UChicago Reports Nation's Highest Yield Rate 87.8% for Class of 2027

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Anonymous wrote:U Chicago is hard. My kids are there, and sometimes I really wish they had chosen another school because it is very difficult and very unforgiving. You can fail classes even if you work incredibly hard, because you just don't get the math or have a bad day on the final. Plus it is nerve wracking to get a 40/100 on the final, think you failed (and in fact you did based on absolute score) then have it curved to an A-.
I do think the mail is intended to really entice the intellectual life of the mind kids, because some mail was really weird and intellectually abstract but also funny. I think Chicago is trying to find their people... and for the record I think my kids were some of those people, but it's no joke there.
I don't understand why people call the school second rate or think its gaming the system somehow - I actually think they are going really broad with marketing to find the kids who can succeed in what is essentially a rigorous graduate school that in the past 100 years added undergraduate programs an expects the undergrads to perform like grad students.

All of this. My kid is a recent grad.

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I don’t think it’s second rate at all, but I do think all the massaging of the admit and yield rates has sparked a trend that overall has not been a positive for kids and families. So many schools are so focused on the ED round that the strategizing needed is worse than ever and more confusing than ever. It is dangerously easy to overshoot in ways that was not the case in a prior generation. Kids feel so much pressure to ED now and parents feel pressure to pay. Wish they didn’t.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think it’s second rate at all, but I do think all the massaging of the admit and yield rates has sparked a trend that overall has not been a positive for kids and families. So many schools are so focused on the ED round that the strategizing needed is worse than ever and more confusing than ever. It is dangerously easy to overshoot in ways that was not the case in a prior generation. Kids feel so much pressure to ED now and parents feel pressure to pay. Wish they didn’t.

Agreed, theyre missing out on very talented RD kids. Im not saying they should go as extreme as Columbia or Duke who take a very small portion of their class through ED and leave the vast majority of slots for RD kids, but at least be similar to Northwestern by going ~50-55% of the class through ED.

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This whole thing is starting to sound like blah blah blah McDonald's should be more like Burger King. I want to go to McDonald's but my favorite dessert is at Panera.

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How's this for east coast bias analytical reasoning- when I picture a typical student career path at UChicago, it's either him going to work for the World Bank or work underground on some laser thing.

For a Northwestern student, he's going to write for some magazine or go to some law school.

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Anonymous wrote:I do believe U Chicago is one the best academic institutions in America and internationally.
If they are gaming the system is it because they are looking to attract more kids with different backgrounds to apply ?
Is it more name recognition?

They are not "gaming the system". These are posts from people who have looked at a few statistics and decided they know something everyone else is too dumb to realize and they want to show you how special they are.

Yet many of them do not have a definition for "gaming the system". Many of them claim that UChi does this to improve their ranking and don't know that these numbers are not included in the rankings and haven't been for years. They haven't done an iota of reading about the thing they are claiming. It's way past shameful and on to silly.

You people should either do your homework or stop posting on a topic you know nearly nothing about. You might misinform someone in a way that matters. Don't you care about that?

Will always find it difficult to see a University that gave us trickle down and the laffer curve as anything but 3rd rate

+100

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Anonymous wrote:Any university that needs to bombard kids with two flyers and half a dozen emails per week is 2nd tier.

No 1st tier university prostitutes itself like U Chicago.

They're trying to compete but it will never be harvard.

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My son never applied to U Chicago. He wanted a more fun school and ended up at a lower ivy. I think U Chicago has a hard time shaking off the slogan - Where fun goes to die. Lots of kids get turned off by that.

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U Chicago takes a ton of private school kids.
They have a direct relationship with many private schools to absorb many of their strong but tier 2 students. They don’t care about poor or middle class kids at all

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Now I know where lost socks go :😆

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If you admit students all from ED, which is what Chicago is essentially practicing, your yield rate will be 100%. So it doesn’t mean anything. Honestly, real yield rate should be calculated only based on the non-ED admits.

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Anonymous wrote:My son never applied to U Chicago. He wanted a more fun school and ended up at a lower ivy. I think U Chicago has a hard time shaking off the slogan - Where fun goes to die. Lots of kids get turned off by that.

They should. That means it's not a good fit for them. UChicago is just different and students who are a good fit will appreciate that. Others should and do apply elsewhere.

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Anonymous wrote:My son never applied to U Chicago. He wanted a more fun school and ended up at a lower ivy. I think U Chicago has a hard time shaking off the slogan - Where fun goes to die. Lots of kids get turned off by that.

They should. That means it's not a good fit for them. UChicago is just different and students who are a good fit will appreciate that. Others should and do apply elsewhere.

Who actually appreciates- Where fun goes to die? Kids who believe in slogging through life? I guess I can’t relate.

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Anonymous wrote:My son never applied to U Chicago. He wanted a more fun school and ended up at a lower ivy. I think U Chicago has a hard time shaking off the slogan - Where fun goes to die. Lots of kids get turned off by that.

They should. That means it's not a good fit for them. UChicago is just different and students who are a good fit will appreciate that. Others should and do apply elsewhere.

Who actually appreciates- Where fun goes to die? Kids who believe in slogging through life? I guess I can’t relate.

Well, MIT, Caltech, and the CS students at a number of schools (e.g., Berkeley, CMU, etc.) are even tougher. Few people are smart enough to relate, but many complain about income inequality. Which profession produced the largest number of billionaires in the past three decades?