<p>I just received the following update in my UChicago account:</p>
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<p>I also received a President’s Scholarship worth $5000 for use in pursuits over two different summers at the university. Needless to say I’m pretty excited! </p>
<p>Congratulations GMMU10! </p>
<p>Congratulations! You have much to be proud of indeed. Now you may make a deposit and put yourself in line for the housing of your choice.</p>
<p>that is brilliant! congratulations! Wow! I didn’t know early acceptances are given this early! SO, when exactly do the adcoms start going through the applications?
If you do not mind telling us, what according to you got you the letter?
Congratulations on getting the scholarship too!!!</p>
<p>Woah! Congratulations. @Conscience13 I’m quite sure the adcom is in full reading mode at the moment. According to the portal, the decisions should come out in mid-March.</p>
<p>@Conscience13 - I’m not sure what got me this letter! I definitely wasn’t expecting anything like this. My grades and test scores are good, I have a few relatively interesting activities, and I thought my essays were quite strong. But from what I can see there wasn’t one absolute “wow” factor in my application that would have led to something like this.</p>
<p>You must have really deserved it!!! They probably figured the “wow” factor before you did 
Is UChicago your first choice? Or are you going to wait for all decisions to come?</p>
<p>No, UChicago isn’t my first choice, my first choice is probably Princeton (got deferred REA). So I’ll be waiting for all the responses before I make my decision.</p>
<p>Did you get an email telling you to go check the website? How did you know to check your UChicago account?</p>
<p>“over 30,000 highly talented and diverse applicants.” Didn’t UChicago only get 27.5k applicants? Can’t tell if this is trolling or not? </p>
<p>@Tarheel714 Yes, I got an email telling me to check the website. @bradybest I can assure you that I’m not trolling, I’m not sure where they got that number. Where are you getting 27.5k?</p>
<p>@GMMU10
<a href=“Architect Viñoly’s new GSB designed with eye to detail – Chicago Maroon”>Architect Viñoly’s new GSB designed with eye to detail – Chicago Maroon;
Granted this is a student newspaper and not from the administration, so it might be wrong?</p>
<p>I’m not sure about that then. I can guarantee that the letter I got is real though.</p>
<p>I got one too! I’m non-athelete, strong stats (4.0UW 2390SAT) and very strong essays/unusual ECs and academic background, STEM focus but not an intel winner or anything like that. I got that scholarship as well, does anyone know if there’s a chance at any additional money? Not to be ungrateful, I am so excited!!!</p>
<p>Oh and I can confirm that the letter is real as well, it’s through the same official portal. Perhaps they factored in the EA applicants with the RD applicants to get the 30,000+ number, that sounds about right to me. I got an email from the official <a href=“mailto:collegeadmissions@uchicago.edu”>collegeadmissions@uchicago.edu</a> email account telling me “There has been an update to your account. Please log in to your UChicago Account to view this update by clicking or copy and pasting this link into a web browser.” In my account there was a place to click status update, which linked me to the same letter that @GMMU10 received and a secondary link to the Presidents Scholarship. I’m curious who else and how many other people got these!</p>
<p>Congratulations! You just got a likely letter. I got the same letter a few weeks ago. Exciting news!</p>
<p>Are these sent out in waves? Or just all at once? Like, they couldn’t have possibly read everyone’s apps by now… </p>
<p>Since @nihilus said he got his a few weeks ago, it seems they do go out in rounds, though I don’t have any hard evidence of that. Did everyone who got a likely also get the $5,000?</p>
<p>Gratz on the likely letters 
Welcome to the class of 2018!</p>
<p>thanks @guccigirl! Is there an admitted students convo thread somewhere?</p>