m a mediocre student in general and I’m probably subpar on this forum)</p>