My son has his schedule up (although with the disclaimer that it could change up until 9/10).
He has a “great” schedule - no Friday courses and only on M-W class. However, on Th he has 10 minutes to get from Swift Hall to the Social Science Building one class ends at 3:20, the other starts at 3:30…Is this doable?
Hoping his taking Civ, Hum and Socs all in one quarter isn’t too much based on some of the comments I’ve read (he’ll also be in Calculus, but not too worried as its just the 1500 level).
Courses below:
Human Being
America in World Civ
Classics of Social/Political Thought
is this a joke? swift is a 30 second walk from SSR
also civ, hum and sosc at the same time is…uh…not a great idea. and i wouldn’t underestimate calc 151…
My daughter swears that she can walk anywhere on campus in 10 minutes. She also took Human Being and Classics of S/P Thought. Not easy classes, especially when adding civ to the mix.
@caymusjordan , your son will have ample time after his first class to step into Bond Chapel, adjacent to Swift, for a few minutes of reflection or merely to gather his wits en route to his next class in the Social Sciences Building. I used to do that, though to no discernible effect.
@caymusjordan I recall the incoming 1st years were told last year that 10 min. would be plenty of time to get to your next class, regardless of where it is. But just to make sure, you can always look on one of the online campus maps or just google map it.
I know of at least one time that my DD had to really hustle to get to her next class in 10 minutes, sometimes leaving the first class a little early to make it, so it doesn’t always work.
There are a few combinations that can make it tough. At a clip of 2.5 minutes per block, or 2 if you’re really moving, that 10-minute interval is enough to walk 4-5 Chicago blocks. I can definitely think of a few combinations of classrooms that would make that tough - say, a class at the Smart Museum or North and another in Logan, Harris, or SSA. And if one class finishes a few minutes late, and the other starts exactly as scheduled, anything more than crossing the quad is going to be a mad dash.
DD just realized that she has a class combination for next quarter that looks to be a 17-minute walk (per google maps, and that’s not including stairs inside the building; she says google maps has been accurate for her fast-walk speed in the past). It’s just one day a week, and she’s planning to tell both profs, and leave the earlier 3-hour class a few minutes early and hope not to be too late to the second class. It’s still going to be a problem.
What dissembler told students that no two classes were more than 10 minutes apart?!
^ I’m pretty sure that was part of the Q&A last summer. Maybe I dreamt it LOL. When I was a grad student it didn’t matter for one class, as the cantankerous prof. would start whenever he got there (even 10 min. early!). Another would be heading to the Faculty Club for coffee right about the time that class would start. My husband once walked from 50th to class in the social sciences building starting 10 min. before class time and got there before the prof! So maybe I’m not the best person to advise on this topic. Nevertheless I recall reading it because D had a “worst case” potential schedule that had three classes back to back with only 10 min. between them so I was a tad worried about timing. Thankfully, that schedule didn’t end up happening.
@BrianBoiler I noticed there were a few who pre-registered last spring - perhaps they had to drop last fall and were able to re-boot this year.
Last year I counted up about 1,775 and it turned out there was an incoming first year class of 1,740 and 35 transfers so I guess transfers need to take Core Hum as well? That would make sense.
So this year’s 1,825 - assuming that’s a final number which we won’t know for sure till the 10th - will consist of a very small number of re-booters, a sizable first year class and a handful of transfers. The latter two numbers will be announced at Convocation so keep those ears open!
Of the sizable first year class, some of those are gaps from prior year (that’s true every year). Could have a memory short circuit here, but my recollection is 32,000 applicants at a 7.2% admit rate is about 2,304 admits. Some will gap till Fall 2019. If gappers are a roughly equal number year over year (a dubious assumption at least for what happened in Class of '21) then the 2,304 admit number is a decent base to use for figuring out the yield. Someone heard 79% earlier, correct? So that’s 1,820 entering first years. (The remaining 5 would be re-booters). I don’t believe it’s quite that high. I’m guessing that someone was calculating overall numbers, including 35 - 45 transfers. 1,820 is probably the total entering class this fall. 1,775 - 1,785 are brand new first years. Up a bit from last year’s class of 1,740 but not as atrocious as we were thinking earlier.
UChicago posted this video both on Facebook and Twitter. Unfortunately, according CC regulation I cannot post the link here. But you should check out the 30 second video:
“While you are waitlisted at Hogwarts, we invite you to explore UChicago’s magical campus with The Marooner’s Map.”
