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University of Chicago eliminates SAT/ACT requirement
The University of Chicago will no longer require ACT or SAT scores from U.S. students, sending a jolt through elite institutions of higher education as it becomes the first top-10 research university to join the test-optional movement.
Numerous schools, including well-known liberal arts colleges, have dropped or pared back testing mandates in recent years to bolster recruiting in a crowded market. But the announcement Thursday by the university was a watershed, cracking what had been a solid and enduring wall of support for the primary admission tests among the two dozen most prestigious research universities.
[...] U-Chicago is also expanding financial aid and scrapping in-person admission interviews, which had been optional. Instead, it will allow applicants to send in two-minute video pitches, in an effort to connect with a generation skilled at communicating via cellphone clips.
Also at USA Today and Inside Higher Ed.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Friday June 15 2018, @03:59PM (9 children)
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 15 2018, @05:20PM
Chicago economics is famous. Other than that, meh.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 15 2018, @06:03PM (2 children)
Probably because you are clueless a grade school dropout. UChicago is very prominent in the fields of physics, economics, and the law.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Saturday June 16 2018, @06:57AM
Also medicine, sociology, archaeology (esp. Near east), and chemistry.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Saturday June 16 2018, @10:49AM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 4, Informative) by AthanasiusKircher on Friday June 15 2018, @07:13PM (1 child)
Chicago is very grad-student heavy, hence it tends to end up on top research university lists. From several alumni I know, I've always had the impression that undergrads are a bit of an afterthought... and generally speaking have it a bit harder than other top schools. (My impression -- again, from talking with alumni -- is that it's harder to "coast" there with easy courses. A bit less grade inflation, etc.) It's the kind of place that's a great school to go to if you want to become an academic, but I wouldn't tend to encourage most kids -- even bright ones -- to go there as an undergrad.
But grad programs? They have quite a few well-known ones. As to how high Chicago is ranked among research universities, that depends on your ranking system. It may not be in the "top 10" in some lists, but definitely in the top couple dozen.
(Score: 2) by suburbanitemediocrity on Friday June 15 2018, @08:23PM
I'd apply to go back for a physics grad degree, but my video camera broke and I can't afford a cell phone.
(Score: 2) by suburbanitemediocrity on Friday June 15 2018, @08:20PM
Physics. Fermi. Nuclear reaction under stadium. Not far from Batavia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batavia,_Illinois [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Friday June 15 2018, @08:45PM (1 child)
They market hard as fuck. They've been sending my son postal mail spam since he was in 3rd grade. No exaggeration, why would I? Come visit us on visitors day we're the freak'n greatest thing ever, etc. No I don't live down the road but its closer than MIT or Stanford, and no I'm not an alumni.
I think its sort of like the companies that spend millions to broadcast ads on cable financial channels, they're putting more work into boosting their street cred than they are into improving their academic papers or making faster mainframes or better oil well drillheads or whatever the orgs real job is.
(Score: 3, Funny) by FatPhil on Saturday June 16 2018, @10:54AM
Whatever, your response is the most informative of the batch, have a +1.
God, do genderfree people become alumna en masse, an alumnum individually, when they graduate? Of course not - they don't graduate!
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves