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At the University of Chicago, we’re all about ideas. It doesn’t matter who you Research are, where you’re from, or what you’re studying—what’s important is that you’re courageous enough to take chances, express your thoughts, discover your passions, and learn and grow from feedback. Through our Core curriculum, opportunities Students for real-world experience, and intentionally constructed community, students open
new intellectual horizons. It’s this approach that empowers our students and fosters Leadership world-changing ideas. Academics Faculty Community Campus Life Chicago OPPORTUNITY Ideas Opportunity Research
We believe every college student should be free to focus on what matters. Students Each year, the University provides $135 million in need- and merit-based aid to
ensure that undergraduate students of all backgrounds can access the University’s Leadership transformative education. Following our No Barriers philosophy, families applying for need-based financial aid pay no application fee to the College and are awarded a financial aid package that meets their full demonstrated need and does not include Academics loans. Low-income and first-generation students receive additional mentorship, funding, and career support through our Odyssey Scholars program, funded initially by an anonymous $100 million donation with continuing support from hundreds of Faculty alumni and friends. Community Campus Life
< LEFT: Hutchinson Courtyard hosts the Summer Breeze Music Festival and yearly performances by the Dean’s Men, UChicago’s Shakespeare troupe. Most days, however, it offers a scenic setting for meeting friends, classmates, or faculty. Chicago RESEARCH Ideas Opportunity Research
Our scholars, scientists, and educators transform our society—and the world. Students The structure of DNA. New species of dinosaurs. The science of ecology. The mathematical theory of black holes. Proof that cancer is a genetic disease. Carbon-14 dating of archeological finds. Revolutionary theories of education. Leadership Measurement of the speed of light. Efficient market theory. The age of the Earth. The first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction. These advances are the result of Academics research at the University of Chicago. A world-renowned hub of innovation, UChicago challenges conventional thinking and accepted wisdom. UChicago’s Institute for Molecular Engineering, affiliation with the Marine Biological Laboratory, and Faculty management of Argonne National Laboratory and Fermilab ensure that UChicago students will have experience working at the leading edge of scientific research. Community Campus Life
< CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: The Institute for Molecular Engineering at UChicago features innovative research and design, including the study of quantum computing and immuno- engineering. / Undergraduate students have access to numerous research and internship opportunities through over 140 research institutes and centers and can be found in the Medical Chicago Center and almost every departmental lab on campus. / The Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA, provides students an opportunity to engage in new frontiers in biological research. / Medical Center radiologists use an “intelligent” CT scanner to reveal the woman inside the Oriental Institute’s 3,000-year-old mummy. STUDENTS Ideas Opportunity Research
Our students are recognized as among the brightest in the world. You could be Students our next Rhodes Scholar, joining 51 other UChicago recipients since the award’s
inception in 1904. Our undergraduates become Churchill Scholars, Marshall Scholars, Leadership and Truman Scholars, and receive prestigious fellowships in medical sciences, humanities, and foreign affairs. UChicago students make up one of the largest groups of graduates selected for Teach for America and the Peace Corps. They come from Academics public schools and private schools. They represent diverse cultures and economic backgrounds. They are from down the street, across the country, and around the globe. Our students are smart, funny, and down-to-earth—the kind of people who Faculty become friends for life. Community Campus Life
< CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Through the Metcalf Internship program, UChicago students have exclusive access to nearly 2,000 paid internships on campus, in Chicago, and around the world. / Students in the College begin to form friendships as soon as they arrive on campus for Orientation Week. / Students gather in their House lounge for a weekly Chicago discussion with faculty and guest speakers. / Nine a cappella groups, including Chicago Men’s A Cappella, are among the 100-plus arts and cultural student organizations on campus. Willie Davis, MBA’68 Ray Suarez, AM’93 Seymour Hersh, AB’58 PRO FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME MEMBER SENIOR CORRESPONDENT FOR PBS PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST Eliot Ness, PhB’25 Carl Sagan, AB’54, SB’55, SM’56, PhD’60 CO-AUTHOR OF AND INSPIRATION FOR THE UNTOUCHABLES ASTRONOMER, WRITER, EDUCATOR John Ashcroft, JD’67 Susan Sontag, AB’51 FORMER U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL CRITIC AND AUTHOR Jon S. Corzine, MBA’73 Katharine Graham, AB’38 David Axelrod, AB’76 FORMER GOVERNOR OF NEW JERSEY ADVISOR TO BARACK OBAMA PUBLISHER OF THE WASHINGTON POST AND PULITZER PRIZE WINNER Edwin Hubble, SB 1910, PhD 1917 ASTRONOMER WHO FOUND FIRST EVIDENCE FOR THE BIG BANG THEORY Joseph Mansueto, AB’78, MBA’80 FOUNDER AND CEO OF MORNINGSTAR LEADERSHIP Dan Hertzberg, AB’68 PULITZER PRIZE WINNER AND EDITOR AT LARGE, BLOOMBERG NEWS
Katherine Dunham, PhB’36 John Paul Stevens, AB’41 GROUNDBREAKING CHOREOGRAPHER FORMER U.S. SUPREME COURT JUSTICE David Brooks, AB’83 NEW YORK TIMES COLUMNIST Kimberly Peirce, AB’90 DIRECTOR OF FILM BOYS DON’T CRY James Watson, PhB’46, SB’47 NOBEL LAUREATE WHO CO-DISCOVERED THE STRUCTURE OF DNA Robert Bork, AB’48, JD’53 Milton Friedman, AM’33 LAWYER, PROFESSOR, AND BEST-SELLING AUTHOR NOBEL LAUREATE IN ECONOMIC SCIENCES David Auburn, AB’91 Bernard Sahlins, AB’43 TONY AWARD– AND PULITZER PRIZE–WINNING PLAYWRIGHT CO-FOUNDER OF SECOND CITY Paul Sills, AB’51 Carol Moseley Braun, JD’72 Ideas Nate Silver, AB’00 CO-FOUNDER OF SECOND CITY FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMAN ELECTED TO U.S. SENATE Lynn Margulis, AB’57 SABERMETRICIAN AND FOUNDER OF FIVETHIRTYEIGHT.COM NATIONAL MEDAL OF SCIENCE WINNER Jay Berwanger, AB’36 Opportunity FIRST HEISMAN TROPHY WINNER Andrew M. Greeley, AM’61, PhD’62 Gary Becker, AM’53, PhD’55 PRIEST, SOCIOLOGIST, AND BEST-SELLING AUTHOR UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PROFESSOR AND NOBEL LAUREATE IN ECONOMIC SCIENCES
John Grunsfeld, SM’84, PhD’88 Research Jon S. Corzine, MBA’73 Paul Volberding, AB’71 Kurt Vonnegut, AM’71 ASTRONAUT FORMER GOVERNOR OF NEW JERSEY CO-DISCOVERER OF HIV VIRUS LITERARY ICON
Sara Paretsky, AM’69, MBA’77, PhD’77 Philip Kaufman, AB’58 David Broder, AB’47, AM’51 POLITICAL COLUMNIST FOR WASHINGTON POST BEST-SELLING AUTHOR FILM DIRECTOR AND SCREENWRITER Students Edwin Hubble, SB 1910, PhD 1917 University of Chicago alumni shape the world we live in. From astronomer ASTRONOMER WHO FOUND FIRST EVIDENCE FOR THE BIG BANG THEORY Edwin Hubble, SB 1910, PhD 1917, namesake of the Hubble telescope, to David Brooks, AB’83, New York Times columnist, UChicago graduates share pride in Leadership an extraordinary tradition of excellence and leadership. Our 150,000 alumni are Nobel laureates, CEOs, university presidents, attorneys general, literary giants, and Academics astronauts. They win Grammy, Emmy, Tony, and Academy Awards. They are Pulitzer Prize–winning journalists and Supreme Court justices. They form a network that spans more than 125 countries around the globe—and exemplify a stellar legacy Faculty of accomplishment reflected in every University of Chicago degree. Donald Johanson, AM’70, PhD’74 Katherine Dunham, PhB’36 Kimberly Ng, AB’90 PALEOANTHROPOLOGIST WHO DISCOVERED “LUCY,” A LINK BETWEEN PRIMATES AND HUMANS Community GROUNDBREAKING CHOREOGRAPHER SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT FOR BASEBALL OPERATIONS, MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL Alex Seropian, SB’91 FOUNDER OF BUNGIE SOFTWARE, CREATOR OF HALO GAME SERIES Robert Lucas, AB’59, PhD’64 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PROFESSOR AND NOBEL LAUREATE IN ECONOMIC SCIENCES David Rockefeller Sr., PhD’40 CHAIRMAN OF CHASE MANHATTAN BANK, CHAIRMAN OF MUSEUM OF MODERN ART Campus Life James Watson, PhB’46, SB’47 NOBEL LAUREATE WHO CO-DISCOVERED THE STRUCTURE OF DNA Philip Glass, AB’56 COMPOSER AND MUSICIAN
