U of Chicago....The waitlist is going to open up!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UChicago admit rate 40% just 10 yrs ago:

https://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-chicago/780201-40-acceptance-rate.html

Yeah. So? That was ten years ago before they went to the Common App and increased their outreach effort. By your logic, if acceptance rate is an indicator of college quality, they must be fantastic now with a 7.1% acceptance rate. The truth is the school had been focused on improving the undergraduate experience at the college for over thirty years now and the results have begin to show in the last few years.

It has always been a fantastic institution but now it is also a great place to go to college notwithstanding your constant jealous rants


For those who are interested in the Chicago transformation read Dean Boyers book about all the hard work that happened and the lessons learned

The University of Chicago: A History

https://www.amazon.com/dp/022624251X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_v7mYAb6SSP69Q

Lol, if you want to know something about Donald Trump, you don't go talk to his sycophant son who knows where his meal tickets are. You might consider someone more onjective - or his enemies. You'll get a better picture this way. If you want to know about UChicago, you have to know their marketing technique of encouraging anyone and everyone to just apply - so it can reject them. UChicago approaches any HS students to apply, knowing most of them wouldn't get into a community college. This has been their MO going from once has-been school to a single digit admit school in 10 years.

[Anonymous]

It's not just the spam mail. I've been on two Chicago admissions tours. Both times the admissions officers went super overboard stressing how GPA and SAT/ACT are non-factors - they want unique people. They're "different" - "last year we accepted someone with a 22 on the ACT!" It was a total hustle to get gullible unqualified schmucks applying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Visiting with U of Chicago with my niece yesterday, met at least 100 kids that were accepted but not committed and most likely choosing other schools.(My niece has commited). It was very surprising. I even met a kid who was going to decline U of C to attend U of Richmond. I also met a very impressive kid from Herndon who attends South Lakes HS. Went on and on about how great the IB program there is-was also accepted at three U of CA schools and other top 10 schools. But said most likely going to attend UVA.

This is my first time visiting the campus and it is really beautiful. We had a wonderful tour guide and the school really went all out during the visit. My niece loves it.

You do realize that kids declining offers =/= going to the waitlist, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UChicago admit rate 40% just 10 yrs ago:

https://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-chicago/780201-40-acceptance-rate.html

Yeah. So? That was ten years ago before they went to the Common App and increased their outreach effort. By your logic, if acceptance rate is an indicator of college quality, they must be fantastic now with a 7.1% acceptance rate. The truth is the school had been focused on improving the undergraduate experience at the college for over thirty years now and the results have begin to show in the last few years.

It has always been a fantastic institution but now it is also a great place to go to college notwithstanding your constant jealous rants


For those who are interested in the Chicago transformation read Dean Boyers book about all the hard work that happened and the lessons learned

The University of Chicago: A History

https://www.amazon.com/dp/022624251X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_v7mYAb6SSP69Q

Lol, if you want to know something about Donald Trump, you don't go talk to his sycophant son who knows where his meal tickets are. You might consider someone more onjective - or his enemies. You'll get a better picture this way. If you want to know about UChicago, you have to know their marketing technique of encouraging anyone and everyone to just apply - so it can reject them. UChicago approaches any HS students to apply, knowing most of them wouldn't get into a community college. This has been their MO going from once has-been school to a single digit admit school in 10 years.

If you want to know about a school, you depend on dependable, reliable and credible sources, not some dingbat blockhead with an IQ of 70 who clearly got rejected from an elite school and has been unable to take the rejection. Don't worry though, if you are in Chicago, you can be a waiter at Valois and serve UChicago students and grovel for good tips.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UChicago admit rate 40% just 10 yrs ago:

https://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-chicago/780201-40-acceptance-rate.html

Yeah. So? That was ten years ago before they went to the Common App and increased their outreach effort. By your logic, if acceptance rate is an indicator of college quality, they must be fantastic now with a 7.1% acceptance rate. The truth is the school had been focused on improving the undergraduate experience at the college for over thirty years now and the results have begin to show in the last few years.

It has always been a fantastic institution but now it is also a great place to go to college notwithstanding your constant jealous rants


For those who are interested in the Chicago transformation read Dean Boyers book about all the hard work that happened and the lessons learned

The University of Chicago: A History

https://www.amazon.com/dp/022624251X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_v7mYAb6SSP69Q

Lol, if you want to know something about Donald Trump, you don't go talk to his sycophant son who knows where his meal tickets are. You might consider someone more onjective - or his enemies. You'll get a better picture this way. If you want to know about UChicago, you have to know their marketing technique of encouraging anyone and everyone to just apply - so it can reject them. UChicago approaches any HS students to apply, knowing most of them wouldn't get into a community college. This has been their MO going from once has-been school to a single digit admit school in 10 years.

