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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]U Chicago [/quote]

Seriously? What IS that?

There's the University of Chicago which is selective and very challenging.

And there's the University of Illinois-Chicago which is kind of a crappy school.[/quote]

PP, the University of Chicago is spectacular on a million different levels.  But it's always been disproportionally easy to get in.  That may be because it's known to be a "harder" school, and also because it's on a trimester system, so effectively there's a great deal more work than there is at comparably-ranked major research universities.  If you add the course-count for Chicago's Common Core courses to required basic foreign language proficiency and the courses required for a declared major, something like 2/3 of the courses are required, so there's little opportunity to mess around looking for easy electives.  So Chicago exhibits a greater element of self-selection among applicants than HYP, for example.  That said, the acceptance % has dropped every year for the past several.  Is Chicago "easy" to get in to?  No, never.  But it's a bit easier than a few comparables.  
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Actually, the acceptance rate at Chicago this year was about 9 %, so it's easier to get into than Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT and Stanford.    [/quote]

Yes, at 9% acceptance rate, it's a veritable safety school. [/quote]

Ah -- a rare sighting of humor on the College Forum.  [/quote]

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