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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One of the things that drives high yield and that hurts U Chicago in the rankings is that they have a program called Odyssey Scholars, which is one of their crowning achievements . It is funded by U Chicago and pays 100% of financial need.  They really don’t use Pell Grants, so all the Ivies which emphasize Pell Grants got 7.5% increase in the USNews score, even if the kids are only getting $1000 Chicago got close to zero for the Pell grant score because they pay financial aid privately for the $300K it costs to go to U Chicago. I’d take that any day if I needed financial aid regardless of admission round.

So because Pell is heavily weighted in this year’s US News ranking, Chicago fell. They were # 1 in small class sizes and #1 in % of teachers with advanced degrees.

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Chicago changed their rules on class size to cap most at the highest number USNWR considered "low"  :lol: They were open about doing it partially for the ranking too, which I appreciate.
Chicago will be using Pell Grants more asap! Let's be honest though, #12 is a fair spot or still slightly too high ranking for Chicago. It isn't in that group with Stanford, MIT, and Yale that USNWR was sometimes putting it. They don't have nearly the $$ of most of the very top schools either. Chicago is behind Northwestern in many rankings and is back behind NW again in USNWR too. USNWR was an outlier with how they were ranking Chicago.
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