University of Chicago ED rejection?

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, I know of 1 rejection last year and 2 this year. All very strong students.

Just to add that there were 2 acceptances this year too. Both kids in the top 10 percent of the class. Lower ranked kids (not top 10) were accepted to Dartmouth, Cornell, Columbia.

That just tells you that those 2 kids could have aimed higher. instead they settled for a school with a 40% ED accept rate.

For the love of Pete--perhaps they wanted to attend Chicago. 99% of the world outside of DCUM does not make their college decision on rank.

Maybe, but let's be for real. No one choose Chicago over an Ivy. Which is why Chicago has to play all these crazy games with admissions. It really is to their detriment and they should stop ASAP. But it sounds like they are absolutely desperate for $$.

There are many nerdy kids who choose Chicago. One of the kids that was accepted ED Chicago was encouraged to apply to HYP but chose Chicago. My own kid would also choose Chicago over Dartmouth, Cornell, Penn, etc.

My kid is going to Chicago next year and you would never call him a nerd. He is highly academic and had no interest in "party schools," but he is sporty, social, and a lot of fun.
Would he have chose Penn over Chicago? Probably, but he wouldn't have gotten in.

PP again. I didn’t mean “nerdy” as a negative thing. My own kid is very athletic and social.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, I know of 1 rejection last year and 2 this year. All very strong students.

Just to add that there were 2 acceptances this year too. Both kids in the top 10 percent of the class. Lower ranked kids (not top 10) were accepted to Dartmouth, Cornell, Columbia.

That just tells you that those 2 kids could have aimed higher. instead they settled for a school with a 40% ED accept rate.

For the love of Pete--perhaps they wanted to attend Chicago. 99% of the world outside of DCUM does not make their college decision on rank.

Maybe, but let's be for real. No one choose Chicago over an Ivy. Which is why Chicago has to play all these crazy games with admissions. It really is to their detriment and they should stop ASAP. But it sounds like they are absolutely desperate for $$.

There are many nerdy kids who choose Chicago. One of the kids that was accepted ED Chicago was encouraged to apply to HYP but chose Chicago. My own kid would also choose Chicago over Dartmouth, Cornell, Penn, etc.

My DC also chose Chicago as their #1 and did not even consider HYP. Really liked the overall vibe and it incredibly happy. If there wasn't a post like this every other day, I say it's a troll, but I know some people will never understand why someone would actively choose to go to a non Ivy if they had the stats to do so.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, I know of 1 rejection last year and 2 this year. All very strong students.

Just to add that there were 2 acceptances this year too. Both kids in the top 10 percent of the class. Lower ranked kids (not top 10) were accepted to Dartmouth, Cornell, Columbia.

That just tells you that those 2 kids could have aimed higher. instead they settled for a school with a 40% ED accept rate.

For the love of Pete--perhaps they wanted to attend Chicago. 99% of the world outside of DCUM does not make their college decision on rank.

Maybe, but let's be for real. No one choose Chicago over an Ivy. Which is why Chicago has to play all these crazy games with admissions. It really is to their detriment and they should stop ASAP. But it sounds like they are absolutely desperate for $$.

Well considering the financial situation UChicago is in, it's no surprise they are so focused o filling their classes via full-pay boarding school kids applying ED1:

https://chicagomaroon.com/40872/news/expect-growing-pains-university-presentation-reveals-severe-financial-pressures/

https://www.chicagobusiness.com/education/fitch-lowers-uchicagos-financial-outlook-negative

https://www.chicagobusiness.com/opinion/university-chicago-has-debt-problem-opinion

https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-u-of-chicago-is-feeling-a-financial-squeeze

https://chicagomaroon.com/41402/news/weathering-the-storm-university-presents-plans-to-close-budget-deficit-by-2028/

Most of these are paywalled, but this seems VERY bad,

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, I know of 1 rejection last year and 2 this year. All very strong students.

Just to add that there were 2 acceptances this year too. Both kids in the top 10 percent of the class. Lower ranked kids (not top 10) were accepted to Dartmouth, Cornell, Columbia.

That just tells you that those 2 kids could have aimed higher. instead they settled for a school with a 40% ED accept rate.

