blissfullyhappy

First time poster here and I will say that this will be a controversial post. My cycle has ended and it has been a great one for me (got into Stanford, Yale, and Princeton), but I feel like I need to say a few things about this cycle/admissions in general. As we all know there have been quite a few controversies that has irritated everyone. It is obvious that people from the University of Chicago read this forum, which is why I am writing this (at a minimum I’m sure that undergraduate who told us that prospective students are laughed at will relay this comment back to them). Throughout this cycle your school and only your school has caused severe angst, but why? Well, in my case I e-mailed your school about my application status and whether you got my GRE scores (there was a previous problem, which you did resolve), so I wanted to double check that everything was alright when acceptances were sent out on February 5th. You never responded to my e-mail. I am not sure what other people have e-mailed you about, but when someone spends money and time in applying to your school you should have the decency to spend 3 minutes answering an e-mail. Furthermore, I think everyone on gradcafe can agree that you do have a lovely program, so those that have been admitted should go to your school and not worry about what people say about it on here or PSJR. Yes, your program has had some losses over the years in terms of faculty leaving (or did you kick them out? I am not sure and I frankly do not care). I hope you did not take it offensively when I pointed out that Wendt and Snidal were not there anymore (it seems as though you did because a little more than a week later you rejected some people (not me), which went against what you did in previous years), but you are academics, so I would imagine you are used to criticism. Actually, you probably LAUGHED at it. Anyways, I fully apologize for this, but I was absolutely livid that you did not respond to my very important e-mail (do I think that it is important now that I got into my top choices? No, but I really shouldn’t have done that.). So to my main point: How does a school prevent outrage on gradcafe? Answer e-mails (this is the big one) Actually tell students that apply to your school that you may be considered for CIR/MAPSS (I honestly had no idea and even though I don’t have an MA, I wouldn’t want to be considered for it). Don’t tell your undergraduates that you laugh at prospective students I guess someone at your school does answer some e-mails and there have been some controversy on here and on the board about it. Do NOT tell prospective students that you will hear results by a specific date. You are only asking for trouble. Yes, I am well aware that your NEW answer to that question is that everyone will hear by mid-March, but it is a little too late for that response. These are my thoughts. Take from them what you want. If people disagree with me or don’t like me, I really don’t care (mostly because I am certain you will never figure out who I am). I am going to go out and celebrate my acceptances. I’ve spent far too much time on this post already.