<p>Hello! Thank you for continuing to answer questions for so many days now. I have been deferred by the University to wait until the regular decision time. Is there anything I can do to boost what I’ve already given with my application? I have just now learned that giving an interview was even a possibility, and I believe that I am a student that would do very well at your institution.</p>
<p>Grace,</p>
<p>This is less of a question, and more of a statement. I would like to thank you for all of the help you have been to me on this forum. Although I was deferred, I almost certainly would have been denied if not for the many times that you answered my questions. From the bottom of my heart, I truly would like to thank you for your help, and on the behalf of my fellow applicants who were accepted, for accepting them. I’m sure that your job is oft thankless, due to a lot of disgruntled applicants and parents, but you do deserve to be thanked. You were not my admissions counselor, but I still feel that I should extend to you the same sentiment that I will extend to them. Again, thank you, and good luck with the regular round.</p>
<p>Agreed, thank you (and the rest of the admissions office) for all you do. This can’t be any easier from your end than it is from ours, and you’ve handled our questions with remarkable patience and grace (sorry, I’m distracting myself with bad puns 
). It is an honor to have our applications read so carefully, and I’m glad my application will have a second chance to be seen.</p>
<p>Debater: Three words come to mind when I read your post: remarkable, humbling, inspiring.</p>
<p>agree with debater and nerve in everything. admissions did a remarkable job being patient, kind, and helpful when i’m sure many applicants were none of those things. thank you.</p>
<p>My big appreciation to Grace, the Ms. UChicago.</p>
<p>Can I private message you for a chance?</p>
<p>@UChicago</p>
<p>Hi! I was just differed from Early Action. Do you know how to request a local alumni interview? I know it says to find it in my UChicago account, but I can’t seem to be able to locate it within the account!</p>
<p>This is a question about financial aid—I know you can’t speak to any specific cases, but I am asking about general policy.</p>
<p>My D was admitted with somewhat more need-based aid than we expected based on the web-based FAFSA calculators. I was wondering if some or all first-year students get a more generous calculation than in subsequent years. In other words, assuming a student’s family financial situation remains exactly the same, could the student confidently expect to get the same aid in future years, or might it drop significantly?</p>
<p>Thank you very much.</p>
<p>after teh EA app, what does ‘cannot accept you now but will look at the app in the spring’ mean - really mean? is this deferred? is it the same as waitlisted? </p>
<p>is the EA group usually stronger or weaker than the RD group? If the EA group is usually weaker, then wouldnt this mean ixnay on U of C for me?</p>
<p>Hi all! First off, thank you for all the kind words-- I’m glad that even if we weren’t able to admit everyone, you have still felt well supported in this process. (I usually dread logging in to College Confidential the day after decisions are released, but these notes were a lovely surprise! )</p>
<p>LaceDat, I am not able to estimate any student’s likelihood of acceptance and prefer to answer questions publicly rather than by private message so that everyone can see responses. </p>
<p>lituro (and to some degree roderick), we do not require any additional information of deferred students beyond your Midyear Report, and will review your original Early Action application during our regular decision round. If UChicago remains a top choice for you, you are welcome to email your regional admissions counselor letting them know of your continued interest. Joesm, deferred students who have not previously interviewed will be able to express interest in an alumni interview through your UChicago Account; we will be opening up the ability for deferred students to request an interview soon, so hang tight until then.</p>
<p>Southboundtrain, great question. Students’ financial aid packages will not change from year to year unless there is a change in family income/assets-- so you can expect your student’s aid package to remain the same from year to year if there is no change from your end. We do ask families to reapply for aid yearly to account for this (this also helps us account for our increases in cost in students’ aid packages-- should your family income remain flat and our costs increase, you may actually experience an increase to your aid package).</p>
<p>Grace, why is Chicago so slow to release the admissions numbers? How many were accepted and how much of the EA admitted cohort does compare to the entering expected class?</p>
<p>Hi Grace,</p>
<p>My daughter was accepted at UChicago and is wildly excited, but I’m now trying to figure out the financial aid stuff, and I have a quick question. If she received a merit award and will also (hopefully) be a National Merit Finalist, would there potentially be an additional $2000 added to the merit package, or did they include that in their University Scholar award? Or is this a question for the financial aid office?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>@UChicago I did EA. Does submitting the CSS Profile and 2012 tax returns after I got my decision hurt my potential financial aid package and merit scholarships?
Thank you!</p>
<p>Crusoemom - The National Merit Award will be additive. Email financial aid to confirm. UChicago may confirm also, but most likely she will defer to the financial aid office because she is admissions. Another reminder: make sure you notify the National Merit people that your target school is UChicago before the deadline. Best of luck to you.</p>
<p>Hi Grace,
I got a C+ in AP calculus BC in the first semester of the senior year. This is very bad, I know. I took five AP courses and simply did not have enough time to practice the calculus. I really want to apply to UChicago but now what is my chance? I have SAT/2260 (1550 for Chicago), ACT/35, UW GPA/3.85 and W GPA/4.25, good ECs, a few awards.
I believe I am a strong candidate without this incident. How does UChicago weigh this course in admission? Is the door closed to me? My intended major is science (chemistry or biology). Thanks.</p>
<p>Hi Grace,</p>
<p>I’m not sure if this is just my paralysis from my over-over-over^2-analysis but due to my frantic fingers pressing the submit button too quickly with sweat and excitement, one of my supplement essay has a significant typo that somewhat changed the physics of one of my essays. The problem is, my slobbish, childish mind (bleh bleh bleh) got the words ‘Alumni’ and ‘Faculty’ mixed up, which is A Very Serious Problem Indeed – especially considering that my error was (gasp!) italicized.</p>
<p>So, will an oversight on my behalf (intense gasp!) ruin my chances for the school or would it possibly be overlooked depending on the essay’s context? </p>
<p>Anyways, thank you very much in advanced for taking your time and answering the spluttering product of my paranoia.</p>
<p>Hi Grace! I was wondering, I wanted to possibly major in biophysics, however uchicago only has it as a graduate degree. Is there a way I could do this and kind of create my own major? Because you obviously offer biology, physics, and chemistry, and if I know what courses to make the major, is that allowed?</p>
<p>Crusoemom, if your daughter is a National Merit finalist and lists UChicago as her top choice, the National Merit scholarship will be in addition to any other need or merit-based awards she may receive. </p>
<p>questions777, no, no problems here-- we are able to consider domestic students for financial aid at any point in our admissions process and your aid award will be the same regardless of when you apply for aid, since we always guarantee to meet 100% of demonstrated need. </p>
<p>problemnow and misanthropemao, both of you have very different questions, but my advise to both of you remains “don’t freak out” Typos of this sort are not a huge deal, and we will evaluate your entire transcript in context, so neither of these things will be the only thing that we see-- don’t worry!</p>