Address change
If you want to change your address, email questions@phoenix.uchicago.edu
Midyear report
Do not delay in sending your secondary school report or transcript just because your midyear grades are not on them. They must be sent by mail by January 2.
In mid-January, we will open the midyear report online, and you will self-report your grades when you get them. It is due February 1, but we will keep it open until March 1 if people get grades after the February 1 deadline. However, the sooner the better! You do not need to send an official transcript at that time.
Merit scholarships
If you have financial need, your merit scholarships will take away your loans, then your contribution, then your parental contribution, until your non-grant aid is zero. However, you can use it however you want. Some people say "Instead of not having any loans, I want my parents to not have to pay anything," and take loans anyway. Some say "Instead of working over the summer, I want my scholarship to cover that, and my term-time employment." So you can really use it however you want. However, we obviously will not pay you to go to college. Eventually the scholarship will be reduced if you get a million other scholarships and gifts from your rich uncle.
Merit scholarships come out with regular notification decisions.
Revisions to deferred applications
We will not look at your application until your midyear grades come in -- that is our signal that you are ready for it to be reviewed again. So if you send something in before February 1, you're fine.
No limits! No word limits! No limits for pictures of lolcats! No limits at all! No deadlines! It's a free for all!
Can you edit your original application? No. You cannot have your application unlocked so that you can add one more activity or something. But you can just email little updates to your counselor or to questions@phoenix.uchicago.edu, or you can wait and include those extras on your midyear report when we ask for any other updates.
No interviews left
If this is the case, I just want to remind everyone that there is no statistical advantage (or disadvantage) to having an interview. Most admitted students do not have one. I didn't have one. I got a letter that said "There are no University of Chicago alumni within 75 miles of you." And then I felt alone.
Sending five million resumes
Sigh.
Okay, I am going to ask for your advice. I am filling out an application for graduate school, and the application does not ask for a resume. There is no way to upload a resume, and they don't ask you to send one in separately. But I really want to! Also, there's no word limit on the personal statement, and don't ask me how confused and at sea that makes me feel. So I feel like I should include all of the extracurriculars that would have been on the resume on the personal statement. OR they may be signaling to me that they do not care about my resume or my good works and my job, or even my personal statement since they have not bothered to provide me with any necessities, like, oh, a prompt... and a word count. They care about other things. But what could they be?!
Admissions is complicated! Even we get confused.
