<p>hey! just wondering how many of you have chicago as your number 1 and are going/have already accepted their offer. i believe that most students are like myself, waiting for the regular decision round and see what offers are out there...</p>
<p>just curious</p>
<p>I’ve already accepted my offer. I’ve wanted to go to the University of Chicago since seventh grade, so it was a no-brainer.</p>
<p>I only had to do one application! 
Now it’s time for some scholarship nonsense…</p>
<p>Yep, I’m waiting for regular decisions, too. Chicago is high up there, but not my first choice due to weather/location. :p</p>
<p>I’m waiting…but I’ll go to Chicago anyways, I think.</p>
<p>I waited last year for financial aid. They send you an estimate sometime this month, but the estimate didn’t satisfy me. I waited until April when they sent actual financial aid.</p>
<p>I’m waiting for financial aid and to visit (probably in January)…I don’t know if I’ll accept before I get RD-round decisions. I think it’s my number-one choice, but Swarthmore is super close behind at number 1.3 or so. Howeverrrr, there is the serious matter of Snell-Hitchcock to think of… ;)</p>
<p>I’m waiting for fin aid and my decisions from St. John’s, which is tied for #1. If fin aid isn’t ‘perfect’, I’ll have to wait for fin aid from other schools, but I swear I’m not paying a cent for college, so… it’ll be a while.</p>
<p>speaking of financial aid, how good is it? We have ~90 K a year. </p>
<p>also, how close is the estimate that they give in december to the official one in april? more, less?</p>
<p>Snell-hitchcock fills up pretty qucikly with early app students, you should definately accept your offer if its between the two.</p>
<p>For me, the estimate in December showed me getting a lot less aid than I actually got. But I got a merit scholarship, so I think that changed it. The reason I waited was because if the estimate had been accurate, I would not be at UChicago this year. </p>
<p>Snell-Hitchcock is not worth rushing into this. Yes, it fills up quickly, but I’ve heard of non-EA admits who got into Hitchcock last year. I sincerely hope that this is not a deciding factor for people to hurry up and deposit.</p>
<p>Financial Aid+Penn/Cornell decisions before I accept.
:)</p>
<p>I’d love priority housing but I’m going to wait and see how the rest of the admissions season plays out. I love Chicago but I will wait on Duke and MIT, as well as financial aid before making a decision.</p>
<p>Gotta wait to see if I get schollies to other schools. U of C is my #1 though.</p>
<p>I’m committing as soon as I get a good fin aid package.</p>
<p>plus snell isn’t the best dorm by a longshot.</p>
<p>I probably won’t accept until April… I want to wait for regular decisions/visiting the campus.</p>
<p>I’ll be accepting the second I get my financial aid offer… I love Chicago, and Emory could only offer me a merit scholarship… but I’m poor enough to get no loans at Chicago (and emory, too), so it comes down to what I like.</p>
<p>I’m not accepting until at least after CPW at MIT, at which time I’ll also revisit Harvard and by which time I’ll also already have my Harvard, Dartmouth, Swat, Yale, Cambridge, and Princeton decisions. And I need to visit Yale and Princeton. My sister goes to Northwestern, so I can go to Chicago I think, and I’d like to revisit there too. After I do all of that I’ll decide.</p>
<p>But the biggest thing is getting my Cambridge decision/my parents saying I can go to school in England, because I’ve wanted to go to Cambridge for forever. Well, not really, but for a while. When I told my little story, my interviewer phrased it as a “childhood ambition.”</p>
<p>And financial aid will really matter to my parents. My mother’s whole family has believed I would go to Yale since I was born (for serious) and they have good FA, so that might decide for me. Not that I wouldn’t love to go there.</p>
<p>Ugh, so much thinking.</p>
<p>Son needs to visit and compare with other schools he hasn’t visited either.</p>
<p>son’s #1 choice is Chicago… but unfortunately have to see what financial aid package is like…</p>