PICTURED: The gravity of galaxy cluster Abell 2218 bends and focuses the light from galaxies that lay behind it in this image from the Hubble Space Telescope, named for astronomer and alumnus Edwin Hubble. Chicago ACADEMICS Ideas Opportunity Research
Our academic programs prepare you for whatever path you choose. Our Core Students curriculum offers a broad perspective on human knowledge and furnishes tools of inquiry and analysis that are applicable to the University of Chicago’s rich array of program offerings—and to life. The College offers a choice of 50 majors, 40 Leadership minors, and dozens of areas of specialized study, from such well-defined fields as anthropology and mathematics to interdisciplinary programs like biological chemistry Academics and cinema and media studies. Pre-professional courses of study, supported by individualized guidance from our Office of Career Advancement, supplement the academic programs. Drawing on the powerful combination of a traditional liberal Faculty arts college at the heart of a premier research university, we provide the intellectual groundwork; you define the boundaries. Community Campus Life
< CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Thanks to the University’s Center in Paris, study abroad opportunities abound in the City of Light. / UChicago students graduate with habits of mind that last a lifetime. / The Arley D. Cathey Learning Center in Harper Memorial Library gives students access to a 24-hour study and group collaboration space. / Theoretical depth is founded Chicago in real-world experience. FACULT Y Ideas Opportunity Research Students The environment here produces ideas that matter—ideas that win Nobel Prizes. 89 Nobel laureates—10 percent of all recipients since the award was first given in 1901— are associated with the University of Chicago, including five current faculty members. Leadership Our faculty are recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Fields Medal (the highest honor a mathematician can attain), the Pulitzer Prize, and the National Academics Medal of Science. More than 30 current and former faculty have received “Genius Grants” from the MacArthur Foundation. And one former senior lecturer was recently President of the United States. The student-faculty ratio is 6 to 1, allowing for the kind Faculty of access that changes lives—including yours. Community Campus Life
< CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Former senior lecturer and Hyde Park resident Barack Obama and the first family. / Roger Myerson, the Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor of Economics and winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. / Students and faculty share research opportunities across disciplines and around the world. / Paul Sereno, Professor Chicago in Organismal Biology & Anatomy and the Committee on Evolutionary Biology, a leading paleontologist who has discovered several new dinosaur species. COMMUNITY Ideas Opportunity Research
Community starts with sharing common space—and a common spirit. The University of Chicago’s residential housing model integrates faculty, staff, Students upperclass resident assistants, and 50 to 100 students who live together and
care for one another. Your House is a home as soon as you set foot on campus. Leadership Resident Heads open their doors to you, sharing their family lives (and pets!) and hosting study breaks, Bad Movie Nights, and hiking excursions to the Indiana
Dunes. Your community learns in the classroom, works out together at Ratner Academics Athletics Center, is nurtured in more than 400 campus clubs and organizations, broadens through neighborhood outreach activities, whispers in library study sessions, continues the conversation in campus coffee shops, skirmishes in Faculty intramural contests, skates down the Midway, and howls with laughter at Off-Off
