| # | Name | Comments |
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| 1301 | Andrea Tentner | |
| 1302 | Richard Kaminski | |
| 1303 | Lorenzo Davis | |
| 1304 | Emily Hanson | Recently the administration had the gall to force some poor first-year to call me and beg for money in order to increase our name recognition and improve our standings in the rankings. Now, I was under the impression that this was an academically rigorous school that prided itself on being unique and uncommon - hence the application. Why are we trying to be another Harvard? Their undergrad program is a (rich) joke. Is that what we want Chicago to be? |
| 1305 | Bing Hui | Deep regards. |
| 1306 | Sylvie Armand | |
| 1307 | Kris Harper | |
| 1308 | Peter Zaykoski | |
| 1309 | Julian Quintanilla | |
| 1310 | Vriti Jain | |
| 1311 | Anonymous | |
| 1312 | Sarah Wise | One of the major reasons I got excited about the school was the Uncommon Application and the fact that it WAS different from the one everyone else used. The Uncommon Application sold me on the school, and convinced me that it was the right place for me. If someone isn't willing to fill out a challenging but fun application to come here, they won't be happy here anyway. Help us self-select. |
| 1313 | Amelia Baxter-Stoltzfus | When I got rejected from Common App school after Common App school, I felt like my attempts to be creative and different were hindering me. The Uncommon Application gave me the opportunity to get so many of my facets on paper: my sense of humor, my intellectual curiosity, my uniqueness. It was one of the reasons I chose to attend the University of Chicago, and I relish the fact that this is not an Ivy and that the student body is so firmly uninterested in imitating them. And yet the administration feels this absurd envy of schools who are quite possibly not as interesting as UChicago, and it disappoints me no end. I feel so strongly about this. I don't want to blend in with the crowd. |
| 1314 | Mike Ioannides | |
| 1315 | Chelsea Woods | |
| 1316 | Vishal K. Varma | I am applying for '08 fall and quite frankly, the reason why I want to get into UC more than Harvard and stuff is cause of its uniqueness. Uncommon app. focuses on the person as an individual, not plain old nos. from college board and stuff. ROCK ON UNCOMMON APP! |
| 1317 | Anonymous | We must keep the uncommon app. We are unique and proud of it! |
| 1318 | Shiraz Gallab | |
| 1319 | Aisha Sophia Rafat | |
| 1320 | Luther Copeland Jr | I absolutely despise the Common Application. The Uncommon App is one of the many reasons why I fell in love with UC. It felt awesome to tell my friends that I was filling out the UNcommon app while they had to suffer through the horrible common app. |
| 1321 | Anonymous | |
| 1322 | Guy Sleiman | |
| 1323 | Bo Shi | |
| 1324 | Ben Mainzer | |
| 1325 | Eilene Stevens | |
| 1326 | Francisca K. Sondjaja | Part of what made me want to apply to U of C this fall/winter were the essays of their Uncommon Application, so I was surprised when I recently discovered that they're switching to Common Apps. When I read the questions for the Uncommon Apps essays, I personally felt that they were "easier" to answer than those of the Common Apps essays. Doesn't that mean that U of C was supposed to appeal to certain types of students? And wouldn't it mean that if U of C change to Common Apps, its new student body would be different than those in the previous years? The thought of that makes me a bit reluctant to apply. |
| 1327 | James S. Schlabach | |
| 1328 | Suzanna So | |
| 1329 | Seth Weinberger | Why should Chicago try to be like other colleges? What makes Chicago such an amazing place is that it is not like other schools. This is a major point I use when I do alumni interviews to discriminate between students who are, in my opinion, well-suited for Chicago, and those who are not. |
| 1330 | Anonymous | Please save the Uncommon App!!! |
| 1331 | Anonymous | U of C is unique. The Uncommon App helps that because most Common people will avoid it because the Uncommon App is so different and makes U of C the school it is. By ridding the UnCommon app and embracing the Common App, more "normal" people will apply to the school and the school will lose its unique identity. The administration is too concerned about advancing its rankings. Rankings aren't everything. |
| 1332 | Carol Lin | The Uncommon Application was the single most persuasive indication that the education I would receive at the University of Chicago was unparalleled to any other. It would be a travesty for the College to lose this distinctive and defining asset. I love the College and the Common Core and would feel a great loss if the UnCommon Application was no longer part of the tradition of our great University. |
| 1333 | Chip Ach |