<p>Removed....</p>
<p>Thanks, bud....you got me all kinds of excited.</p>
<p>No, I had the link then lost it. Can't remember where I saw it. Getting close to time for the "home."</p>
<p>Yeah, I was excited too.</p>
<p>I apologize, and tried to delete the thread, but could not determine how to do it.</p>
<p>"First there was the watered down Core, then increased class-sizes, then the colorful Max Palevsky. And now, Chicago, once touted for its relative grade stability, has succumbed to a trend that affects most other peer institutions: The average GPA of our collegiate students has increased steadily over the past 30 years." - Chicago</a> Maroon</p>
<p>This doesn't have anything to do with it, does it?</p>
<p>If I recall, it had to do with the attractiveness of Chicago's intellectual environment with the growing perception that the student body actually has fun, and that there is a sense of a special Chicago sense of humor.</p>
<p>(And yes there is grade inflation, but less than others, and yes the number of core courses required was reduced [not what is required in those courses], but it is not nearly the reduction experienced or being proposed elsewhere, such as Harvard.)</p>
<p>harvard's a sham.</p>
<p>...I kid. I love the harvard. <em>college gods, don't frown on me!!!</em></p>
<p>I have no backbone</p>
<p>Spineless frolicking...</p>
<p>I've always been a fan of that action.....probably because it seems flamboyant.</p>
<p>The spinelessness just means added flexibility- an excellent quality to possess when frolicking.</p>
<p>Do you know who Ditto is? An amorphous blob with the power to alter its own DNA at will? </p>
<p>So, you remind me of that.</p>
<p>(And yes, I realize 'amorphous blob' is a bit redundant but I don't care - it adds a certain oomph to the term.)</p>
<p>Here is a link regarding early applications this year.</p>
<p>If the acceptance rate was 41%, and the yield tends to be higher for EA applicants, this suggests that RD will be very competitive this year. This becomes especially true when one factors in the EA students who were deferred to RD.</p>
<p>I was deferred EA, and I really want to get in RD.</p>
<p>Too bad my senior year is horrible, as school has been completely rush rush with a strike that lasted close to two months. I haven't really had a break from school since november (had two days off for winter 'vacation'). This coupled with my taking my hardest course load in my high school experience (leading to my not so best average "Oh calculus how i adore thee"), has left me paranoid about my chances for admission come regular decision. Well 2.5 weeks of my semester still remain, and i'll continue to work my behind off.</p>
<p>Idad, you helped me earlier when i had a question about Chicago. How is your son doing there and how does he like it there? I'm planning to do an overnight there as soon as my semester finishes.</p>
<p>Anyone know if you can stop by in admissions to chat with the officers there?</p>
<p>My S loves it. He has found the intellectual and social life to be beyond his expectations. You can absolutely meet with admissions folks. Drop them a note and tell them you would like to visit with them. I hope your year has a good outcome.</p>
<p>Thanks, I hope it does too. I just hope doesn't cause me to crash and burn. It's kind of funny, i've never had even the slightest problem in any math class before and i've always taken honors etc. Calc's a whole other ballgame. Hopefully that one grade won't be used against me too much.
Thanks for the good wishes though, good luck to everyone else who got deferred also :-)</p>
<p>ridethecliche,
you may find that previewing your calculus material the night before the lecture helps. Some of these concepts literally take a while to sink in. Best of luck for your visit and the rest of your senior year!</p>
<p>Yeah I completely understand that, but with block scheduling when you have 1.5 hrs of class/lecture a day it's really easy to get lost. I'm going to go into overdrive for the remainder of year, since i have BC next semester.
Thanks for all the good wishes.</p>
<p>As per the original thread topic, I talked to my admissions person at U of C after i got my deferral notice, and I was told that students who get deferred typically have a 33ish% chance of acceptance during the regular decision cycle. I think that it's extremely awesome of them to tell deferred students their chances in such an honest way. I think duke does it too, but its like 5% for them.</p>