If you want to know about a school, you depend on dependable, reliable and credible sources, not some dingbat blockhead with an IQ of 70 who clearly got rejected from an elite school and has been unable to take the rejection. Don't worry though, if you are in Chicago, you can be a waiter at Valois and serve UChicago students and grovel for good tips.

If this is the quality of UChicago alum, an uncritical "my alma mater, right or wrong" dingbat, I'll pass for a school that's gonna teach critical thinking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Visiting with U of Chicago with my niece yesterday, met at least 100 kids that were accepted but not committed and most likely choosing other schools.(My niece has commited). It was very surprising. I even met a kid who was going to decline U of C to attend U of Richmond. I also met a very impressive kid from Herndon who attends South Lakes HS. Went on and on about how great the IB program there is-was also accepted at three U of CA schools and other top 10 schools. But said most likely going to attend UVA.

This is my first time visiting the campus and it is really beautiful. We had a wonderful tour guide and the school really went all out during the visit. My niece loves it.

You do realize that kids declining offers =/= going to the waitlist, right?

A 2,300 admitted pool and a 76% yield means, that about 550 folks will land up turning down the offer. That is still lower than the 700+ kids who turn down their Columbia offers and over 1,300 students who turn down UPenn offers, Even at Harvard, about 300 kids turn down offers.

Notwithstanding all the misinformation thrown out by clueless and misinformed UChicago haters here, Uchicago just admitted less than 55% of the class in all their binding programs (based on figures released to parents and students by the school during admit weekends and admitted students information sessions, not 70% or 80% as charged by these haters) , or in line with Penn's ED policies. Given that, the 70+% yield is still impressive and similar to many Ivies with binding programs

Having said that, there will always be kids who turn down these offers. That is why every school make more offers than the class size.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Visiting with U of Chicago with my niece yesterday, met at least 100 kids that were accepted but not committed and most likely choosing other schools.(My niece has commited). It was very surprising. I even met a kid who was going to decline U of C to attend U of Richmond. I also met a very impressive kid from Herndon who attends South Lakes HS. Went on and on about how great the IB program there is-was also accepted at three U of CA schools and other top 10 schools. But said most likely going to attend UVA.

This is my first time visiting the campus and it is really beautiful. We had a wonderful tour guide and the school really went all out during the visit. My niece loves it.

You do realize that kids declining offers =/= going to the waitlist, right?

A 2,300 admitted pool and a 76% yield means, that about 550 folks will land up turning down the offer. That is still lower than the 700+ kids who turn down their Columbia offers and over 1,300 students who turn down UPenn offers, Even at Harvard, about 300 kids turn down offers.

Notwithstanding all the misinformation thrown out by clueless and misinformed UChicago haters here, Uchicago just admitted less than 55% of the class in all their binding programs (based on figures released to parents and students by the school during admit weekends and admitted students information sessions, not 70% or 80% as charged by these haters) , or in line with Penn's ED policies. Given that, the 70+% yield is still impressive and similar to many Ivies with binding programs

Having said that, there will always be kids who turn down these offers. That is why every school make more offers than the class size.

UChicago is unique in that it offers waitlisted students an opportunity at attend IF they agree to take a gap year. So, UChicago will admit waitlisted/gap year students, increasing their yield stats for next year. This, all in the name of UChicago yield stats! The extent to which UChicago will go never fails to amaze those who know how Chicago is gaming the USNews system.

[Anonymous]

U of C admissions has become the biggest marketing scam in the United States.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Visiting with U of Chicago with my niece yesterday, met at least 100 kids that were accepted but not committed and most likely choosing other schools.(My niece has commited). It was very surprising. I even met a kid who was going to decline U of C to attend U of Richmond. I also met a very impressive kid from Herndon who attends South Lakes HS. Went on and on about how great the IB program there is-was also accepted at three U of CA schools and other top 10 schools. But said most likely going to attend UVA.

This is my first time visiting the campus and it is really beautiful. We had a wonderful tour guide and the school really went all out during the visit. My niece loves it.

You do realize that kids declining offers =/= going to the waitlist, right?

A 2,300 admitted pool and a 76% yield means, that about 550 folks will land up turning down the offer. That is still lower than the 700+ kids who turn down their Columbia offers and over 1,300 students who turn down UPenn offers, Even at Harvard, about 300 kids turn down offers.

Notwithstanding all the misinformation thrown out by clueless and misinformed UChicago haters here, Uchicago just admitted less than 55% of the class in all their binding programs (based on figures released to parents and students by the school during admit weekends and admitted students information sessions, not 70% or 80% as charged by these haters) , or in line with Penn's ED policies. Given that, the 70+% yield is still impressive and similar to many Ivies with binding programs

Having said that, there will always be kids who turn down these offers. That is why every school make more offers than the class size.

