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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is zero information out there about UChicago's ED acceptance rate.  If it was low, you bet your bottom dollar that they would publish it far and wide.

They don't.  And that tells you something. Absence of evidence and all of that.[/quote]

I have heard the Dean Nondorf discuss it in several open forums. On Zoom calls with newly admitted students and in person at Rockefeller Chapel.

Your "absence of evidence" shows only that you were absent from these events.[/quote]

I think they mean that they are pretty fuzzy with actual numbers.  For example combining EA with ED as one number, such that ED 1 rate isn't really clear.  Their last CDS 2023-24 has some holes, they dont share ED numbers.  Other schools are selective in what they share and of course there is a reason, whatever that may be.  But it's cleat they dont want that info out there.

Its know that Chicago will send emails to EA applicants to push for ED 2.  They are also known to waitlist and then make phone calls secure assurance of acceptance.  There is a reason their yield is so high (yes, its a great school, but still relatively high vs peers)

At an info session last summer, the question was asked about acceptance rates in each round.  The answer was very precise. ~"We take about the same number of students from each round".  Now if a student applies EA, receives an email to apply ED 2 and accepts, are they counted in EA or ED2?  IF a student applies EA, passes on ED2 is waitlisted and called of the waitlist, are the counted as EA or RD?  There is now way to tell because the dont disclose.

A while back, out of curiosity I ran some scenarios in a spreadsheet given what I was told at the info session.  Generally across the selective schools I have looked at, ED seems to get ~9-13% of the total applications.  No idea what EA gets, but I would guess the given some are encouraged to ED2, this may be on the high side.  Last CDS, Chicago had about 40K applicants, so at 15%  for ED, that would be about 6k.  Of this they are taking more than 50% of their class of about 1850 students.  That alone, suggests the ED+ED2 rate is at least 15-16%. If we assume some are taken EA, the RD would be sub 2%, which makes sense since so many students apply outside the ED1/2 rounds.  I would also guess the EA rate is pretty low, but better than RD.

The overall rate in the last cds was ~4.5%, so that too suggest the ED rounds are probably 3-4x higher.  I would guess ED1 is in the 20-25% range and ED in the 8-12% range, with more students applying ED2 than 1[/quote]

Nope. This presentation was months before the other rounds. You don't have information and are running imaginary scenarios in Excel. Lady, why don't you just listen to the people who were in the room?[/quote]

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