<p>Financial aid at Uchicago is not that great, i think Uchicago is losing a lot of good students to this. Either you or someone else should do something about this. I know people who will not go because of financial reason, but were accepted. This is really sad, very sad indeed. America is about opportunity and to know your qualified but can't go just because of money is really sad. Uchicago prides itself on having so many public school students, so why not up the financial aid too, it would be good for everyone. Just my little rant, but a rant that matters a lot, thanks!</p>
<p>I'll pretend I'm Libby for a sec, because I either know or can guess the answers to these questions.</p>
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<li><p>As far as I know, the questions have been posted mid-July. They were my year (I remember being at my summer job when I first read them). Getting antsy? Want to start your uncommon essay now? Start fishing for fun and amusing quotations, and see if they inspire you to write something. Or write your own prompts and answer them.</p></li>
<li><p>It's not frowned upon to use prompts from other years, but I think it ruins part of the fun. The prompts are challenging and amusing for a reason, and I think that placing a few restrictions on what you write makes for a better piece. Libby has posted before (maybe on the blog?) that they will certainly consider essays written on past prompts and I don't imagine that it would count against you.</p></li>
<li><p>Financial aid: Nobody wants the school to be expensive, but we clearly have enormous operating costs and cannot afford to subsidize students to the extent that HYP and a few others can afford to. We are working with an endowment that is one sixth the size of Harvard's and is shared among many, many, many worthwhile causes.</p></li>
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<p>I wish that all of you could go to school with me, and I wish that all of you could go to the school that you want to go to. Unfortunately, real life doesn't work that way, and so instead of being awesome at the U of C, you'll be awesome at another school.</p>
<p>How does one get off the UOC wailtist . If it is interest i need to show. I will email everyday. If it is recs. I will get them. But i want it soooo bad. So how do i get off?</p>
<p>Hey there I've a question here, I'm taking A-Level at the moment, they subjects I chose are Accounting/Business Studies/Economics, do I need Pure Maths (Statistics) if I'm going into the business field ( which particular field I'm not really sure yet but kinda interested in Business Admin and Finance ) ? Will I have a higher chance if I'm taking Pure Maths ?</p>
<p>Is the University of Chicago a good place for kids with advanced math credits? My child will have taken two years of university level math after completing a second year of calculus this coming year (as a soph). He doesn't want to graduate early - so he is not looking for credit, but does want, of course, placement into advanced courses.
Also, we will have AMC12 and AIME scores, but I've not been able to get anything offical - can we just note them on the application?</p>
<p>Here is what the College catalog says.
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Mathematics Placement Test and Calculus Placement Test. Every student must take either the mathematics placement test or the calculus placement test during Orientation. Students with no knowledge of calculus take the mathematics test; students who have taken a calculus course take the calculus test. Scores on the mathematics placement test determine the appropriate beginning mathematics course for each student: a precalculus course (MATH 10500) or one of three other courses (MATH 11200, 13100, or 15100). Scores on the calculus placement test determine which level of mathematics is appropriate, but they also place students into Honors Calculus (MATH 16100-16200-16300) or give placement credit for one, two, or three quarters of calculus. Examination Credit and Transfer Credit Scores on the calculus placement test are used to determine placement into CHEM 11101/11102 (General Chemistry), PHYS 13100 (General Physics, Variant B), and PHYS 14100 (General Physics-Honors).</p>
<p>AP Credit awarded for:
Calculus AB 5 MATH 15100†
Calculus BC 4 MATH 15100†
Calculus BC 5 MATH 15100-15200†</p>
<p>† A student who wishes to receive credit for MATH 15300 or to register either for MATH 16100- 16200-16300 or for PHYS 14100-14200-14300, or both, is required to take the calculus placement test during Orientation.
<p>nemom,
My S is an incoming Chicago math major and will have completed five years of AP-level and above math upon entry. (BC Calc, AP Stats, MV/Diff Eq, Lin Alg, Discrete Math, Intro to Real Analysis and a proof-based course). Chicago's math department is VERY highly regarded and its Honors Analysis is considered as tough (or tougher than Harvard's Math 55). Your S would have to take the placement test, but coming in with a lot of math may well enable him to start into that class. </p>
<p>When your S visits campus, have him talk to Dianne Hermann. She's in charge of undergraduate math placement and teaches some honors sections as well. S sat in on several math classes (Honors 160s Calc, Honors Analysis and Combinatorics) and was very happy. S had no doubts that Chicago could keep him more than busy for four years, and combined with his interest in the Core, it was a very attractive combination. He had some very fine choices of math programs, and Chicago fit his bill.</p>
<p>As for AMC/AIME scores, S had a separate activities resume which he included as a separate attachment and he included the scores there. If your S has an Additional Info section with stuff about the college courses he's taken or anything else, that's a good place to put them, too.</p>
<p>Thanks to all. U Chicago sounds like a great place for my son. (I would love to visit Chicago too since my mom went to the Art Institute there.) I suspect that sitting in on some math classes will be very good as well.
My son's college courses will actually be part of his high school record since they will be taken through the high school, but I think we will put some information about them in the 'additional info' section.</p>
<p>nemom,
Another regular poster on CC said that her S included the college's course descriptions of each math class in an additional info section. We just got another big packet from Chicago this week and they say that they will evaluate college-level courses for transfer credit, but don't expect to receive for MV, Lin Alg and DiffEq. What the courses WILL do is help provide a firm foundation for placement into Honors Analysis, which is what S hopes will happen.</p>
<p>Definitely recommend that your S visit math classes! I'll also suggest that he check out a couple of Core classes as well -- for S, it was verification that was what he wanted.</p>
<p>Thanks to all. My son, I think, will not care so much about credit - he will just want to be placed into appropriate classes. I suspect his background will be similar to your son's. By the end of sophmore year, he will have BC calc and MV, and has dabbled in number theory and data structures. Not at all sure what he will take junior and senior year - just that it will be over at BU. I believe his school puts the college course descriptions in the transcript, but I'll put that on our list of things to be sure of.
Core classes sound good too. His current school has a very traditional, very classical curriculum, so he will be well set to branch out as he likes.</p>
<p>This may seem like a silly question, but I was wondering if for option #5 on the U of Chicago supplement essays, would I be able to answer a previous year's question? Or is it only a prompt which I made up myself?</p>
<p>Hi! I am a student from an United World College and I have noticed that UChic has very recently joined the Davis scholarship programme. I would like to know the significance of this, and does this make us any different from other international applicants?
If we apply EA, would we be able to get some scholarship from Davis?</p>
<p>Oh and also, any chance you could have a session at Lester B PEarson College of the Pacific, UWC for a session? (since you'll be near vancouver i suppose? ) :))</p>