UChicago is unique in that it offers waitlisted students an opportunity at attend IF they agree to take a gap year. So, UChicago will admit waitlisted/gap year students, increasing their yield stats for next year. This, all in the name of UChicago yield stats! The extent to which UChicago will go never fails to amaze those who know how Chicago is gaming the USNews system.

Honestly, I don't see what's wrong with this. If a kid wants UC and is willing to take the gap year, seems like a win/win to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Visiting with U of Chicago with my niece yesterday, met at least 100 kids that were accepted but not committed and most likely choosing other schools.(My niece has commited). It was very surprising. I even met a kid who was going to decline U of C to attend U of Richmond. I also met a very impressive kid from Herndon who attends South Lakes HS. Went on and on about how great the IB program there is-was also accepted at three U of CA schools and other top 10 schools. But said most likely going to attend UVA.

This is my first time visiting the campus and it is really beautiful. We had a wonderful tour guide and the school really went all out during the visit. My niece loves it.

You do realize that kids declining offers =/= going to the waitlist, right?

A 2,300 admitted pool and a 76% yield means, that about 550 folks will land up turning down the offer. That is still lower than the 700+ kids who turn down their Columbia offers and over 1,300 students who turn down UPenn offers, Even at Harvard, about 300 kids turn down offers.

Notwithstanding all the misinformation thrown out by clueless and misinformed UChicago haters here, Uchicago just admitted less than 55% of the class in all their binding programs (based on figures released to parents and students by the school during admit weekends and admitted students information sessions, not 70% or 80% as charged by these haters) , or in line with Penn's ED policies. Given that, the 70+% yield is still impressive and similar to many Ivies with binding programs

Having said that, there will always be kids who turn down these offers. That is why every school make more offers than the class size.

UChicago is unique in that it offers waitlisted students an opportunity at attend IF they agree to take a gap year. So, UChicago will admit waitlisted/gap year students, increasing their yield stats for next year. This, all in the name of UChicago yield stats! The extent to which UChicago will go never fails to amaze those who know how Chicago is gaming the USNews system.

Lol, when all else fails, just fling some shit up and see if it sticks. Again total nonsense. UChicago uses a waitlist and takes people off that list at about the same rate as other elite schools (Most schools take 0-80 folks of the waitlist, depending on the year) Most elite schools like UChicago have good enrollment management software and know precisely how many students will accept and decline and that is already built into the admit numbers. These schools have gotten very very good at data analysis. Among elite schools, Harvard is more famous for its Z-list than almost any other school and it is used primarily to give out favors to a small group of families who may be strategically important to the school, and not to juice up its yield numbers.

You clearly know nothing about how college admission works

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's not just the spam mail. I've been on two Chicago admissions tours. Both times the admissions officers went super overboard stressing how GPA and SAT/ACT are non-factors - they want unique people. They're "different" - "last year we accepted someone with a 22 on the ACT!" It was a total hustle to get gullible unqualified schmucks applying.

I have a junior DC and we just wrapped up spring break college touring. They're all like this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's not just the spam mail. I've been on two Chicago admissions tours. Both times the admissions officers went super overboard stressing how GPA and SAT/ACT are non-factors - they want unique people. They're "different" - "last year we accepted someone with a 22 on the ACT!" It was a total hustle to get gullible unqualified schmucks applying.

I have a junior DC and we just wrapped up spring break college touring. They're all like this.

No. They are not all like this. UChicago and Swarthmore in particular know how marketing works.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Visiting with U of Chicago with my niece yesterday, met at least 100 kids that were accepted but not committed and most likely choosing other schools.(My niece has commited). It was very surprising. I even met a kid who was going to decline U of C to attend U of Richmond. I also met a very impressive kid from Herndon who attends South Lakes HS. Went on and on about how great the IB program there is-was also accepted at three U of CA schools and other top 10 schools. But said most likely going to attend UVA.

This is my first time visiting the campus and it is really beautiful. We had a wonderful tour guide and the school really went all out during the visit. My niece loves it.

You do realize that kids declining offers =/= going to the waitlist, right?

A 2,300 admitted pool and a 76% yield means, that about 550 folks will land up turning down the offer. That is still lower than the 700+ kids who turn down their Columbia offers and over 1,300 students who turn down UPenn offers, Even at Harvard, about 300 kids turn down offers.

Notwithstanding all the misinformation thrown out by clueless and misinformed UChicago haters here, Uchicago just admitted less than 55% of the class in all their binding programs (based on figures released to parents and students by the school during admit weekends and admitted students information sessions, not 70% or 80% as charged by these haters) , or in line with Penn's ED policies. Given that, the 70+% yield is still impressive and similar to many Ivies with binding programs

Having said that, there will always be kids who turn down these offers. That is why every school make more offers than the class size.