For the love of Pete--perhaps they wanted to attend Chicago. 99% of the world outside of DCUM does not make their college decision on rank.

Maybe, but let's be for real. No one choose Chicago over an Ivy. Which is why Chicago has to play all these crazy games with admissions. It really is to their detriment and they should stop ASAP. But it sounds like they are absolutely desperate for $$.

Idiot. My kid got a lot of attention from a few Ivies. We visited Harvard, Princeton, JHU, etc. He fell in love with UChicago and got in ED. And, since we are actually living check to check, he got great FA.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, I know of 1 rejection last year and 2 this year. All very strong students.

Just to add that there were 2 acceptances this year too. Both kids in the top 10 percent of the class. Lower ranked kids (not top 10) were accepted to Dartmouth, Cornell, Columbia.

That just tells you that those 2 kids could have aimed higher. instead they settled for a school with a 40% ED accept rate.

Where r u getting the 40% acceptance rate for ED? Reddit?

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, I know of 1 rejection last year and 2 this year. All very strong students.

Just to add that there were 2 acceptances this year too. Both kids in the top 10 percent of the class. Lower ranked kids (not top 10) were accepted to Dartmouth, Cornell, Columbia.

That just tells you that those 2 kids could have aimed higher. instead they settled for a school with a 40% ED accept rate.

For the love of Pete--perhaps they wanted to attend Chicago. 99% of the world outside of DCUM does not make their college decision on rank.

Maybe, but let's be for real. No one choose Chicago over an Ivy. Which is why Chicago has to play all these crazy games with admissions. It really is to their detriment and they should stop ASAP. But it sounds like they are absolutely desperate for $$.

Right? It's such a joyless place. The only reason people go there is because they don't have the confidence they'd get into Brown, but want the elite name.

Curious where ur kid goes to school and if their “confidence” was able to get them I to an Ivy.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, I know of 1 rejection last year and 2 this year. All very strong students.

Just to add that there were 2 acceptances this year too. Both kids in the top 10 percent of the class. Lower ranked kids (not top 10) were accepted to Dartmouth, Cornell, Columbia.

That just tells you that those 2 kids could have aimed higher. instead they settled for a school with a 40% ED accept rate.

For the love of Pete--perhaps they wanted to attend Chicago. 99% of the world outside of DCUM does not make their college decision on rank.

Maybe, but let's be for real. No one choose Chicago over an Ivy. Which is why Chicago has to play all these crazy games with admissions. It really is to their detriment and they should stop ASAP. But it sounds like they are absolutely desperate for $$.

Idiot. My kid got a lot of attention from a few Ivies. We visited Harvard, Princeton, JHU, etc. He fell in love with UChicago and got in ED. And, since we are actually living check to check, he got great FA.

Same, right down to the great financial aid.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, I know of 1 rejection last year and 2 this year. All very strong students.

Just to add that there were 2 acceptances this year too. Both kids in the top 10 percent of the class. Lower ranked kids (not top 10) were accepted to Dartmouth, Cornell, Columbia.

That just tells you that those 2 kids could have aimed higher. instead they settled for a school with a 40% ED accept rate.

For the love of Pete--perhaps they wanted to attend Chicago. 99% of the world outside of DCUM does not make their college decision on rank.

Maybe, but let's be for real. No one choose Chicago over an Ivy. Which is why Chicago has to play all these crazy games with admissions. It really is to their detriment and they should stop ASAP. But it sounds like they are absolutely desperate for $$.

There are many nerdy kids who choose Chicago. One of the kids that was accepted ED Chicago was encouraged to apply to HYP but chose Chicago. My own kid would also choose Chicago over Dartmouth, Cornell, Penn, etc.

My DC also chose Chicago as their #1 and did not even consider HYP. Really liked the overall vibe and it incredibly happy. If there wasn't a post like this every other day, I say it's a troll, but I know some people will never understand why someone would actively choose to go to a non Ivy if they had the stats to do so.

No one knows if their kid would actually choose Chicago over HYPMS because Chicago only takes kids most of their kids via ED so it's not really a choice people make. But most kids would take HYPMS, Wharton, Brown over UChicago,

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, I know of 1 rejection last year and 2 this year. All very strong students.

