Rising senior parents - don't do ED
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Texanviadelco
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At UChicago the intenship programs are phenomenal, especially with the Metcalf Internships that pay students even if they take a no-pay internship. |
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Your dc should go to where they can be happy and a good fit, not where ranking is high. |
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OP, you're generalizing from your particular story. There are just as many posters who say "Don't ED too high-you are wasting your one shot!"
Sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn't. The advice to rising seniors needs to be: Only ED if you will be genuinely happy that you got in. It's not that complicated. |
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Chicago is way better - and more rigorous- than WASP/ lower ivies…However , if your kid wants an easy path - or not sure of his/her talent - the latter option is advisable… |
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Dumb post, as usual. Keep it up. |
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| Sometimes I wonder if some of the top kids my my kid’s class could have or should have braved the RD pool and gotten into a school more highly ranked than their ED school, but it’s not my journey, not my kid and not my business. |
Texanviadelco
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UChicago “it’s a back-up to the Ivies” has student outcomes that rival all the Ivies including 99% return rate for first year students; 91% grad rate in 4 years and 96% grad rate in six years. And per US News a top 3 law school, top 4 grad business school, shared #1 Economics department and EVERY other academic department in the top 5 to 10. UChicago equals or exceeds every Ivy by any measurable standard. |
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Several other T20 schools also have an ED boost: Brown, Cornell, Penn, WashU, Vanderbilt. In fact, at all T20 schools that have ED, with the possible exception of Dartmouth (which is small and may focus ED on athletes and institutional priority kids), there's a pretty good boost for ED candidates over RD candidates. |
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I do think many college consultants pushed families and kids ED at Chicago. These consultants only cares so they could show admission results, didn’t consider fit and potential of the applicants.
Chicago ED acceptance rate is close to 40%. Easily a school that consultants love. |
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Brown and Penn do not have a boost, Cornell did until 2024 cycle where they started taking less in ED. The slightly higher admit rate is due to the pool applying, if you back all the hooks out it’s not an advantage. They say as much on their websites and from AO’s directly. |
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Ask your CCO |
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Exactly. This is why there can’t be a one-size-fits-all answer. It depends on your high school. It depends on where you are want to ED and if it is in fact, your top choice. It depends on your cohort from your high school and who else is applying/will apply to that school. It depends on the major. |
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Penn is the second largest ivy. Take 50% students from the ED pool. To say Penn doesn’t have an ED boost is incorrect. |