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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yeah sure, the unqualified “multitudes” are just dying to prove their intellectual mettle and kill a few weeks writing a detailed response to one of the UChicago essay prompts. Half of all teenagers composed a response to this one:

“How many piano tuners are there in Chicago? What is the total length of chalk used by UChicago professors in a year? How many pages of books are in the Regenstein Library? These questions are among a class of estimation problems named after University of Chicago physicist Enrico Fermi. Create your own Fermi estimation problem, give it your best answer, and show us how you got there.”

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If he loves both, he should try for the ED for Chicago, that will be a much easier admit than Georgetown (not that it will be easy). Georgetown's admit rate is extremely low for RE and RD. If it was on the Common App, it would be in the low single digits. I personally Chicago is just stutlifyingly boring with real nerdy strivers, where Georgetown has a greater variety of students and is a bit more grounded. (Yes, I have a kid at Georgetown, and didn't think any of this about Georgetown until I learned about it and experienced it). I have a nephew at Chicago and while I know it less well, I think my perception is pretty accurate.[/quote]

I think your perception is extremely inaccurate.[/quote]

OP - in what way is this inaccurate? Only thing I don't understand why she says the admit rate for GU is lower than UC?[/quote]

DP here. Technically, the GU admit rate is higher because they only receive applications from students who really want to attend Georgetown, as they are not on the Common App. Students have to be very serious about applying or they just won't apply. This is the opposite of Chicago who invites multitudes more to apply, many many of them for free, and has an ED option, through which most of its students are admitted. It's true what the poster said, if GU was on the common app, its rate would drop by at least 50% if not more. And that doesn't even account for TO, which GU never moved to.[/quote][/quote]

I love that question!  Much better than the standard “What aspects of your upbringing will you share with your peers at X school”[/quote]

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