UChicago ED
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Anonymous
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There is no UChicago ED acceptance rate published anywhere, by anyone. UChicago does not release this information.
They are not the only college that hides this information. Typically the reason for the lack of trasparency is to hide a rate that can be perceived as an outlier when compared to its peers. Again, others engage in this practice. |
Anonymous
Not really. Chicago is the only top school I am aware of that does this. If you want to name them (Colby?), go head. But you can’t because there are none. Again, you can’t. |
Anonymous
If you think Chicago takes only 50% of its class ED, I have a bridge to sell you. |
Anonymous
I think this only illustrates that it is “known” you have to apply ED to get into Chicago. That makes it a “top choice.” But US News aside, all these other schools are tougher ED admits. |
Anonymous
Just shows you have to play the game. You can apparently get in to top schools being outside the top 10% but all bets are off for everyone, including top students, in RD. This is true at most schools, not just UChicago. Too many top kids don’t play the game well and instead try for HYP and are disappointed. |
Anonymous
DP. I was thinking 80%+ ED myself. And, I don't think that makes ED acceptance higher than 35%, they just have so many applying EA who get deferred then waitlisted, and if they get in off wailtist, they probably don't count them. |
Anonymous
DP, These stats was announced by the Director of Admissions last January. |
Anonymous
DP. The hitch with that rate is that it melds EA into ED1. EA is probably less than 1% with far more applicants. |
Anonymous
ED2 also had a similar rate. |
Anonymous
Anyone know if they tend to waitlist students, as opposed to rejecting them, who were deferred in EA and chose not to do ED2 but go with RA? Following is from some website about letter of continued interest for deferred students (It seems to imply that ED2 is the only logical choice left): From a statistical perspective, your best chance of admission is EDII. If you do not opt into EDII, it doesn’t really matter how much you say you love UChicago in a letter of continued interest (more on that below), because you didn’t love them enough to double down with going EDII. If you didn’t apply Early Decision originally, applying Early Action instead, you’ll need to proactively switch your application to EDII. |
Anonymous
PP says ED0 is 40% acceptance, but that isn’t surprising since the kids were already vetted through the summer program application process. |
Anonymous
No, that info was not “disclosed.” The supposed 5% ED1/EA rate is also bogus because EA kids are almost all deferred to corner them into going ED2. That ultimate acceptance rate (including those sticking with RD after being deferred) would need to be factored in. Suffice to say, an ED1 admit at Chicago is much easier than, say, Georgetown EA — as we all should know. |
Anonymous
Columbia. |
Anonymous
Columbia does publish the info. From the Columbia College / Columbia Engineering common data set: Number of early decision applications received by your institution: 5,733 Number of applicants admitted under early decision plan: 840 |
Anonymous
| Chicago emphasizes ED because it want kids who really want to be there instead of just there because they didn't get into a "more prestigious" school. It has unusual, time consuming essay prompts for the same reason. They also take a lot of private school kids because they know those kids can handle the load and many have tuition $. Bottom line is it's a top school with top academics but their admissions approach is a bit different. |