<p>Michelle, on that blog post they essentially said “Not today.” so we’ve got a while to go yet.</p>
<p>Wow. I can’t believe 1% of students admitted had a 3.0-3.24. Do you all think those admits are athletes or just extraordinary people?</p>
<p>Michelle, what’s your ground for Chicago’s release within this week? I’m still believing in 17th. I can’t find any compelling reason for this week.</p>
<p>Loving the Zelda reference, CaptainKrunch.</p>
<p>Did anyone not do an interview for EA? I had some face time with a counselor at an info session and a campus visit, but I never did a formal sit-down interview. I’ll definitely do one if I’m deferred, but I thought it was more a chance for me to ask about the school than for them to evaluate me.</p>
<p>CJohnH: I tried to, but the window that it was possible sat almost right on top of Thanksgiving break. We couldn’t meet with his schedule and mine.</p>
<p>@pruneface oh tht sucks ): maybe tomorrow or wed…?
@hatesmus i meant i think the email telling us which day decisions will come out this week. i was certain the actual day would be 17th too but now idk…</p>
<p>This wait is killing me. If I get deferred, they may as well reject me, because I will die from anxiety before they release the final decisions.</p>
<p>Chill guys getting rejection is not as bad as it sounds. just from my personal experience. I’m just gonna empty my mind, if accepted, go party all day, if deferred, meh, if rejected just gonna stare at wall for an hour and move on to RD.</p>
<p>@hatesmus the average scores of accepted students are high because the students who satisfy the most important factors tend to be high achievers and are more likely to be scoring high on standardized testing. The high SAT scores is just a result of the other characteristics. There will be the occasional anomaly though.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t mind rejection. There is more than one college in my state to which I could get a full ride based on ACT and GPA alone. And honestly, I’m not even sure what career I want to go into, so it’s not like getting a UChicago education will make or break my life dreams. I’m not obsessed with UChicago’s ranking (I’m not applying to any Ivies RD), or the opportunities that its prestige will afford me. I will live an amazing, successful, fulfilling, and happy life regardless of where I go to college. The thing I hate is not knowing whether I’ve gotten in or not.</p>
<p>Yes I agree, not being able to know our result is excruciating in any circumstance. But I found once I stopped myself from obsession with acceptance, it became much more comfortable.</p>
<p>CJohnH, I didn’t request for an interview.</p>
<p>Neither did I. Out of the 9 of us applying to UChicago from our school, only one person requested an interview. I hope this doesn’t make it look like we don’t really want to go (because we all really do!), especially since we live about an hour away…how much do you think interviews matter?</p>
<p>You guys live about an hour away?! Why on earth wouldn’t you go!? We were attempting to set up flights!</p>
<p>There is a consensus that not having interview offer doesn’t matter at all in the admission process. If not offered, interview is not gonna hurt one. Good interview only slightly contribute to admission but a catastrophic interview can bring down one’s chance. I didn’t get interview neither, but I got one for Princeton’s.</p>
<p>My UChicago interview was kind of meh. So disappointing. My worse interview of six. :|</p>
<p>Awesome. Like I said, I got some face time with a counselor, plus a good deal of email correspondence with her, so I’m not worried.</p>
<p>@pruneface: Well we didn’t expect there to be such a drastic increase in the number of applicants this year, and we were in the middle of applying for like ten schools each at the time, not to mention some doing QB. And I’m not good with interviews, so I didn’t want to risk it. The one person who interviewed said it went really badly…so the rest of us were a bit hesitant. We’re kinda beginning to regret it now</p>
<p>When I had an interview over Skype, the person interviewing me prefaced the hour with “I’ve never seen an interview affecting someone’s application. You could probably insult myself and my mother, and still get in. It’s really just about opening a contact with someone who knows what life at UChicago is like.” </p>
<p>So, yeah… I don’t think having had an interview or not is going to affect whether or not you are accepted/rejected.</p>