For my daughter:
Yes, she would go!
This is a real reach, more so than her other top schools. If she does not get in here or Michigan, she’ll probably choose Michigan State over some smaller better schools she’s accepted at.
This is most competitive class ever, 2 years ago she’d be in at nearly all her choices, with her stats. But, life is what you make out of it and in the end, it will all be okay!
@yalebound2020
For My D:
- If accepted she will attend.
- While she would love to attend Wellesley, American, George Washington or Loyola…attending UChicago (hands down) would be an awesome opportunity.
- Coming from a full IB curriculum, she’s found that UChicago is a perfect fit for her.
- Not my #1 but definitely top #5
- UC ranks below Northwestern, Brown, and Columbia for me, but above everything else. $20,000 a year for McGill is tempting though.
- Northwestern has an amazing journalism school- Brown and Columbia have just been my dreams for a long time.
- If accepted I would attend
- U-Chicago is one of the best schools that I have applied to, both in terms of rankings and of personal fit. I like the college's quirky personality.
- U-Chicago is more unique than all of the other top schools that I have applied to, such as Yale, Harvard, Cornell etc.
- Yes-- UChicago has kind of been my dream school for a while, though after being deferred EA I've kind of mellowed out and have accepted that it's pretty likely I will be rejected. Though if a miracle happens and I get in, would definitely attend.
- In the past few months I've started to really like a lot of the other schools I applied to; would love to attend JHU, Columbia, Reed, or Brown, but I think UC still ranks above them.
- I think I have really fallen in love with the atmosphere there? Something about the people, and the drive, and I guess the gargoyles don't hurt either. (:
This wait is excruciating 
If I get into UChicago and Brown University, it’s gonna be a hard decision 
okay okay when you guys say that your fafsa is there do you mean that there’s like a checklist thing showing it’s been processed? or do you mean like your fafsa is there and you can click on a link or whatever and an overview of your fafsa shows up on the portal? (yall got me buggin out for no reason)
theres a financial aid checklist, and under that, there is a list of items with a check marks next to them (tax returns, w-2 forms, etc) but fafsa is not a part of that list, but it was there before
- Will probably attend if accepted, but will consider Ivy Day decisions as well.
- Pretty much near the top of the list. I would say #2, only behind Princeton.
- Wonderful community of smart kids who value hard work and achievement. Also, it's closer to where I live than the Ivies. :)
Also, has anyone on this thread received a likely letter from UChicago yet?
Around 5 more hours left until decision release! :-SS
So, did we come to a consensus whether they would be released at 3 PM CST or 4 PM CST?
I currently have all financial aid documents, including the FAFSA, with a green check on my portal.
Not many dire fans of UofC or so it seems to me. Most everyone says UofC IF I DON’T GET INTO H, Y, P… et al. I have the same dilemma but I don’t know much about the School to go by. My interviewer didn’t care to share anything. She made it very clear that she was busy and didn’t know why I had ask for an interview in the first place? So much for relating her experiences at Hyde Park. That in itself left me thinking “do I really want to go to this place?” But, again, I don’t know much about it. So when US News ranks it # 4… who do they talk to?
@AyeAyeron10 - Thanks for your answer. This is what I was hoping for.
@HappyFace2018 - I so much wish that your daughter gets in! She so much deserves it. Praying on it.
@collegeeeeee
and is the theory going around that if it’s there w/a checkmark = good and if it’s not there = bad?
@nypizza if having/not having fafsa means anything, you’re probably in. i dont have it and my chances are extremely thin lol
- Will probably attend if accepted (which I probably wont be), but will consider Ivy Day decisions as well.
- I like the openness of curriculum/life at Brown and Yale, so not at the top of my list but still a school I like a lot!
- Love Chicago, great intellectual environment, i love the ideas of curiosity and quirkiness, beautiful campus
@yalebound2020 Thank you so much!!
Hey House of Cards is AWESOME. Don’t judge me, my priorities need to be set straight
lol what do u do if u didn’t apply FA? Is there any other way to tell? I’ve never seen fafsa showing up regardless.