{"id":5629,"date":"2022-10-18T15:19:44","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T20:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/?p=5629"},"modified":"2022-10-18T11:22:47","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T16:22:47","slug":"class-of-2026-first-ever-to-feature-diplomats-kids-from-all-193-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/18\/class-of-2026-first-ever-to-feature-diplomats-kids-from-all-193-nations\/","title":{"rendered":"Class of 2026 First-Ever to Feature Diplomats\u2019 Kids from All 193 Nations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">University of Chicago officials announced Thursday that the Class of 2026 would be the first to feature at least one diplomat\u2019s child from all 193 UN-recognized nations, including several dozen from the U.S. This announcement was made as part of the University\u2019s new Ulysses Memorial Scholarship program, which addresses \u201cgovernment relations.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the university, the program recruited students by walking around at Formula One races and European ski resorts. When polled, 73% insisted that \u201cdude, you really have to come to Dubai one of these days, it\u2019s wild.\u201d According to a program survey, 120% of recruits self-identified their families\u2019 income levels as \u201ccomfortable.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stephen Pitts, the son of the British ambassador to Spain, is one of these admitted students. \u201cI\u2019m beyond excited to join my peers at UChicago,\u201d he told the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dealer<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. \u201cThey said I could keep my diplomatic immunity here, which is gonna be great. I\u2019m gonna commit so many crimes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cEven before stepping foot on campus, this unprecedented group of students has already made their mark.\u201d Dean of Admissions James Nondorf said. \u201cAnd I mean that literally. We have renamed a lot of buildings.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cEven before stepping foot on campus, this unprecedented group of students has already made their mark.\u201d Dean of Admissions James Nondorf said. \u201cAnd I mean that literally. We have renamed a lot of buildings.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":425,"featured_media":5630,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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\/425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5631,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5629\/revisions\/5631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}