Campus Resources
This office provides advising, workshops, and support specifically for first-generation, low-income students at UChicago.
What is the Center for College Student Success (CCSS)?
This form must be completed annually to qualify for need-based financial aid.
What is FAFSA?
This is the name of UChicago's first-year orientation program that helps students acclimate to campus life.
What is O-Week?
These professionals can help students select courses, plan their major, and navigate academic challenges.
Who are academic advisors?
UChicago’s health and counseling services are housed in this center.
What is Student Wellness?
This program pairs incoming students with a mentor to help them navigate academic and social aspects of college life.
What is the UChicago Peer Mentoring Program?
A type of financial aid that does not need to be repaid and is awarded based on financial need.
What is a grant?
These types of events provide a chance to meet professors outside of the classroom.
What are office hours?
Students struggling academically might visit this program through Student Wellness to build study skills or improve time management.
What is the Academic Skills Assessment Program (ASAP)?
UChicago's main gym, which offers fitness classes and workout facilities.
What is Ratner Athletics Center (Ratner)?
Name the UChicago program that provides funds to help cover unexpected expenses for students, such as emergency medical bills or travel costs.
What is the Emergency Fund?
This scholarship at UChicago specifically supports students who are the first in their families to attend college.
What is the First Phoenix Scholarship?
This larger-than-life campus building is a popular spot for studying, socializing, and grabbing a quick bite.
What is the Regenstein Library (the Reg)?
UChicago students use this online portal to register for classes, check grades, and access financial aid information.
What is my.uchicago?
This is quarterly event brings therapy dogs to campus, offering students an opportunity to socialize, lower anxiety, reduce loneliness, and have a healthy outlet for positive touch.
What is Pet Love?
This initiative offers FLI students opportunities to network with alumni and professionals from various fields.
What is the Center for Identity + Inclusion's "FLI Network"?
If you have an unpaid balance on your student account, you might be required to meet with this office to discuss payment options.
What is the Bursar's Office?
Name this free resource FLI students can affordably explore Chicago, such as attending cultural or sporting events.
What is using the UChicago Arts Pass?
This graduation requirement involves taking sequences of interdisciplinary courses during the first two/three years of undergraduate study at UChicago.
What is the Core?
Name one of the services provided by UChicago’s counseling center for mental health support.
What is individual counseling, group therapy, or workshops?
This resource helps students access free professional attire for interviews and events.
What is AKPsi's Professional Closet?
UChicago participates in this initiative, which promises a debt-free education for families earning less than $125,000 per year.
What is UChicago Empower?
A program that provides a free laptop and other tech resources to FLI students.
What is the IT Services TechBar?
This peer-based tutoring program for UChicago undergraduates is designed to provide one-on-one assistance and small-group support to undergraduate students in scientific and quantitative subjects, including chemistry, mathematics, statistics, physics, economics, and biology.
What are Core Tutors?
This program through CCSS offers peer support and advice from students who understand the FLI experience at UChicago.
What is Maroon Mentors?