Chicago's new Provisional Acceptance program

[Anonymous]

https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/s/6KXpcaonx5

[Anonymous]

That's interesting! So for your kids who don't test well, just tell them to apply as transfer students.

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[Anonymous]

I think this is a great option for full pay test optional or lower score applicants. The transfers won't affect Chicago's average test score, or yield rate, or accpetance rate. It's a great tool to protect Chicago's reputation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think this is a great option for full pay test optional or lower score applicants. The transfers won't affect Chicago's average test score, or yield rate, or accpetance rate. It's a great tool to protect Chicago's reputation.

It's borderline sketchy. But it's consistent with the way Chicago is marketing ED so heavily to inflate its yield statistics.

[Anonymous]

Soon UChicago will offer binding early admission - to 9th graders.

[Anonymous]

UChicago is the worst.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Soon UChicago will offer binding early admission - to 9th graders.

+1 Contingent on having attended the UChicago summer program for 8th graders.

[Anonymous]

This is not new. Last year, a top stats kid from
DC’s school was offered this option. The student ended up going to UPenn.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is not new. Last year, a top stats kid from
DC’s school was offered this option. The student ended up going to UPenn.

Started last year. Great yield protection means.
No brainer they'd chose Penn (or any ivy) over Chicago, if they had a choice.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is not new. Last year, a top stats kid from
DC’s school was offered this option. The student ended up going to UPenn.

Started last year. Great yield protection means.
No brainer they'd chose Penn (or any ivy) over Chicago, if they had a choice.

My point was that the kid who got offered the guaranteed transfer had high stats and was very competitive. Hardly the low stats narrative that the Reddit thread was pushing. And the three other kids who got into UChicago were at least as good.

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/s/6KXpcaonx5

BU does this, too, and there are probably others.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/s/6KXpcaonx5

BU does this, too, and there are probably others.

Cornell has been doing this for decades. I was offered a spot in the following year’s class back in 1990 and now they have a transfer option.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/s/6KXpcaonx5

BU does this, too, and there are probably others.

Cornell has been doing this for decades. I was offered a spot in the following year’s class back in 1990 and now they have a transfer option.

This is not a new concept and many schools do something similar. But Chicago haters are always going to hate....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/s/6KXpcaonx5

BU does this, too, and there are probably others.

Cornell has been doing this for decades. I was offered a spot in the following year’s class back in 1990 and now they have a transfer option.

This is not a new concept and many schools do something similar. But Chicago haters are always going to hate....

Exactly