<p>I have a quick question, on the UChicago sports page it has a link to the cheerleading teams website, but I found the information on there to be severely outdated. Do you know anything about the cheerleading program (if it still exists)? I e-mailed both the addresses listed on the page but neither responded.</p>
<p>Hi, Grace!
I am sorry. Right after I posted my last question I received an e-mail from the International Admissions Team. I tried to delete my post in order not to disturb you, but I couldn’t do it. </p>
<p>I really apologize for this misunderstanding.</p>
<p>Thank you a lot! :)</p>
<p>Hi Grace,</p>
<p>Another question: How available are research and internship opportunities for undergraduates (i.e., in freshman and sophomore (as well as higher up) years)? I want to be able to personally know and work with my professors at college so that I can do real hands-on research and work (i.e., in the sciences / maths). Will UChic give me as many opportunities to do so as, say, Wesleyan or Oberlin (other LACs with intense undergraduate focuses)?</p>
<p>Hi Grace, I think you overlooked my post… </p>
<p>Hi Grace, on the common app, it says uchicago receives up to three teacher’s recommendation. Is the third one encouraged to have and does it have to be academic?
You also accept a supplementary recommendation letter. I am confused about how many letters you receive and of what types.
Thanks!</p>
<p>Hi Grace~
I’ve seen you on viewchicago since last year so I kinda feel like I know you…as weird as that sounds ahaha :3 but I have a question for you~</p>
<p>I was taking gym online but I ended up having to withdrawal out of the class but I withdrew after the grace period so it went on my transcript as a WF (well I saw my transcript and it says “F” D: )
Since then, I’ve completed the online class so the F isn’t being factored into my GPA at all but the record of it is still on my transcript so I was wondering if this would hurt me in the admissions process? T^T
Should I explain this in the additional information section of the common app? </p>
<p>Thank you!
-Raven</p>
<p>Hey Grace, could you tell us when UChicago accounts come out?
Thanks!</p>
<p>Hi Grace- Is EA appropriate for someone who is not sure about their level of interest? someone who knows that U Chicago is one of the schools they want to apply to for a variety of good reasons, but hasn’t had a chance to visit yet and determine if its their number 1 or their number 5.</p>
<p>It seems that so many of the EA applicants know that U Chicago is their first choice already.</p>
<p>Hey !</p>
<p>I had a couple questions about essays. </p>
<p>1) Does the format matter? Can we have it in like a story sort of format, like with many paragraphs and dialogue and such stuff?
2) What is the word limit?
3) Can we make it like a story?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>@sunshinerocks
I submitted my EA app yesterday and got an email about my account today.</p>
<p>@michella
Thanks for letting me know! Um… I submitted in mid-September and haven’t gotten an e-mail. Should I contact the admissions office?</p>
<p>Um… maybe wait for Grace’s reply first? It’s not like you can really do anything on your account yet. Interviews become available on the 15th. You’re not missing anything :)</p>
<p>Ah! I was wondering when interviews would be available for scheduling~ thanks :)</p>
<p>latichever-- we offer tours and information sessions every day of the week (excepting weekends in winter months). You are welcome to register for a time convenient to you online here: [Tours</a> and Information Sessions | The University of Chicago College Admissions](<a href=“http://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/visiting/tours/]Tours”>Visit | College Admissions)</p>
<p>I would suggest e-mailing your son’s regional admissions counselor before your visit, who will assist you with identifying a faculty member in mathematics who may be able to meet with your son when you choose to visit.We will be happy to assist you with meeting a faculty member if possible, but as you noted, course selections in mathematics during the summer are very limited and you may have best luck meeting with faculty and visiting courses in your son’s interest area if you are able to visit during the academic year. You may find your regional counselor’s email address online here-- just search for the state where you live: <a href=“https://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/contact/[/url]”>https://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/contact/</a></p>
<p>We do strongly suggest that students spend four years in high school to achieve the best academic and social preparation for our environment. We can consider students who will graduate after three years of high school, but do need students to be on track to graduate high school before matriculation to be eligible for admission.</p>
<p>nebraskagal-- we do have a cheerleading club, and as our academic year has just re-started, hopefully they will update their website with current contact information. I’d check back on their website within a few weeks just to make sure!</p>
