UChicago Class of 2020 Applicant Thread

@azwu331 WHAT THE HECK THE WEBSITE SAID LATE MARCH THIS IS NEWS TO ME THATS SO SOON

It’s not coming out in mid March, it’ll be on March 30th at the earliest.

http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/discussion/comment/18492782/#Comment_18492782
@gearsstudio @afamelas @azwu331 If you look at comment #1013 you can see that in past years it has came out mid-March so it most likely will be out around the 13/14/15th

Does UChicago send likely letters? If so, when?

Hey guys did anyone here apply for financial aid? If so, did all of you submit uchicago’s FA questions via online?

I did submit the UChicago specific financial worksheet thing online (from my portal) @beaglee105

If I upload my documents through the portal, do I still need the cover sheet?

@graceann when did you upload yours? On the website it says we need to submit no later than 2/1. Do you think it’s gonna be a problem if we pass the deadline?

I did it yesterday so I hope it won’t be a problem @beaglee105

@graceann oh ok! I’m planning to upload mine today :slight_smile: thanks!

I don’t think it’s a problem getting aid you just may find out later if you submit later.

@baller55 They do seem to send some likely letters and they seem to go out at random times but it’s very few.

@nangkhieu I’m up for it too! send me a PM if you’re still interested in swapping essays.

@epoque and @NotAMathlete we can swap essays!

Hi guys! Just wondering, is anyone still receiving interview requests?

@Spicykins, I wouldn’t fret! I actually had my interview earlier today, and it was scheduled just last week!

Oh no :confused: I just realized I had a pretty major typo in my essay (I must’ve edited incorrectly and left a random word just floating in the middle of a sentence that makes no sense) coupled by some awkward sentence structure. Is it too late to tell admissions?

Oh also general question to anyone who’s been interviewed: how offputting were the questions asked, if any were asked at all? I posted a few pages back about how my interviewer asked me spontaneously in the middle of it all “what makes you uncomfortable?” and I really did panic and my answer was so terrible. Enough so that’d I’d rather not share my reply.

I know UChicago loves to look for personable people and quite frankly I’m afraid I came off as the opposite. The whole thing wasn’t so much a conversation as a one sided conversation with me supplying the answers. Although my interviewer was kind, they were quite reserved and didn’t really react to my answers aside from using them as a basis for the next question. I think it was my worst interview and I’m quite crushed.

@Kasami “That question makes me uncomfortable”

My interviewer asked about a talent I’d want to have. I couldn’t think of anything, stalled by saying something along the lines of “wow, that’s quite the question for 10 AM on a Sunday,” and just said that I wished I could be humorous or something. I think that particular question was pretty difficult for me. My interviewer was really into literature too though, and we both play the same instrument so we had a lot to talk about. I’m sorry that you feel like your interviewer didn’t go well. I’m sure it went better than you think! Either way, I don’t think an interview will hurt you significantly application wise. As long as you didn’t say anything racist, sexist, or tell your interviewer you support Donald Trump or something, I doubt he/she would send a noticeably negative report back to UChicago. In fact, my friend’s dad interviews for UChicago, and I really only remember him mentioning one applicant he wrote a negative review for, but it was because the applicant arrived maybe thirty minutes late.

@NotAMathlete That’s quite reassuring! Honestly it’s absolutely insane how my mind tangles itself in an interview setting. In my Yale interview the guy was a former football player and enormous as in like, super buff even for being older. And for whatever reason at some point I decided to tell him “I mean you’re pretty big.” What was the context? No idea. But that happened. Eek.

For UChicago for whatever reason I decided to tell my interviewer that ah yes I am an introvert that is me, even though I am very clearly not? And somehow someway that lead to the absolutely stunning confession of “oh I have trouble with public speaking and differing opinions” when wait a minute I’M IN MUN AND DEBATE? I think I literally told her “yeah I used to have trouble with not being right” which, by the way, is completely false. Oh lord what did I do.