<p>Yay! I convinced my family to go to Chicago to visit on the May 14 Junior Open House! Did anyone go to the April 1st Junior Open House? How was it? What should I do on campus? How many prospies will be there? Will I get to go on one of felipecocco's famous tours? What should I do in the city in general? I'm so excited!!! </p>
<p>PS- I got an on-campus interview- who will the interviewer be? will it be weighted heavily in admissions? how long can I expect? </p>
<p>Sorry bout all the ?s but I'm so excited!!!</p>
<p>haha Wow, you sounds excited. I didn't even know they had Open House programs, but I'm sure you'll get to do a tour and info session. You will interview with one of the admissions officers. People disagree on their weight; I think that a great on campus interview can be factored significantly in admissions, but many disagree. I think on campus interviews aim for 30 minutes to an hour? I'm not positive, though. Try to sit in on a class, if you are going to be on campus on a weekday.</p>
<p>Hey, I'm going to be at the may 14th open house too! My friend said he went to the April one, but he didn't get enough out of it so he's going to the may 14th also. Ted O’Neill said that if an interview is good then they use it, if it's bad then they don't.</p>
<p>The interview is real chill, though, it's more like a conversation. My only advice would be to talk to students if you have the time, most of us are really friendly, and last year it was an hour-long conversation I had with some kids outside Bartlett that made me want to come to UC the most. </p>
<p>Judging by recent days, I fully expect the place to be flooded with prospies, all clogging up Bartlett during peak hours and whatnot. </p>
<p>Ask in the admissions office (Rosenwald) about classes, I'm pretty sure you can sit in on any but they'll have some that they recommend and there will most likely be other prospies there. If you're here on a Mon/Wed come to Microecon 198 in Kent at 1:30, Allen Sanderson is dope.</p>
<p>Yeah, feel free to start talking to students at a table in the dining hall. We're friendly for the most part. I know I'm always willing to talk to prospies in the dining hall (or anywhere, for the most part).</p>
<p>my D had a couple of larger classes in her first year, but second year has been all small classes, under 25, and she even has one with 9. I guess it depends what you place out of with your AP credits.</p>
<p>Micro is the second course I've ever taken with more than 20-30 kids or so, Fundamentals of Psych had about 60 in the lectures (but small group discussions with a TA on Fridays). </p>
<p>Sanderson puts it this way: Yeah, 150 kids is a lot, but an intro to Microecon at UPenn would be like 300 kids and at U. of Illinois it would be well over a million, so we're relatively intimate. I don't feel like the class size hampers learning at all, though, as it's a lecture - discussion classes are capped in the 20's.</p>
<p>Sanderson will get to know you if you make the slightest effort, anyway. I sat near the front (due mostly to not having the greatest hearing or vision) and went to the review sessions, though I never went to office hours or spoke up in class, and midway through the first quarter he came up specifically to ask me my name. He has very good facial recognition, and he definitely knows who I am.</p>
<p>I believe that econ tends to be the largest course in the school. It doesn't depend on AP credits at all, really, because Chicago doesn't have large "intro" classes for most (any?) of the subjects that APs would place you out of. There is really no need for an intro econ class to be small, though. The classes are popular as lectures partly because of the format. Of course, I was talking to one of my friends at another very good school, and she was looking forward to a class with 150 students which would be her smallest ever. </p>
<p>Classes are the sizes that they should be, I think. There aren't large classes for courses that should be small or discussion-based, but they don't try to have tiny classes for courses that are mainly lecture. The econ class usually have about four or five TAs who hold regular office hours (but do not teach) for questions, in addition to Sanderson's office hours.</p>