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The College of the University of Chicago is the university's sole undergraduate institution and one of its oldest components, emerging contemporaneously with the university at large in 1892. Instruction is provided by faculty from across all graduate divisions and schools for its 5100〔(【引用サイトリンク】author= Office of the University Registrar )〕 students; however, the College retains a select group of young, proprietary scholars who teach its core curriculum offerings. Unlike many major American research universities, the College is small in comparison to the University's graduate divisions, with graduate students outnumbering undergraduates at a 2:1 ratio. The College is most notable for its core curriculum pioneered by Robert Maynard Hutchins, which remains the most expansive amongst highly ranked American colleges, as well as its emphasis on preparing students for continued graduate study; 85% of graduates go onto graduate study within 5 years of graduation, which is higher than any other school, and around 15-20% of graduates go on to receive PhDs. ==Reputation and admissions== For 2014, ''U.S. News & World Report'' ranked the University of Chicago as 4th in the nation for undergraduate education, behind Princeton, Harvard, Yale, and tied with Columbia and Stanford. In 2012, ''Forbes'' magazine ranked the University of Chicago's undergraduate program 4th in the country, ahead of every Ivy League institution except Princeton; it was also ranked 1st in the Midwest, 3rd among research universities, and 4th among private colleges. In 2010, ''Forbes'' also named the University of Chicago a "billionaire university," ranking the university as the 6th most successful in the country for producing billionaire alumni. In 2007 ''Princeton Review'' named the College as having the "Best Undergraduate Academic Experience" in the United States. In the 2012 edition of ''The Best 376 Colleges'', the Princeton Review ranked UChicago 7th for politically active students, 9th for students who study the most, 13th for the best college library, and named it a "best-value college"; the Princeton Review moreover finds that in general applicants to UChicago also simultaneously apply to Ivy League institutions and their associates.〔(【引用サイトリンク】author= The Princeton Review )〕 In 2012, ''Newsweek'' ranked UChicago 5th for having happy students, 9th for academic rigor, and 12th for being stressful.〔,〕 In 2012, the ''QS World University Rankings'' ranked the University of Chicago as the 4th best institution of higher learning in the United States, after MIT, Harvard, and Yale, as well as 8th in the entire world. In addition, ''(College Crunch )'', an online college admissions resource, ranked the University of Chicago as 1st in the country among colleges and universities for its undergraduate college. The University also has the highest SAT ranges for admitted students of any school in the nation. For the class of 2015, the middle 50% range for combined math and reading SAT scores was 1420-1530. Up until the 2007-2008 admissions cycle the school exclusively used a self-dubbed "Uncommon Application", and did not accept the more popular, nationalized Common Application, which can be sent to multiple institutions, for collegiate admissions. However, in 2009, the school adopted the Common Application and included a supplement that kept the spirit of the Uncommon Application. The cornerstone of the previously used Uncommon Application and the current supplement is a unique set of essay questions that have attracted a lot of attention for the school. Prompts have ranged from the bizarre, “Write an essay somehow inspired by super-huge mustard,” to intentionally vague prompts such as "Find X" to esoteric quotes by famous individuals such as "mind that does not stick" - Zen Master Shoitsu (in this prompt, only the quote was provided; no question was asked). In the 2011-2012 season, there was a question that referenced a game in which students use Wikipedia to draw connections between seemingly unrelated things: "What does Play-Doh have to do with Plato?"〔(Uchicago.edu )〕 The school's acceptance rate fell to a record low of 7.8% for the class of 2019. In comparison, the acceptance rate was 8.4% for the class of 2018. The yield also hit a record-high 60.3% for the class of 2018, topping schools such as Dartmouth, Brown, and Cornell. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「College of the University of Chicago」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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