UChicago is unique in that it offers waitlisted students an opportunity at attend IF they agree to take a gap year. So, UChicago will admit waitlisted/gap year students, increasing their yield stats for next year. This, all in the name of UChicago yield stats! The extent to which UChicago will go never fails to amaze those who know how Chicago is gaming the USNews system.

Lol, when all else fails, just fling some shit up and see if it sticks. Again total nonsense. UChicago uses a waitlist and takes people off that list at about the same rate as other elite schools (Most schools take 0-80 folks of the waitlist, depending on the year) Most elite schools like UChicago have good enrollment management software and know precisely how many students will accept and decline and that is already built into the admit numbers. These schools have gotten very very good at data analysis. Among elite schools, Harvard is more famous for its Z-list than almost any other school and it is used primarily to give out favors to a small group of families who may be strategically important to the school, and not to juice up its yield numbers.

You clearly know nothing about how college admission works

If you know how colleges are gaming the system, you'll be able to see through the illusion. You'll be able to see things for what they are. As Jesus said: "truth shall set you free." That's was your job during the 4 yrs you were in college, to learn to think critically.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Visiting with U of Chicago with my niece yesterday, met at least 100 kids that were accepted but not committed and most likely choosing other schools.(My niece has commited). It was very surprising. I even met a kid who was going to decline U of C to attend U of Richmond. I also met a very impressive kid from Herndon who attends South Lakes HS. Went on and on about how great the IB program there is-was also accepted at three U of CA schools and other top 10 schools. But said most likely going to attend UVA.

This is my first time visiting the campus and it is really beautiful. We had a wonderful tour guide and the school really went all out during the visit. My niece loves it.

You do realize that kids declining offers =/= going to the waitlist, right?

A 2,300 admitted pool and a 76% yield means, that about 550 folks will land up turning down the offer. That is still lower than the 700+ kids who turn down their Columbia offers and over 1,300 students who turn down UPenn offers, Even at Harvard, about 300 kids turn down offers.

Notwithstanding all the misinformation thrown out by clueless and misinformed UChicago haters here, Uchicago just admitted less than 55% of the class in all their binding programs (based on figures released to parents and students by the school during admit weekends and admitted students information sessions, not 70% or 80% as charged by these haters) , or in line with Penn's ED policies. Given that, the 70+% yield is still impressive and similar to many Ivies with binding programs

Having said that, there will always be kids who turn down these offers. That is why every school make more offers than the class size.

UChicago is unique in that it offers waitlisted students an opportunity at attend IF they agree to take a gap year. So, UChicago will admit waitlisted/gap year students, increasing their yield stats for next year. This, all in the name of UChicago yield stats! The extent to which UChicago will go never fails to amaze those who know how Chicago is gaming the USNews system.

Honestly, I don't see what's wrong with this. If a kid wants UC and is willing to take the gap year, seems like a win/win to me.

Sure. Nothing wrong. But if you want to understand the yield stats, this is how Chicago does it. Waitlisted students who commit to a gap year are locked in for next year's stats purpose. This is how Chicago does it. Once you know how Chicago is gaming the system, you won't have to be in awe of this school. Any state school with 40% admit ratio, if they have the marketing funding, can become Chicago caliber in 10 years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UChicago admit rate 40% just 10 yrs ago:

https://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-chicago/780201-40-acceptance-rate.html

Yeah. So? That was ten years ago before they went to the Common App and increased their outreach effort. By your logic, if acceptance rate is an indicator of college quality, they must be fantastic now with a 7.1% acceptance rate. The truth is the school had been focused on improving the undergraduate experience at the college for over thirty years now and the results have begin to show in the last few years.

It has always been a fantastic institution but now it is also a great place to go to college notwithstanding your constant jealous rants


For those who are interested in the Chicago transformation read Dean Boyers book about all the hard work that happened and the lessons learned

The University of Chicago: A History

https://www.amazon.com/dp/022624251X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_v7mYAb6SSP69Q

Lol, if you want to know something about Donald Trump, you don't go talk to his sycophant son who knows where his meal tickets are. You might consider someone more onjective - or his enemies. You'll get a better picture this way. If you want to know about UChicago, you have to know their marketing technique of encouraging anyone and everyone to just apply - so it can reject them. UChicago approaches any HS students to apply, knowing most of them wouldn't get into a community college. This has been their MO going from once has-been school to a single digit admit school in 10 years.

If you want to know about a school, you depend on dependable, reliable and credible sources, not some dingbat blockhead with an IQ of 70 who clearly got rejected from an elite school and has been unable to take the rejection. Don't worry though, if you are in Chicago, you can be a waiter at Valois and serve UChicago students and grovel for good tips.

If this is the quality of UChicago alum, an uncritical "my alma mater, right or wrong" dingbat, I'll pass for a school that's gonna teach critical thinking.

Don't worry. You won't get that opportunity. They won't take you. So no need to pass