{"id":4793,"date":"2021-02-19T14:15:12","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T20:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/?p=4793"},"modified":"2021-02-18T22:17:35","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T04:17:35","slug":"how-uchicagos-class-of-2025-navigated-an-unprecedented-application-cycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/19\/how-uchicagos-class-of-2025-navigated-an-unprecedented-application-cycle\/","title":{"rendered":"How UChicago\u2019s Class of 2025 Navigated an Unprecedented Application Cycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Applying to college is stressful in the best of times, but for UChicago\u2019s Class of 2025, the ongoing coronavirus pandemic added an additional level of stress to the process. The <em>Dealer<\/em> sat down with a few members of the class of 2025 to discuss how they navigated this unprecedented application cycle. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, uh, UChicago, that\u2019s the one with the <em>Lampoon<\/em>, right?\u201d our first interviewee, Maxwell Maximillian, currently a high school senior, said from his home in Berkeley, California. \u201cI actually didn\u2019t apply. I only applied to colleges with colors as their mascots, because I was worried that otherwise, the mascots would give me COVID.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Our second interviewee, Seas Alt (a high school senior from Wellesley, Massachusetts) told the <em>Dealer<\/em> via email that \u201cactually [they were] rejected from UChicago.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Finally, the <em>Dealer<\/em> was able to sit down with John Locke (no relation), a high school senior from Lansing, Michigan. Locke wore a mask, even on Zoom, and told us that after getting 5s on all his remote AP tests \u2014 while acting as his own scantron machine \u2014 the most fun he\u2019s had in lockdown was writing all the UChicago supplemental essays. \u201cI particularly liked the ones that asked us to compare the COVID crisis to the Peloponnesian War. That was inspired.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>In response to the class of 2025\u2019s chaotic admissions cycle, the University of Chicago is preparing changes to their admissions process aimed at \u201censuring equity and access, while maintaining UChicago\u2019s role as a top national program,\u201d admissions director James Nondorf said in a statement to the <em>Dealer<\/em>. Their primary change, Nondorf explained, is that UChicago will become application-optional in 2026. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Applying to college is stressful in the best of times, but for UChicago\u2019s Class of 2025, the ongoing coronavirus pandemic added an additional level of stress to the process. The Dealer sat down with a few members of the class of 2025 to discuss how they navigated this unprecedented application cycle. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4793"}],"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=4793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4828,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4793\/revisions\/4828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}