Campus’s weekly improv shows. Community Campus Life
< CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Student-athletes at the University of Chicago are students first, but they know how to play a good game. The first Heisman Trophy winner was UChicago football legend Jay Berwanger. Since 1987, the Maroons have won 55 conference titles in 14 different sports./ At the heart of campus, the University’s quadrangles are an ideal place Chicago to gather at any time of year. / Recognized Student Organizations bring together students from various backgrounds but with similar interests and goals. / The Center for Identity + Inclusion serves as a hub for cross-cultural dialogue and community engagement. CAMPUS LIFE Ideas Opportunity Research
Think of campus life as an endless feast for your mind. Whatever you hunger for, it’s here. A stunningly beautiful 217-acre campus with more green space than Students one typically imagines in an urban setting, the University of Chicago campus
is a certified botanic garden that sprouts lively discourse, experimental music, Leadership groundbreaking theater, the world’s greatest scavenger hunt, and championship Division III sports teams. Our students act in, design, and direct an average of 35 productions annually with University Theater. The arts regularly take center stage, Academics with museums and the professional Court Theatre on campus, as well as a steady stream of visiting artists who create literature, film, poetry, music, and genre-defying work. Campus life stays out late for Midnight Soccer and gets up early for the lakeside Faculty midwinter salute to the rising sun. It moves to live music in Hutchinson Courtyard, is
captured by student writers and filmmakers, and extends far beyond the classroom. Community Campus Life Campus Life
< CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Located along Lake Michigan, the neighborhood of Hyde Park enjoys abundant green space. / Our more than 80 student-run cultural, religious, and LGBTQ groups produce popular programming throughout the year, such as the South Asian Student Association’s annual cultural show. / The Homecoming football game brings Chicago current students and alumni together at a huge festival. / One of many dining facilities on campus, Hutchinson Commons offers eclectic eats from Indian food to pizza. CHICAGO Ideas Opportunity Research
Chicago: Our city, our laboratory, our playground, our muse, our home. Students come to the University of Chicago expecting a world-class education Students and discover a world-class city. Our Chicago Studies program creates boundless
opportunity to connect with the city, from curriculum on Chicago film history, to Leadership faculty researching urban issues, to events with metropolitan leaders, to the chance to publish original research. Chicago is home to the blues and the Bulls, deep-dish pizza and the Chicago Picasso, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Second City, Academics and 77 neighborhood communities with a cultural—and culinary—diversity unmatched almost anywhere in the world. Our historic Hyde Park neighborhood has been home to residents ranging from Saul Bellow to Muhammad Ali. And, of course, there’s Lake Faculty Michigan, with swimming, sailing, and sandy beaches. It’s like having a water park
bigger than Belgium in your front yard. Community Campus Life
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uchiadmissions A liberal arts college in the midst of a world-renowned research university, the University of Chicago offers a dynamic and well-rounded education, one where students encounter great thinkers, sharpen critical thinking skills, and engage in the life of the mind. We’re intent on changing the world by asking tough questions, celebrating new ideas, and forming a community of scholars—one as supportive as it is transformative. UChicago and its namesake city are inextricably linked. With over 9 million people in the Chicagoland area, Chicago is a center of global cultures, international commerce, the arts, and pizza. And with the city center just a 20-minute ride away from our cozy Hyde Park neighborhood, the city becomes an integral part of your UChicago experience.
