<p>does anyone know what time the decisions came out last year</p>
<p>1:00 yoooo. and on uchicagoadmission.■■■■■■■■■■ at the bottom of their most recent post it says “tomorrow afternoon” which very well might mean circa 1:00pm</p>
<p>1pm? Is this a joke? Does UChicago actually expect me not to check at school? I won’t be able to wait!</p>
<p>who knows; i’m just making a somewhat informed but mostly far-fetched supposition here. asdjfals;dkfjal;sdkfjalsdkfjald</p>
<p>The exact time is 4PM Eastern.</p>
<p>Who said this?</p>
<p>according to whom?</p>
<p>I don’t know about EA but I assume it will be later in the afternoon than earlier. Last year RD was 4 PM CST.</p>
<p>If UChicago releases decisions around the same time as last year it will be late in the afternoon EST.</p>
<p>If I remember correctly, it was around 4:30 EST.</p>
<p>I will now do an unusual thing to do. Here is my optional essay about favorite things… Please give me feedback if you read it:</p>
<p>The idea alone that I should summarize my favorite artists and works in few lines is preposterous and absurd. I cannot limit the lifelong exploration of the arts in few pages let alone in few lines. Instead, I selected a film and a book (two of the many) that have some deeper meaning and significance for me, on which I will elaborate a little.</p>
<p>The road that I fear the most – “Revolutionary road”</p>
<p>There are three things that I judge and value in a movie: the acting, the plot, and the script, and “Revolutionary Road” has one of the best combination of impeccable acting, core-shaking plot and intense script ever achieved in a film! The movie as a whole is tedious; that is for people who like happy endings and romantic comedies. It is one of the most haunting movies I have ever seen. It didn’t let me sleep for days, making me wonder about the individual’s place in the world, the pursuing of dreams and crashing of the same, about hope and despair, love and hatred, marriage and children, living and dying, suicide and natural death, abortion, mental health, normal and abnormal, and so much more things that lie on the thin line between right and wrong, moral and immoral, legal and illegal. It made me put myself in the same position as April and Frank, envision their perspective and feeling. The ideas and philosophical “problems” covered in the movie are, simply put, a paradoxical conundrums; even while I am writhing this essay I have no clue how to “solve” them. The implanted and deep philosophical ideas and the scary suburban conforming nature of the film make it one of my favorite and most important movies I have ever seen.</p>
<p>For Madmen only</p>
<p>“Steppenwolf”by Hermann Hesse is, for me, the most positive book in the world. It is the “smart intellectual’s (madmen’s) guide for surviving the everyday society” and the differences one encounters with the other people. Harry and I have one thing in common: there are moments when we feel like humans, socializing and mingling with the people around, but too often we feel like steppe wolves: alone and unfit, not belonging in this world, different. With this book I learned to minimize such thoughts and channel them into creativity and constructive learning. Also, it taught me the most important lesson an intellectual must learn: one should not pursue knowledge for fame, glory, eternal remembrance of the name, nor for the materialistic gain, but pursue knowledge for the sake of knowledge, for carrying on the one true human good.</p>
<p>^^ Wrong thread. A little critique, though: I hope you’re an international applicant or nonnative English speaker. Your essay is riddled with grammatical errors and muddled phrases</p>
<p>One of my friends made a phone call for me, it is 4:00 PM. For anyone who doesn’t believe, they can call tomorrow to find out :P</p>
<p>@jt16882 I am an international and I know I must have some grammar errors (everything was written and sent very quickly)
I wanted to hear opinions about the content and ideas conveyed, not about structure of the text… but appreciate it though… :D</p>
<p>Wrong thread kid</p>
<p>are high school counselors notified of the decisions first? i know some colleges and universities let the high school know first.</p>
<p>It’s possible but I do not believe so tremont007.</p>
<p>@tremont
I’ve heard of the counselors being notified of decision dates b4 students (think uMich), but never have i heard of them learning the actual decision before the student o.0. that sounds kinda unethical</p>
<p>yeah, i don’t know, i know my school had the decisions from brown university well before the release date. however, i had to inform my counselors of my acceptance to two of my safety schools. it probably depends on the caliber/size of the school and the relationship with the rep…?</p>
<p>@Predragpepi This is the wrong thread to post an essay, which I’m sure you know, but since you asked, I’ll be candid:</p>
<p>Your beginning, especially, is very, very ill-advised. The essay prompt was perfectly innocuous and flexible: “Share with us a few of your favorite books, poems, authors, films, plays, pieces of music, musicians, performers, paintings, artists, blogs, magazines, or newspapers. Feel free to touch on one, some, or all of the categories listed, or add a category of your own.” </p>
<p>Your response was unnecessarily aggressive, and you managed to insult the admissions committee at the same time, because they’re the ones who write the questions. Beyond that, it was <em>false</em>. I get it: it’s a short essay, your favorite things have emotional value to you, and it’s hard to compact what you have to say about them into a few hundred words. But my God, it’s certainly not a <em>preposterous</em> expectation that someone would be able to describe a favorite thing of their choosing in a page or two. You complain about the lack of space, and then you waste several dozen words worth of space to complain that there’s not enough space.</p>
<p>As I’ve said before, one of the goals of your college application essays is to demonstrate that you know how to write, and that you know, at the most basic level, how to answer what’s being asked of you, and that you can do it in a limited amount of space. In college, many short essays you will have to write will be on broad topics. If you ever said anything to a professor like, “Professor, I know we only have 1,000 words, but that’s simply not enough to coherently elaborate on the commonalities between Marx’s Philosophic and Economic Manuscripts of 1844 and Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations,” he or she would respond, “Well, that’s the assignment.” </p>
<p>UChicago essays certainly give you the freedom to write casually and creatively and that’s great. Just make sure that you still answer what’s being asked of you, and that you don’t gripe about it. Applying to college sucks, it’s true. But say that to yourself, and not to the schools you’re applying to.</p>
<p>@Predragpepi</p>
<p>I have to concur with UChicagoGrad. I do not think your admissions counselor would look favorably upon the tone of your essay, especially the opening. However, since it is a truly optional essay, there is a possibility that the admissions office would let it go. If the admissions committee feels insulted, it might outright reject you, which seems likely at this point.</p>