| # | Name | Comments |
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| 151 | Ryland Barton | |
| 152 | Lakshmi Shenoy | |
| 153 | Ayoung | |
| 154 | Anonymous | |
| 155 | Lilia Dobreva | |
| 156 | Julian Arnaud | |
| 157 | Richard Aldo Bartolomei II | Self-selection is essential to the success of the University of Chicago. With an endowment of less than half of our peer institutions, how do you think we stay competitive? We have students who decided that this was where they wanted to be. The University of Chicago has a free flow of ideas like I have never seen anywhere else. The Uncommon Application helps to identify students with a truly different world perspective. If the University asks common questions, it will get common answers and perhaps common students. I wanted to go to a place where my colleagues would teach me as much as my professors. The common application would make it more difficult for the University to find the truly extraordinary student. Students must decide that this is the atmosphere they want, the Uncommon Application sets the tone for a students career here at the University. By switching to the Common Application, the University of Chicago may forfeit its greatest resource. Incidental contact with truly different, surprising and compelling ideas. Chicago and what it stands for now will wither and die. I have been to a place where "education" begins and ends at the classroom door. I transferred to the University of Chicago because I was looking for something more. Please, do not deny others the opportunity that I had for two years, but that changed me for life. Making the choice to be Uncommon is the first step and what makes the University what it is. Keep the Uncommon Application. |
| 158 | Sarah Staudt | News Flash - low enrollment = a self-selecting applicant pool. That's a GOOD thing. I mean, you want to attract lower income applicants? I agree, that's a great thing, but do it by paying for more of their education, getting rid of application fees, etc. Don't get rid of the one thing that makes Chicago difinitively different than other schools. Seriously. |
| 159 | Julie Wiorkowski | |
| 160 | Jarrett Fowler | |
| 161 | Fei Sha | |
| 162 | Ngiste Abebe | |
| 163 | Anonymous | booooo |
| 164 | Elizabeth Heyer Ging | |
| 165 | Sarah | |
| 166 | Caroline Ouwerkerk | |
| 167 | Anonymous | |
| 168 | Juliana Shulman | |
| 169 | Laura Felley | |
| 170 | Sarah Murdoch | I think it's ridiculous that the administration and admissions would think that the uncommon app would discourage students from applying. It is actually one of the things that attracted me. Also, if someone isn't up to the effort of filling out an application just because it's longer, different, or more challenging are they really up to actually attending the U of C? (if they think the application is difficult and quirky, they better just wait until they're enrolled!) |
| 171 | Rada Yovovich | |
| 172 | Erin Franzinger | |
| 173 | Anna Rae Goethe | |
| 174 | Anonymous | |
| 175 | Katherine Lammers | |
| 176 | Anonymous | One of the main reasons I applied to the University of Chicago was because of the Common Application. It set apart the school from all the others, making is a breath of fresh air with its eccentsic air and odd essay topics.
I don't want to attend a school that is trying to make itself more of an Ivy League by raising the number of applications and the minority enrollment. I don't want to attend a school that wants to be like other schools. I want something different, which is what I hoped I would receive when I enrolled. Alumni protested changes like this a while back during the Hugo Sonnenschein era, and perhaps they might have to do it again. If they do, surely I will join them.
Please, don't ruin our cherished University. |
| 177 | Erin Matson | |
| 178 | Sonia Jaffe | It's not just that I think the uncommon app is important to who UofC is, I think that the Universities attempt to attract more mainstream students is misguided. If they aren't attracted to UofC with all it's quirks, they don't belong here. |
| 179 | Jodie Sweitzer | |
| 180 | Julie Fry | |
| 181 | Lauren Thompson | |
| 182 | Lauren Cote | To me, as a recent high school senior, the UnCommon application did not complicate my life and discourage me from applying here. In fact, I really enjoyed thinking about the essay questions and crafting a application that really reflected who I am and who I wanted to be a UofC. For other schools, I could use a cookie cutter essay and just insert "Swarthmore" or "Rice." UChicago makes a unique application and in filling it out, you feel unique. Please don't do away with the UnCommon application. If increases access and interest in the school are grave concerns, then look at reducing or eliminating the application fee. Recruit more heavily in schools with lower socioeconomic status, but don't become "just another school to apply to." |
| 183 | Joseph Anzalone | |
| 184 | Lauren Camp | |
| 185 | carl loof | I was a transfer student in 2005, writing my uncommon application made me feel that this place really was unique and the best fit for me. Without the uncommon application the University of Chicago is reduced to a generic University and not the great bastion of intellecualism that it really is! |
| 186 | Erica L Stewart | The uncommon application is a major factor in defining the student body--and the student body, along with faculty and curriculum, makes this university what it is. Attempting to change the school and the student body in order to be "more like other schools" will destroy what gives this school its unique and unparalleled student experience. In fact, if this school were "more like other schools" most of us would never have come here in the first place, and the uncommon application is the prospective student's and the administration's greatest indication of what it means to be a member of the University of Chicago. |
| 187 | James D. Ryan | |
| 188 | Pamela Kaye | |
| 189 | Deanna Day | |
| 190 | Meetra Mehdizadeh | |
| 191 | Katie Jasa | |
| 192 | Morgan Lindsay | |
| 193 | Elisabeth Cuming | |
| 194 | Marianna Kerppola | How do YOU feel about Wednesday?
Personally, I would feel much better on Wednesday's knowing that Chicago still used the Uncommon Application!!!
DO NOT BECOME COMMON!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| 195 | Elsa Sze | |
| 196 | Alex Perez-Caballero | |
| 197 | Jennifer Thorngate | We are an uncommon school; therefore, we need an uncommon application. |
| 198 | Tal | The Uncommon app is one of the greatest things about this school. Don't let us become mainstream, we are fantastic because we are better than the mainstream! |
| 199 | David Stein | |
| 200 | David Stein | |