does uchicago like to feed its undergrads into its graduate schools?

neltharion
Wed, 31 Mar 2010 01:56:07 +0000

General impression: No, UChicago normally does not accept its undergraduates into its graduate programs. It seems to operate like UC Berkeley, in that it wants you to network outside of the university when you start applying for graduate schools.

I have, however, come across a few graduate students who have attended UChicago for undergrad. One of them switched majors (from English for undergrad to Slavic Language for grad school, if I’m not mistaken), which he mentions may have helped him in the admissions process. Another grad student actually stayed in the same major, but her area of study is apparently so specific that UChicago’s only one of four institutions that actually has a program that fits her requirements, so that also may have affected the admissions outcome. (At least, that’s what she told me when I asked.) So, it’s not impossible to be accepted for grad school at UChicago if you also attend its undergrad, but it seems to be a rare occurrence.