<p>@zakuropanda. It is my feeling developed thru the process and I need not jsutify to anyone. if you don’t like it, shove it up yr a**.</p>
<p>@jh
You couldnt have put that any better. Good job =DDDD</p>
<p>^Great to see that people who can express their thoughts so intelligibly were actually waitlisted. Anyways, stop associating the actions of the admissions office with the university as a whole. Just because the admissions office attempted to “commercialize,” whatever that is even supposed to mean, doesn’t change anything about the university. Anyways, what did they do that was so bad? Send out some materials marketing their school? Actually, you know what, I think you’re right. The University of Chicago should just stop marketing itself and let people find the school by themselves. I mean, advertisements totally ruined Where’s Waldo. How the hell is it fun if Waldo is holding a sign on every page that says, “I’M RIGHT HERE!”? </p>
<p>Also, nice to see that you make decisions on which university you will attend from such irrational impulses. You’re going far in life.</p>
<p>Okay, let’s keep things in perspective. If you all wish to debate Chicago’s marketing standards, you all ought to create a new discussion dedicated to that. The current dialogue has become quite divergent from the original scope of the thread.</p>
<p>Im going to be a construction worker instead of go to college so what does it matter.</p>
<p>Calm down, Motion!
Many of us thought we had a better chance than we did and were truly surprised by the waitlisting. However, no one was taking a stab at UofC and it’s worth as a school. Even if we are disappointed with our decision, we DID chose to apply to the school, and had to have liked it. Obviously we all knew what we were getting ourselves into.
This thread is more for us to talk and discuss whatever post-decisions, and you don’t need to be here if what people are saying on here is angering you.</p>
<p>You’ve been acting like an idiot post-decisions. You’ve been carrying a horribly ignorant, sarcastic view.</p>
<p>Think seriously about how you are acting and if you don’t see the fault, well, I’m just damn perplexed as to why you were rejected.</p>
<p>“I Love Kittens” is a formerly banned user so take whatever he says with a large grain of salt and an Advil.</p>
<p>Obviously every single one of my posts (barring the first one) here has been wholly sarcastic and has been intended to be a joke.</p>
<p>why are people implying that if a student who was already accepted to uchicago gets into hyps, they defect to the ivies… i got a likely letter from an ivy league school, but i am still set on attending uchicago. you should realize that where you apply should be based on whether it FITS not whether it is the most prestigious etc. that is why all of you people who considered it a “safety” shouldnt be upset you didnt get in. you obviously dont respect the institution, and you most likely only applied there because it was the only top 10 school with an over 20% acceptance rate or whatever. stop obsessing over getting into the ivy league, and realize that you should go where you think you would be HAPPIEST.sooo if you are a prestige wh0re whos obsessed with their image, then i guess what youre saying is correct! goood luck</p>
<p>I kind of regret not applying here… :[</p>
<p>can anyone tell me a good estimate of the RD acceptance rate?</p>
<p>I’m now worried for my other schools. In all honesty, my UChicago essays were good but I don’t think I showed that much interest. In fact my UChicago interviewer was doing grad school at my top choice and we ended up talking about that a lot and I told him that it was one of my top choice schools…</p>
<p>^ I’m not exactly positive but I’m guessing 12- 19 %.</p>
<p>as I stated earlier, the overall acceptance rate will be 19% if they admit the same # of students as last year. the early action acceptance rate is probably a little higher, so RD will probably a little lower, maybe 17%?</p>
<p>Anyone know the admission rate for EA?</p>
<p>There’s a different thread where some amazingly non-lazy people have calculated the RD acceptance rate to be about 12%.
EA stats are probably on the EA discussion thread.</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure EA acceptance rate was 28%.</p>
<p>I got waitlisted… And I’m beginning to think the same thing.</p>
<p>On the other hand, I put 0% effort into my essays. I procrastinated and left my application until hours before it was due, and ended up submitting it a few minutes after the deadline. I’ve never gone to visit UChicago (although I would have liked to… an illness, poor parent dispositions and financial issues got in the way) and my Why Chicago essay reflected that. My Favorite Things essay was hastily drafted at the last minute from Stanford’s short answer questions, and my Topic #5 essay was re-used (and I even submitted a rough draft by accident). The interview, however, went really well and my school has a terrific record for sending students to UChicago (6/11) in the past 5 years. Also, I believe I was the only student from my school to apply.</p>
<p>That being said, I don’t think I would have accepted my application either. I really like everything I’ve heard about UChicago, but I believe that my inability to visit had me ill-fated. I ended up putting much less effort into my application than I should have, and in that sense, I don’t think this application and subsequent decision was indicative of my other applications (of which I put much more effort into, having seen the schools).</p>
<p>While this may not reflect any fellow members’ experiences, it certainly adds solace to mine. ;)</p>
<p>motion - sorry about UofC. I wasn’t accepted, but waitlisted. However, I saw your postings on the Pitt board. You are very fortunate to have been awarded a full tuition at Pitt. That’s amazing! I was also accepted at Pitt, but was offered NO money. I even submitted a request for reconsideration. Pitt’s financial aid office responded - saying that the applicant pool was competitive this year. But, when they cited as an example a person who received a “lesser scholarship” and that person’s stats were LOWER than mine -ouch that stung! The whole admission process doesn’t seem to make a lot of sense. You’re very intelligent. These acceptances, rejections, wait-listings - all mean nothing and are in no way a measurement of who you are. Just have faith that everything happens for a reason. Good luck! And good luck to everyone else out there - wherever you land!</p>
<p>Reading this thread, I hope that y’all are just reacting badly to the waitlist/rejection. If this is actually how you guys are (especially the first page of posts), man, I’m a little glad you were waitlisted. </p>
<p>I don’t see a lot of graciousness on this thread.</p>
<p>That said, the post above me and these last posts are of the right attitude. I wish we could have more of that attitude. Maybe if you sent in a nice letter (with the same attitude) to your admissions rep, you could get off the waitlist and come to Chicago where people with good attitudes thrive.</p>
<p>Just felt a need to chime in. Good luck to everyone with all your other schools! If you got on the waitlist with a ~11% acceptance rate, you are in a good place. maybe not HYP, but not every successful, amazing person went there. Tons of people that truly changed the world went to state universities and LACs (and lesser private schools too). Heck, Obama transferred from Occidental, and he’s president. You will be fine, even if you don’t get into a top ten school.</p>
<p>btw, we calculated about 28.5% rate for EA and 11.5% rate for RD. idk about the waitlist numbers, though.</p>