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University of Chicago
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Information Summary
| Overall Score (about) | 97.0 |
| Total Cost On-Campus Attendance | $78,555 |
| Admission Success rate | N/A |
| ACT / SAT 75%ile scores | 35 / 1570 |
| Student Ratio Students-to-Faculty | 11 : 1 |
| Retention (full-time / part-time) | 99% / N/A |
| Enrollment Total (all students) | 17,002 |
Academics
The University of Chicago is dedicated to the proposition that education consists of serious and communal inquiry into such questions, under the guidance of teachers who have reflected at length upon these questions. As one student described it,
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Admissions
The Committee on Admissions has no rigid formula for the successful applicant and considers a candidate
Financial Aid
Chicago is committed to helping students from all economic backgrounds attend the university and makes admissions decisions on a need-blind basis. Furthermore, the University meets one hundred percent of students
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Students
Campus Activities
Even with the delights and demands of academic life, Chicago undergraduates find time to participate in more than 300 student organizations. The Chicago Maroon, one of three student newspapers, got its start in 1892, the year classes began. The Model United Nations Team, Debate Society, and College Bowl Team have all won awards, some at the international level. Improvisational social satire
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Alumni
A degree from the University of Chicago can take you anywhere. Graduates work in government, business, law, academia, entertainment, and public service. A surprising number of graduates, about eighty-five percent, will seek to receive a graduate degree within five years of graduating, either in graduate or professional school, and ninety-five percent of graduates say they plan to enter graduate or professional school within five years. As students begin to consider their opportunities and ambitions, the Career and Placement Services (CAPS) office helps students make the transition into the wider world. Their career counselors have information about a whole array of opportunities for further study or employment, in the public or private sector, whether for-profit or nonprofit, and they talk with students to help them figure what their ambitions are, what the next step after graduation should be, and how best to present themselves and their credentials. The CAPS web site (at http://caps.uchicago.edu) provides twenty-four-hour access to a range of information, including an internship database with more than 1,000 listings.
Prominent Grads
- Ed Asner, Actor
- David Auburn, Tony Award Winner for the play Proof
- Jay Berwanger, First Heisman Trophy Winner
- David S. Broder, Washington Post Journalist
- Henry Steele Commager, Historian, Author
- Katherine Dunham, Dancer, Choreographer
- Milton Friedman, Nobel Laureate in Economics
- Katherine Graham, Former Washington Post Chairman and CEO
- Seymour Hersh, Journalist, Author
- Mike Nichols, Director, Actor, Producer
- Carl Sagan, Astronomer, Author
- Susan Sontag, Writer, Critic
- Studs Terkel, Writer
Faculty
Above all, it was my excellent teachers who brought me to love the University of Chicago, to love learning, reading, and study, to feel so strongly about the university that I would be asked to write a published essay about it. In your decision about where to go to college, I urge you to consider no factor more importantthan the presence of caring, excellent teachers.
Of all the college students I have ever met, those students who found caring teachers loved their colleges and their years in college; those who were not blessed with caring teachers were dissatisfied, often downright unhappy.
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