| # | Name | Comments |
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| 1001 | Anonymous | It is not worth gaining higher rankings for the University of Chicago if it will no longer be the University of Chicago. When this school is just like every other one, will there be anywhere left for people like us? |
| 1002 | Sarah Grusin | I love that the students here enjoy being different and standing out. That is what makes the community here so strong and the people so interesting. The common app attracts people that will enjoy UChicago. I fell in love with this school while filling out the application because it was refreshing, fun and different. Why go after kids who only care about the ranking of their school? |
| 1003 | Anonymous | |
| 1004 | Dan Kimmel | |
| 1005 | ashley colby | |
| 1006 | Derek Buzasi | 25 years after I underwent the college application process, the U of C's application is the only one that I remember. The UnCommon application represents the values of our institution, It would be sad to lose this mark of distinction, and a minor tragedy to undergo this loss voluntarily. |
| 1007 | Brian Leahy | |
| 1008 | Anonymous | As an alumnus of the College and a current student at one of the University's graduate schools, I heartily support this latest effort to prevent the University's slide into the pathetic mediocrity that defines - ironically enough - many of the top colleges in the country. This petition seems to be sort of standing athwart the trends of the times - trends the University is eagerly joining - and yelling "stop!". That's usually worthwhile, even if utterly futile.
I must recommend a change to the poor wording of the first sentence of the petition, however. The University of Chicago is NOT "considering to get rid" of anything. It is "planning to jettison our cherished uncommon application". I think that wording is better, as well as grammatically correct. If this can be changed with a minimum of effort, it should be. Apart from that, I quixotically add my voice to the chorus - "STOP!" |
| 1009 | Nicole Weygandt | |
| 1010 | Lily Vonderheide | I fail to see how switching to the Common Application will encourage minorities and the poverty-stricken. In fact, implying that potential applicants lack the ability to fill out a few basic pages of information is an insult to the intelligence of said applicants. |
| 1011 | Jadine Collingwood | |
| 1012 | Rebecca Grabiner | I still remember how excited I was to fill out this application -- it let me know that the College wanted to ask the kinds of questions that I was interested in trying to answer. This continued to be true throughout my education at the U of C. |
| 1013 | Megan Gonzales | |
| 1014 | Danny Grassa | |
| 1015 | Adela Meraz | College Class of 2004 |
| 1016 | Suman Natarsjan | |
| 1017 | Anna Gunderson | |
| 1018 | Elizabeth Wampler | Like many others, my decision to apply to the University of Chicago rested heavily on the awesomeness of the Uncommon Application, and it's possible that my "why I want to go here" short essay might have referenced it. The long essay options are a key part of it, but the smell and feel and wording of the rest are the first steps that students take into the Life of the Mind. |
| 1019 | Hannah Taber | |
| 1020 | Anonymous | |
| 1021 | Ashley Angulo | The Uncommon Application made U of C stand out, and spoke to me and what I wanted in a University. I petitioned for an application waiver, I didn't pay the application fee. I'm a minority, and yet I still applied and tried my hardest to come here. Not having a common application was not a deterrant for me. The administration needs to find an alternative method to raise revenue and not be so concerned with ranking. I especially like it that we are not "commonly known"! |
| 1022 | Jasmine Hernandez | |
| 1023 | Kim Li | |
| 1024 | James Davisson | This was the only remotely interesting application for any college I ever came in contact. It's at least half the reason I came. |
| 1025 | Michael Foley | |
| 1026 | Anonymous | |
| 1027 | Hannah | |
| 1028 | Daniel Benjamin | |
| 1029 | Ethan Bindernagel | The Uncommon Application attracts the kind of applicants that make Chicago unique. Why dumb the application down so that some lazy, Harvard legacy kid can click a box and dilute the gene pool? The hell with US News & World Report...the rankings are ridiculous anyway. |
| 1030 | Min Yuan | |
| 1031 | George Schade | |
| 1032 | Alexandra Squitieri | |
| 1033 | Alice | *blink* |
| 1034 | David Liu | |
| 1035 | Caroline Trofatter | lame. i felt so special writing the answers to those questions that no one else in my whole school had seen. |
| 1036 | Elizabeth Krontiris | |
| 1037 | Anonymous | I think most of us understand the pressures that the University faces to attract an ever-increasing number of strong applicants. But what we gain in number of applications, we will lose in yield of admitted students. Let Chicago be Chicago. If President Zimmer wants to grow the pool of applicants, let him (and our board of trustees) do it the hard way -- hold a "personal capital" campaign to get more alumni involved in the recruitment process, spend more to increase the size of the admission staff, let them spend more time out visiting schools, spend more money attracting "rock star" professors. This is an "easy fix" that doesn't do enough, and doesn't do it right. |
| 1038 | Justin Lepp | |
| 1039 | Evan Sharp | |
| 1040 | Morgan Myers | |
| 1041 | Sara Raftery | |
| 1042 | Pat Brent | |
| 1043 | Kaitlin Mischner | |
| 1044 | Madalyn Zimbric | The University will not benefit by attracting students who do not truly wish to attend. I wanted to come here and I hope that future applicants will want to be part of the University -- as a unique institution rather than as an off-brand Harvard -- just as much as I did. |
| 1045 | Chris Powers | |
| 1046 | Naomi Feldman | I applied only to schools whose essay prompts I found interesting. The University of Chicago made that list because of the Uncommon Application. |
| 1047 | Anonymous | |
| 1048 | Kerri Boudreaux | Don't change what makes our school so special. |
| 1049 | Amanda Grady | |
| 1050 | Ashley Finch | If students are too lazy and incompetant to fill out the uncommon application, then they don't belong at a school where we pride ourselves on being hardworking and interesting, if uncommon, people. |