Georgetown Admissions Dean on UChicago Admissions' Practices

kaukauna
Thu, 24 Oct 2013 17:02:01 +0000

There’s some hogwash there (not Cue7 but the GTown admissions dean), as we say in the South.

What’s wrong with contacting a lot of people? You’re going to inevitably reach a number of talented, well suited (i.e. suited to the UChicago distinctive and rigorous intellectual environment and Hyde Park / urban ambience) who wouldn’t have otherwise thought about the University.

How does it benefit students to not know about your institution? Which is the greater evil: discarding UChicago emails / postal mail or perhaps having a number of students missing out on what could be, for them, the ideal university?

This is a real world question with my son is an example. He would not have considered UChicago without the publicity. He got the mail (the maps, the pennant, the great pictures) became intrigued, did research, talked to his GC, applied, was accepted, and is now a freshman* at the University truly loving it.

My main point is that so many of the postings focus on the people who get the mail and are irritated by it. What about the people are truly grateful the mail came?

As Sgt. Hulka would say: “Lighten up!”

*Excuse me–“First Year”