Some Advice on UChicago

kaukauna
Fri, 13 Mar 2015 13:48:57 +0000

Adding to what artloverplus said in his first post, I don’t think quirkiness is a requirement at all. I believe, after reading lots of the essays posted on this forum and my own son’s, that UChicago is looking for a sense of who you are, how you might fit into the UChicago “culture”, and how your essay supports / fleshes out your objective stats and recommendations. There are lots of ways to do this. Offbeat or quirky is certainly one way, but straightforward and / or heartfelt is another way which is just as good.

Good luck to all applicants this year. I know you all can’t be admitted, but there is very little doubt that all of you are highly accomplished and that if you do not end up at UChicago, it will be somewhere great, and that you will do wonderful things in life if you continue to apply yourselves as you did in HS.