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23 Mar 2008, 6:54 pm

Is there anyone here who attends the University of Chicago or knows someone who goes there? What can you say about the school and the atmosphere there?



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27 Mar 2008, 8:19 pm

I refused to fill out their application. I have, however, heard very good things about the university.


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27 Mar 2008, 8:28 pm

why did you refuse to fill out the application?



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27 Mar 2008, 9:11 pm

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why did you refuse to fill out the application?

Have you seen it?


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27 Mar 2008, 9:17 pm

Well I know that they had a nuclear reactor on the campus back the 1950's due to my Grandpa Jerry worked there. A marker or something on the campus where it was thats all I know form what my dad told me about it.

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28 Mar 2008, 11:29 am

Orwell wrote:
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why did you refuse to fill out the application?

Have you seen it?


for undergraduates? No, I didn't. What was wrong with it? I was looking for their grad program.



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29 Mar 2008, 7:36 am

lonelyLady wrote:
Orwell wrote:
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why did you refuse to fill out the application?

Have you seen it?


for undergraduates? No, I didn't. What was wrong with it? I was looking for their grad program.

Oh, OK. I don't know what the app for their grad programs looks like. The undergrad app is just plain disgusting. A lot of really stupid essay questions; the prompts are chosen by current freshman and it's intended to be kind of silly.


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29 Mar 2008, 2:55 pm

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Oh, OK. I don't know what the app for their grad programs looks like. The undergrad app is just plain disgusting. A lot of really stupid essay questions; the prompts are chosen by current freshman and it's intended to be kind of silly.


trust me, essay questions are not the worse thing they can put on an application. Some of the grad school applications I was filling out asked me to list ALL the classes I've ever taken, including the textbook used! You can imagine what a joy it was to spend hours trying to track down the textbooks for classes I took back when I was a freshman. With the money they charge for application, you would think that the admission personnel could infer that info from the transcript, which of course, also costs money.



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29 Mar 2008, 7:03 pm

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trust me, essay questions are not the worse thing they can put on an application. Some of the grad school applications I was filling out asked me to list ALL the classes I've ever taken, including the textbook used! You can imagine what a joy it was to spend hours trying to track down the textbooks for classes I took back when I was a freshman. With the money they charge for application, you would think that the admission personnel could infer that info from the transcript, which of course, also costs money.

OK, that doesn't sound like much fun. Still, at least it's only data-entry; you can just look that stuff up. Essays are a pain to write, especially if you have no idea how to respond to the prompt given.


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02 Apr 2008, 11:22 pm

Orwell wrote:
lonelyLady wrote:
trust me, essay questions are not the worse thing they can put on an application. Some of the grad school applications I was filling out asked me to list ALL the classes I've ever taken, including the textbook used! You can imagine what a joy it was to spend hours trying to track down the textbooks for classes I took back when I was a freshman. With the money they charge for application, you would think that the admission personnel could infer that info from the transcript, which of course, also costs money.

OK, that doesn't sound like much fun. Still, at least it's only data-entry; you can just look that stuff up. Essays are a pain to write, especially if you have no idea how to respond to the prompt given.


There was one on the UT-Chattanooga Honors Program which I failed to get acceptance on. I was to write it on a picture of a destitiute walking around Cuban architecture. I babbled on about the man being a rogue black-ops merc kicked out of the CIA. Did they want an inner-humanitarian? I really cannot find mine.


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02 Apr 2008, 11:25 pm

I go to the University of Illinois at Chicago.