<p>I know my essays and recs were amazing - the question is can they overcome a 3.3 HS GPA, 28 ACT, and 3.42 College GPA (caused by one C first semester)</p>
<p>Arghgh... I knew Chicago's use of the document imaging was going to cause delays! </p>
<p>I think Chicago admissions likes to use transfers as lab rats. hehehe. I just hope it doesn't extend past next week! That would kill me!!!</p>
<p>Where are you transferring from, neverborn?</p>
<p>Transferring from a lower school too - the Illinois Institute of Technology.</p>
<p>what is the new imaging system ?
So no replies untill Tuesday it seems.</p>
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Sorry for the slow response....I've been swamped here installing a new document imaging system....our reading and review of transfer applications has been slightly delayed...though we're in full swing...but an increase in first-year applications which had to be sent first....I think we're running a few days behind our anticipate schedule.
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<p>whered u get that??</p>
<p>Thats the blog for transfers, if you click on the comments to the last post, you will go here <a href="http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21870327&postID=114385010099060299%5B/url%5D">http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=21870327&postID=114385010099060299</a> and its at the bottom.</p>
<p>omg...i don't get this, we submit aps March 1, and they can't even get them to us by April 15, so ridiculous</p>
<p>it's a bit ridiculous, isn't it? My whole incentive for applying early was so I could get an early reply as well... I'm so antsy about the coming email that I can't even focus on my coursework... :(</p>
<p>In my opinion, it would be nice to know the date, regardless of when it was.</p>
<p>Don't worry, I doubt that they will send it out later than this week...</p>
<p>i sent in wash u like 4 days ago, i will prob hear back from them before chicago...</p>
<p>Why don't they just set a "worst case" date, tell everyone that's the date, then surprise us with an early announcment?</p>
<p>It seeems like they design this whole system to torture us.</p>
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<p>Apparently they are scanning all the paper apps and reading them electronically.</p>
<p>I sure hope they see what the actual pages look like. I put a lot of work into my headers and style! If they just turn it into text, then I might as well have used the online app! It sort of ****es me off, to speak the truth.</p>
<p>The whole imaging system (because it is a brand new thing) has me sort of worried about my app. Especially since I had a few supplemental things that I think might not fit into a standard mold...</p>
<p>I wouldn't worry about it. They wouldn't "just turn it into text" as Ted O'Neill has stated a couple of times how he finds it absurd that students can't even underline the title or use bold/italics/other features in their aplications so he encourages people who care about that stuff to send their stuff in, so I doubt they would just turn it into regular text after all that.</p>
<p>Someone emailed me last week saying that I would be contacted for an interview. Then I got another email the next day saying that i was EA so an interview would essentially be pointless...did this happen to anyone else?</p>
<p>I hope their scanning is in color. I even employed a very subtle use of color in my app (no, nothing gawdy or annoying, but just right). That's the whole reason I went with paper. Like Einstein said, God is in the details.</p>
<p>This didn't happen to me, but EA's were supposed to have scheduled interviews earlier. You can find the info on the admissions website underneath transfers and then interviews.</p>
<p>I had an interview.</p>
<p>Do you think interviews play a strong role at Chicago?</p>
<p>I didn't check the box for scheduling an interview since I live in California. But then later I realized that I could have an interview with a Chicago alumnus in my area. Oh well, I hope it doesn't hurt my chances.</p>
<p>Here's the link where uchicago talks about interviews. I had one and I thought it was helpful to get a better idea of the kind of student that uchicago is looking for. <a href="http://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/level3.asp?id=383%5B/url%5D">http://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/level3.asp?id=383</a></p>