Saturday, December 02, 2006
Chicago Students Rally to Be Uncommon
Inside Higher Ed: "At many colleges, students worry about the impact of rankings on the prestige associated with their degree. At the University of Chicago, hundreds of students have joined a protest movement in recent weeks, worried that the university is “selling its soul” to get a higher ranking from U.S. News & World Report."
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part of the most interesting part of the application process at my high school was helping my friends with their UChicago essays. It is important that our schools keep the heartof their instiution intact. UChicago is not just a school where "fun goes to die" it also has it quirks and you would lose that if it is left off the application.
While they're application is quirky and a unique characteristic of their school, I'm not sure that making their school more accesible to students is necessarily a bad thing. Apart from that, the application process is a horribly stressful time, so if having the common app will make things easier on the apllication pool as a whole why not? Or why not do both, then at the very least, U Chicago will get to know their candidates even more extensively--from a main stream run of the mill standard (the common ap) and a unique, think outside the box way as well.
-Samantha Englender
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