{"id":2019,"date":"2013-03-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/35.224.237.165\/index.php\/2019\/02\/25\/admissions-report-90-of-incoming-first-years-had-life-changing-experience-in-africa\/"},"modified":"2019-02-26T04:59:18","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T21:59:18","slug":"admissions-report-90-of-incoming-first-years-had-life-changing-experience-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2013\/03\/16\/admissions-report-90-of-incoming-first-years-had-life-changing-experience-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Admissions Report: 90% of Incoming First-years had Life-changing Experience in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Anna Belle Newport<\/a><\/h6>\n
July 17, 2015<\/h6>\n

The University of Chicago Office of Admissions, after releasing statistics on the incoming class of 2019 on Tuesday, claims to have the most globally experienced cohort of students ever. \u201cWe are proud to say that over 90% of the admitted students had life-changing experiences in Africa. We are excited about this fresh and cultured bunch,\u201d said one admissions officer..<\/delete> <\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone is so happy in Africa. Everyone was smiling, offering us food, and speaking to us in English! It was like we were all one happy family,\u201d said Susie Balotelli<\/insert>rtlett<\/delete>, a first-year who just graduated from Stuyvesant High School in New York City, \u201cI don\u2019t understand why America can\u2019t be more like that.\u201d <\/p>\n

Several first-years<\/insert>admittees<\/delete> marveled at how much like home the parts of Africa they spent the most time in actually were. \u201cI thought that Africa was just going to be a whole other world. But once I was there, I realized it isn\u2019t that different. There are McDonald\ufeff‘<\/insert><\/insert>s, spas, and Wi-Fi<\/insert>Fi <\/delete>cafes<\/delete>. Yes, they also have safari adventures.<\/insert>,<\/delete> B<\/insert>b<\/delete>ut at the end of the day, we all aren\u2019t that different,<\/insert> and that is beautiful,\u201d said Todd Booth, a freshman from Fort Worth, Texas. <\/p>\n

Of course, these kids witnessed the dark side too. One 2019 accepted student<\/delete>fist-year<\/insert> recalled, \u201cOn service Sunday we drove through poor neighborhoods and threw food and toiletri<\/insert>e<\/delete>es out of our windows. Being there\u2014driving through\u2014gave me a profound and moving glimpse of what misfortune might actually be like.\u201d<\/p>\n

The impact of these life-changing travels widely varied from student to student. Some recognized their own good luck<\/insert>fortune<\/delete>, some learned what the term \u201ccultural exchange\u201d means,<\/insert> and some took photos that will generate a lifetime of Facebook likes.<\/p>\n

The remaining 10% of admitted students<\/insert>es<\/delete> reported having had life-changing experiences in the U.S., primarily in Appalachia and non–<\/delete>descript poor<\/delete> inner city neighborhoods. <\/delete><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Anna Belle Newport July 17, 2015 The University of Chicago Office of Admissions, after releasing statistics on the incoming class of 2019 on Tuesday, claims to have the most globally experienced cohort of students ever. \u201cWe are proud to say that over 90% of the admitted students had life-changing experiences in Africa. We are excited about this fresh and cultured bunch,\u201d said one admissions officer.. \u201cEveryone is so happy in Africa. Everyone was smiling, offering us food, and speaking to us in English! It was like we were all one happy family,\u201d said Susie Balotellirtlett, a first-year who just graduated from Stuyvesant High School in New York City, \u201cI don\u2019t understand why America can\u2019t be more like that.\u201d Several first-yearsadmittees marveled at how much like home the parts of Africa they spent the most time in actually were. \u201cI thought that Africa was just going to be a whole other world. But once I was there, I realized it isn\u2019t that different. There are McDonald\ufeff‘s, spas, and Wi-FiFi cafes. Yes, they also have safari adventures., Bbut at the end of the day, we all aren\u2019t that different, and that is beautiful,\u201d said Todd Booth, a freshman from Fort Worth, Texas. Of course, these kids witnessed the dark side too. One 2019 accepted studentfist-year recalled, \u201cOn service Sunday we drove through poor neighborhoods and threw food and toiletriees out of our windows. Being there\u2014driving through\u2014gave me a profound and moving glimpse of what misfortune might actually be like.\u201d The impact of these life-changing travels widely varied from student to student. Some recognized their own good luckfortune, some learned what the term \u201ccultural exchange\u201d means, and some took photos that will generate a lifetime of Facebook likes. The remaining 10% of admitted studentses reported having had life-changing experiences in the U.S., primarily in Appalachia and non–descript poor inner city neighborhoods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3052,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019\/revisions\/3052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}