<p>greentea, I apologize for overlooking your question. We require two teacher recommendations from teachers in academic subject areas, one recommendation letter or form from a guidance counselor, and allow one additional supplementary recommendation of your choice (this is not required and truly optional, but could come from a teacher, employer, mentor, or anyone else who knows you well). </p>
<p>ravenish, glad you like ViewChicago! This sounds like a great situation to explain in the additional information section of the common application. Just be as detailed as you can in your explanation. </p>
<p>sunshinerocks, we are in the process of assigning UChicago accounts to applicants. If you have applied, you should receive one shortly; students applying from now forward should be contacted within several days of the submission of their application. Make sure to check the Spam folder of the email account where you registered your application, as it is an automatically generated email from our website and in some email clients is classified as spam for that reason. </p>
<p>Carla2012, we do not require students to visit campus in order to be eligible for admission, so no need to worry on that front; if you feel that your application is at its best and you can see good reasons why UChicago may be a good fit and option for you, you are certainly welcome to apply Early Action, even if you have not yet cemented your first choice.</p>
<p>anvesh, your essay may be in whatever format you like-- a story or other nontraditional format is fine (although we would generally prefer that your essay has words in it, so, please do not submit, say, an interpretive dance in lieu of an essay 
). We suggest keeping your essay between 250 and 500 words; 500 words is our suggested upper limit, but we do understand that sometimes essays may go slightly over, which is allowed so long as your essay is not significantly longer than 500 words.</p>
<p>is it absolutely NOT acceptable at all for a journalism teacher to write one of the academic teacher rec letters if the teacher knows you best?</p>
<p>How does UChicago feel about the Additional Information portion of the application?</p>
<p>writingchkk, it would be best for a journalism teacher’s recommendation to be submitted as a supplemental recommendation, if possible.</p>
<p>rrcjmcandless: students who have additional information relevant to their application should feel free to share it in the additional information section of the Common Application. Examples of important uses of this space include explanations of illness or hardship that may have negatively impacted your performance, or clarification of any portion of your application that may be confusing (for example, if you switched schools during high school and your transcripts look very different between schools, etc). It is only necessary to provide additional information if you feel that it is something we should know in the context of your application-- students without relevant contextual information to share should not feel a need to include something in this space.</p>
<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I am a national merit scholarship semi-finalist (most likely a finalist as well) and I am applying to Chicago EA. Is the university notified, before making decisions, by the scholarship corporation that I put Chicago as my top school for the scholarships? Do you receive a commendation or notification of some sort before EA decisions have been made? </p>
<p>In other words, is the only way for me to tell Chicago that I am a semi-finalist (I only find out if I am a finalist in January, after decisions have been made) and that I’m hoping for a scholarship there is to write it in the CommonApp awards section?</p>
<p>Hi Grace,</p>
<p>I know that colleges like to keep track of whether applicants have visited or not, and sometimes that can be a deciding factor in admissions. I haven’t found the chance to visit campus (even though I really want to, time/airfare has made it very unlikely). I have, however, attended a ‘UChicago Visits You’. Does that count?
Also, just wondering… if I live in Germantown, Maryland, are you my admissions officer?</p>
<p>Thanks so much!</p>
<p>My daughter (a college freshman) was the classic high school underachiever–with a 3.0 GPA, but with very high SAT/ACT scores and numerous AP exams (5’s on each one). Notwithstanding her GPA, she managed to get admitted to a top 30 university. Now that she is on her own, she appears to be taking her studies much more seriously and ona day-to-day basis performing to her academic abilities (rather than self-studying right before her AP exams). Through the midterm exams of this semester, my daughter is getting mostly A’s, in a school where the average freshman GPA is below 3.0. </p>
<p>While my daughter enjoys her current school, it does not have the depth in her expected major. She hopes to earn a B.S. in either Geology or Environmental Sciences–which was not on her radar screen when she applied to college. In considering transfers, does University of Chicago consider the candidate’s expected major and the number of existing students in her class year that are projected to have a similar major?</p>