ED1 to Chicago

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe I'm wrong but it seems like for many of the top schools, they stuff their class with ED applicants thereby making their yield look better. With their yield off the charts, their acceptance ratea plummet thereby making the school more attractive to the TikTok generation, driving ED apps, creating a cycle of impossibility.

In 2005 UCicago's acceptance rate was 40%!!!!!

In 2005, UChicago was not accessible through the Common App which means there were less applicants to the school and they were more self selective (have you seen their essay prompts?). The real culprit to these ridiculously low acceptance rates is the Common App which makes it easy to apply to 20 schools at a time and therefore inflates the number of applicants to these highly selective schools. Don't hate the player, hate the game.

Harvard's acceptance rate in 2005 was 10%.

It's been widely known that prior to UChicago's participation in the Common App, there were way less students interested in applying to that school. People do not apply to UChicago on a whim. If one is not interested in UChicago, they would not waste time on those essays.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Mediocre academics but coasting on high IQ + a quirky sport or instrument + full pay = UChicago ED1..

lol. How quaint. Arguably THE MOST rigorous academic school in the world somehow wants students mediocre in academics.

I'd like some of what you are smoking.

I’m a fan of UChicago, but I think MIT just said “hold my beer”

UChicago Math/Econ beats MIT - UChicago let freshmen start with intermediate economics and honors analysis freshman year

MIT also offers honors analysis (18.100B) and linear algebra (18.700) and Intermediate Economics (14.04) first-year:

https://firstyear.mit.edu/academics-exploration/general-institute-requirements-girs/science-core/

https://economics.mit.edu/academic-programs/undergraduate-program/minor-and-concentrations#:~:text=Any%20student%20who%20receives%20permission,any%20other%20majors%20or%20minors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1560 STEM kid, all rigor and straight As, quirky AF.

Applied RD and not even waitlisted.

ED is the only way to go for Chicago these days.

1570 STEM kid, all rigor and straight A’s, quirky AF.

Wrote a fabulous “uncommon essay”.

Got in RD and is there now.

If your kid is not confident they want to go to UChicago and do not wish to ED, have them apply RD. It works for a group of kids (mine being among them).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1560 STEM kid, all rigor and straight As, quirky AF.

Applied RD and not even waitlisted.

ED is the only way to go for Chicago these days.

1570 STEM kid, all rigor and straight A’s, quirky AF.

Wrote a fabulous “uncommon essay”.

Got in RD and is there now.

If your kid is not confident they want to go to UChicago and do not wish to ED, have them apply RD. It works for a group of kids (mine being among them).

Do we know how many were accepted RD vs all the other early rounds? Is it about half and half or is it weighted more towards ED?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1560 STEM kid, all rigor and straight As, quirky AF.

Applied RD and not even waitlisted.

ED is the only way to go for Chicago these days.

1570 STEM kid, all rigor and straight A’s, quirky AF.

Wrote a fabulous “uncommon essay”.

Got in RD and is there now.

If your kid is not confident they want to go to UChicago and do not wish to ED, have them apply RD. It works for a group of kids (mine being among them).

Do we know how many were accepted RD vs all the other early rounds? Is it about half and half or is it weighted more towards ED?

Last year, after the EA/ED round, they accepted about 5% of around 20,000 who applied. He did not specify how many were EA or how many were ED. This was per Dean Nondorf at a zoom welcome for admitted students in December, shortly after decisions were out for that round.

Others will want to argue this but that is what I heard as I participated in that zoom/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1560 STEM kid, all rigor and straight As, quirky AF.

Applied RD and not even waitlisted.

ED is the only way to go for Chicago these days.

1570 STEM kid, all rigor and straight A’s, quirky AF.

Wrote a fabulous “uncommon essay”.

Got in RD and is there now.

If your kid is not confident they want to go to UChicago and do not wish to ED, have them apply RD. It works for a group of kids (mine being among them).

Do we know how many were accepted RD vs all the other early rounds? Is it about half and half or is it weighted more towards ED?

It's far more difficult, especially coming from private school. Chicago will take any kid with a 3.75+ ED from our school but regular decision even the valedictorian did not get in (and did get in to 3 Ivies plus Stanford). This is a top private.

[Anonymous]

My son got in with ed1.
1540 SAT, top 10 percent of his class and nationally ranked in an individual sports.
He did not get recruited for his sport.
His classmate with very similar academic did ED2 got rejected.
Apply ED 1 if you are 100 percent sure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1560 STEM kid, all rigor and straight As, quirky AF.

Applied RD and not even waitlisted.

ED is the only way to go for Chicago these days.

1570 STEM kid, all rigor and straight A’s, quirky AF.

Wrote a fabulous “uncommon essay”.

Got in RD and is there now.

If your kid is not confident they want to go to UChicago and do not wish to ED, have them apply RD. It works for a group of kids (mine being among them).

Do we know how many were accepted RD vs all the other early rounds? Is it about half and half or is it weighted more towards ED?

Last year, after the EA/ED round, they accepted about 5% of around 20,000 who applied. He did not specify how many were EA or how many were ED. This was per Dean Nondorf at a zoom welcome for admitted students in December, shortly after decisions were out for that round.

Others will want to argue this but that is what I heard as I participated in that zoom/

When we visited admissions said they fill 25% of class in each of 4 rounds— ed1, ed2, ea, and rd. So only 25% of spots left for rd, which I find really disappointing. They didn’t specify acceptance rates for each (and instead like to boast about the low overall rates) but made clear they are much higher for ed, followed by ea and lowest for rd. If you look at application numbers, acceptance for rd is probably about 1% or lower. ED is probably closer to 20% and maybe higher.
My kid liked UChicago, but not enough to apply ed. So I guess we will roll the dice. Unfortunate that they put so much pressure on kids and use these tactics.

[Anonymous]

Lots of schools are big on Ed.
Vanderbilt, Wash u, Dartmouth, Hopkins

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lots of schools are big on Ed.
Vanderbilt, Wash u, Dartmouth, Hopkins

Yes, but none of those schools take 75% of the class prior to rd and they don’t have ea in addition to ed

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1560 STEM kid, all rigor and straight As, quirky AF.

Applied RD and not even waitlisted.

ED is the only way to go for Chicago these days.

1570 STEM kid, all rigor and straight A’s, quirky AF.

Wrote a fabulous “uncommon essay”.

Got in RD and is there now.

If your kid is not confident they want to go to UChicago and do not wish to ED, have them apply RD. It works for a group of kids (mine being among them).

That’s great! Congratulations! Your kid sounds like mine but you had better results. I think he’ll be ok at our large state school but it did sting a little…