Admissions
Graduate Admissions
Online applications for 2012-13
- Online application
- Application fee
- Official copy of your most up-to-date transcript from each institution you attended
- Three confidential letters of recommendation (instructions available in the application)
- Writing Sample. Please send your best complete writing sample, regardless of length. (It is helpful if you flag up to 25 pages within longer samples.)
- Statement of Academic Purpose, discussing academic and career objectives
- GRE score report (please include photocopy in packet if scores being sent directly from ETS; test should be taken by October for scores to be received in time)
- TOEFL/IELTS score report for international applicants (please include photocopy in packet if scores being sent directly from ETS; test should be taken by October for scores to be received in time)
- Supplemental form (available as a PDF document in the application)
Supplementary required materials and questions regarding the application itself should be directed to:
University of Chicago
Division of Social Sciences
Office of Admissions
1130 E. 59th St., Room 105
Chicago, IL 60637
Phone: (773) 702-8415
Email: admissions@ssd.uchicago.edu
(After you submit the electronic application, you can log in to the application to see if supplemental materials have arrived.)
Deadline for 2012-2013: December 10, 2011
Frequently Asked Questions about Admissions
Please note: The History Department does not have an admissions brochure or paper applications to send. If the answer to your question cannot be found in our FAQs, please contact the department's Graduate Affairs Administrator, who will be happy to discuss any aspect of the admissions process.