fascinating article
about online apps. dean of uchicago VEHEMENTLY opposes it. some call him a luddite. an excerpt to whet your appetite...
"Chicago’s O’Neill would have none of that argument. “Who decides that you value concision instead of magnitude? Who are we to say that it should only be that much?” he said. And, his voice rising, he said, “You can’t underline a bloody title? That’s not trivial to people who care about words.”"
http://insidehighered.com/news/2005/11/02/online
"Chicago’s O’Neill would have none of that argument. “Who decides that you value concision instead of magnitude? Who are we to say that it should only be that much?” he said. And, his voice rising, he said, “You can’t underline a bloody title? That’s not trivial to people who care about words.”"
http://insidehighered.com/news/2005/11/02/online
posted by Anonymous at 4:51 PM
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Oh, University of Chicago, you are glorious beyond words. And Amy! Luddites! Luddites make me extremely happy! I think that I shall attend the University of Chicago, live in the Field Museum, and get my bachelor's degree in Being a Cultural Luddite. Huzzah, practicallllllity!
Thank you immensely for posting this--it deepens my faith in the type of institutions that are willing to dispense with formality and to change their actions to conform with their doctrines. I am slightly irked and a bit disappointed that some of my more unorthodox amours (Reed, namely!) have not taken more of a leap to get themselves away from Common App banality. Again, it is the specificity v. open-ended prompt recapitulated, and I can see certain merits to both, but certainly squirm more in reaction to Chicago's daunting list of prompts that the Common App options, which essentially constitute a free pass to fivehundredwords of whatever type of blather one is already disposed to.
I've been reading Rilke, and despite the pain, am going to keep asserting the fact that the most difficult struggles are the most worthwhile.
Also! I miss you and have stories for you about a deardear new friend of mine who is very timid but has the same linguistic passions as yourself and is so very smitten with Nabokov. You should meet her. We should all meet everyone. I am going to telephone you some night very near to this, but not falling under the category of "Lundi" or "Mardi."
Beware!
Kidnap everyone on the East Coast and come to Ohio, and soon, soon! I think we all would be much more comfortable spending the National Scholars' Commiseration Period (c. 15 November-15 December) in a cozy German restaurant with a mad accordianist singing sweet polka-sy nothings into our throbbing eardrums.
Lovelove,
Jessi.
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I sent in a bound book.
(And to Chicago, at that!)
But I bound it myself.
Am I absolved?
Probably not, because it was highly philosophical, and originally twelve pages single-spaced.
MADNESS INDEED!
ellen you're right, but it's really hard to escape the culture of stress and hysteria that i've been brought up with and live within. for my parents, especially, getting into a good college is like making it, the american dream. yadda yadda.
I agree with Amy... the culture of stress and all that other crap is so pervasive. :P
I feel applications like UChicago's are a good thing. They are a pain in the ass for us I suppose, but I sort of enjoy writing them more. I begin to feel a little weirded out when I submit the same app and essay to so many different colleges... probably because of the fact mentioned in the article that each college has its own sort of character.
...so basically what Jessi said.
cooper union's site says "Essay questions and hometests will be mailed with enclosed instructions after the application has been processed"
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