<p>waitlisted.</p>
<p>Waitlisted. Can’t say I am not disappointed :(</p>
<p>Rejected. Even after swim coach said I was on the priority list and had nothing to worry about. Oh well. Still 8 more schools, and I always have Washu to fall back on (better dorms anyways) :P</p>
<p>accepted, and I have no idea how or why</p>
<p>I can’t bring myself to check. I know that my decision is in my account, waiting for me, but I cannot check it. Hopefully I’ll muster the courage sometime today. </p>
<p>Rejected. Everyone I know got waitlisted, and I mean literally everyone.</p>
<p>hey guys - i know it’s been dec. 17th since i’ve posted here, but i was still recovering from my feels. </p>
<p>today i was ACCEPTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO!!! i honestly cannot describe the feeling of complete validation i’m experiencing right now. all those long weeks and endless nights of homework and sleepless days - they’ve all paid off and it’s absolutely wonderful.</p>
<p>i have no idea what it was about my app that got me in, but i’m so glad that i put forth, in essence, me in my rawest form into this app process. </p>
<p>i also empathize incredibly with all of my friends, old and new, who did not get the decision they wished for today. but know this: your dreams are not determined by where you are accepted - they are determined by your personal strength, commitment, and passion. i hope you all come away from this process with a little more knowledge of yourselves than before. <em>hugs</em> <em>cookies</em> <em>love</em></p>
<p>Now one week until Northwestern comes out :P</p>
<p>waitlisted</p>
<p>Rejected. Oh well.</p>
<p>@Torvor: I just realized that we had the same reaction. That’s insane.</p>
<p>Typing this on my phone, and it’s not an iphone, so I apologize for any typing errors.</p>
<p>It’s my birthday today, and I got one of the best presents I’ve ever received today. It completely surprised me, and I have no idea why they chose to admit me this time around. I really feel for everyone who got waitlisted because I was fully expecting to receive that decision, and it sucks to be strung along for so many months. I also have a lot of sympathy for those who were rejected. Absolutely everyone I’ve seen on this thread is a more-than-qualified applicant, and it really blows that they can’t just take everyone because you’re all made of awesome. Just remember that a college decision is not a reflection on you as a person, and there is so much that a college cannot know of you from your application. You’re all amazing!</p>
<p>@neontissues CONGRATULATIONS! (Now can I have your spot at Georgetown? heh. But seriously, congrats)</p>
<p>@bulet13 : Ditto. ;)</p>
<p>Hey guys! Much like @neontissues I haven’t been here since around Dec. 17th when a lot of us go deferred, I was also just recovering from the deferral while simultaneously getting less sleep and more work done.</p>
<p>Congrats to you, Neon! Although I got rejected, it makes me quite happy know that some of you guys got in. You truly deserve it. I guess they simply can’t accept every sleepless student, or else they’d be accepting more than ~2,000. Whatever it was that you put in, that was so raw and essential, keep on doing it 'cause it’s working and I hope it takes you far in life. Again, congrats.</p>
<p>@SeaSwallowed - I don’t believe I was active on this forum at an overlapping time with you, so hi! Congrats on getting accepted! And also a happy birthday to you as well. Truly happy for you, wish you all the best and may your dreams continue to see fruition.</p>
<p>As for everyone else I didn’t see post or hasn’t posted yet, congrats to all of you! May your decision to attend or not be in your best favor (:</p>
<p>Aww thanks @footiesc7 - I think I remember you actually from the time just before EA decisions were released. Maybe I was just lurking this thread at those times, though.</p>
<p>Congrats to those accepted! Of course, as an international requesting aid, it’s hardly surprising that I didn’t get in. It’s ok, though – I have other offers. Guess the next four years won’t be spent in the monstrosity called the Reg. 
