University of Chicago ED rejection?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There are posters on this thread who are determined not to believe UChicago admissions officers. Every year the AOs say at the admitted students' event what the acceptance rate is, at the ED1 welcome session. The last two years, ED1 has been 5% and this year even lower, around 4.2%. Just ask any amitted student who went to that event. Simple.

Bigger question is what percent of the class is admitted from ED0, ED1 and ED2. What percent of EA applicants get deferred and asked to apply to ED2.

Word is at least 90% of the class is admitted via some form of early decision. No idea re EA deferral.

+1. Yes. AT LEAST 90%, if not more. I have heard it is more. For the few hundred or so kids admitted RD, UChicago fares poorly in the cross admit battle with the schools it wants to say are its peers. I’m confident they yield protect in the RD round as well to boost their artificially high yield rate. It’s just hard to respect a school that engages its such tactics.

“Word is” Whose Word? “I have heard” Sources?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are posters on this thread who are determined not to believe UChicago admissions officers. Every year the AOs say at the admitted students' event what the acceptance rate is, at the ED1 welcome session. The last two years, ED1 has been 5% and this year even lower, around 4.2%. Just ask any amitted student who went to that event. Simple.

Bigger question is what percent of the class is admitted from ED0, ED1 and ED2. What percent of EA applicants get deferred and asked to apply to ED2.

Word is at least 90% of the class is admitted via some form of early decision. No idea re EA deferral.

+1. Yes. AT LEAST 90%, if not more. I have heard it is more. For the few hundred or so kids admitted RD, UChicago fares poorly in the cross admit battle with the schools it wants to say are its peers. I’m confident they yield protect in the RD round as well to boost their artificially high yield rate. It’s just hard to respect a school that engages its such tactics.

“Word is” Whose Word? “I have heard” Sources?

As in "I heard they're fake and that she dances for dollars"

This is hater logic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are posters on this thread who are determined not to believe UChicago admissions officers. Every year the AOs say at the admitted students' event what the acceptance rate is, at the ED1 welcome session. The last two years, ED1 has been 5% and this year even lower, around 4.2%. Just ask any amitted student who went to that event. Simple.

Bigger question is what percent of the class is admitted from ED0, ED1 and ED2. What percent of EA applicants get deferred and asked to apply to ED2.

Word is at least 90% of the class is admitted via some form of early decision. No idea re EA deferral.

+1. Yes. AT LEAST 90%, if not more. I have heard it is more. For the few hundred or so kids admitted RD, UChicago fares poorly in the cross admit battle with the schools it wants to say are its peers. I’m confident they yield protect in the RD round as well to boost their artificially high yield rate. It’s just hard to respect a school that engages its such tactics.

“Word is” Whose Word? “I have heard” Sources?

Name another top 15 private that forces people to enroll if admitted off waitlist

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There are posters on this thread who are determined not to believe UChicago admissions officers. Every year the AOs say at the admitted students' event what the acceptance rate is, at the ED1 welcome session. The last two years, ED1 has been 5% and this year even lower, around 4.2%. Just ask any amitted student who went to that event. Simple.

Bigger question is what percent of the class is admitted from ED0, ED1 and ED2. What percent of EA applicants get deferred and asked to apply to ED2.

Word is at least 90% of the class is admitted via some form of early decision. No idea re EA deferral.

+1. Yes. AT LEAST 90%, if not more. I have heard it is more. For the few hundred or so kids admitted RD, UChicago fares poorly in the cross admit battle with the schools it wants to say are its peers. I’m confident they yield protect in the RD round as well to boost their artificially high yield rate. It’s just hard to respect a school that engages its such tactics.

“Word is” Whose Word? “I have heard” Sources?

Name another top 15 private that forces people to enroll if admitted off waitlist

Forcing? Who? How? Oh, that must be “The Word.”

[Anonymous]

DP, heard that many times too, don’t know if true. Supposedly they call college counselor or kid directly, forget which, and ask if they are 100% sure they’d attend if taken off waitlist. If they say yes, then offered a spot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DP, heard that many times too, don’t know if true. Supposedly they call college counselor or kid directly, forget which, and ask if they are 100% sure they’d attend if taken off waitlist. If they say yes, then offered a spot.

Yes, a lot of conjecture on this forum. Either way, doesn’t sound like forcing…sounds like an opportunity.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DP, heard that many times too, don’t know if true. Supposedly they call college counselor or kid directly, forget which, and ask if they are 100% sure they’d attend if taken off waitlist. If they say yes, then offered a spot.

