<p>well guys gg it was as fun run but if you think if it this way…
“where fun comes to die” we may have lucked out</p>
<p>Are you guys sure that the waitlist is closed? Should they have informed us in some form???</p>
<p>IIRC, they send paper letters for waitlist closing notification–but this is just what the UChicago rep told my CC.</p>
<p>So pretty much if you have not been contacted, you have no chance now. Sad. Sad indeed. </p>
<p>Kaarboer, are you sure that’s not just for your region?</p>
<p>@Debret02 “it’s over anakin, they’ve got the high ground”
yeah it’s pretty much done. we weren’t supposed to have hope on the waitlist remember lol</p>
<p>@Debret02 Well, I’m in the southeast, so maybe.</p>
<p>I dont know guys they just added some updates to my account online this morning</p>
<p>My account is the same… what sort of updates did they add?</p>
<p>Probably recommendations but idk it says “other” next to both</p>
<p>I did send in some stuff afterwards but that was a couple weeks ago so I don’t know why it’s getting added just now… Some more just got put up too</p>
<p>The U Chicago website says you can sign up for the waitlist until May 15th…Soooo. </p>
<p>So has anyone heard anything? Is the waitlist really closed? </p>
<p>It might be closed for kaarboer’s region, so there might be hope. I gave up on it though. Decided to go to UT’s McCombs School of Business 
Best of luck for all of you guys! </p>
<p>I gave up to. I’m going to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for Physics 2018 I think UIUC probably has a stronger undergraduate program, but I hope I can hopefully apply for University of Chicago’s physics graduate program.</p>
<p>I’m still keeping hope, but I’m not expecting to get off the waitlist. I’m deciding between NYU Stern and Claremont McKenna. Any input? </p>
<p>go stern :D.</p>
<p>Stern vs. CMC is one of those head-scratching questions for me. How can you possibly not have a strong instinct which one will be best for you? They are both perfectly fine institutions, but they are about as different as you could possibly find given that they are both essentially elitist private educational institutions. Most of the time, I tell kids that the similarities between two colleges far outweigh any differences, but CMC and NYU Stern are so radically different that I don’t think I could say that.</p>
<p>I would say CMC because (a) I like traditional liberal arts education (note: not the same as “humanities,” although I like them, too) much more than undergraduate business school, (b) I think it’s a lot less competitive and frenzied, and I would prefer that, © it’s close enough to the city to get some fun out of the city without being overwhelmed by it, and (d) the Claremont Colleges collectively resemble a mid-sized research university with more intimate undergraduate living/social arrangements (e.g., Yale, Rice) which lots of people wind up thinking is the best of all possible worlds. Also, California. But I have known kids who have gone to either school and thrived.</p>
<p>Certainly, as an educational institution, CMC within the context of the Claremont Colleges is a lot more like the University of Chicago than NYU Stern is. I recognize, though, the attraction of being right in the beating heart of the Big City, which NYU is – there is no more exciting place on Earth – and CMC isn’t.</p>
<p>Probably because words like a “traditional liberal art education” means little to nothing to a high school student.
“Without being overwhelmed” by the city. what does that even mean? </p>
<p>I’m not trying to call you out, and you might be making valid points. But a lot of the points people make about a college’s “feel” just don’t connect with some students. These students are looking for the college with the best educational opportunities, and the school that will set them for after college. They aren’t balancing their decision on these somewhat vague characteristics. </p>
<p>Excuse me, but if you are at all familiar with NYU, the phrase “overwhelmed by the city” is not vague in the least. I don’t think there is a major university campus anywhere that is more thoroughly integrated building by building with the central part of its city than NYU. It’s tremendously exciting, but there’s no separation at all from being in the center of the Center of the World. The sidewalks are jammed, the streets are jammed, there are business people and homeless people and buskers and hustlers and do-gooders and criminals and tourists and, yes, some students and faculty, too. 24-7. CMC is, um, not like that. It’s close enough to LA so you can go do city things if you have an afternoon or evening free, but it’s basically part of a well-defined, separated, leafy campus in a distant, sleepy suburb.</p>
<p>And, honestly, if you don’t have any idea what the difference is between a “traditional liberal arts education” and a business school, you are really in trouble, but there are pages upon pages of discussion here on CC to inform you about that.</p>
<p>Both CMC and NYU offer excellent educational opportunities that will set students up for life after college fine, or not, depending on what the student, not the school, does and wants. If you have no idea what you want, where you want to go, and what kind of environment helps you thrive best, then there isn’t any advice on Earth that will help you make a good college choice.</p>