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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Outside of the DCUM world, there are huge numbers of public school kids who are unaware that it is nearly impossible to get into ED schools like Tulane, NYU and UChicago, among others, unless they apply ED.  Schools are harvesting application RD application fees from them and using these applicants to enhance their reputation for selectivity.  Perhaps, many would apply anyway, but some wouldn’t and the fact that even the slight hope of admission they have is illusory rankles.

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Unless your SAT is 1550+ ( ACT 35.5+) dreaming of Uchicago is futile for most [/quote]

Yet UChicago encourages kids to pay for applications with a blizzard of postcards, with most having no idea that they have no chance of admission unless they apply ED.  Really obnoxious.[/quote]

If you are college material (and especially if at least one parent attended college), you should know how to research and gather information.  It's all in the CDS for each school.  Not that challenging
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Again, why is UChicago aggressively marketing to kids it knows it won’t admit?  To enhance its selectivity.  What is ethical about that?[/quote]

UChicago is not unique in wanting to increase the denominator of their acceptance rate. Every school that offers application fee waiver for no reason (e.g., Johns Hopkins), or requires no supplemental essays (e.g., Northeastern, Case Western), is making a subtle, conscious effort to increase the size of its applicant pool. I don't view these schools as being unethical -- they did not really cheat, per se, to get/stay ahead.[/quote]

Of course it’s a scam. [/quote]

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