UChicago ED
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Anonymous
At DC’s private independent school, the top 10 percent of the class is known because of end-of-junior-year cum laude designation. This year, 2 of the top 10 percent kids got accepted to UChicago ED1. Among the non-cum laude kids, there are ED commits to Cornell, Rice, Dartmouth, Northwestern, Columbia, and Vanderbilt. Just to illustrate that at some schools, UChicago is the top choice for top students. |
Anonymous
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Overall acceptance rate last year was 4.8%. Roughly 60% of the applications were for ED.
40% ED acceptance??? 😆 Use your calculator, bro! |
Anonymous
It's a school with great academics but with really shady admission practices that turn people off. They take a lot of mediocre private school kids who study Business Econ there because regular Econ is too tough. |
Anonymous
Agreed about business Econ- it’s frankly really embarrassing and should be destroyed. But, I think it’s completely fair for an institution to want a good campus community and mostly have students who want to be there. |
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It is not only u Chicago, all these elite schools take majority of the kids with ED.
U Penn already took 50 percent of the class with ED1. Chicago takes 25 percent Ed1,25 percent ED2, 25 percent early action and 25 percent RD.must’s what they claim Business Econ definitely easier than economics at Chicago but compare to similar programs at BC or Georgetown still much more intense. |
Anonymous
I think this is a generalization. My kid might do Business Econ because she doesn’t know what to do. She also has an A in honors calc, a class some TJ kids dropped because it was too hard. |
Anonymous
At our private HS, Chicago puts some kids on waitlist if they apply EA and RD and then if the kid is interested they make them sign the ED document to accept them off the waitlist so they also have an unofficial ED3. So although it looks like the kids got in RD they manage yield even in RD through this tactic |
Anonymous
And now they have ED0 with the summer school applicants. I wonder how many students are entering through this program? |
Anonymous
Who “makes them” sign a document? Your private high school? All colleges with ED2 offer deferred EA students the option to switch to ED2. |
Anonymous
The person is saying the school contacts the "waitlisted" student and says the student will be accepted if he/she switches to ED2 right now. If the student doesn't switch, the student never comes off the "waitlist" (it's not a real waitlist). There are a bunch of schools that do this, but most of them are way less selective than Chicago. It's a strong-arm tactic because it gives the kid a span of a day or less to make a binding decision at a random time. |
Anonymous
Obviously, the 99% in top 10% of class comes from schools that rank. But this is the same for all colleges that report this datapoint in their CDS and otherwise. How else would they calculate it? This is not unique to Chicago. Most schools report a percentage. |
Anonymous
And I’m sure others wish they had taken that safer approach. |
Anonymous
They are not the only school that does this. |
Anonymous
Great! They are playing with the fears of 17 and 18 year olds. Good for them. If they are really that good, why are they worried that kids won’t accept the offer unless they make it binding? |
Anonymous
Where did you find that info? I don't believe that about the ED1/EA acceptance rate. There's a reason they don't reveal it in the CDS - it's embarrassingly high for such a "prestigious" institution. |