Univ of Chicago ED Acceptance Rate

[Anonymous]

Absolutely true!!
That was our case, he got in and he is pretty happy at UC.

[Anonymous]

From USNWR in 11/23
Northwestern: Avg SAT: 1514
Franklin W. Olin: Avg SAT: 1515
Brown: Avg SAT: 1517
Harvard: Avg SAT: 1520
Carnegie Mellon: Avg SAT: 1521
Yale: Avg SAT: 1524
Princeton: Avg SAT: 1526
Stanford: Avg SAT: 1527
UPenn: Avg SAT: 1527
Washington University: Avg SAT: 1527
Dartmouth: Avg SAT: 1528
MIT: Avg SAT: 1543
University of Chicago: Avg SAT: 1545

[Anonymous]

Our large public is sending absolutely top students to Chicago for ED2. These are kids who apply SCEA to HYP and get denied. A generation ago, they would have been shoo-ins at HYP. Now they go to Chicago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It just seems like if the true ED rate was 5%, there would be a large group of parents whose kids were denied warning others not to apply, saying it’s a “waste of the ED card” and so forth. And in fact we see that group of parents complaining about Chicago RD, but not ED. What we see for ED is a big group of satisfied private school parents telling us that their children applied ED and were accepted. Which suggests that the ED rate is pretty high, at least if you have certain stats and are applying from certain high schools, so that the application process from those schools is pleasantly predictable.

At our private ED+ED2 has close to 70 percent success rate at Chicago. Self selected group of students applying obviously.

which school? in DMV?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:From USNWR in 11/23
Northwestern: Avg SAT: 1514
Franklin W. Olin: Avg SAT: 1515
Brown: Avg SAT: 1517
Harvard: Avg SAT: 1520
Carnegie Mellon: Avg SAT: 1521
Yale: Avg SAT: 1524
Princeton: Avg SAT: 1526
Stanford: Avg SAT: 1527
UPenn: Avg SAT: 1527
Washington University: Avg SAT: 1527
Dartmouth: Avg SAT: 1528
MIT: Avg SAT: 1543
University of Chicago: Avg SAT: 1545

Chicago is permanently test optional.

MIT is test required.

If you truly believe that the kids accepted to Chicago test optional have higher SAT scores than the kids accepted to MIT, you are unfathomably naive.

Chicago is a very, very good school. It’s a great choice for full-pay students from expensive private schools or wealthy public schools who can apply ED. Trying to prove it’s the best school makes you look foolish.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:From USNWR in 11/23
Northwestern: Avg SAT: 1514
Franklin W. Olin: Avg SAT: 1515
Brown: Avg SAT: 1517
Harvard: Avg SAT: 1520
Carnegie Mellon: Avg SAT: 1521
Yale: Avg SAT: 1524
Princeton: Avg SAT: 1526
Stanford: Avg SAT: 1527
UPenn: Avg SAT: 1527
Washington University: Avg SAT: 1527
Dartmouth: Avg SAT: 1528
MIT: Avg SAT: 1543
University of Chicago: Avg SAT: 1545

Chicago is permanently test optional.

MIT is test required.

If you truly believe that the kids accepted to Chicago test optional have higher SAT scores than the kids accepted to MIT, you are unfathomably naive.

Chicago is a very, very good school. It’s a great choice for full-pay students from expensive private schools or wealthy public schools who can apply ED. Trying to prove it’s the best school makes you look foolish.

NP, I don’t think the previous poster was trying to prove “it’s the best school.” That’s a foolish comment. This is statistical information they are presenting from USNWR (and I don’t think USNWR was making the claim it’s “the best school” either). But it is data. And there are parts of this thread that seem to be data driven or at least demanding data. So like all TO schools listed it’s a good FYI reference point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:From USNWR in 11/23
Northwestern: Avg SAT: 1514
Franklin W. Olin: Avg SAT: 1515
Brown: Avg SAT: 1517
Harvard: Avg SAT: 1520
Carnegie Mellon: Avg SAT: 1521
Yale: Avg SAT: 1524
Princeton: Avg SAT: 1526
Stanford: Avg SAT: 1527
UPenn: Avg SAT: 1527
Washington University: Avg SAT: 1527
Dartmouth: Avg SAT: 1528
MIT: Avg SAT: 1543
University of Chicago: Avg SAT: 1545

Chicago is permanently test optional.

MIT is test required.

If you truly believe that the kids accepted to Chicago test optional have higher SAT scores than the kids accepted to MIT, you are unfathomably naive.

Chicago is a very, very good school. It’s a great choice for full-pay students from expensive private schools or wealthy public schools who can apply ED. Trying to prove it’s the best school makes you look foolish.

Haha.... you remind me of a Marvel comic book villain from the 80s called Foolkiller.



We are not even close to wealthy. Financial / Merit aid is covering 90% of the fees. And the stats were competitive. 1540 with a 4.8 wGPA.

I really love your hat, BTW

[Anonymous]

Same. Similar stats—and definitely NOT full pay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:99% of early admits were in top 10% of class.

I find this hard to believe considering that most privates and a lot of publics do not rank.

It’s probably 99% of early admits who submitted class rank were in the top 10% of the class.

Ha ha. Yes, that is a big difference.

we've discussed this .. on this thread.

also, if this is news: SAT/ACT averages are also for kids who submit them.

[Anonymous]

Yup. My impression too having gone through the process w 2 DCs. For kids who would be competitive at HYP (and shoo-ins a decade ago), Chicago ED and ED2 offer a solid likelihood of acceptance. If the weather/quarter system/core is not an issue, Chicago ED/ED2 are great options. For those willing to continue to roll the dice or are put off by weather etc, RD is probably the way to go (except the likelihood is much lower and is getting worse).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So far at least 8 kids from Sidwell are in

how about STA/NCS?

STA has 8 students accepted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yup. My impression too having gone through the process w 2 DCs. For kids who would be competitive at HYP (and shoo-ins a decade ago), Chicago ED and ED2 offer a solid likelihood of acceptance. If the weather/quarter system/core is not an issue, Chicago ED/ED2 are great options. For those willing to continue to roll the dice or are put off by weather etc, RD is probably the way to go (except the likelihood is much lower and is getting worse).

This summarizes it well folks.

[Anonymous]

100 percent agreed.
It is a really good and challenging school in a beautiful city.
This winter was the warmest in Chicago’s history.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So far at least 8 kids from Sidwell are in

how about STA/NCS?

STA has 8 students accepted.

And quite a few of those have much weaker GPA than those rejected ED2 ( after rejects at HYPS).
It is a much less predictable group at UC from STA this year

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:100 percent agreed.
It is a really good and challenging school in a beautiful city.
This winter was the warmest in Chicago’s history.

Great crime stats too👍