<p>I was wondering what you guys consider your prime and fine characteristics that would make you a good fit at Chicago.</p>
<p>I think I’d make a good fit because I am inquisitive; I’m never afraid to ask questions - I am a fairly outgoing person and enjoy intelligent, witty discussions. I am an intensely passionate person; whenever I am passionate about something I’m really into it. I consider myself a good leader and enjoy coming up with fresh, new ideas that make the whole world better! hah. Making something out of nothing is really fascinating and rewarding. I like that.</p>
<p>And of course back to the curiosity, I am always craving more and more academically, socially, and uhm… metaphysically?</p>
<p>I want to learn for the sake of learning, not for the grade… I’m not the type to whine about extra points, I just sit back relax and enjoy the lessons that I have learned from my teacher, my classmates, and myself. That is my reward, not just an abstract numerical average of my “performance”!</p>
<p>Wow, I see much similarity. I can just copy and paste what applies to me as well.</p>
<p>“* enjoy intelligent, witty discussions”
“I am an intensely passionate person”
“* enjoy coming up with fresh, new ideas”
“I want to learn for the sake of learning, not for the grade”</p>
<p>I also have that wry sense of humor which I think all Chicago students need to survive the experience. Dean O’Neill certainly has it and wastes no time making it known to new student bodies with his jokes about Fun’s requiem and whatnot.</p>
<p>let’s see…like the posts above, I am also very curious about everything around me from the people, to the subjects and just the world around me. Trying to understand the world has always been my passion. So, I am always involved in research. Aside from that, I came from India only 5 years ago–my English accent added to American English (i.e. Southern English)–seems to captivate everyone in the south:).</p>
<p>i don’t like talking about myself and my qualifications… (probably going to kill me for apps) so in my essay, i mentioned the statue on campus that casts a shadow of the hammer and sickle at certain times of the day and how that really intrigued me because it was unique and how i did my internal assessment on communist china under mao and my extended essay on the stalinist era cold war (for non-IBers, u prolly dont know what the IA or EE are)</p>
<p>i really hope the red scare’s completely died out</p>
<p>I think they might admit me for the fact that I’ve always shown an interest in the school and that it shows that I will go if they accept me. I’ve replied to their postcards, went to the meeting when they visited my school, and thanks to my proximity, I have been able to visit a few times this years for different admissions events. </p>
<p>Furthermore, as collegeconfusion said, I’m completely serious about learning and school. I try not to take anything for granite and to get as much as I can out of school.</p>
<p>I say things that seem like they come from the left field but the next day my friend or teacher would say “ooo, i get what you said yesterday!” But i believe my virtues didn’t show in my application. sucks.</p>
<p>whoa, thats how you spell lepracy (leprosy) hmm…well i had spelled it hypocracy for years until last week, it was almost as bas as the realization that there are no two R’s in Eric. That was a bad day.</p>
<p><em>steers thread back into meaningful direction</em></p>
<p>I wanted a school that was academically supercharged, because I am academically supercharged. I do all of my homework and actually enjoy it. I read a lot outside of class, and I love talking to my teachers and class discussions. </p>
<p>For me, Chicago was the most academic bang for my buck-- at Hopkins, everybody is freaking out about grades for med school, at Northwestern, everybody’s smart but nobody wants to take it outside of the classroom, at Yale, everybody’s so smart that they can do work quickly and efficiently spend more time outside of the library, and at Columbia… well, I wouldn’t go to Columbia if you paid me. The campus life and dorm situation there is really poor.</p>