<p>Hi all. After being deferred I was thinking of multiple ways of expressing my deep desire to attend uChicago. This was one of the ways I had come up with even before I had received my decision. I thought it up while i was bored in english class xD. Now i'm debating sending it to my regional counselor. Should I?</p>
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<p>My Favorites...</p>
<p>Undermining my opponent in chess
Channeling my inner Joe LaGrange
Hinting at things I want
Indian Music
Chinese food
Attempting to sound smarter than I actually am
Googling random obscure math theorems (i.e. Frenet-Serret)
Opening acceptance letters</p>
<p>Of course, my most favorite thing is reading between the lines. You should try it some time.</p>
<p>It comes off a little pretentious- I don’t know if that was on purpose or a side effect. Also, I’m trying to think of reasons why you would ever want to send this. Its a laundry list of generic interests that really has no depth</p>
<p>i guess the purpose was that the laundry list summed up to UCHICAGO (from top down). Perhaps it will be stronger if I make each of the letters pertain to uChicago and something I can do there</p>
I was trying to make a funny remark with the “hinting at things that I want.” I figured that the “opening acceptance letters” was a little pretentious. i just wanted to get the subtle vertical down UCHICAGO to appear since i thought it was a good use of acrostics</p>
<p>This is a joke, right?
Not only is it pretentious and abrasive, but they give the specific example of using an acrostic to spell “UChicago” as trite and lazy.</p>
<p>Point taken. It was not a joke. However, i’ll take your commentary in stride and decide against sending this. Ah well. Time to head onto one of my other mediums of expressing interest into uChicago. something less audacious perhaps</p>
<p>just to clarify all, I’m not trying to be a stuck up ******bag. I’m just trying to get myself off the deferred list and onto the admit list come may. Thats why i’m thinking of ways to demonstrate my interest. My idea was to send something new to them every week which showed how much i loved the school.</p>
<p>That is all. I’m sorry for posting this rather raw content on CC xD i didn’t know it was that bad xD</p>
<p>I think they’re gonna see repeated messages as “obnoxious” rather than just “interested”. I’d take the advice given on their blog - compose a thoughtful, concise letter to your regional counselor about why you deserve to be in. Be modest and be polite. Retest if you need it, and rewrite pieces of writing if they’ll allow.</p>
<p>I guess. I kind of took it more like I had to show an undying fervor for uChicago that cannot be extinguished by a deferral. I asked my regional counselor what he thought of my idea to do this and he was like sure you can email them to me directly.</p>
<p>I found the letter to be kind of cool .<br>
That being said , Id be spending time trying to find other schools that you’dlove as much as U Chic. I am deeply saddened and furstrated to hear so many students sounding depressed bc of a deferred status. There is not ONE school that is going to define your future success and or happiness. There are so many times in life in which we were rejected from something and then the next choice turned out to be better. If understand the desire is strong for those that want U Chic or wherever , But don’t give a deferral the power to create pain and sadness. You have no clue what goesinto the admissions process- maybe they have a quota of men and now need women
Hard to speculate on the unknown .
I’m sure you would do equally well at so many other cool places-
Reed College, ( Steve Jobbs went to Reed ) Wesleyan , Swarthmore, Vassar, Carnagiee Melon Skidmoor just to name a few.
Donr be sad— Be happy !! You have a lot going for you that most others will never have !!
Good Luck !!!
gd Lk</p>
<p>How can we send additional essays to uchicago? I’m a deferred student and I felt I could have written much more passionate essays about Chicago.</p>