Is it really that hard to get in?

CesareBorgia
Mon, 17 Dec 2007 19:49:07 +0000

You can try to explain an admissions mistake as “investing in potential” or “taking a chance,” but at the end of the day there are in fact a lot of morons at the U of C. I’m not just saying this to make the deferred/rejected students feel better, it’s true. Also, based on my first hand knowledge of the admissions office staff: Ted may be a genius, but a lot of the staff is packed with UChicago alums that either couldn’t let go/couldn’t get a better job. The best recent UChicago alums are working six figure jobs in NYC or pursuing a phd at Caltech or something similarly amazing, they aren’t working at admissions.