| # | Name | Comments |
|---|
| 1101 | Monica M. Li (A.B. '05) | In college rankings, like signalling pathways, there will always be changes in which is considered the "hot" one of the moment. But what will never change is that phosphorylation is the mechanism and protein kinases the actors. Don't undermine the identity of the U of C. To do so would be asking to be just another ranking, just another PI3K, TOR, or GSK3-B. |
| 1102 | Shaun Kenney | |
| 1103 | Diana Aramburu | |
| 1104 | A Villagra | |
| 1105 | Anonymous | |
| 1106 | Ashley Angelotti | |
| 1107 | Erin McNeely | As an alum I'd like to say; keep it uncommon! |
| 1108 | Matthew Hayes | |
| 1109 | Jonathan Voegele, AB '04 | |
| 1110 | Maria Schulman | |
| 1111 | Sherry Hong | |
| 1112 | Luming Li | Keep the Uncommon. It's one of the friendliest applications out there. The Common is just... too common for my taste. |
| 1113 | Kathleen Moriarty | |
| 1114 | Kate Waffle | The University of Chicago recruits unique students via its unique application. It all depends on expectations. If you set a common bar, you will get intellectually common and lazy students. If a student cannot be bothered to complete the Uncommon application, how can you ask them to read Plato in the Greek or consider who is the knower of all things human being and citizen? |
| 1115 | David Algov | |
| 1116 | Francine Osman-Lans | The College has already undergone a 100% increase in size and a watering down of the Common Core. Now this! |
| 1117 | Naomi Bayer | My concern is not simply tradition. I object to the process of trying to homoginize and make everything generic, something that
i believe the U of C still isn't (I hope)! |
| 1118 | Susan Hammerman | |
| 1119 | Alexandra Hume | Since students today apply to more colleges than ever before, in order to reliably fill a class, schools should be moving towards more self-selection than away from it. Also, while I applaud trying to attract more minority students, my understanding is that we have a much lower rate of matriculation among minority acceptances than other schools, so attracting more applicants would not solve the problem. |
| 1120 | Elizabeth Grathwol | |
| 1121 | Anonymous | |
| 1122 | Angie Coleman | |
| 1123 | Andrew Stalbaum | BA 2005 |
| 1124 | Katy Rossing | |
| 1125 | Willa Vail | This proposed change is ridiculous and downright wrong. Chicago looks for unique students with unique application essays; the switch to the common app is disrespectful to those of us who applied to the school for what it really is, rather than just checking a box. Save the Uncommon App, and therefore the uncommon applicants! |
| 1126 | Brett Tomson | |
| 1127 | Gregory Santana | |
| 1128 | David Nagel | |
| 1129 | Padraic Bartlett | The Uncommon Application's quirky design was the only thing I kew about this school when I applied, and was the only reason I applied. Without it, I would not be at the University of Chicago.
Don't kill it. |
| 1130 | Ndah Somdah | This is one thing that makes Maroons unique to the outside world. |
| 1131 | Ariadne Sandbeck | |
| 1132 | Wendy Gonzalez | |
| 1133 | Vanessa Cedeno | |
| 1134 | Anonymous | |
| 1135 | Shakeel Dalal | I'm currently a sophomore undergraduate at Purdue University. I applied to the University of Chicago twice, once as a freshman and once as a transfer student. The first time I applied I was waitlisted and the infuriatingly slow admissions office didn't inform me of my rejection until almost the end of July. From the woods of West Virginia, on a pay phone, I put in a call to the admissions office shouting angry and terrible things at my admissions officer (Austin Bean, if you're reading this I'm sorry) because I considered that situation unacceptable.
But I applied again as a transfer student for the same reason that I was heartbroken the first time: I loved the University of Chicago. I still love the University of Chicago more than I love Purdue. Why? Because of _what it stands for_ in a system of learning. I go to a massive state school with as many students as the number of dollars I'd have to pay to attend UChicago. I got in as a transfer but couldn't afford the fees because of Chicago's failure to take into account the age of my parents.
I fell in love with UChicago because of its quirky personality combined with its intellectual rigor, and for me the Uncommon Application was the filter -- it was the way I knew that UChicago was for me. Don't get rid of it. |
| 1136 | Chibuzo | |
| 1137 | Sarah Kull | |
| 1138 | Maxwell Levine | |
| 1139 | Whitney Brown | |
| 1140 | Kathryn Demanelis | |
| 1141 | Jillian Krickl '06 | Please keep the Uncommon Application. It is one of the reasons that many of us decided to apply to and attend the University. It helps us maintain the type of intellectual culture which makes our school unique and both the student and faculty bodies thriving. |
| 1142 | Lamar Meigs | |
| 1143 | Hiroyuki Sato | |
| 1144 | Anonymous | |
| 1145 | Eric Driscoll | |
| 1146 | Megan Wells | |
| 1147 | Matthias Jamison-Koenig | |
| 1148 | Anna Sarfaty | |
| 1149 | Katrina Redelsheimer | |
| 1150 | Andrew Rothe | |