<p>If you look at past years here on CC, UChi pretty reliably notifies on 12/15 plus or minus a day or so. I can’t imagine it would be any earlier this year seeing as they had a ginormous increase in early apps (like from 7,000 to 8,700). They must be racing the clock as it is. I wouldn’t be surprised actually if notification was delayed by a day or more… :(</p>
<p>i wish it would come out this friday. if only</p>
<p>Question does anyone know if we get an email notification or do we just a have to keep checking the login thing or our snail mail???</p>
<p>I’ve heard there’s an email.</p>
<p>Gosh, I can’t wait for this. Have many of you guys done any form of interviews? I have done an Alum Interview. Any word on how much that will affect my admission?</p>
<p>1) Where are you from?
Maryland</p>
<p>2) When did you submit your application?
Around mid October</p>
<p>3) How long/hard did you WORK on your app (very applicable for UChicago :P)?
I wrote my essay in the summer (just as a general college essay), re-read it in the fall, realized it was perfect for UChicago, fine tuned it a bit</p>
<p>4) Did you do the optional favorites essay?
Yep- I quoted Taylor Swift in it. The fact that I’m a 17 year old guy makes it even better. </p>
<p>5) The topic you chose for your creative essay?
Choose your own topic. I quoted the Fairly Oddparents</p>
<p>6) In your opinion, which was your best essay?
One of my essays for the University of Maryland. Too bad it’s too short to use for anything else</p>
<p>7) In what do you want to major?
Bio.</p>
<p>8) Whether Chicago’s a safety/likely/reach school for you
High likely/low reach, from what I’ve heard</p>
<p>9) How badly do you want to go on a scale of 1 to 10?
8 or so, its more like an 18 now that I find out I get a scarf</p>
<p>I decided to join this interesting trend</p>
<p>1) Where are you from?
California</p>
<p>2) When did you submit your application?
October 30th</p>
<p>3) How long/hard did you WORK on your app (very applicable for UChicago :P)?
1.5 months</p>
<p>4) Did you do the optional favorites essay?
Yep- I talked about Inception, 1984 and Freddie Mercurie’s mother’s heinous acts in Bohemian Rhapsody. </p>
<p>5) The topic you chose for your creative essay?
Choose your own topic. My prompt was a calculus problem: a big metaphor to my life. I solved the problem in my essay to reveal the different aspects of my life that drives this “equation.”</p>
<p>6) In your opinion, which was your best essay?
I really love them all; they all had some humor in them. Favorite will have to be the Math/extended essay.</p>
<p>7) In what do you want to major?
Bio/Computer Science</p>
<p>8) Whether Chicago’s a safety/likely/reach school for you
Reach.</p>
<p>9) How badly do you want to go on a scale of 1 to 10?
10!!! I watched almost all their videos on youtube. :P</p>
<p>From what I understand (from what it says on the UChicago page after you sign int othe account), we get an email AFTER they’re available. I doubt it would be much, much after, but I’m still checking the page every once in a while hoping to be surprised anyway.</p>
<p>From the last years blog on their website, it says that they are usually available around 5 PM.</p>
<p>The trick is to keep checking the uncommon blog. They update it when the decisions are posted. Or at least, they did last year.</p>
<p>1) Where are you from?
Long Island (or Lawn Guylin, if you’re from Brooklyn) but from RI</p>
<p>2) When did you submit your application?
October 30th</p>
<p>3) How long/hard did you WORK on your app (very applicable for UChicago :P)?
About two months-ish</p>
<p>4) Did you do the optional favorites essay?
Talked about foreign cinema and my love of burnt popcorn</p>
<p>5) The topic you chose for your creative essay?
Plato → Play-doh (I must’ve been drunk on math because I was high on tangents there XD )</p>
<p>6) In your opinion, which was your best essay?
Personally, I thought all were at least decent - maybe the Why UChi, I made it all based around geology (which rocks, by the way)</p>
<p>7) In what do you want to major?
Geophysical/Environmental</p>
<p>8) Whether Chicago’s a safety/likely/reach school for you
Really, is it a safety/likely for anyone?! </p>
<p>9) How badly do you want to go on a scale of 1 to 10?
Sideways 8.
Kinda sorta intensely head-over-hells madly in love.
Gah, I’ve nibbled through my remaining cuticles, what can I do now?! This wait is killing me, and I just shaved so I wish I had a scarf to keep me warm :/</p>
<p>^What a humorous response! :’)</p>
<p>Omg, funniest thing. Go to -
Uchicagorejects.com
Hahahahahaha! Who had the idea to buy that domain strictly for that purpose? (Even though I don’t completely agree…)</p>
<p>:O I can’t believe they did that! Smh.</p>
<p>Go to northwesternrejects.com</p>
<p>Aha…the rivalry, the rivalry</p>
<p>hahaha, love it! I don’t get the rivalry, personally. Both spectacular schools, but very very different!</p>
<p>1) Where are you from?
No.
2) When did you submit your application?
Last minute
3) How long/hard did you WORK on your app (very applicable for UChicago :P)?
Sporadically and inefficiently, ending up writing the Commonapp one the day it was due.
4) Did you do the optional favorites essay?
Yes! (poetry)
5) The topic you chose for your creative essay?
Play-Doh → Plato. I made a sculpture of Plato out of Play-Doh (in UChicago colors) and included it at an appropriate time!
6) In your opinion, which was your best essay?
Why Chicago - I used to live there, and talked about my strange experiences and sad, unexpected departure. (I still talked about the actual school/my interests.)
7) In what do you want to major?
English?
8) Whether Chicago’s a safety/likely/reach school for you
Reach. I got a 2070 on the SAT and I’m white.
9) How badly do you want to go on a scale of 1 to 10?
10</p>
<p>Good luck everyone!</p>
<p>@staryulover so true! They both are extremely different!</p>
<p>Hey, I had a long debate with my peer about whether or not UChicago used to be apart of the Big10! I thought they never were, but I think I was proven to be wrong…big shocker, I would have NEVER guessed that UChicago was once a Big10 school</p>
<p>@GoBulls</p>
<p>Wow, I didn’t know that! A wikipedia search ([Big</a> Ten Conference - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Ten_Conference]Big”>Big Ten Conference - Wikipedia)) shows that UChicago was in the big ten until 1946. Interesting! Just another reason to love this school, haha! It has such an interesting place. AHHH, I’m dying of nervousness!</p>
<p>I’m on that CCCCCCCCOMBO hype</p>
<p>1) Where you’re from
California
2) When you submitted your application
October 29th, during our homecoming dance T____T
3) How long/hard you WORKED on your app (very applicable for UChicago :P)
LOL too long.
4) Did you do the optional favorites essay?
Yeah, I wrote it about Barbra Streisand (the song :P)
5) The topic you chose for your creative essay?
dat reverse reverse psychology.
6) In your opinion, which was your best essay?
personal statement by far.
7) What you want to major in
econ… what a surprise
8) Whether Chicago’s a safety/likely/reach school for you
reach, just like everyone else should be (unless you’re a genius or athlete)
9) How badly do you want to go on a scale of 1 to 10?
10, would be 8 if I finished by apps, but because I haven’t finished, getting in is kinda important so I can slack off more…</p>