How do uchicago students refer to themselves?

gracello
Sat, 06 Nov 2010 11:03:44 +0000

Students are referred to as their numbered year (first years, second years, etc), only rarely as freshman or sophomores, and then only by people who don’t know the proper term. There’s no term for students as a collective-- we would never want to be called the “Maroons”, for example, except in sports situations (ha!)-- so “UChicago Students” suffices there. As for the school, it is referred to as the University of Chicago, UChicago, or U of C. U of Chicago is not a term we use (this is a term used frequently on this forum, but I’ve never heard anyone say it here), nor is Chicago U or University of C.