University of Chicago

Hello University of Chicago reader. I appreciate the time you all at the admissions office have taken to reach out to kids like me. To be honest, I’m writing this during the gaudy presentation my school hosts for cap and gown, run by an independent company. Flashes of jewelry imprinted with a metal number 18 on it are gracing the screen on the auditorium stage, and the cloaked (metaphorically) salesman speaks of the beauty of the rings bonding with the importance of remembering the past. The opportunities that I’ve had in high school, along with the community I’ve been in, are important to me, but I doubt buying a 3000$ ruby ring with ‘CDS’ carved into it would assist me in learning from my four years of experience. As warped words flow through a state-of-the-art-in-2006 sound system, I can’t help but look to the future.…

Higher education is increasingly becoming more important as society is constantly shifting and changing. Studies done by Pew Research illustrate that finishing with a four-year degree will substantially increase your career earnings, job satisfaction, and life opportunities to travel and experience culture. Although that is an important statistic and reason why to attend college, there are other reasons. Attending the University of Chicago will give me a lifetime opportunity to experience and…

Out of a hundred applicants, University of Chicago will accept only seven. Hundreds of applications will pile in from the talented, the athletes, the scientists, mathematicians, and the writers. Each and every one will be different, each student will be erupting with a story to tell, a unique trait to reveal, and a creative mind to use. One of those applications will be written in the candle light of dawn, under the influence of hope and with steady hardworking hands. That application will begin…

Loyola University Chicago is a Jesuit institution that promotes caring for others, caring for one’s self, and caring for the community. It is one of Loyola’s foundational aspect of caring for the community that has made the requirement of engaged learning a part of the curriculum. Since the Fall of 2012, Loyola has required its students to go out into the world and obtain hands-on experience in different sorts of fields. One may accomplish this through an internship course, or a class combined…

as many advanced/honors courses as possible became the norm. So, attending a university that could continue to challenge me was always a no-brainer, which is why I want to attend the University of Chicago. The challenge behind the University of Chicago is not simply in its classwork, it is in the university 's determination to teach its students how to think. Never…

The motto of the University of Chicago, in English, means “Let knowledge grow from more to more; and so be human life enriched,” and to me, the idea behind that message makes up a great deal of the allure of the University of Chicago. Expanding my knowledge and further enriching my life are two of my greatest goals, and the University of Chicago embodies those ideals like no other university can. Through the variety of excellent, easily accessible opportunities in the city of Chicago and the top…

Empty stomach, empty mind. Like a brimming bowl of Chipotle, a University of Chicago education is customizable, satisfying, and hearty. The familiar amalgamation of rice and beans, meat and vegetables is the essence of any Chipotle product. This delicious bowl, however, is flexible: whether it be mild, medium, or hot, every single bowl will always contain a type of salsa. These broad categories (meat, beans, salsa) diverge into a variety of options (carnitas, sofritas, pinto, black),…

The Cougar’s Den would be a bar and grill type of establishment located on the campus of Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. Its mission is to provide and fun and safe environment for students and faculty to enjoys drinks and/or appetizers on campus after a long day of class. With having this on campus students of the legal drinking age that live on campus won’t have to drink and drive. Things that still need to be investigated are laws and rules preventing the sale of alcoholic…

Last week, I attend Grace College chapel. In order further my communication skills I analyzed the audience and speaker at this chapel. Caleb Yoder was speaking. The first thing I analyzed was the demographic factors of the audience. Chapel is made up college students typically from the age seventeen to twenty-four. The school is made up of about sixty-five percent female and thirty-five male. Grace College is a christian school that has its roots in the Grace Brethren denomination; however, the…

I was just starting high school and my family had already started pressuring me about college and what I wanted to do in life. Within that chaos there was one thing that really had me intrigued, and it was my uncle telling me about the University of Illinois. He was the first person in my family to attend a University and I would soon be the second. Throughout my years in high school he’d always try to persuade me to go to this school by telling me stories of his time there along with the…