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James G. Nondorf, the Univeristy of Chicago’s Dean of College Admissions and Financial Aid, has been appointed the first Director of Patient Admissions for the University of Chicago Hospitals, President Robert J. Zimmer announced on Thursday. Nondorf will take office at the end of the year.<\/p>\n
Nondorf\u2019s post, which was authorized last month by the Board of Trustees, was created to \u201cincrease the caliber of patients admitted to the UC Hospitals system,\u201d Zimmer said in a statement. \u201cAlthough UC Hospitals is a world-class medical research institution, its admissions policy is only considered \u2018moderately selective\u2019 by experts in hospital admissions, which brings down its prestige in the eyes of the nation\u2019s top prospective patients,\u201d he continued. \u201cOur hope is that an increase in applications combined with a more selective admissions process will increase the desirability of our top-tier treatment programs.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nondorf announced that he had already begun the planning process for a series of reforms to be implemented in the UC Hospitals admissions process. \u201cCurrently, prospective UC Hospitals patients are evaluated primarily through a handful of standardized tests, including heart rate, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, and secondarily through subjective evaluation by an admissions physician,\u201d Nondorf said. He said that he planned to make the process both more rigorous and more comprehensive by requiring applicants to submit two letters of recommendation, scores from an SAT Subject Test, and a list of volunteer activities in which the prospective patient has recently participated.<\/p>\n
Aides to Nondorf also indicated that a \u201csupplement\u201d to the application is under consideration in which prospective patients will be required to respond with at most two pages to one of a selection of \u201cuncommon\u201d essay prompts. Topics under consideration include, \u201cWhere does it really<\/em> hurt?\u201d, \u201cTell us about your gall bladder\u2019s friends,\u201d and \u201cPeople throughout history have judged everything from Louisiana to exotic snakes to be worth the price. What would you<\/em> pay an arm and a leg for, and why?\u201d Nondorf hoped, aides reported, that such prompts would encourage applications from \u201cthe sort of quirky, twisted, perhaps even sick personalities that have long characterized the patient population of UC Hospitals.\u201d<\/p>\n Commenters on the popular hospital admissions forum HospitalConfidential were largely positive about the coming changes. \u201cGlad to see that UC Hospitals is stepping up its admissions game. Last year I heard their emergency department was just taking people from off the street because of low application numbers – practically anyone without a pulse can get in,\u201d wrote AdmissionsGuru383, a forum regular. IGotIn2, a sporadic poster, considered accepting an offer from UC Hospitals last year, but opted for Northwestern Memorial instead because \u201cit just seemed more legit – like a place people really try hard to get admitted to,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Rumors of a groundbreaking financialaid program, tentatively titled \u201cUCHospitals Promise,\u201d aiming to increase the percentage of UC Hospitals patients hailing from anywhere near Chicago, were swiftly denied by a spokesman for Dean Nondorf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Alex Dunlap Feb. 20, 2014 James G. Nondorf, the Univeristy of Chicago’s Dean of College Admissions and Financial Aid, has been appointed the first Director of Patient Admissions for the University of Chicago Hospitals, President Robert J. Zimmer announced on Thursday. Nondorf will take office at the end of the year. Nondorf\u2019s post, which was authorized last month by the Board of Trustees, was created to \u201cincrease the caliber of patients admitted to the UC Hospitals system,\u201d Zimmer said in a statement. \u201cAlthough UC Hospitals is a world-class medical research institution, its admissions policy is only considered \u2018moderately selective\u2019 by experts in hospital admissions, which brings down its prestige in the eyes of the nation\u2019s top prospective patients,\u201d he continued. \u201cOur hope is that an increase in applications combined with a more selective admissions process will increase the desirability of our top-tier treatment programs.\u201d Nondorf announced that he had already begun the planning process for a series of reforms to be implemented in the UC Hospitals admissions process. \u201cCurrently, prospective UC Hospitals patients are evaluated primarily through a handful of standardized tests, including heart rate, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, and secondarily through subjective evaluation by an admissions physician,\u201d Nondorf said. He said that he planned to make the process both more rigorous and more comprehensive by requiring applicants to submit two letters of recommendation, scores from an SAT Subject Test, and a list of volunteer activities in which the prospective patient has recently participated. Aides to Nondorf also indicated that a \u201csupplement\u201d to the application is under consideration in which prospective patients will be required to respond with at most two pages to one of a selection of \u201cuncommon\u201d essay prompts. Topics under consideration include, \u201cWhere does it really hurt?\u201d, \u201cTell us about your gall bladder\u2019s friends,\u201d and \u201cPeople throughout history have judged everything from Louisiana to exotic snakes to be worth the price. What would you pay an arm and a leg for, and why?\u201d Nondorf hoped, aides reported, that such prompts would encourage applications from \u201cthe sort of quirky, twisted, perhaps even sick personalities that have long characterized the patient population of UC Hospitals.\u201d Commenters on the popular hospital admissions forum HospitalConfidential were largely positive about the coming changes. \u201cGlad to see that UC Hospitals is stepping up its admissions game. Last year I heard their emergency department was just taking people from off the street because of low application numbers – practically anyone without a pulse can get in,\u201d wrote AdmissionsGuru383, a forum regular. IGotIn2, a sporadic poster, considered accepting an offer from UC Hospitals last year, but opted for Northwestern Memorial instead because \u201cit just seemed more legit – like a place people really try hard to get admitted to,\u201d he wrote. Rumors of a groundbreaking financialaid program, tentatively titled \u201cUCHospitals Promise,\u201d aiming to increase the percentage of UC Hospitals patients hailing from anywhere near Chicago, were swiftly denied by a spokesman for Dean Nondorf.<\/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\/2205"}],"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=2205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3238,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205\/revisions\/3238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}