<p>^ Yeah. Even GTech didn’t send me a mail. </p>
<p>Don’t try to go through the admissions portal via the website link. It didn’t work for me. Go through ‘myapplication.ucsd.edu’</p>
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<p>If you look at the UChicago forum, there’s a thread that lists the SAT scores of all accepted CCers… Almost all of them are 2300+. So I don’t really buy your argument.</p>
<p>^ 2300 != ivy acceptance</p>
<p>My point is that all accepted applicants in the UChicago thread seem quite impressive, and I wouldn’t say they’d look out of place at an Ivy League school, based on academics alone.</p>
<p>@Ghostt What you say makes sense if you look only at the scores from the results thread.</p>
<p>Yeah, fair enough.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t call it a tufts syndrome but what I’m trying to say is that the admissions process is really random. Granted that she wasn’t asking for aid, but she types like “ohemmgeeee immm ggoooinggg wittth theeemmm fooorrrr thhee paaaarrrttaaaayyy” on Facebook. So she’s obviously incapable of writing a good essay. Does this imply that an international with cash can buy their way thru Chicago? It sure seems that way!</p>
<p>Yes the 2300+ stats posts are mostly composed of American posters. So yeah. </p>
<p>And GTech didn’t send out an email to me either. I got accepted in November. I mean its understandable that they’re too stingy to spend ONE dollar in mailing out an acceptance packet but not sending an email is just taking it too far.</p>
<p>And congo, compscifan :)</p>
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<p>What exactly makes these people who you mention well-qualified then? It just seems to me your that argument is based more on emotion than reason.</p>
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<p>Unfortunately, it’s much easier for a wealthy international to be accepted to UChicago than it is for an international seeking fin aid. UChicago admits ~50 internationals seeking aid every year (depending on Chicago’s international yield, which I can’t even guess at, the actual number may be anywhere between 25 and 60+). Chicago simply doesn’t have enough funds for international students; on the other hand, it wants to maintain an international student body that’s ~10% of the whole class. That’s why people like the girl you described may slip through the cracks, while the acceptance rate for the rest of us hovers around the 5% mark.</p>
<p>(I’m not Indian, by the way–just a fellow international browsing the international forums–so I should probably apologize for invading your thread.)</p>
<p>@pakipower My observation is based on domestic selection. You are right, I shouldn’t be making those statements.</p>
<p>@all Please ignore my earlier posts on this topic.</p>
<p>I think they want well rounded applicants.
I had only a 2040 but my school grades this year were great so was my rank, also, my ECs are very strong and they must have loved my essays.
I still cannot begin to comprehend that I got accepted.
And yes, not applying for financial aid almost doubles your chances.</p>
<p>@Ghostt: We at the Hindustani thread value your contribution to this discussion. There is no question of “invading” this thread. You’re as welcome here as we are. </p>
<p>I don’t think UChicago is trying to become another WUStL. From what I know, UChicago does care a lot about the quality of your essays and the ‘fit’ with UChicago experience. For internationals asking for aid though, I’m sure it has a lot to do with their limited aid budget.</p>
<p>Are you planning on attending, Chromey?</p>
<p>Hey was just looking around at old threads and I seem to have see a lot of talk about supplementary material sent along with the application. What exactly does this constitute?
Did all of you send similar material?</p>
<p>I sent in a research paper of mine. Mentioned it in passing in the main application.</p>
<p>Also, I decided to send in a scanned copy of my TOEFL report, along with the order receipt because some universites didn’t receive the official report. But they were OK with a scanned official report, because it wasn’t really my fault.</p>
<p>My mind is in halves regarding the UChicago debate, so i’ll just pardon myself for now, although i’ll say that their selection of people this time from my HS atleast really saddened me.</p>
<p>@All UChicago acceptancees, join the UChicago '15 Admitted Students group on Facebook, it’s good fun.</p>
<p>Not that I’m overly pedantic or anything, but is ‘acceptancee’ even a word? :P</p>
<p>hahaha i’m sure it’s not… I just couldn’t think of any other word :P. </p>
<p>Also, as much as I hate people who type like crap on fb and on the Internet, lets not judge people by it… Some of them are actually really smart but just type like MSN crap for god knows what reason.</p>
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<p>Collegebeckons: whoa, your princeton interview was something else. For my Swat interview, firstly the chap braught along two other alums who were visiting India. I didn’t mind, but their keeping on asking whether i did was annoying. Plus the guy seemed very casual, and I’d gone with certain expectations in mind seeing that swat is known for intellectuals, anticipating some good discussions on current affairs. His replies were dissappointing. Not only did he seem to be parrotting text from some college course he probably took on politics when I asked him his views on the Kashmiri Pandit situation [he stood for them at college] and didn’t answer my question well at all, he kept joking about how he ‘didnt know what he was doing in college, and just took whatever course, and that he still doesn’t know what he’s doing hehe…’ . I could only smile politely but I wasn’t amused at all. And he’s currently a photographer in bollywood shooting item numbers. After an econ degree from swat. For which he did a LOT of kashmir issue activism, and didn’t even know much about it. I was heavily dissappointed. The other two alums were better, but they weren’t my interviewers!</p>