<p>Is it ok to abbreviate university of chicago in my essay because I'm feeling that the name is too long and it is weird to say it over and over again.</p>
<p>What should I abbreviate it to?</p>
<p>I made it uchicago, and I got in so i don’t think they mind. You can also probably use UofC</p>
<p>I think UChicago is acceptable. U of C is more iffy.</p>
<p>First I wrote it out and then just wrote “Chicago.”</p>
<p>I used a combination of Chicago, UChicago, and University of Chicago.</p>
<p>I think the deadline has passed, but for what it’s worth a lot of longtime members of the university community seem to prefer “U of C” (which can even be shortened to “UofC” in writing). It’s short, simple, and yet distinctive.</p>
<p>"lot of longtime members of the university community seem to prefer “U of C”</p>
<p>This is true, but the university seems to be moving strongly away from this, and branding the abbrieviation as “UChicago.” Look at the school’s website - “UChicago” is written everywhere, but no one says U of C. </p>
<p>Similarly, some time back, University of Pennsylvania officially noted on its website that the abbreviation for the school was “Penn” and not “UPenn.” People can go by either, but it’s best to use what the school endorses.</p>
<p>Last year the UChicago rep posted that UChicago was fine but that the school was trying to get away from U of C which Cue7 correctly points out is what long time U of C types call the school. Marketing types like UChicago better. To me it will always be U of C.</p>
<p>Yes, it’s fine to abbreviate. UChicago is probably your best bet.</p>
<p>To repeat what everyone has been saying, yes. I was admitted EA and I think I only referred to them as “UChicago.”</p>
<p>As an alum, most if not all your colleagues in the future (especially in medicine, law, business, academia) will know exactly what you are talking about when you refer to your alma mater as simply “Chicago” and not as UChicago or U of C (too many state schools with same abbreviations) or especially the cumbersome University of Chicago. Most of the alums that I know from University of Cambridge, University of Oxford or University of Pennsylvania refer to their alma mater as simply Cambridge, Oxford, and Penn. I believe, and rightly so, even most state schools just refer to themselves as either having attended Texas, Cal, Florida, Illinois without having to put “University” in front or after their school’s name. Remember that most of the world universities in Europe and Asia start with “University of” but they are referred to simply with the one word “name.”</p>
<p>It makes having conversations more enjoyable and less cumbersome.</p>
<p>I’ve always liked the UChicago term better specially here on CC where people talk about so many universities. When did “UChicago” started to become predominant? In 2009 I had a meeting with 2 school representatives and they both consistently used the “U of C” term. I should ask recently graduated S1 what term does he use.</p>
<p>Just refer to the essay questions of this year’s UChicago supplement. In question one, they wrote it as “UChicago.” So it is pretty sure that this name is endorsed officially.</p>
<p>Just make sure you don’t abbreviate it as “Yale.” Those cut-and-paste errors can be devastating.</p>
<p>lol just don’t write University Chicago like I did on my essay XD</p>