Ending you Chicago haters once and for all

[Anonymous]

Far too shooty and broke now for my taste.
~$6.4 billion in bonds and notes payable. People still confuse U of C with UIC.

Good luck to new Maroons.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:UChicago’s stats are “sky high” in part due to their test-optional policy.

That’s actually false. The proportion of students submitting SAT/ACT (despite TO policy) is similar to other top schools.

So it's 100% of Chicago applicants like it is at Brown, Dartmouth, Harvard, Yale, Penn, and Cornell?

Add MIT, CalTech, Stanford, and Johns Hopkins. CMU is test flexible and will soon be test required.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not sure what this does to dispel the notion that Chicago is where fun goes to die.

Not according to their FIGI house, quite the opposite....

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Anonymous wrote:"98% top 10% of their class"

Most private schools don't calculate GPA or class rank for colleges so those students are not included in this statistic. Most UChicago kids from my kids private school are definitely not top 10%. We have cum laude and those kids rarely go to UChicago.

The private my oldest child attended had 6 go to Chicago last year and none were top 20% in the class. It's a choice for kids who want prestige but aren't top students.

Slightly different at our private, it is not where the top 10% go, but there are some top 20% who are risk averse to taking their chances in RD and EDII to UChicago after a deferral in REA ED. These are the kids most likely to regret it when they see where others get in RD.

Disagree, less poser/striver kids, more studious, serious. I'd take this group over a HPY striver any day, cerebral, thoughtful kids here!

[Anonymous]

Chicago is great. Great education, job placements, and a solid social scene. I could not care less whether it is ranked 6th, 16th, or 60th.

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Anonymous wrote:From our school the Chicago admits were overall stronger students than the HYP kids, most of whom had either non-academic hooks or curated resumes.

Rightly or wrongly, such is holistic admissions and a big part of selectivity. In terms of selectivity, Chicago is the easiest admit in the top 20, and several 20-something schools (Emory, Georgetown, USC) are tougher admits than Chicago if applying to Chicago ED.

I'd take slightly easier to get in for a solid education! Who cares if this is one of the best educations in the country, who wouldn't want this experience for their intellectual kid. Mine won't be caught dead with the bro types or sorority types, just saying, IYKYK

[Anonymous]

The people here who judge schools based solely on admit rates (that they don’t even actually know) have no idea how stupid they sound.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In a recent admitted students event, they shared the numbers. My DC attended and wrote this down

49,000 applications (SSEN, ED1, EA, ED2, RD)

98% top 10% of their class

21,000 applied EA/ED1
1000 admitted EA/ED1
5% admit rate in EA/ED1

Drumroll please…
18% admit rate in ED1

Loser.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Chicago is great. Great education, job placements, and a solid social scene. I could not care less whether it is ranked 6th, 16th, or 60th.

Because your kid is there! lol!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The people here who judge schools based solely on admit rates (that they don’t even actually know) have no idea how stupid they sound.

This. What's sad is you see kids doing it too.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The people here who judge schools based solely on admit rates (that they don’t even actually know) have no idea how stupid they sound.

This. What's sad is you see kids doing it too.

+1. I don’t even understand what OP’s point was.

[Anonymous]

I went to U of C many years ago and find these DCUM discussions so bizarre and untethered from reality.

It's a good school. To learn. End of story.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The people here who judge schools based solely on admit rates (that they don’t even actually know) have no idea how stupid they sound.

This. What's sad is you see kids doing it too.

+1. I don’t even understand what OP’s point was.

Now i think OP might be troll reporting fake data, which is not verifiable anyway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You won't end it until they stop the practice of soliciting applications from kids who are not likely to be accepted (spray and pray marketing).

+1

The amount of mailings my DS, who knew he was not Top 20 eligible, received was ridiculous.

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Anonymous wrote:UChicago’s stats are “sky high” in part due to their test-optional policy.

That’s actually false. The proportion of students submitting SAT/ACT (despite TO policy) is similar to other top schools.

Please don’t make statements that you know are not based on any fact. Whenever a school has a TO policy, the test scores of applicants are higher than that of other top ranked test required schools. Look at any school that was test req and then became TO and you’ll see the scores come down.

Otherwise please show the links verifying this statement.