<p>chicagoPSAC,</p>
<p>Are you lurking here and listening? I’ve got an interesting idea. Perhaps you can share this with folks there. Chicago fall term does not start until late September. Most of college student’s internship is over by the end of August. that means a lot of U chicago kids are twiddling their thumbs in early sept. How about “employing” them as student ambassadors to visit highschools in their district and hold sort of a peer session for prospective juniors/seniors? Early sept is a terrific time, since everybody got back from the summer break and is thinking seriously about college without competing pressure of the final exams and summer plans as in late may or early june. My son was very well liked by his teachers at his HS, and I am sure if he approaches them next fall after spending a year at U Chicago with an idea that he will hold informal lunch time student discussion sessions on U chicago, it will be accepted. This HS is a perfect recruiting ground for U Chicago: no sport program so no jocks, no heavy party scenes, only the brainy kids. S2 goes to a different school (much, much larger with 600 kids per grade and
academically competitive). I noticed that one kid from that school is going to Chicago this year. He can do the same. </p>
<p>The marketing industry is all abuzz with peer to peer viral marketing. This can be applied for the UCHicago marketing program. who can better lead it than the young and shining Chicago students who hail form their own district?</p>