word of caution for U Chicago applicants

drdom
Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:45:53 +0000

were I a prospective UcHicago applicant, I would be put off by this thread. Isn’t it enough just to say to students - have some dream schools, some reach schools, some safe schools and a state university on your list? My son is a 2nd year and was admitted with a 3.96 and 2200 on the SAT. I think that the class of 2012 was admitted with pretty much the same policy of overlooking the GPA/SAT numbers a bit when the applicant seemed interesting and not a robotic clone. I imagine that is still true for the class of 2013, 2014…
It is important not to kill people’s dreams with statistics - just to caution them about a spread of schools is sufficient.