<p>Mine was probably the bad haircut. They encourage that.</p>
<p>physicsphun - you should have put the part about Liszt’s parentage in your essay. You would be in for sure, LOL.</p>
<p>… i did put that ohio mom 
bad choice?</p>
<p>No - I thought it was pretty clever and to the point. I thought you may have not have included it because its a little … informal. I think it is good that you did. I think that it is easy to get caught up with being safe, and trying to reverse-engineer ‘what colleges want’ rather than writing your own best essay. </p>
<p>My crystal ball is especially cloudy due to the number of EA applications this year. However, your description of Liszt caught my attention in a positive way - FWIW. </p>
<p>Good luck. Practice your piano so your folks can hear. You will be at a fabulous school - somewhere - next year, and they will miss the music.</p>
<p><<quote>> Good luck. Practice your piano so your folks can hear. You will be at a fabulous school - somewhere - next year, and they will miss the music. <<quote>></quote></quote></p>
<p>that’s equal to hallmark card niceness! lol</p>
<p>awhieeee (thats wut my little cousin says haha)</p>
<p>ty ohiomom… and yea, the number of EA applicants really does screw things up eh? >.> <.< </p>
<p>well, i am applying to notre dame, vandy, caltech, rutgers (already in), columbia (might play tennis there?)…</p>
<p>so yep, i’m sure i can make it to notre dame, vandy (legacy) and … rutgers… i’ll be happy where ever i go, but again, chicago is my first choice… so i’d be great if I get in! i’ll be really happy
i have a u chicago shirt which i havent wore yet, waiting for that acceptance letter? if not, then i’m gonna give it to my younger brother as a token of continuity u know lol</p>
<p>damn, i rlly wanna go to U chicago >O … ha, dont wrry, i wont turn emo</p>
<p>Good list. I was thinking about Caltech - that’s the one you need the scores for.</p>
<p>Clearly, I am the next messiah. That is my hook.</p>
<p>@Ohiomom, yes i know, but I have done some heavy research and have talked to couple of people at caltech as well… but I’m not even too confident about caltech and i personally dont think the school is over the top socially. So caltech is ehhhh</p>
<p>good hook flickering… but i’m afraid everyone applying to UChicago has that 
nice try btw</p>
<p>I don’t recommend caltech. I will relate what I heard from a family friend who was a guest professor there for a year. Caltech is full of very very smart people, but the undergraduate courses are designed to be impossibly difficult to “put those dumb undergraduates in their place” and thus this doesn’t foster a very good learning environment.</p>
<p>Imanuelli-
my sources (husband’s colleagues) say otherwise - but that’s why its best to visit. If the OP finds Chicago’s core attractive, it might well not be the best option.</p>
<p>I’m a big fan of Caltech-- and I think it’s a really wonderful school for a certain kind of student. I was a little dismayed when one of my friends turned down both Caltech and Mudd for another school… I thought he could have benefited from an intense learning environment, and the school he chose gave him the option to be lazy.</p>
<p>thanks for the feedback ohio_mom. I guess another reason for not applying to cal-tech is that although i am very math/science oriented now I want to have the option of pursuing something else if my interests change. I feel that since caltech is so math/sci focused other majors aren’t very attractive options.</p>
<p>“although i am very math/science oriented now I want to have the option of pursuing something else if my interests change”</p>
<p>Wise plan - that’s one of the reasons the tech schools came off my son’s list.</p>
<p>For about three days in December of my senior I fell completely in love with MIT. I loved what I thought was the brainy playfulness of the school, I loved the idea of the infinite corridor, I loved reading blogs by admissions officer Ben Jones, I loved the idea of being a humanities major and a female around a lot of math/science major males (in high school, I was a math nerd by default, because somehow it was more socially acceptable to be a math nerd than it was an English/History nerd).</p>
<p>However, I realized that MIT’s humanities/social sciences offerings were limited in comparison to other schools…and my love for the U of C was confirmed when Ben blogged on “other schools you might want to consider besides MIT” and the ONLY non math/science school that made the list was Chicago.</p>
<p>Yup, I remember reading that blog, too. 'Twas one of many ‘aha!’ moments…</p>
<p>Darn, i think i’m gonna endeavor to write a paper on the evolution of this blog; how it turned around so quickly a couple times, too many points of inflection…</p>
<p>… in the mean time, keep changing topic guys, i’ll let ya know when i’m done 
haha</p>