<p>Hello Vixter, while we would of course like to receive your scores before the appropriate deadline, for the Early Action deadline, we will accept November SAT scores and October ACT scores and for the Regular Decision deadline, we will accept January SAT scores and February ACT scores.</p>
<p>Hello Arcfromconn: I’m afraid I don’t know very much about the CCIB program’s acceptance statistics or what graduates do after that program particularly, but would encourage you to explore the CAPS website to learn more about it here: <a href=“Home | CareerAdv”>Home | CareerAdv;
Also, as for all CCI programs, there are no major requirements for the program-- you would be welcome to apply for CCIB (or to join any other Chicago Careers In… program, as no other programs require an application besides CCIB) as a computer science major. </p>
<p>Also, you are correct, we do not require the writing portion of the SAT and therefore will evaluate your score on a 1600 point scale.</p>
<p>Hello Student23832, you are welcome to just self-report AP scores from exams you have taken previously on your common application.</p>
<p>Hey Grace, will the University of Chicago superscore my act scores? If they do, will they superscore all three of my test scores or just two scores? And is it true that colleges like the university of chicago don’t like people who take the act four or more times because I was planning on taking it again for my fourth time</p>
<p>Hello Coolguy, we do superscore the ACT (well, our computer takes care of it for us, actually 
) and can incorporate as many test dates as you send. While I can’t speak for other schools, you’re welcome to send as many ACT scores as you like to us.</p>
<p>The University of Chicago superscores the ACT? That’s new to me as the admissions counselor at the Information Session stated that they only took composites. That’s great news I guess.</p>
<p>is it better to apply as a transfer student in your freshmen or sophomore year? Basically would UChicago rather see a person apply to transfer after 1 or 2 years?</p>
<p>^ You wanna transfer to UChi? Why?</p>
<p>^did you get a new screen name? and this is for one of my friends who was devastated that he got waitlisted at UChicago and wants to transfer there from the university of michigan</p>
<p>Is there any sort of engineering major offered at UChicago, EE in specific? I looked through the site and found none, I wanna double check though.</p>
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<p>Are you sure about this? When I had an on-campus interview, my interviewer told me that you guys read EA applications so fast that November SAT scores usually don’t get considered.</p>
<p>How does UChicago feel about Columbia inviting Ahmadinejad to speak on its campus? Would UChicago have done the same, and if so, introduced him in a fashion similar to Bollinger’s introductory remarks? These questions might be a little unfair, and I would appreciate really any sort of response.</p>
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That was four years ago now. Is this really the sort of question that needs answering in an admissions thread?</p>
<p>How safe is the campus at U Chicago?</p>
<p>Yes it was four years ago, but that doesn’t negate its importance. I would find any answer insightful. Most of the questions asked in this thread can be answered by looking on UChicago’s website or e-mailing his or her respective regional counselor. Those are the questions that don’t really need to be here.</p>
<p>That is also a question that no one in the admissions office is likely to touch with a ten-foot pole. First, because they are official spokespeople for the University, but that issue is not within their competence. And second, because if you found the University officials who might be authorized to address that – i.e., maybe President Zimmer, and I don’t know who else – they would refuse to do it for all kinds of valid reasons. When you are a university officer, you don’t talk hypothetically about highly controversial issues if you can avoid it, because a big part of your job is NOT ****ing people off. Also, it’s bad form to take shots at other universities’ presidents, and I don’t know that it’s possible to talk about this without criticizing Lee Bollinger for one thing or another.</p>
<p>Personally, I think there is a lot to be learned about the University of Chicago (and about Columbia) by looking at how controversial political ideas are dealt with on campus. You could read about two ex-Chicago faculty, Rashid Khalidi and Nadia Abu-el-Haj, who went to Columbia and wound up as caricatures in other peoples’ cartoon strips. The New Yorker had a piece on Abu-el-Haj a few years ago; Bollinger does not come off well in it. I believe that at Chicago people talk to each other, and challenge each other’s positions, and most importantly listen to each other carefully, and all with a great deal of respect and a commitment to academic values. I think at Columbia people have a tendency to “talk” to each other with bullhorns, placards, and full-page ads in the New York Times, with an eye on the mirror to make certain they are looking good. Not so long ago, the Columbia English Department was so riven with political clashes that it ceased functioning, and had to be placed in receivership by the university administration. It is almost impossible to imagine things getting anywhere near that point at Chicago.</p>
<p>But I don’t think you are going to get admissions counselors to talk about that, and they probably shouldn’t.</p>
<p>So in an admission thread that has been created with the purpose of interaction between prospective students and admission officer is not supposed to have admission related queries but unrelated, irrelevant, political issues that no one here cares about?</p>
<p>I wish I was a wizard so I could kill this ■■■■■.</p>
<p>Hey all, let’s stick with the nuts-and-bolts admissions-related questions, please. While academic discourse on other topics is of course what UChicago is all about, I don’t think that an online forum is the appropriate place to address these kinds of complicated, multifaceted questions. Moving on!</p>
<p>@mjmay, we will consider either sort of transfer student; see here for more information on the transfer application. <a href=“https://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/apply/applicants/transfer/[/url]”>https://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/apply/applicants/transfer/</a></p>
<p>@pentupenguin, we do not currently offer an engineering degree, nor will we in the forseeable future; we will begin offering some coursework (in the next few years) and perhaps an eventual major or concentrations in engineering within other majors like chemistry, mathematics, physics, or biology several years (6+) out in our center for Molecular Engineering, which is currently in development and building its faculty. Molecular Engineering will be a very interdisciplinary engineering subject, as I understand it a combination of things like chemical and bioengineering and materials science at the molecular level. </p>
<p>@sniperseas, I’m sorry that your interviewer gave you incorrect information; we do indeed look at these scores. </p>
<p>@moneybags, very safe! As a neighborhood, Hyde Park is one of the safest in Chicago, and as both a former student and a staff member (who still lives in Hyde Park) I have never been in a situation on campus in which I’ve felt unsafe. We’ve got a number of resources in place to ensure this, including Blue Light emergency phones (much like any other urban school would have; to my albeit second-hand knowledge, they have only been used twice this summer: once by a jogger who hurt her leg and needed assistance, and another time by someone mistakenly trying to use the phone to order a pizza), a great local police force, and students who use common sense. Of course transitioning to an urban environment and the things to be aware of in such are important things to learn, so we do hold seminars on "Chicago do’s and don’ts for students not originally from the area during Orientation Week; in example, do take advantage of our campus’ free shuttle system at night, walk places in groups, and learn the public transit routes in Chicago.</p>
<p>Ms. Chapin, what’s the acceptance rate for transfer students? Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>I had some questions about submitting an arts supplement. How “good” does your work have to be and will it work against you in your application if it is reviewed unfavorably? (I do some creative writing as a hobby, but I’ve never submitted anything for national competitions and the like. I know that I’m at very least moderately good at writing, but I wouldn’t call myself exceptional in any sense of the word.)</p>