6,000 80% 89 4 2/3 $1 undergraduate of classes have 25 Nobel academic of UChicago faculty Milkshake students students or fewer laureates quarters call Hyde Park home Wednesdays
ACADEMICS RESEARCH UChicago’s Core curriculum is your introduction to the 80% of UChicago students choose to do research, building on a tradition tools of inquiry used in every discipline— of world-changing natural and mathematical sciences, humanities, discoveries. And there’s $450+ and social sciences. Core classes, which a lot to choose from: For 160+ research centers, institutes, million in sponsored account for about 1/3 of your undergraduate instance, the Institute for and committees research annually coursework, are small, discussion-based sessions Molecular Engineering on campus turns a traditional engineering education on focused on the reading of primary texts. We provide the its head; the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA, allows students intellectual groundwork; you define the boundaries. to explore biodiversity in a location dedicated to scientific discovery; and two National Laboratories (Argonne and Fermilab) offer students close involvement 6 1 with groundbreaking work in the fields of physics, engineering, and energy.
51 40 WORLD-CHANGING UCHICAGO BREAKTHROUGHS: 6:1 student-to-faculty ratio 51 majors and 40 minors • The mathematical theory of black holes • Efficient market theory The first self-sustaining nuclear reaction The study of social psychology 20+ • • 19 or fewer • Discovering the REM sleep cycle • The Chicago Assyrian 20+ countries in which to 19 or fewer students in a Core Dictionary study abroad discussion class • Carbon-14 dating
College Rosenwald Hall 1101 E. 58th Street collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu Admissions Chicago, Illinois 60637 COMMUNITY Forming a community unlike any other, UChicago students share a common space and a common spirit. Representing diverse geographic, cultural, socioeconomic, and experiential backgrounds, our students are smart, funny, and down-to-earth.
A UChicago student’s first—and often strongest—community on campus is the College House they’re placed into their first year. Each House’s hundred or so residents represent a cross-section of the diversity of the student body. And each House has a dedicated House Table in one of the dining halls, extensive student and residential staff to advise students and build community, and strong traditions—from Broomball tournaments to weekly teatimes to sunrise plunges in Lake Michigan. Campus housing is guaranteed for your full time in the College, and many students will choose to live in the same House for four years. 20 Division III 35 University Theater varsity teams shows annually
38 College Houses in 7 400+ Recognized University students from 1st Heisman 287 items on the 2017 residence halls Student Organizations over 100 countries Trophy winner Scav Hunt list
AFTER GRADUATION UChicago’s Office of Career Advancement helps you plan for your future from day one by providing your own career counselor, access to an extensive database of job and internship opportunities, treks that take students to meet with industry experts around the world, and a suite of pre-professional programs covering a range of career paths.
UChicago Careers In UChicago students access comprehensive preparation for a career in their field of choice through our suite of non-major, 93% 51 2,000+ pre-professional “UChicago Careers In” programs: of the Class of 2016 Rhodes Scholarships paid internships graduated with career, and 23 Marshall are offered through the Public Policy and Service Entrepreneurship graduate school, or Scholarships have been Jeff Metcalf Internship other plans in place awarded to UChicago Program. Students Health Professions Business by working with students. Twelve gain employment Law Journalism, Arts, and Media Career Advancement, members of the Class experience with leading College Advisers, and of 2017 were named organizations in a Education Professions Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math faculty advisers. Fulbright Scholars. diverse range of fields.
FINANCIAL AID ADMISSIONS EYE Need-blind admissions for domestic applicants Applicants choose one of the two applications listed below and submit a school- specific essay supplement. Students apply into UChicago’s one undergraduate TARGET 100% of demonstrated financial need met College and have until their third year to declare a major. If you have any questions No student loan expectation 💲 about our holistic review process, feel free to contact your regional admissions 📝 No application fee for students seeking aid counselor through our website, collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/contact.
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