<p>Just thought I would share -- I had always thought that U of C was a wonderful match for my oldest. I was accepted there in 1980 and to this day I remember how impressed I was with everything about it when I visited during my prospective student weekend. In particular, how I immediately felt a real common bond with the other prospective students, true kindred spirits. In the end I couldn't attend because of financial constraints, but I have always kept my soft spot for U of C.</p>
<p>My daughter is a deeply analytical serious ballet dancer-- certainly a unique mix, spending her summers in intensive ballet programs where she is the only one not planning on joining a corps after high school. In any case, I knew the "Life of the Mind" would resonate with her, but I didn't want to unduly influence her and insisted that she go out to Chicago to look at U of C and Northwestern with her difficult-to-please Columbia Univ. graduate father. </p>
<p>When I spoke to her after her U of C day, she was nearly breathless with excitement. She loved every minute that she was there, was enthralled with the student body, somehow had the nerve to answer a question about Descartes in a HUM class of 15 people -- I haven't heard her that excited in a very long time. Of course I knew she would feel at-home there, but it was great that she could discover all of this on her own.</p>
<p>The funny thing is that today she went to Northwestern, sat through 2 classes and was sitting in the Introductory session before the formal tour when she turned to my husband and said -- "this place is not for me, can we go?" This is by no means a knock on NU, my husband and I are academics and have many superb colleagues there -- but my girl clearly found what she was looking for at U of C.</p>
<p>So, 25 years later the cycle continues -- hopefully this time the deal will go through!</p>
<p>JT</p>