Making connections. It’s in our core.

“What is so unique to the way that UChicago sets up the first year undergraduate experience is that you inevitably come to form very close relationships with people from so many distinct areas of your college life, with whom you have been placed in shared spaces; you will likely find your best friends in student housing or in your core classes. I relish the opportunity to connect my favorite people from these different facets of my life, and to form a web of community around me in so doing.

As a member of the soccer team, I arrived on campus in August for preseason. So, before I had even begun classes, I was surrounded by this really special community of incredibly smart, interesting, kind and driven girls. The soccer team is one of the many circles that I’ve cherished being a part of since the beginning of my undergraduate career.”

Anna Chard, Class of 2026, is majoring in law, letters and society and double minoring in philosophy and inequality, social problems and change (through the Crown School of Social Work). She’s a member of the UChicago Women’s Soccer team, works for the Admissions Office and conducts research at the Law School.