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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]U of C grad here, 20-ish years ago (eeek!). Your son sounds awesome and exactly like the kind of kid I would have gone to school with. I had a great social life, partly because finding people who were like me in important ways made for a great social scene. I would have felt out of place and had a poorer social life somewhere with a big Greek culture, for example.

I hope all the claims that U of C is no longer so dorky don't mean that it has lost its special identity. Definitely visit![/quote]

I hope it hasn't been invaded by binge drinking lax bros.[/quote]

Actually, there are a lot more normal kids at UofC now, including some binge-drinking lax bros.  But, the Common App notwitstanding, to get into UofC these kids all had to write the infamous UnCommon supplemental essay (see sample prompts below).   So, even the laxbros at UofC tend to be irreverant and playful and not as packaged as kids at peer schools.

Essay Option 3.
 
“This is what history consists of. It’s the sum total of all the things they aren’t telling us.” — Don DeLillo, Libra.
 
What is history, who are “they,” and what aren’t they telling us?
 
Inspired by Amy Estersohn, Class of 2010

Essay Option 5.
 
How are apples and oranges supposed to be compared? Possible answers involve, but are not limited to, statistics, chemistry, physics, linguistics, and philosophy.
 
Inspired by Florence Chan, Class of 2015
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