University of Chicago ED rejection?

[Anonymous]

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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.

I don’t buy it. Many of these schools even tell you there is an edge. Schools are not going to lower their standards ED but they will give priority to ED applicants of a certain level. Why wouldn’t they? The only thing restraining the school is not wanting to exceed a certain pct of the class that gets filled ED, maybe 60 pct being the ceiling although it’s sometimes higher

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

This is correct. And that is the difference at Chicago. Unhooked kids who full pay ED, generally get in. Not the case at Penn, Brown, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

This is correct. And that is the difference at Chicago. Unhooked kids who full pay ED, generally get in. Not the case at Penn, Brown, etc.

Chicago is need blind… that being said, when you take ED applications from private school, you don’t really have to worry about providing aid

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I don’t buy it. Many of these schools even tell you there is an edge. Schools are not going to lower their standards ED but they will give priority to ED applicants of a certain level. Why wouldn’t they? The only thing restraining the school is not wanting to exceed a certain pct of the class that gets filled ED, maybe 60 pct being the ceiling although it’s sometimes higher

Chicago's yield is astronomical - 90% I think? Which tells you they are filling WAY more than 60% of seats ED1/ED2. I would guess up to 80%.

[Anonymous]

There is a troll who bashes University of Chicago pretty consistently. Back again.

Dean of Admissions Nondorf said the ED1 admissions rate is 4-5% past two years. I believe the Dean of Admissions know the stats. I don't remember what % of the class that it.

My DCs love U Chicago, and yes, I went to HYP and was a top student there. I would have been about a B-C student at U Chicago, because I am pretty bad at math and there is no way to dodge it in Economics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is a troll who bashes University of Chicago pretty consistently. Back again.

Dean of Admissions Nondorf said the ED1 admissions rate is 4-5% past two years. I believe the Dean of Admissions know the stats. I don't remember what % of the class that it.

My DCs love U Chicago, and yes, I went to HYP and was a top student there. I would have been about a B-C student at U Chicago, because I am pretty bad at math and there is no way to dodge it in Economics.

You can go to Chicago and not major in economics, just like any other school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is a troll who bashes University of Chicago pretty consistently. Back again.

Dean of Admissions Nondorf said the ED1 admissions rate is 4-5% past two years. I believe the Dean of Admissions know the stats. I don't remember what % of the class that it.

My DCs love U Chicago, and yes, I went to HYP and was a top student there. I would have been about a B-C student at U Chicago, because I am pretty bad at math and there is no way to dodge it in Economics.

I mean, who cares about information that is direct from the source when you’re busy being bitter and licking your wounds, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is a troll who bashes University of Chicago pretty consistently. Back again.

Dean of Admissions Nondorf said the ED1 admissions rate is 4-5% past two years. I believe the Dean of Admissions know the stats. I don't remember what % of the class that it.

My DCs love U Chicago, and yes, I went to HYP and was a top student there. I would have been about a B-C student at U Chicago, because I am pretty bad at math and there is no way to dodge it in Economics.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is a troll who bashes University of Chicago pretty consistently. Back again.

Dean of Admissions Nondorf said the ED1 admissions rate is 4-5% past two years. I believe the Dean of Admissions know the stats. I don't remember what % of the class that it.

My DCs love U Chicago, and yes, I went to HYP and was a top student there. I would have been about a B-C student at U Chicago, because I am pretty bad at math and there is no way to dodge it in Economics.

Okay. Great. Then UChicago should publish this information like other schools do, listing the hard numbers and percentages of their early admission rate(s). It would make things so much easier and transparent instead of having to rely on hearsay statements of their Dean of Admissions claiming that their actual ED1 rate is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is a troll who bashes University of Chicago pretty consistently. Back again.

Dean of Admissions Nondorf said the ED1 admissions rate is 4-5% past two years. I believe the Dean of Admissions know the stats. I don't remember what % of the class that it.

My DCs love U Chicago, and yes, I went to HYP and was a top student there. I would have been about a B-C student at U Chicago, because I am pretty bad at math and there is no way to dodge it in Economics.

Okay. Great. Then UChicago should publish this information like other schools do, listing the hard numbers and percentages of their early admission rate(s). It would make things so much easier and transparent instead of having to rely on hearsay statements of their Dean of Admissions claiming that their actual ED1 rate is.

If it were said by some random undergraduate students then "hearsy" would be fair. But the DEAN OF ADMISSIONS has announced these statistics in public forums several times. That is not "hearsay"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is a troll who bashes University of Chicago pretty consistently. Back again.

Dean of Admissions Nondorf said the ED1 admissions rate is 4-5% past two years. I believe the Dean of Admissions know the stats. I don't remember what % of the class that it.

My DCs love U Chicago, and yes, I went to HYP and was a top student there. I would have been about a B-C student at U Chicago, because I am pretty bad at math and there is no way to dodge it in Economics.

Okay. Great. Then UChicago should publish this information like other schools do, listing the hard numbers and percentages of their early admission rate(s). It would make things so much easier and transparent instead of having to rely on hearsay statements of their Dean of Admissions claiming that their actual ED1 rate is.

If it were said by some random undergraduate students then "hearsy" would be fair. But the DEAN OF ADMISSIONS has announced these statistics in public forums several times. That is not "hearsay"

NP. Not a troll but also wary of U of C's admissions "stats." I put in quotes because no way ED is 4-5%. That figure may be true for all early apps, since so many apply EA then get deferred then waitlisted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is a troll who bashes University of Chicago pretty consistently. Back again.

Dean of Admissions Nondorf said the ED1 admissions rate is 4-5% past two years. I believe the Dean of Admissions know the stats. I don't remember what % of the class that it.

My DCs love U Chicago, and yes, I went to HYP and was a top student there. I would have been about a B-C student at U Chicago, because I am pretty bad at math and there is no way to dodge it in Economics.

Okay. Great. Then UChicago should publish this information like other schools do, listing the hard numbers and percentages of their early admission rate(s). It would make things so much easier and transparent instead of having to rely on hearsay statements of their Dean of Admissions claiming that their actual ED1 rate is.

If it were said by some random undergraduate students then "hearsy" would be fair. But the DEAN OF ADMISSIONS has announced these statistics in public forums several times. That is not "hearsay"

NP. Not a troll but also wary of U of C's admissions "stats." I put in quotes because no way ED is 4-5%. That figure may be true for all early apps, since so many apply EA then get deferred then waitlisted.

Agreed. the numbers don't make sense if just ed1 (or ed1 + ed2). must be ea included.

[Anonymous]

No way UChicago's ED acceptance rate is 4-5%. If it was they'd publish it, be transparent, and trumpet it. Every school jukes stats to put their best foot forward, but some (including UChicago) do it more than others. UChicago is still a great school and has come a long way in last twenty years (acceptance rate was about 40% in 2006). Still, lack of ED transparency is a red flag.

[Anonymous]

Honestly, I don't think they're a better school (with stronger students) now than they were when the acceptance rate was 40%.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No way UChicago's ED acceptance rate is 4-5%. If it was they'd publish it, be transparent, and trumpet it. Every school jukes stats to put their best foot forward, but some (including UChicago) do it more than others. UChicago is still a great school and has come a long way in last twenty years (acceptance rate was about 40% in 2006). Still, lack of ED transparency is a red flag.

This is like arguing with my ex. No amount of truth is good enough. Everything is questioned because someone else misled them before they met met.

You're just going to end up at home alone with no one willing to talk to you any more than absolutely necessary.