<p>That's awesome Katharos, you get home-cooked meals, a loving family and you get to live on campus. Can your mom cook?</p>
<p>No, but she can certainly dance</p>
<p>When i was deciding to go to college, i was basically convinced i was going to a UC (being from southern california). fortunately I had had the opportunity to visit Chicago on a competition trip with my choir and fell in love with the city the year before. This led me to do some research and I was blessed to find everything I wanted in a school in UofC which just so happened to be in a city I loved. In simple terms - I'm sick of the public school <em>spark-note-it</em> mentality and am excited to be challenged by a new environment both geographically and academically.</p>
<p>She can neither cook nor dance- unless cooking consists of a bag of noodles, a jar of tomato sauce, and a bag of frozen peas. Actually, I don't mind that stuff, as I happen to be an excellent Kraft macaroni maker. Guess where I got my genes?</p>
<p>I can dance, though. ;)</p>
<p>Esquared, you are too funny, by the way.</p>
<p>hm.. question. how are the dorms, food, and campus of uchicago? are there fields for you to just lie down and chill??
and how 'strict' is the core? will it become dreadful for someone if they dont happen to like it?</p>
<p>i'm in love.
the professors, the students, the campus, the fact that i can get a great humanities and science education all on one campus. the gargoyles that stare at me enviously. the maroon school color, how amazing is that, not just red or gold or some normal color, no MAROON! to be surrounded by students who are as academic as me! who get pleasure about being successful in school. chicago admissions counselors if you're reading this. Please let me in! i love u of c!</p>
<p>To be quite honest, I just want to attend Ted (O'neill?)'s convocation speech. I love them all.</p>
<p>Also, you can't go wrong with Maroon.</p>
<p>Academics and the city.</p>
<p>They have one of the best (if not The Best) Econ programme!
It is quirky! I love its quirkiness!</p>
<p>i won't be laughed at for reading 4 books on the summer reading list instead of the required 1</p>
<p>academically speaking: they have all the languages i could ever ask for and more!!! </p>
<p>plus i love classics</p>
<p>People in my high school often label me as "unique" because of the way I think and the way I analyze things. Therefore, to be around unique people like myself is definitely a good thing. Plus, to be able to think and express oneself freely like on those wack shirts is COOL hehe. </p>
<p>Economics, classical castle look alike buildings, The Windy City and Maroon (the color of my 1990 Honda Accord) sum up my reasons lol</p>
<p>Who else is tranferring to UChicago next year?</p>
<p>i've been in this city so long, why not another four-five years? </p>
<p>u guys have heard the legend about the seal in Reynolds right? i'm totally stepping on it.</p>
<p>"u guys have heard the legend about the seal in Reynolds right? i'm totally stepping on it."</p>
<p>Done.</p>
<p>intellectual vivacity, creativity (the uncommon application!), quirkiness, gothic buildlings, strong programs in just about everything, good food, cool shirts, life of the mind, etc etc etc.
oh i cant WAITTT to start classes there!!!!</p>
<p>Stepping on the seal may not be a good idea...</p>
<p>From an article by Andrew Abbott</p>
<p>I dont remember whether somebody told me about it. Maybe I learned by watching people. But by the end of my first year as a graduate student I knew you werent supposed to step on the brass tablet of the University seal in the Reynolds Club foyer. Undergraduates told me that you wouldnt graduate in four years if you stepped on that seal; God only knew what would happen to a graduate student.</p>
<p>...Twenty-five years later, in 1995, I found myself again watching students step around that brass plaque. Curricular change was in the air and I was writing a book on the college major and its role in liberal education. By offering to survey how alumni viewed their U of C education, I could secretly answer my burning question: Did the plaques prophecy really hold?</p>
<p>And what of the brass plaquesymbol of Chicagos rigor? I asked alumni two things: Did you step on the brass plaque? and How long did it take you to graduate? They knew just what I meant; only 13 percent checked off What brass plaque? (Older alumni were more likely to have forgottena third of the class of 1975, for example.) So the first fact about the brass plaque is that everybody knew about it. And the second fact is that it does have an effect.</p>
<p>In every class, those who stepped on it were less likely to graduate in four years. Overall, 93 percent of alumni who did not step on the plaque graduated in four years, but only 85 percent of those who did step on it graduated in four years. The effect is statistically significant; I invite readers to write in with explanationsreal or artifactualof the effect. As for me, I stepped on it before I knew better.</p>
<p>My Ph.D. took 11 years.</p>
<p>haha. there might be many explanations for that though. many that an economist would come up with, to dispute that article. however, i dunno if this counts, but i have already stepped on the seal numerous times during my high school career. i'm in a program at the U of C, so i was at Reynolds quite often over the past 3 summers. hmm...</p>
<p>how's about this for an explanation:
people know about the seal. thus, people who WANT to graduate in four years (for one reason or another) avoid it like the plague. the other group, the U Chicago groupies and the lovers of academics, step on it constantly in hopes of staying longer. thus, the people who step on it are bound to stay longer, while the people who avoid it leave as soon as four years is up.</p>
<p>haha that was the best i could do. i'm not very skilled in economics theory and stuff yet...but hopefully i will be!</p>
<p>xster-
Are you in that program for talented kids from the Chicago public schools? And I know there is a math program for high schoolers, too. Are you in either one of those?</p>
<p>What I like about Chicago?</p>
<p>The students- they are truly unique and equally unbelieveble. I haven't met students like them from anywhere else.</p>
<p>They are nerds that are so multi-talented, and scoial that you can't realy call them nerds.
Maybe bookworms- they read a lot. They are really cool social bookworms. Thats it-</p>
<p>REALLY COOL MULTI-TALENTED SOCIAL BOOKWORMS</p>
<p>lol "talented" kids from CPS. idk how i got in then, but yeah i'm in that.</p>
<p>it's called the Collegiate Scholars Program. didn't help me in getting into college at all, or if it did, it wasn't enough for the amount of time i put into it.</p>
<p>i liked the program, but it was a buncha work over the summers. i just wish it had paid off more. katharos are you in one of those? do i know you?</p>