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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So… last year, they had 20,000 applicants for their ED1/EA round with a total of 4-5 % acceptance rate (info from admitted students zoom in December, shortly after ED/EA decisions released).

CDS shows they had a total of 40K plus applicants for about 1600 total admits.

Can someone do the math on this on how they are able to have a 40% ED admit rate?[/quote]

According to UChicago they accept around 2,000 students: https://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/apply/class-2028-profile

The issue is that UChicago doesn't publicly disaggregate their ED0/ED1/ED2/EA rates, and when they do inform the public of the "early" admission rate, they lump everything together and state that their early admission rate is 4-5%. Most likely, UChicago is taking the vast majority of their admits through ED1, and admitting a much smaller portion through ED2 and EA. Hence it's not entirely out of the realm of possibility that in reality they could accept 1200 students from ED1 out of a pool of say 4000 ED1 applicants, for an ED1 admit rate of 30%. UChicago is not alone in doing this, since schools like Vanderbilt also doesn't disaggregate their ED1 and ED2 rate, along with not stating the exact number of students they take from early decision. It adds to a veneer of artificial selectivity. This is in contrast to UChicago peer schools like Duke and Johns Hopkins that are pretty transparent about publishing their unvarnished early decision admit rate along with the hard number of early decision applicants who get in from the early applicant pools.  
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