<p>That's what I heard from the UChicago tour guide yesterday (it was an informal tour - but they are training them up for more official tours next year).</p>
<p>Have you ever thought about, ya know, putting all your questions into one thread?</p>
<p>That’s actually not true at all. The percentage is below 10%.</p>
<p>Nice to see questions not related to admissions! Keep them coming.</p>
<p>I doubt that the statistic is true. Also, I second mam128’s suggestion…</p>
<p>That is true at Middlebury apparently. I third mam1298</p>
<p>I’m highly skeptical of the figure and I fourth mam1298</p>
<p>My tour guide earlier this year also said this</p>
<p>Are we better equipped to answer this question than you are? I think we’re all equally capable of Googling this particular question, snooping around, and determining that there really isn’t much public information on this. If anything, these statistics are kept in-house by the admissions office and are extremely unlikely to be published due to privacy reasons and/or lack of relevance. Your tour guide may have been influenced by a recent piece in the Maroon about upper-class couples that have gotten married and/or engaged, however. Also, point of curiosity: what is the intent of your question? Does this figure seem too high or too low to you?</p>
<p>I don’t mean to stifle your interest in the College (if anything, I encourage it!), but I agree with mam1298. Perhaps keep a journal for a few weeks, compile a bunch of questions, and then publish them in bursts. I recognize that your questions probably reflect slight pre-college anxiety and anticipation and am entirely sympathetic, but the fundamental truth is that most of these questions will be addressed by actually going to college. I’m sure that this is an entirely unsatisfying response (I certainly had many of the same curiosities as a prospective student and would not have accepted this as an answer), but I hope it helps quell a little bit of your uncertainty.</p>
<p>Some of us escape this fate but it has been known to happen. LOL!</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/29/fashion/weddings/rebecca-jarvis-matthew-hanson-weddings.html[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/29/fashion/weddings/rebecca-jarvis-matthew-hanson-weddings.html</a></p>
<p>Quit compaining about users posting questions. This is a forum. You ask questions and discuss them in forums. if you are getting mad that a user is doing just that, then maybe you are the one who should keep a journal on all the trivial things that tick you off and not post them on cc. After all, complaining about users isnt the main thing to do on COLLEGE confidential. On COLLEGE confidential, you ask questions about COLLEGE. As far as im concerned, raven is doing nothing wrong. If you dont like the question, dont answer it. If you think its bogging down your news feed, then your priorities definitely arent straight. You guys are making it seem like interested prospective freshman arent allowed, only stingy old alums and current students and the ony type of question allowed is no question at all. We can only post obvious facts and news articles about usnews statistics getting better in recent years and then chatter away about how one day our school will become #1 or higher. </p>
<p>all forums are the same. A few users have the sense of entitlement that give them the divine authority to dictate who posts and what’s posted.</p>
<p>We AREN’T saying that asking questions is BAD. It’d just be easier if all the questions were posted on one thread. Calm down. </p>
<p>@SquealofaRaven, we are NOT asking you to STOP asking questions. I’m sure that a boatload of people have the same questions, and others enjoy answering them. However, it is merely a suggestion to post all the questions in the same thread. And, hey, it’ll be easier for you to find the answer(s) to your questions if it were in one thread rather than have to sift through pages of other threads to find yours.</p>
<p>^^ We all ask many questions on the same forum. Just because this poster put all of them up in a relatively short time span compared to all of us, it doesn’t mean s/he is wrong. We answer questions, not people. That is the point of a forum. Unless the poster is asking completely irrelevant questions, s/he is entitled to as many posts are required. </p>
<p>Sent from my ADR6400L using CC</p>
<p>We are not saying this person is wrong.</p>
<p>Well, I believe the OP is entering UChicago as a grad student and I’m not sure how relevant comments here will be to his life as a PhD candidate. I remember that when I was in grad school, contact with undergrads was limited to TA’ing classes and (very) occasional dating.</p>
<p>Regardless, while some of these questions/answers may be of limited help to the OP, they will most likely benefit other prospective students.</p>
<p>Im merely sticking up for a fellow member who is being ganged up on by many other members. Youre the uncalm one for instead of answering the OP, you are dictating how he/she should use a forum. Youre not even doing it in a nice way by seconding, thirding, and fourthing raven to essentially stop speaking his/her mind and confining raven to the corner.</p>
<p>I agree with collegeguyyeah, but just to clarify, those who’re ganging up on raven are mostly those who are in the admissions cycle. I welcome any UChicago-related questions raven has.</p>
<p>To the OP, they can’t get anyone else to tolerate them. (I’m only kidding, put away your daggers)</p>