why did UChicago send me a free shirt?

<p>is that a good sign?</p>

<p>They send lots of people shirts.</p>

<p>Because they have an over-sized admissions budget.</p>

<p>To make me feel bad by not giving me one :(</p>

<p>It was a nice shirt. I’m getting glasses from them soon, too.</p>

<p>lol they even have different colors. My friend got a maroon one and i got a white one.</p>

<p>I got a gray one, wanna switch? :P</p>

<p>lol i want one!</p>

<p>Maybe it’s just to taunt us after we (well…I) get rejected.
They might be that evil.</p>

<p>Or maybe " Because they have an over-sized admissions budget".</p>

<p>Why they haven’t send to me!:(</p>

<p>They have an oversized admissions budget and a penchant for gimmicks.</p>

<p>i got a white one… i want a maroon one</p>

<p>I have a grey one with maroon lettering, I want a maroon one though! I honestly love Chicago’s mailings, they’re by far the best of any schools’.</p>

<p>Can we find a common pattern for who got a shirt and who didn’t? My kid got one… SAT 2380 and a couple of 800 subject tests, and they were sent to the university a while ago. EA app was not done (just went in over the past couple of days). Had visited, but not interviewed. Anyone else?</p>

<p>They sent me one before I submitted anything except for sat scores. I was just on the mailing list.</p>

<p>Hey intparent, everybody in my school who’s applying to UC has already gotten a shirt before sending out their apps (there are about 4-5 EA applicants and the school usually takes 1-2 per year).</p>

<p>Maybe the pattern is in a) When they send the shirts and b) What color each person got. Mine was maroon text on a white shirt and it only came in today, while the others got theirs weeks ago. I don’t know what colors they got, but if everybody else got white on maroon, maybe I’m the lucky one…;)</p>

<p>Nah, just kidding, I don’t think that UC would make a decision like that before apps are sent in. Maybe they wait to send shirts until you finish sending them your SAT scores? I took the SAT before, but I was the only UC applicant in my school to take the October test. What if the colors are determined by how much they like your scores? 0_0</p>

<p>2340… maroon on white… O.o</p>

<p>Sent from my SPH-D600 using CC</p>

<p>My DS UChicago '16 got in EA, never got a tshirt. His friend who applied RD got a tshirt, was rejected and now is Harvard '16. Don’t put too much weight on it one way or the other.</p>

<p>@walkingruby</p>

<p>Maybe the shirts don’t really matter, but inventive speculation is still fun, isn’t it?</p>

<p>i had only sent in my act scores and i got my shirt like two weeks later… i dont think the color makes a difference but i got a white shirt with maroon writing for my 35 act</p>