<p>want to know what's Inside The Admissions Game of the great University of Chicago (bangs his head to the wall for finding it only today....oh god, why?....why?....)</p>
<p>A WARNING to all EA applicants: Don't read this!!!!!!!! I was about to strangle myself after I read this wonderful piece of writing by newsweek...(slams the head to the wall again...)</p>
<p>A treat indeed. With each Chicago article I read, I grow more and more expectant of a large envelope. I'm going to burn a Newsweek in effigy if I get rejected in mid-December.</p>
<p>It's not so bad. The debatable ones had lower scores that most posting here.</p>
<p>yet, after I read that article, all I was thinking was "I could have done better ..." to increase my chances of the coveted fat envelope. </p>
<p>However, I was happy about few aspects:</p>
<p>1) high EA acceptance rate (above 50%)
2) they "discuss" about us--the admissions at Chicago is not just reading our application, but actually trying to understand who we are, where we are and how UChicago can help us realize our potential.
3) Ted O'Neill-the Dean of Admissions- rocks! (visit his home page and read his convocation speeches: They are hilarious in a Chicago way:))</p>
<p>What do you think the accept rate is RD for 1Bs? What about 1Cs?</p>
<p>cn,</p>
<p>Hahahaha, you're right, O'Neill is awesome. I think reading his '08 convocation speech was dangerous, only intensifying my yearning to attend Chicago. Two good lines for those too lazy to read it all:</p>
<p>"Welcome to Chicago, a college that goes medieval on you, and looks like it never changes (though, this year, it has)."</p>
<p>Haha, I bet he orignally wanted to say "on your ass."</p>
<p>"The fact is, this is both a welcome and a memorial service - we are assembled here to both welcome the best class ever, and to celebrate the death of our friend, Fun."</p>
<p>The Dean doesn't play around. :)</p>
<p>To add to Brinestorm's list: </p>
<p>Some interesting statistics about Calls of 2006 (don't ask me how Tedd O'Neill got them:))</p>
<p>51% of you are women, 49% of you, men.
32% were editors of high school publications.
45% of you were members of varsity sports teams in high school
59% of you participated in community service.
23% of you were participants in high school or community theatrical productions.
32% of you think you were sent the wrong admissions letter.
3% of you are still on Harvard's waiting list.
58% went back to your high schools last week and were asked either whether you didn't get into college or had dropped out already.
90% slept until noon every day in September and your parents asked, repeatedly, when you were supposed to be in Chicago.
18% of you have had friends ask you, "UIC? Or U of C?" The one on the west side or the one on the south side?
2% thought you applied to UIC
61% of you think you will be taught by 73 Nobel-prize winners.
36% think the weather really won't be so bad.
12% are already contemplating a name change - Chucky will soon be Charles, Shelley will be Morgan.
47% started to read Proust, Dante's Divine Comedy, Gibbon's History, The Tale of Genji this summer.
89% gave up less than half way through.
20% have younger siblings who can't wait until they can use your room, your stereo, your CD's, your clothes, the extra car - those same siblings you wrote about last year whom you once so loathed but then realized how much you loved them, just in time for the admissions essay (is the pendulum now about to swing in the other direction?)
10% still really think you can actually study business in the College.
8% think that, once you get here, despite the core, you really won't ever have to take another math or science class in your life.
27% have told your friends that it doesn't really mean anything that Antonin Scalia and John Ashcroft have U of C connections.
23% have thought about what kind of car they could have had if they had gone to community college instead of Chicago and have calculated the yearly income on four times the yearly cost of an education at Chicago if invested wisely.
89% have already started to tell their friends at other colleges how much harder you all work than they do.
20% have, in a wild flight of fancy, imagined that they would move to Chicago and live in an orange, pink, yellow and purple dorm.</p>
<p>source: <a href="http://phoenix.uchicago.edu/ted/index.htm%5B/url%5D">http://phoenix.uchicago.edu/ted/index.htm</a> ; convocation speech-class of 2006.</p>
<p>Haha, funny stuff although the flambouyant-dorm-colors joke was beyond me.</p>
<p>The newest dorm at Chicago is called "Big Ugly" because it's a renovated hotel... and it's painted bright orange on the outside, with pink, blue, yellow, purple accents on the windows. Yes, it IS incredibly ugly, especially compared to the other dorms, which are all beautiful and gothic and castle-like. Well, SOME people like it, I suppose. </p>
<p>Actually some of my information might be wrong, but that's what I remember from my visit last month.</p>
<p>I think you are off. Max P is the new dorm on campus and it is orange. Shoreland is off campus and was the hotel. </p>
<p>Self edited to remove offensive remarks about chi potentials.</p>
<p>Well, I got half right! Though when I visited the orange dorm it really seemed to ME to be a hotel, so I guess I just superimposed the two tidbits of information in my memory and that post was the result.</p>
<p>I already read that a few weeks ago. It doesn't make me feel very confident--I feel like they'll look over my application and say, "Well, I guess she's smart, but we're the University of Chicago, and we can do whatever we damn well please. REJECT!"</p>
<p>I stayed at Max P this summer. I loved it.</p>
<p>I stole this website from Yale.</p>
<p>Enjoy. Its the best. Beats the Rest...</p>
<p>Wow, CC has some sloppy coders. Posted URLs are parsed like possum innards. :P</p>
<p>this should do it:)</p>
<p>This website also has some fun/satire/comical stuff.</p>
<p>especially "this land", "good to be in D.C." & "The real hussain 2"</p>
<p><a href="http://www.atomfilms.com/af/home/index.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.atomfilms.com/af/home/index.html</a></p>
<p>I recently sent this to UChicago:</p>
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<p>I want to see Undergraduate Admissions People frantically trying to do odds and ends before sending off EA decisions.</p>
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<p>And their reply at this week in chicago: <a href="http://phoenix.uchicago.edu/campusfeature/index.aspx%5B/url%5D">http://phoenix.uchicago.edu/campusfeature/index.aspx</a></p>
<p>Hey, that's a great idea. We happen to be rushing around like chickens
with our heads cut off as we speak... er... I write.</p>
<p>We may get to see our fates being decided:)
on</p>
<p>bump
erm. b/c i'm obsessed... and hope that i'm not alone. :)</p>
<p>That article was from like, 1999, wasn't it? Is it still accurate?</p>