<p>Hey guys:
new semester! how you guys doing？I got 4.0 last semester, now is working hard on applications.
To PatriotUSA: Congraduates for 4.0! I'm thinking about applying ND as well for safety. What do you think of ND? Any suggestions?
To creamgethamoney: since you have already transfered once before, I think you need to demonstrate strongly why you wanna transfer UC and intend to settle down.
For your question, I think you work hard as you can right now. Because they will not have complete transcript for this term when they announce decision (early May), so you do not need to worry too much about this term.
For a one side story, transfering late definitely kills your chance. That's why, harvard, princeton don't even take transfers at all.</p>
<p>"I'm thinking about applying ND as well for safety."</p>
<p>Don't do that. You're so gonna regret that. ND is not a safety...I'm not an ND student. It just doesn't make sense to use a top 20 school as a safety. too risky.</p>
<p>Thanks confusedboy.
I think I made a little confusion here. I classified my college choices into three catagories. Top to try, top to reach and safety. ND here is the safety in top colleges to reach. After my last year's catastrophic failure, I really can't afford to underestimate any application.</p>
<p>If you like an intellectual school, don't even apply here. Simple as that.
You have to be very Catholic, Conservative, rich, white, straight, intellectually indifferent and professional-focused to fit in here. If you are gay (that one's obvious, granted), liberal, don't like football, want to talk about things other than beer and sex, a minority, intellectually minded you will quickly find that there are few like you here. All of the people that are envy me for leaving. Unfortunately, the campus is seemingly 95% homogeneous.</p>
<p>Notre Dame has very challenging academics but if you like U. of Chicago, you shouldn't apply here as they are worlds apart.</p>
<p>Yes, this is pretty strongly worded but if I didn't dislike it here I wouldn't be leaving.</p>
<p>Does anyone know when we'll be able to check our credentials?</p>
<p>Hey...just wondering if anyone had an opinion on my chances of getting into U of Chicago as a transfer student:</p>
<p>I got a 4.0 last semester from UC berkeley (i'm a freshman), 4.3 from my high school (3.95 unweighted- i took 9 APs with all 4s and 5s), 2310 on my SATs... i have an internship with a student run organization, i've been volunteering at the campus radio station, and volunteering with a local after-school program, while working for an optometry research study (on campus). i'm also on the berkeley handball team, but that's just for fun. what do you guys think??</p>
<p>i would absolutely LOVE to go to u of chicago....the school just seems so interesting and alternative, it totally fits with what i'm looking for from my university. i regret not applying in high school...after my first semester at berkeley i'm already sick of being on such a large, overpopulated & homogenizing campus.</p>
<p>i also applied to columbia and sarah lawrence college. columbia is a long shot and sarah lawrence is a backup. two months until i find out....</p>
<p>salomeya--how do you find Berkeley homogenizing? Isn't supposed to be...all..diversediversediverse?</p>
<p>You are in.</p>
<p>Are any applicants from community colleges? Or would I not even be considered?</p>
<p>jabberwocky66: i feel like Berkeley is academically homogenizing...the really high student to teacher ratio means most of the learning is done in huge, 300+ person lecture halls. so rather than being engaged with the material and my professors, i tend to feel like a tiny speck in a big, faceless crowd of note-taking students.</p>
<p>demographically, Berkeley is pretty diverse, which i definitely appreciate... but, for me, it's more an issue of the large public university education not satisfying my personal needs. it's definitely not a problem that would be unique to Berkeley, i think i just want more individual attention from professors instead of the grad student instructors/ TAs (esp. considering the huge amount i'm paying).</p>
<p>20sticks: thanks, i really hope you're right!! i'll let you guys know once I find out...not looking forward to the waiting!</p>
<p>Any chances opinions?</p>
<p>3.94 GPA first semester (freshman) from U of Tennessee (my home state institution) in the honors program. 40 credit hours (10 hours of honors courses). Economics/Psychology double major and minor in Chinese. Paricipating in a SAB program in China this summer yeilding 10 hours of credit. 34 ACT, something like a 3.36 (UW) HS GPA but I address my lack of focus in HS in 2 of my essays. 7 or so AP's and lots of honors in HS. Paralegal internship at a law firm my senior year and was a paid employee the summer after graduation. Two strong teacher rec's plus one from the lawyer I worked for. Atheltic recruit. Applying for fin aid. Five or so EC's (econ club etc.) but no real leadership positions in any of them. Was suspended in HS for cutting class, but wrote a satirical essay on the incident in the explanation portion of common app. </p>
<p>Basically I've decided Chicago is the place for me and I really don't want to finish any of my applications to anywhere else. What do you all think? I should probably go finish my apps...</p>
<p>I think you have a decent shot but you should probably apply to those other schools just in case.</p>
<p>Has anyone had their alumni interview yet? I have mine next week and am wondering how I should prepare.</p>
<p>Did you have to request an interview or do they contact you automatically?</p>
<p>You have to request one, but it is too late to make a new request. (I also missed the deadline to make a request; I thought it was later than it was.)</p>
<p>This thread has become so dead. 
Did anyone hear any sort of news yet?</p>
<p>I know! What are people doing to “show interest” post-application submission? I’m letter-crafting.</p>
<p>I have been told that sending in letters don’t really make a different, but I, like you, am sending in one as well. :)</p>
<p>Hopefully the deadness of this thread means that not that many people are applying, haha.</p>
<p>What kind of letters are you all sending? I’m sending a midterm report to show interest. Maybe a letter is a good idea… are you all mailing them or posting them as an update to your application?</p>
<p>I just submitted mine today as an update to my application.</p>
<p>That’s cool that you’re sending your midterm grades. I don’t know where I can get a form to do that, and I don’t wanna make one because chances are that I’ll make a fool of myself trying to create one on my own.</p>