Yes, a lot of conjecture on this forum. Either way, doesn’t sound like forcing…sounds like an opportunity.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/comments/1chckza/uchicago_waitlist/

not a rumor at all. well documented. forced as in they won't admit you until you commit before acceptance. lolz.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DP, heard that many times too, don’t know if true. Supposedly they call college counselor or kid directly, forget which, and ask if they are 100% sure they’d attend if taken off waitlist. If they say yes, then offered a spot.

Yes, a lot of conjecture on this forum. Either way, doesn’t sound like forcing…sounds like an opportunity.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/comments/1chckza/uchicago_waitlist/

not a rumor at all. well documented. forced as in they won't admit you until you commit before acceptance. lolz.

that seems like the smart move. With a high number of people in the WL, why would they admit someone off the waitlist if they're not enrolling? They just move on to the next student to fill a spot.

It's extremely odd that people here think there is something sinister about yield management. I work at a school and the biggest problems arise from having numbers that are far off from predicted (whether high or low).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DP, heard that many times too, don’t know if true. Supposedly they call college counselor or kid directly, forget which, and ask if they are 100% sure they’d attend if taken off waitlist. If they say yes, then offered a spot.

Yes, a lot of conjecture on this forum. Either way, doesn’t sound like forcing…sounds like an opportunity.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/comments/1chckza/uchicago_waitlist/

not a rumor at all. well documented. forced as in they won't admit you until you commit before acceptance. lolz.

DP, Even if Reddit is ur sole source, I don’t see that as forcing someone to commit to a school they applied for. They can commit or decline. Similar thing happened to my kid at a different school and they had little to no time to decide. If it’s a school u really want then accept. If not, decline. Life is full of choices.
So there r schools that use this method that r not UChicago. Same way, going back to the OP’s question—there are ED rejections and EA and RD acceptances. But I am not going down that DCUM/UChicago rabbit hole where answers r not good enough and ppl rather rely on the almighty “word.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:“ It's when you think you're punching down and then get denied. It's entitlement.”

I don't think that’s quite right, or at least it’s not right in my kid’s case. He finds lots to like about UChicago and doesn’t think it’s beneath him—he’d be honored to go and applied ED2. It’s just the he was deferred in the early round by Yale and it sucks that he can’t wait-and-see if he gets in to Yale. The lack of RD at UChicago is a major bummer for kids who genuinely like the place, would be happy there, but want a chance to know their options.

In other words: it’s possible to be very excited by UChicago and still think their approach to RD is a major bummer for applicants, even if entirely rational from UChicago’s perspective.

In a better world, they’d leave more room for hope in RD.

While this may suck in an individual case, it makes sense for the greater uchicago community. They don’t want to admit Yale rejects, but students who absolutely want to go to Uchicago, no strings attached.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DP, heard that many times too, don’t know if true. Supposedly they call college counselor or kid directly, forget which, and ask if they are 100% sure they’d attend if taken off waitlist. If they say yes, then offered a spot.

Yes, a lot of conjecture on this forum. Either way, doesn’t sound like forcing…sounds like an opportunity.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/comments/1chckza/uchicago_waitlist/

not a rumor at all. well documented. forced as in they won't admit you until you commit before acceptance. lolz.

“Well documented” you mean one Reddit post that doesn’t even say quite the same thing that you’re suggesting. Lolz.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DP, heard that many times too, don’t know if true. Supposedly they call college counselor or kid directly, forget which, and ask if they are 100% sure they’d attend if taken off waitlist. If they say yes, then offered a spot.

Yes, a lot of conjecture on this forum. Either way, doesn’t sound like forcing…sounds like an opportunity.

Conjecture is generous. Half of these people seem to just be making things up. And then getting very angry about it.

[Anonymous]

Would you consider U Chicago for a very smart and social boy? Intellectual, but an extrovert that likes sports (playing and watching) and parties.

[Anonymous]

You apply to a school. You write the essays. You pay the fees. They call to offer you admission... and somehow you want them to beg? Why? They have already put a ton of hours into reviewing and discussing your application. They have other people to call if you aren't interested. Waiting for you to decide means their other pre-qualified candidates will move on. You sound self important

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You apply to a school. You write the essays. You pay the fees. They call to offer you admission... and somehow you want them to beg? Why? They have already put a ton of hours into reviewing and discussing your application. They have other people to call if you aren't interested. Waiting for you to decide means their other pre-qualified candidates will move on. You sound self important

I get they need to move quickly. They could do that in many ways. They could issue an exploding offer (must be accepted in 24 hours or we move on). Not issuing the offer until AFTER the commitment is a way to increase their yield. This particular method seems unexceptional to me though -- inoffensive.