Chicago reopens admissions - Found 6,000 applications

Parents Forum
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<p>Chicago was notified that more than 6,000 international applications had been misplaced. </p>

<p>The university announced, “In light of this event, we are forced to reopen the process. While this incident reinforces our position as one of the most sought-after and selective schools, we have to make quick decisions. We are already ordering temporary housing that will house the additional admitted students.”</p>

<p>wow! That will prompt a new wave of uber-elitism at the last bastion of intellectualism.</p>

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<p>Lol! April Fool’s!</p>

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<p>I fell for it.</p>

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<p>Dang it! I just found 6,000 appications stuck in the back of my copy of “Ulysses.” What a pain.</p>

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<p>I think you meant Thucydides, bovertine.</p>

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<p>I heard that WashU decided to accept all 4,800 students on the waiting list whose names began with Q, X, and Z. (They needed more diversity.)</p>

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<p>THey probably carry that around with them, so they wouldn’t overlook the apps.</p>

<p>The Joyce was a momentary lapse into pure guilty-pleasure reading. Sort of like watching “Storage Wars” or “American Hoggers.”</p>

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<p>Years ago, my favorite cousin, then an Assistant Professor of English at Princeton, had this to say about my academic crush of the moment back then: “You know, the average Princeton undergraduate doesn’t care about Harold Bloom. The average Princeton undergraduate thinks Harold Bloom is the main character in James Joyce’s Ulysses. Which, come to think of it, is entirely the correct attitude towards both Harold Bloom and James Joyce’s Ulysses.”</p>

<p>You wouldn’t have that problem at Chicago. But bovertine is right – it’s unlikely they would lose 6,000 applications in a copy of Thucydides, because it would be getting consulted all the time. Now, J.K. Galbraith’s The Affluent Society, on the other hand . . . you could misplace some applications in that and not see them for years.</p>

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<p>lol, to #6, #7, and #8. You are quite right about not losing anything that was stuffed into a copy of Thucydides.</p>

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<p>I am glad JHS added a Chicago joke of his own.</p>