Sell Me on UChicago, Please!

Gonnabefamous
Thu, 25 Apr 2013 03:49:55 +0000

All very good points made. It’s hard to come off well on a post like that and I kinda anticipated getting the “you must be a prep, this is why you didn’t like it”. Gotcha, I’ll give you that maybe I’m not the stereotypical UChicago student. But I am not a prep or partier (ergo my doubt for other schools and choice to deposit) and I wanted UChicago b/c I really wanted a “life of the mind” in college - my interviewer was fantastic at conveying his love for the school, it was absolutely contagious. Point taken though. I did go to an RSO fair, that’s where I met some of those awesome people I just went back to the dorm afterwards and had more craziness, which I didn’t elaborate on for sake of you all not having to read it (it was awesome of you all to read it all anyhow!). I’m not being uber specific so I avoid embarrassing anyone, I’m not here to do that, I just wanted confirmation that maybe my experience was off base. I already was acknowledging that in a way, I guess I just needed to process still. I wouldn’t normally let these things get to me - I’ve had worse, I go to a large public school, I’ve seen a lot haha. It was just the frequency of the things that got to me. And I only used decent conversation as my descriptor b/c I’m tired - I really meant more along the lines of people who weren’t hard shells to crack in the one night I spent w/ them. I get it takes time to really appreciate a person, I think that’s true of most people, and I probably should have taken that into account. I wanted diversity, and I suppose it sounds contrived to say I was freaked out by too much diversity in personality haha