<p>Jhu has mailed the decisions and I only found out today because my godfather knows the president of jhu. </p>
<p>Did you guys apply for economics at jhu?</p>
<p>Anybody a history or political science person?</p>
<p>Whoop! Poli Sci here!</p>
<p>Hi everyone! I have been following this thread for a few months. I am also going to be going to UChicago in the fall and would love to get to know everyone. Is anyone planning on making a facebook group for transfers? How are roommates picked?</p>
<p>a fb group would be awesome! ;)</p>
<p>I agree! but I don’t want to have to be the one to start it, lol!!</p>
<p>I’m sure someone will eventually. I just sent in my deposit today and filled out housing forms. I am so excited!!!</p>
<p>… I don’t want to be the one to start one either! :p</p>
<p>does anyone want to speculate on how many people are on the waiting list? i’m on it and i think i saw someone else post on here who’s on it. i hate not knowing until late june</p>
<p>did everyone else receive their official admissions package in the mail today? I did, but they seriously screwed up my transfer credit. According Uchicago, I have 11 quarters left!!! What!!! I took a grand total of 25 credits my freshman year, so how on earth does that equal only 1 quarter worth of work???</p>
<p>forgive me if I’m wrong here but I’ll assume you’re transferring into your sophomore year?</p>
<p>At Chicago, you will take a grand total of 16 quarters and if you have 11 left, that means you’re completed 5? I’d assume that means they’ve given you a year + 1 quarter in credit.</p>
<p>Hey sofy,
I think that you are counting the summers, which I am not including because they are not necessary. Furthermore, a student who receives 3rd year standing has only 6 quarters remaining as an undergrad at Uchicago and therefore each entering 1st year has a grand total of 12 required quarters to complete. Granted, I would love to be at Uchicago longer, but I do not live in an ideal world where I can waste a year of college. So I am gonna have to try to figure out whats going on (btw I would be perfectly happy with having 10 quarters reaming because that would mean that i would have to spend 1 summer in Chicago and I was already both expecting and looking forward to that 
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<p>Rhode, where do you live, and did your package come with financial stuff (if you applied for finaid)?</p>
<p>I’m still waiting for my letter in the mail.</p>
<p>Wait a second, i am extremely confused now, because on Uchicgao’s website, it states that students must complete 42 academic courses to earn a degree. How many quarters is that? How is the college calculating credit hours? I am asking these questions because my letter also stated that I have 34 more courses to complete which some how translates into 11 quarters?</p>
<p>Ok, i just found this portion of the Chicago website and it is super helpful, if anyone is confused about the quarter system I would suggest checking this link first:
<a href=“http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/liberal/curriculum.shtml#other[/url]”>http://collegecatalog.uchicago.edu/liberal/curriculum.shtml#other</a></p>
<p>Hey 20sticks,
No, my package did not include financial aid information. The aid award letter arrives separately from the letter of admissions and transfer credit evals, usual a few days after the admissions package. I live in the southeast.</p>
<p>I didn’t get mine yet (you might live closer to UChicago than I do?)… but I do know from the website that math is very hard to transfer (you need to take a placement test and basically retake any math you have taken), foreign language is hard to transfer (I’m a French major and this year took advanced French lit courses, and Chicago won’t take them), and electives that don’t really match those offered by Chicago are hard to transfer. APs, however, count, and remember that in terms of applying to grad school, it won’t matter whether UChicago accepted your credits or not because you’ll submit transcripts from your first school. I am coming from a “top 10” and was very surprised by the website at just how much won’t transfer. However, consider that at Chicago a standard course load is 3-4 courses a semester. If you commit yourself to 4 courses a semester, with no 3 course ‘underloads’ you will finish in PLENTY of time as a member of 2012, and you will have the opportunity to study abroad, a semester off, or whatever you might have planned for yourself. Transferring is not an easy process but I know how excited you are about UChicago and I GUARANTEE that everything will be absolutely fine-- sophomores who transfer as rising juniors lose credits and usually are still able to graduate on time-- and we’re only rising sophs…</p>
<p>Thanks, cookiemonster23. Don’t get me wrong, I still love!!! Uchicago, and I don’t think there’s really anything that would make me truly dislike Chicago. I’m just a little annoyed right now, but thank you for you’re help.</p>
<p>(first time posting, but i’ve been anxiously following it ever since the housing acceptance letter 3 weeks ago or so tho ^_^)</p>
<p>ughh… i just got my transfer credit letter yesterday (i’m in shanghai) and… it says i have 36 credits left to complete, 12 quarters… AND i’m currently a sophomore >.<</p>
<p>so, kind of disheartened. i was doing a comparative languages major so i have 39 credits of foreign language (currently taking 15 credits of modern and classical chinese…), all of which apparently won’t transfer. i mean, does this really mean i’ll have 6 years of undergrad?! 5 years wouldn’t be TOO terrible, especially since i’ve been studying abroad this whole year and it’s more like time-off than actual school. but still. do you guys think financial aid will cover the quarters beyond 4th year if they are necessary to graduate?</p>
<p>bigchumpa, you’re in shanghai!? awesome. ni shi zhongguo ren ma? what are you doing there? is shanghai home for you?</p>
<p>did any juniors get that they have to complete their degree in 7-8 quarters more?</p>