Aaaaaand the midyear

Here is the email.

Please look at the form or at least take the tour before you email or call with questions or protests. No matter who you are, you will find that there are questions on the midyear report that pertain to you.

It is due February 4, but will remain live until March 1 for students who get their grades or exam results after February 4.

Here is the previous post on the midyear report.

Disability Accommodation

The folks over at the Office of the Vice President and Dean of Students want you to know that if you will be seeking accommodations for a disability from the university, such as a physical or learning disability, you should start the accommodation process now. Here is their website. This is for students who know or are pretty sure that they will be enrolling. Since the accommodation process takes an awfully long time, it is better to start it now.

Notes on the midyear report

Everyone must fill out the midyear report, even if they've been admitted, even if they graduated from high school eight years ago, even if they have already enrolled, and even if they live in Singapore. No one is safe.

Our midyear report is to be filled out online by you the student. You should have your report card or transcript handy, and your counselor's name, email address, and phone number. We only want final grades for your first term, not provisional grades, not exam grades, not advisory grades.

If your school has already sent your transcript or report card, that is fine - you do not need to fill out the midyear report, especially since you were admitted. However, the midyear report is a great way to tell us a funny joke you've learned since we last corresponded.

We did make a boo-boo on January 10 and make the midyear report available for a few hours, until we noticed the mistake. Then we closed it. If you filled out your midyear report on January 10 (about 90 do-gooders did this), you do not need to do it again. In fact, you cannot do it again.

If you were one of those 90 do-gooders, or you're any kind of do-gooder, and you want your midyear report unlocked because you made a mistake, email me at questions@phoenix.uchicago.edu with your full name.

This midyear report will be available on January 24. It will be due on February 4. If you do not have midyear grades by then, it will be available until March 1.

If you do not get grades because you go to moon school, or you are in Singapore and are taking A-levels, still log into the midyear report and answer as many questions as you can. You are not only reporting your midyear grades, you are also telling us you haven't gotten arrested in the last few months.

Students who are taking A-levels get their results around late February, and the midyear report is a great way to report your A-level results to us without having to mail them all the way over here.

We do not require an official transcript at this time - all students will be required to submit a final transcript by July 1.

In case you missed your phone-a-thon call...

If you want to talk to a current student, you should email psac@uchicago.edu posthaste. They check the email address twice a day, so your question should be answered promptly.

Last night's phone-a-thon

Hi guys! A few more details on last night's phone-a-thon: if you didn't get a call, don't worry. It continues tonight and tomorrow night. We admitted a bunch of you, and it will take us some time. We also call by time zone, starting with the East Coast and moving West.

You may remember an earlier post that I wrote about almost running into James Heckman, one of our Nobel laureates in economics. Well, last night he walked through the lobby during our phone-a-thon, and he was eyeing our pizza.

I'm not saying anything new: THIS WILL HAPPEN TO YOU. All. The. Time.

I can has phoneathon?

Starting tonight, the Prospective Students Advisory Committee and its volunteers will be calling students who were admitted early action. So, if you get a call from a current student at the University of Chicago, try to not to be too confused.

The conversation will probably go a lot like the one depicted above.