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

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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?

Oh do go on. You are amusing at this point.

Yes, I was talking about you. Exactly you. You are ignorant of the facts and apparently have no interest in changing that. I am glad you find that amusing. It would pain me to learn that about myself.

Man. You are so hysterically defensive. It’s funny.

This isn’t a hard math problem, my friend. What Chicago does and how the rankings are calculated are easy to figure out. You can see what the school does. I know this bothers you deeply which is why you’re having a total meltdown, but that doesn’t change the underlying mathematics.

Keep fuming.

I'm not fuming. I am continuing to be amazed on how you refuse to accept certain basic facts.

Such as the fact that acceptance rate and yield are not used in USN ranking calculations.

I know that? Like I said, the ranking calculations are easy to figure out. The stats are public. Idk why that causes you to have a total meltdown but whatever.

If you know that, why would you say they do these things for the rankings?

And I’m not melting down, I am simply pointing out inaccurate information. From you. In the hope you will stop.

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Glad to hear U of Chicago and all the other schools have stopped playing the rankings marketing game!!

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Those who say that UChicago is a second-rate institution of higher education are ignorant.

UChicago's ranking in academic fields (U.S. News and World Report):

#1 in Business School
#3 in Law
#3 in English
#3 in Statistics
#4 in Economics
#5 in History
#6 in Mathematics
#7 in Physics
#7 in Sociology
#8 in Public Affairs
#9 in Chemistry
#10 in Political Science
#11 in Biology Science

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I thought economics is number 1

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Anonymous wrote:In the current crazy college admission environment, the ED option at Chicago is a wonderful thing for some kids.

At DD’s private school, the top unhooked students go to Chicago. The kids who go to Ivies are (almost without exception) legacies, URR, or athletic recruits.

My DC is a junior with very high stats (4.0 unweighted GPA with highest rigor and 36 ACT) and is at the top of their class. Favorite schools are Chicago, Swarthmore, and Yale. But Yale is a crapshoot, so they are likely to ED at Chicago or Swarthmore next year. Looking at the SCOIR scatter plots, there is something reassuring in knowing that you can actually get in to your dream school if you have done the work in high school.

Agreed. DC got into one of those RD high stats no hooks.

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RD at U Chicago is extremely difficult, if it is the school of your choice ED 1or 2

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Anonymous wrote: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

I wouldn't call them tier 2 students. They tend to be high-stats unhooked kids. 4.0 and 1,600 is not tier 2.

Actually only tier 3, 4 students go to U Chicago. At least that has been the case with TJ.

I thank TJ kills many bright teenagers’ future by focusing on science and technology so early in life and by working them too hard.

I agree, though, that the “best” TJ students go to top 5, most tier 2 go to other Ivies or Berkeley, etc. Most TJ students probably do not like UChicago because of the Core. Their writing and humanities cannot compare to top private school kids. The number of TJ students going to Ivies went down greatly in recent years, but UChicago is taking over 10 students from TJ recently. Some of these students are tier 2.

How many tiers are you dividing the students into? 100? Why not say tier 1 goes to no.1 school, tier 2 goes to no.2 school? What does tier actually mean?

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Anonymous wrote: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

I wouldn't call them tier 2 students. They tend to be high-stats unhooked kids. 4.0 and 1,600 is not tier 2.

Actually only tier 3, 4 students go to U Chicago. At least that has been the case with TJ.

I thank TJ kills many bright teenagers’ future by focusing on science and technology so early in life and by working them too hard.

I agree, though, that the “best” TJ students go to top 5, most tier 2 go to other Ivies or Berkeley, etc. Most TJ students probably do not like UChicago because of the Core. Their writing and humanities cannot compare to top private school kids. The number of TJ students going to Ivies went down greatly in recent years, but UChicago is taking over 10 students from TJ recently. Some of these students are tier 2.

How many tiers are you dividing the students into? 100? Why not say tier 1 goes to no.1 school, tier 2 goes to no.2 school? What does tier actually mean?

Just someone spoiling for a fight I think