If your child applied to UChicago what are their stats? Did they get accepted?

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UChicago doesn’t publish ED rates

And this is exactly why people on DCUM will say that everyone who applied ED will get in, the acceptance rate is sky-high, all the mediocre kids from their private are accepted, blah, blah, blah.

While it is infuriating that Chicago admissions plays games and lacks transparency, there is zero evidence that their ED acceptance rate is significantly different from their RD. Nobody knows!

My '25 kid applied ED1. MCPS. IBDP. 4.8UW, 1540. Great essays (that's what everyone says). 100% fit the profile of the 1-2 kids per year from our school that are accepted. Kid was rejected. We'll never know why, but they got into other great schools and are at an amazing college that is the perfect fit. Don't assume that all qualified ED kids get in. It's not true.

Nevertheless, the bottom line is that the stats of the UChicago first-year students are the same/indistinguishable from those of students at other top10 schools (as PP showed with the CDS data). The rest is noise.

This. That’s it. End of story.

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Anonymous wrote:DC was accepted.

1590 SAT
Top 10 percent in class (private)
NMSF
National awards in two fields related to major(s)

Forgot to mention: really good essays!

(That last thing is what UChicago cares about a lot).

Someday I’d like someone to admit their kid’s essays sucked

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Anonymous wrote:Who would want to go there. No thanks.

Wrong! Tons of kids wanted ED there. It’s a prestigious school.

If a school offers ED2, it cannot be a top school. Chicago offers ED0 on top of ED2.

This is silly. Anyone who knows academia knows Chicago is a top school.

Care more academics, less about admissions rounds.

If only Chicago could follow your advice. Anyone who knows academia knows that Chicago cares more about admission rounds and associated hijinks than any college in the country.

They do follow my advice. That’s why they are one of the top universities in the country.

College is far more than undergraduate admission policies. Some of you are way too deep in this and have lost sight of the forest.

Chicago is a great (though also declining) graduate school, as is consistent with its original mission. If by “one of the top universities in the country,” you mean grad school, I agree, with the caveat that it depends on the field.

A “top 10” undergrad school? Don’t be silly.

A “life of the mind” place? Hardly. 30% are majoring in Econ.

It is a place for kids who are hedging their bets. If you think Chicago is getting the top students, vis a vis other, actual top schools, you are nutty.

Is college more than having the top students? I guess. But it sure as heck helps.

In any T10 , the top quartile is filled with (top )brilliant students ( for MIT this could be as high as 50%) Rest 75% is riffraff and Uchicago is no exception.

This is so true it should be pinned at the top of the DCUM college board. My child is at an Ivy. Top kids are impressive. Lowest 25% are completely average kids and it's generally not because they're athletes (athletes are mostly from top high schools and are strong students). They are admits from middle America, small towns, some kids who are URMs/VIPs/legacies, tuba players, kids whose quirky essays caught the eye of the admissions' officers and who knows what else.

I assume you know this because your kid is completely average in the bottom 10%

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My unhooked public school kid has great stats (35 ACT, close to 4.0 GPA, decent ec's but nothing special) and wrote mediocre essays. Submitted EC2.

Let's see if they get in.