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   Name: Alexandra Kolod on Nov 17, 2006

   Comments: As an alumna, I think it would be a mistake to get rid of the uncommon app. The U of C is self selective and that is one of the goods things about it.

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   Name: Anonymous on Nov 17, 2006

   Comments: It's our Trademark!

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3. 153
   Name: Anne Scherer on Nov 17, 2006

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   Name: Margaret Viola on Nov 17, 2006

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   Name: Anonymous on Nov 17, 2006

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   Name: Jon Quinn on Nov 17, 2006

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   Name: Ryland Barton on Nov 17, 2006

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   Name: Lakshmi Shenoy on Nov 17, 2006

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   Name: Ayoung on Nov 17, 2006

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    Name: Anonymous on Nov 17, 2006

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    Name: Lilia Dobreva on Nov 17, 2006

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    Name: Julian Arnaud on Nov 17, 2006

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    Name: Richard Aldo Bartolomei II on Nov 17, 2006

    Comments: 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.

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    Name: Sarah Staudt on Nov 17, 2006

    Comments: 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.

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15. 165
    Name: Julie Wiorkowski on Nov 17, 2006

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    Name: Jarrett Fowler on Nov 17, 2006

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    Name: Fei Sha on Nov 17, 2006

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    Name: Ngiste Abebe on Nov 17, 2006

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19. 169
    Name: Anonymous on Nov 17, 2006

    Comments: booooo

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    Name: Elizabeth Heyer Ging on Nov 17, 2006

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    Name: Sarah on Nov 17, 2006

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22. 172
    Name: Caroline Ouwerkerk on Nov 17, 2006

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    Name: Anonymous on Nov 17, 2006

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    Name: Juliana Shulman on Nov 17, 2006

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    Name: Laura Felley on Nov 17, 2006

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    Name: Sarah Murdoch on Nov 17, 2006

    Comments: 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!)

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    Name: Rada Yovovich on Nov 17, 2006

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    Name: Erin Franzinger on Nov 17, 2006

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    Name: Anna Rae Goethe on Nov 17, 2006

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    Name: Anonymous on Nov 17, 2006

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    Name: Katherine Lammers on Nov 17, 2006

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    Name: Anonymous on Nov 17, 2006

    Comments: 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.

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33. 183
    Name: Erin Matson on Nov 17, 2006

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    Name: Sonia Jaffe on Nov 17, 2006

    Comments: 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.

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    Name: Jodie Sweitzer on Nov 17, 2006

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    Name: Julie Fry on Nov 17, 2006

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    Name: Lauren Thompson on Nov 17, 2006

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    Name: Lauren Cote on Nov 17, 2006

    Comments: 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."

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    Name: Joseph Anzalone on Nov 17, 2006

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    Name: Lauren Camp on Nov 17, 2006

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    Name: Carl Loof on Nov 17, 2006

    Comments: 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!

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    Name: Erica L Stewart on Nov 17, 2006

    Comments: 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.

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    Name: James D. Ryan on Nov 17, 2006

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    Name: Pamela Kaye on Nov 17, 2006

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    Name: Deanna Day on Nov 17, 2006

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    Name: Meetra Mehdizadeh on Nov 17, 2006

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    Name: Katie Jasa on Nov 17, 2006

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    Name: Morgan Lindsay on Nov 17, 2006

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    Name: Elisabeth Cuming on Nov 17, 2006

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    Name: Marianna Kerppola on Nov 17, 2006

    Comments: 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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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