U Chicago acceptance
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Anonymous
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Did he eventually go to u Chicago?
We are getting post cards from every schools you can imagine Ivy’s to the schools that I did not know even they existed. |
Anonymous
Who are you asking? I complained about the trees in the message above. My kid didn't go to Chicago and never had any contact with Chicago to initiate the deluge. |
Anonymous
Why do EA? Is there somewhere else he prefers? As a previous poster noted, unless you have complicated finances, most of the net price calculators are accurate (certainly was for us at UChicago). Will he be happy if the result is a lack of acceptance, when he could have been accepted during ED 1? Sure, there are lots of kids that get accepted EA and RD, but my impression is that EA is used to build diversity, ED is used to broadly fill the University's goal of bringing in talented kids, and then RD is used to fill in with characteristics they are missing. Sometimes I think that families think that they should postpone these tough decisions until later in the process, but that generally leads to worse results. Have a clear strategy, and decide up front what types of trade-offs you are willing to make. For example, for a high stats kid with no athletic commitment: If your ultimate goal is to pay the least amount possible, and you will not change your mind, even if your kid got into Harvard, then apply to the University of Alabama, and other choices in that ilk. Gamble on lower ranked liberal arts schools where your child will be attractive. If your ultimate goal is to get into an Ivy (minus Cornell, maybe), and you at least fit the profile, and you would not be disappointed because you missed out on Northwestern, UChicago, Rice, etc. then single choice early action there and make sure you have some safeties (high likelihood you will need them). If you would be disappointed to have missed out on Universities like Rice, Cornell, Northwestern, UChicago and the like where ED makes a difference, then ED to one of those. Maybe have an ED2 plan. Of course, be qualified. Check out your finances on all of these choices beforehand. The Rice, Northwestern, etc. schools are highly accurate. |
Anonymous
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Agreed that ED1 is better odds than ED2 is better than EA is about equal to (maybe worse than) RD.
Sometimes, I see posters saying that ED doesn't improve your odds once you account for legacies, athletes, etc. They may be right for some schools. But they are not right for schools like Chicago, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, UVA, Penn, and Brown. Even for schools where ED is not such a heavy thumb on the scale, ED is almost always a bit better odds than RD even once you back out athletes, legacies, etc. I wonder if people who argue loudly against ED strategy are parents of kids who want a smaller ED pool for their kids. |
Anonymous
This. Chicago is very concerned about yield. You want to get in? Apply ED 1 |
Anonymous
| Chicago doesn't want to be anyone's second choice. Your son's odds are MUCH better ED than EA or RD. |
Anonymous
*1. Learn which institutions are praying the USNWR ratings games. Chicago is one of the. Yes they care about yield. Which means apply ED1 |
Anonymous
Yield is not used in the USNWR ranking methodology. Neither is acceptance rate: https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/how-us-news-calculated-the-rankings |
Anonymous
ALL the top colleges are playing the USNWR rankings game. Some more openly than others. But yield is not one of the factors in that. Colleges care about yield for other, financial, reasons. More certainty helps planning for staff and accommodations. |