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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]University of Chicago is spamming high school students with promotional material.  Must be trying to pump up application numbers.[/quote]

I don't think they need to "pump" their #s. They are ranked #4 on USNWR and had a 9% acceptance rate this past year. Your kid probably won't get in.[/quote]

How do you think they got to a 9% acceptance rate? Other schools in the USNWR top 10 don't have to spam high schools. You don't see HYP trawling for applicants.

(I think Chicago is a great school for the right kid. But your snark made me go there....)[/quote]

[b]You clearly don't know much about the University of Chicago (or college applications generally). [/b]U of C lowered its acceptance rate by moving from a very intensive individual application to the "common" app, which is the same app used by all of the Ivies and most other so-called "top" schools. Previously, you had to really, really want to go to apply there because the application included numerous Chicago-specific essays (I believe it was the only university so highly ranked that required a separate application for many, many years); overnight, it became as easy to apply as the touch of a "mass mail" button, just like every other university in the top 10. You think mailing a few pamphlets to high school students could boost your app rates that significantly? Anyway, why do you think Columbia's app rates are so high? (And Penn, Dartmouth, Duke, etc.) The only schools that could probably (and I say probably because I'm not sure) maintain their current low acceptance levels without use of the common app are HYP. [/quote]

Was the bolded part really necessary? Let's at least try to be civil, shall we? I hope you people aren't actually affiliated with U Chicago.

I know plenty about college applications. Columbia and U Chicago both use the common app, with supplemental essays, and I also know that Columbia moved to the common app within just a few years. So they are on level playing ground in this respect, and your point about the Common App is irrelevant. They are not on level playing ground in terms of spamming. In any scientific endeavor, you control for what you can control for, then you ask what the difference is. In this case, it's the spamming. That said, U Chicago is a great school, I truly believe that.

How about, in your next response, you refrain from  snarking that anybody's children are too dumb to get into either school?[/quote]

Are you not the poster who used the terms "spamming" and "trawling" with respect to the University of Chicago? If so, you lost the civility game in you first post. By the way, Columbia (and others) routinely send promotional materials (spam, according to you) to minority candidates who do well on standardized tests. I guess no school is above trawling....  [/quote]

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