Have fun, @SeaSwallowed and @neontissues</p>
<p>@impressionistic thank you and yes, i’ll speak to my homies at GU and tell them they should be throwing their acceptance letters at you! although we’ll probs be going off to our own little corners of the universe, i’m really glad i met another tom hiddleston lover and french art fanatic. who knows, maybe our RL paths will cross one day!</p>
<p>@footiesc7 sincere thank you and i’m so sorry that the adcoms weren’t able to see what an awesome individual you are (that goes for everyone on this thread, too). i’m still shocked as to how i got in, especially looking at the decisions thread and seeing the plethora of way more qualified applicants. i hope that you will also have all your sleep-deprived days and nights validated sometime soon; i know how much it sucks to keep your spirits up when you’ve slept less than 5 hours each night for the past 2 weeks</p>
<p>@International95 thank you and i hope you’re really happy wherever you head off to in the fall! i have lots of international cousins and yea…whether HS, university, or even immigration, it’s definitely a steeper and craggier journey.</p>
<p>i wish you all the best of luck and i’ll be seeing you in september @SeaSwallowed …maybe we’ll be in the same house! </p>
<p>@neontissues That would be totally awesome! I really want to go, but I’ll have to talk with my parents about how to pay for it!</p>
<p>Was deferred EA, now rejected. Honestly, I’m surprised at how little I care. </p>
<p>Although I still like the school (and would go there if I was accepted), I took being deferred as a slight. I’ve kind of started to hate the school since then, and this result was perfectly expected. Perhaps hate is the wrong word, but they personally offended me, and I don’t take kindly to such offenses. Anyway, this certainly didn’t affect me at all. I was turned off from the school already, and it’ll be nice to finally commit to somewhere in the coming weeks. Getting a final decision was a relief. </p>
<p>I am so sorry. I truly wished you be at the school. It’s just one of the schools you could go. The school you will go will be better for you and your career than Chicago different from what you initially thought. Don’t lose your positive thought and encouragement skill. Not having you in the campus will be a big loss for U Chicago.</p>
<p>@Debater1996 - I can sort of see where you’re coming from. Although I certainly wouldn’t use the word hate, I was sort of trying to build myself up for the rejection, knowing that only about 10 percent of those deferred students get accepted. If my information is right, only about 100-150 people are accepted after being deferred. Although I was upset for the past couple of day, today I woke up telling myself I didn’t care anymore knowing I got closure and that soon I’d be able to commit to some other place.</p>
<p>I do, however, feel like if UChicago had a ED and not a EA, then the admitted students would be very different ones due to actual interest. I know several people that applied EA simply to get their apps done with or because they know EA shows more interest and that may lead to a higher chance of acceptance. The Admissions Office reaches a point when they are guessing at who to accept. They have W amount of students who applied, they reject number X. Now they have number Y, who are students who they decided can handle the work and are worthy applicants. But they have to rank them in priority as to who to accept and go to either wait list or reject. At this point actual interest becomes a heavy factor to them because they have Y number of worthy applicants, grades, essays, etc. play a heavy factor, but if they knew that Z number of applicants would not go there if accepted then they would reject them and give spots to more interested applicants. They are using the Why UChicago essay as their tool to guess who would actually attend, which results in them pretty much guessing at who would go. I know several applicants who applied for the hell of it and not actually wanting to go there, and their essays were outstanding. Although I will be the first to say that the Why UChicago essay is the most informative and important one, it’s also the most misleading one because an applicant of medium interest could very well appear way more interest than one who sleeps and breaths UChicago. Although it is our part of the bargain to properly display our interest, neither we nor the Admissions Office are mind readers. We can only do our best, just like them, and hope that both parties meet halfway. I can write a great essay (in my case it was a poem), but if the person on the other side doesn’t quite get my feelings or appeal then it’s useless. Maybe the Regional Counselor from another region read it, he/she would have totally gotten it and would’ve ensured my way in.</p>
<p>Woah, sorry I got a little bit ranty there. My point is that there are applicants who wouldn’t attend if accepted. And so they clearly wouldn’t apply ED. By having ED, plenty of uninterested students would be filtered out of applying and UChicago would be able to better measure interest. After all, I highly doubt that all 11,143 EA applicants were worthy applicants would have ALL said UChicago is their first choice. Eliminating these applicants has the potential of completely changing the priority list and depending of the year’s pool, the amount of early applicants admitted.</p>
<p>In my own revolutionary mind, I think colleges should be able to see a list of where we apply (perhaps via Common App, for those that are in the Common App) as well as a ranking of our interest. But then again, I’ve been called a bit of an anarchist as well as a bit of an order/control freak, so take your pick at which one I’m being. Is it just me that thinks this way, or anybody else wish they could restructure the way the college application process currently is? </p>
<p>@Dad2013 - Thanks. I sure hope that within the next couple of weeks I get some better results because so far I’ve only gotten accepted into back ups that my parents made me apply to…and these aren’t places I want to go to. Fingers crossed! </p>