Just to add that there were 2 acceptances this year too. Both kids in the top 10 percent of the class. Lower ranked kids (not top 10) were accepted to Dartmouth, Cornell, Columbia.

That just tells you that those 2 kids could have aimed higher. instead they settled for a school with a 40% ED accept rate.

For the love of Pete--perhaps they wanted to attend Chicago. 99% of the world outside of DCUM does not make their college decision on rank.

Maybe, but let's be for real. No one choose Chicago over an Ivy. Which is why Chicago has to play all these crazy games with admissions. It really is to their detriment and they should stop ASAP. But it sounds like they are absolutely desperate for $$.

There are many nerdy kids who choose Chicago. One of the kids that was accepted ED Chicago was encouraged to apply to HYP but chose Chicago. My own kid would also choose Chicago over Dartmouth, Cornell, Penn, etc.

My DC also chose Chicago as their #1 and did not even consider HYP. Really liked the overall vibe and it incredibly happy. If there wasn't a post like this every other day, I say it's a troll, but I know some people will never understand why someone would actively choose to go to a non Ivy if they had the stats to do so.

No one knows if their kid would actually choose Chicago over HYPMS because Chicago only takes kids most of their kids via ED so it's not really a choice people make. But most kids would take HYPMS, Wharton, Brown over UChicago,

Exactly. Chicago plays preys on the fears of wealthy parents of high stats kids that if they don't commit to Chicago in December or January, their child will be shut out of T20 schools in March. Other schools that compete with the Elite 7 (Hopkins, Georgetown, Rice, Duke, Northwestern, Vandy) don't feel the need to do this, which makes you wonder. A lot.
(I am ignoring Cornell in this discussion deliberately - because of the land grant and wildly differing acceptance rates between the various schools, they don't really fit into this).

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, I know of 1 rejection last year and 2 this year. All very strong students.

Just to add that there were 2 acceptances this year too. Both kids in the top 10 percent of the class. Lower ranked kids (not top 10) were accepted to Dartmouth, Cornell, Columbia.

That just tells you that those 2 kids could have aimed higher. instead they settled for a school with a 40% ED accept rate.

For the love of Pete--perhaps they wanted to attend Chicago. 99% of the world outside of DCUM does not make their college decision on rank.

Maybe, but let's be for real. No one choose Chicago over an Ivy. Which is why Chicago has to play all these crazy games with admissions. It really is to their detriment and they should stop ASAP. But it sounds like they are absolutely desperate for $$.

There are many nerdy kids who choose Chicago. One of the kids that was accepted ED Chicago was encouraged to apply to HYP but chose Chicago. My own kid would also choose Chicago over Dartmouth, Cornell, Penn, etc.

My DC also chose Chicago as their #1 and did not even consider HYP. Really liked the overall vibe and it incredibly happy. If there wasn't a post like this every other day, I say it's a troll, but I know some people will never understand why someone would actively choose to go to a non Ivy if they had the stats to do so.

No one knows if their kid would actually choose Chicago over HYPMS because Chicago only takes kids most of their kids via ED so it's not really a choice people make. But most kids would take HYPMS, Wharton, Brown over UChicago,

Exactly. Chicago plays preys on the fears of wealthy parents of high stats kids that if they don't commit to Chicago in December or January, their child will be shut out of T20 schools in March. Other schools that compete with the Elite 7 (Hopkins, Georgetown, Rice, Duke, Northwestern, Vandy) don't feel the need to do this, which makes you wonder. A lot.
(I am ignoring Cornell in this discussion deliberately - because of the land grant and wildly differing acceptance rates between the various schools, they don't really fit into this).

Sigh…why is it so hard to comprehend that people have different preferences? Some kids (mine included) reallu, really liked UChicago. The ED allows the student-school matching to happen early.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, I know of 1 rejection last year and 2 this year. All very strong students.

Just to add that there were 2 acceptances this year too. Both kids in the top 10 percent of the class. Lower ranked kids (not top 10) were accepted to Dartmouth, Cornell, Columbia.

That just tells you that those 2 kids could have aimed higher. instead they settled for a school with a 40% ED accept rate.

