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<p>I meant the number of “enrolled” students has gone up (the total student body size). I use the term “admitted” and “enrolled” interchangeably, and use the term “accepted students” as those who were given the choice to enroll. Some people use the term “admitted students” to mean those who got acceptance letters.</p>
<p>JHS: I assume you haven’t seen the new south campus residence hall. My son has a room there. Really modern and an amazing facility. Except, the room interior is somehow messed up: like the electrical outlets in the most unreachable and puzzling places (behind the bed - almost impossible to reach), windows impossible open unless one completely rearranges everything and anything, and closet doors opening in a direction that makes it virtually impossible to reach for clothes, etc. Definitely “UNCOMMON” U Chicago layout. The tradition lives on. Either that, or perhaps, its about time to open a school of architecture to establish home grown expertise for building matters. To their credit, they said the students are encouraged to fill out the work order request form to make necessary changes/remedies, and they will be promptly executed.</p>
<p>All in all, I am very impressed with the level of thought that seem to have gone in to support and nurture the kids. Both my husband and I thought that the amount of energy the school seems to pour in to provide the maximum amount of hand holding, advising, nurturing, and supporting the kids is very impressive, especially given that I heard a lot of horror stories about schools that are starting to cut courses and lectures (you can only imagine what they are doing with auxiliary support services if they are cutting courses!). </p>
<p>There were undergraduate upper class member dorm assistants with the ratio of one assistance per 20 dorm residents, a graduate student and his/her family living in the dorm to provide support per 80-90 kids, and finally, the feather on the cap: the faculty dorm master who lives in the dorm with his/her spouse in a special apartment. All the graduate residential heads and faculty dorm masters we talked to had more or less open door policy for kids to walk in and hang out. They were all organizing activities like Target trip on a rented school bus to pick up necessities, Shakespeare performance, Opera outings, etc. </p>
<p>I told one of the activity organizers that if the kids are behaving badly, he can organize a Peking opera night as a punishment for everyone 
(either that or a Kabuki trip)</p>
<p>My son likes the food very much also. But then again, he has a very low default at home: I am not exactly a model of excellence for cooking. </p>
<p>All in all, I am just SO happy that my son is at Chicago - more than anything else, for the intellectual rigor it is so famous for. I wish I had gone to a school like that!!!</p>