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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Chicago checked a lot of boxes for dc who was accepted ED1. In a city, prestigious/selective, smart student body, private, mid-size, beautiful campus. DC did not want huge Greek, tailgate culture or a SLAC. It was pretty much Columbia, Penn or Chicago and we are in NYC so definitely wanted someplace else. If it’s a fallback to HYPMS, well that’s a pretty amazing place to be. [/quote]

This also describes my DC exactly, who also chose ED1 to Chicago. Would he have taken a guaranteed spot at HYPMS instead? Yes. Would it have been smart to pass up ED1 to Chicago for the 0.01% chance his application somehow would have been randomly selected for HYP? Of course not. So yes, the higher acceptance rate was a factor in the decision, but it had nothing to do with the school's position on the US News list. [b]If his second choice to HYP had been Rice or Emory or anything else, he would have done ED1 to one of those instead. [/b][/quote]
And have less likelihood than Chicago of being admitted. Get it?[/quote]

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