Last year you could see the links very easily. Deposit was $500, $250 of which was a one time enrollment and $250 went towards your fall bill. Good luck to him!
@booklady123 - yes, as JBS said, $500 deposit, there was a “Status Update” and then under “Forms” there was a “reply to offer of admission” and a “housing application”.
We paid the deposit the night he received the offer (ED1 so in December), but he has not yet filled out the housing application - still trying to determine which houses he would prefer. From my understanding it doesn’t matter when you fill out the housing form, just get the deposit in right away to be ahead in the cue.
Best of luck!
Thanks, everyone!
^^Correct - place in queue is determined by date of deposit, not date of completing your housing preferences. The latter can be filled out - and updated - as often or as little as you wish till the deadline in late May or early June.
Question regards to housing. My son is thinking he would like to try for a single as a freshman - understanding that he may not get one. For a single, would he want to list his top house choices as B-J and Snell-Hitchcock? He would prefer to be close to the gym so North looks great, however it looks like North would be tough to get a single. When they say a house is not close to the gym - are they talking about a 1/2 mile away, a mile, or further? Any thoughts would be appreciated.
You can look on the map. The main gym entrance is between 55th and 56th on Ellis. The dorms that are very close are Snitchcock (57th and Ellis), Max Palevsky (56th between Ellis and University) and North (55th and University). B-J and South are on Ellis between 60th and 61st, so five blocks away. Those blocks are each 1/8 mile, so they are 5/8ths of a mile from the main gym. The big question if you really want a single is International House, which (I believe) is all singles, and is generally the farthest from everything now. That’s on 59th between Dorchester and Blackstone, which puts it 7.5 full blocks from the gym, or almost a mile (plus . . . your room is going to be some meaningful distance from the door).
My son applied ED1 so on Dec 15 at 5pm my son logged to his account it’s said there is an update so once he clicked on it he was lucky it’s said congratulations… class 2022 after that I think he had until January 5 th to respond , so there is alink to agree or not agree to to your acceptance once we clicked agree there is another link to pay $500 deposit onece you do that another link to fill out the Application for the dorms. My son choose North, South and Max in this order for the dorms. Good luck to your son and everyone else applying ED2 and RD.
Ratner is .6 miles due north of BJ and South and almost a mile away from I-House. You are only guaranteed a single if you opt for I-House but BJ has a fair amount (my kid applied EDII and got a single there) and someone’s kid (@carino?) is at South in a single. We know a kid who applied EA (back when there was just EA . . ) who submitted his deposit right away and got a single in Snitch. Snitch is s smaller res hall located right on campus near pretty much everything so those rooms seem to go quickly. I heard a rumor that they “make” you do Scav! LOL. Not sure if it’s true.
In my kids’ day, Snell-Hitchcock was sort of the last bastion of “old,weird Chicago.” It was the only dorm that had a substantial percentage of four-year residents, so it had more culture transmission than the other dorms/houses. Its relatively few open spots for first years would mainly fill up with kids admitted EA who treated it like ED and committed to Chicago before Christmas, i.e., kids who were not interested in maybe going to college anywhere else. It dominated Scav Hunt, because it got close to 100% participation from its residents (and, it was often whispered, because so much of the Scav hierarchy year to year was drawn from its ranks), while other teams would be thrilled to get 20% participation from the dorms/houses they represented. It had a specific, somewhat peculiar culture: hyperintellectual and a little pretentious. There were regular teas where students would make a 15-20-30 minute formal presentation on a topic of interest to them. Drugs and alcohol were discouraged much more than in other dorms. The percentage of residents with some sort of spectrum diagnosis was thought to be higher than average.
I have no idea whether/how much of that special quality of Snitchcock still survives. The Scav domination seems much watered down, and that’s probably an indicator that everything else has regressed to the mean, too.
Congratulations to all admitted students! One quick question, rumor says Rory Gates, Bill Gates’ son, has been admitted to UChicago through ED1 this year. Can anyone of you confirm this?
Last year there was a report that he was seen touring the UChicago campus.
That would be difficult to confirm.
@JBStillFlying @CU123 thanks
If he was, probably best not to advertise it. The kid deserves as normal a college experience that he could get. Probably wants to be rather normal.
@JBStillFlying he is joining uchicago class of 2022 this fall…
@JBStillFlying he is joining uchicago class of 2022 this fall…
Interesting, a Chinese equivalent of CC also states this.
It’s true - he applied ED to UChicago.
“It’s true - he applied ED to UChicago.”
I guess nobody told this poor kid that top students who are confident in their ability to get in only apply SCEA to HYPS. Shame, really. He could have done so much better.
(For those tho aren’t reading the thread about the 2017/18 admission statistics, just ignore this little piece of snark…)