For the love of Pete--perhaps they wanted to attend Chicago. 99% of the world outside of DCUM does not make their college decision on rank.

Maybe, but let's be for real. No one choose Chicago over an Ivy. Which is why Chicago has to play all these crazy games with admissions. It really is to their detriment and they should stop ASAP. But it sounds like they are absolutely desperate for $$.

There are many nerdy kids who choose Chicago. One of the kids that was accepted ED Chicago was encouraged to apply to HYP but chose Chicago. My own kid would also choose Chicago over Dartmouth, Cornell, Penn, etc.

My DC also chose Chicago as their #1 and did not even consider HYP. Really liked the overall vibe and it incredibly happy. If there wasn't a post like this every other day, I say it's a troll, but I know some people will never understand why someone would actively choose to go to a non Ivy if they had the stats to do so.

No one knows if their kid would actually choose Chicago over HYPMS because Chicago only takes kids most of their kids via ED so it's not really a choice people make. But most kids would take HYPMS, Wharton, Brown over UChicago,

Exactly. Chicago plays preys on the fears of wealthy parents of high stats kids that if they don't commit to Chicago in December or January, their child will be shut out of T20 schools in March. Other schools that compete with the Elite 7 (Hopkins, Georgetown, Rice, Duke, Northwestern, Vandy) don't feel the need to do this, which makes you wonder. A lot.
(I am ignoring Cornell in this discussion deliberately - because of the land grant and wildly differing acceptance rates between the various schools, they don't really fit into this).

Sigh…why is it so hard to comprehend that people have different preferences? Some kids (mine included) reallu, really liked UChicago. The ED allows the student-school matching to happen early.

Because some people do DO this- ED to UChicago because they consider it a lower tier, a safety, a backup. And then lo and behold, their children get denied admission. So they get extra salty about it. It’s like being rejected by the person you thought you were settling for. How dare they?!
So it’s not really a UChicago problem, it’s a problem of overconfidence on the part of these people.

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The lesson here is to not ED to UChicago because you think you'll gain some kind of advantage. You won't.

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Anonymous wrote:The lesson here is to not ED to UChicago because you think you'll gain some kind of advantage. You won't.

Of course you will. You will at every school that has ED. All things being equal they would rather admit a student who is obliged to attend than one who might screw up their acceptance stats by not attending.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, I know of 1 rejection last year and 2 this year. All very strong students.

Just to add that there were 2 acceptances this year too. Both kids in the top 10 percent of the class. Lower ranked kids (not top 10) were accepted to Dartmouth, Cornell, Columbia.

That just tells you that those 2 kids could have aimed higher. instead they settled for a school with a 40% ED accept rate.

For the love of Pete--perhaps they wanted to attend Chicago. 99% of the world outside of DCUM does not make their college decision on rank.

Maybe, but let's be for real. No one choose Chicago over an Ivy. Which is why Chicago has to play all these crazy games with admissions. It really is to their detriment and they should stop ASAP. But it sounds like they are absolutely desperate for $$.

There are many nerdy kids who choose Chicago. One of the kids that was accepted ED Chicago was encouraged to apply to HYP but chose Chicago. My own kid would also choose Chicago over Dartmouth, Cornell, Penn, etc.

My DC also chose Chicago as their #1 and did not even consider HYP. Really liked the overall vibe and it incredibly happy. If there wasn't a post like this every other day, I say it's a troll, but I know some people will never understand why someone would actively choose to go to a non Ivy if they had the stats to do so.

No one knows if their kid would actually choose Chicago over HYPMS because Chicago only takes kids most of their kids via ED so it's not really a choice people make. But most kids would take HYPMS, Wharton, Brown over UChicago,

HYPMS over UChicago - I get that. But is Brown over UChicago obvious?

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Anonymous wrote:The lesson here is to not ED to UChicago because you think you'll gain some kind of advantage. You won't.

Of course you will. You will at every school that has ED. All things being equal they would rather admit a student who is obliged to attend than one who might screw up their acceptance stats by not attending.

You won’t gain a significant advantage at the highly rejective schools. Once you remove the athletes, legacies, donor kids, and other special cases from the ED pool, the admit rate for unhooked kids in ED isn’t much different from RD.