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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agree. It's quite clear that even if they admit 2 percent or whatever in EA, its primary use is to engage with applicants and convince them to apply ED2.

UChicago is an extraordinary university and I think they do themselves a disservice with how they manage enrollment. It's not as if they are scooping up Ivy kids; they are picking up the layer of students below that group. So they are not directly competing for the tiptop kids and they used to have a real identity as an egghead paradise with conservative leanings and no football. They've lost that, in the chase for ratings and the fantasy of being perceived as having Ivy-level prestige (which they do not have, despite being a much better university than, say, Penn).

I'm sure the strategy is a financial one as well and I can't say how that is working out for them (not well, if the headlines mean anything?). Maybe their artificially inflated yield numbers allows them to borrow money cheaply. [/quote]
I don’t really see what you’re talking about. It’s good to go to a school mostly with students who want to go there, not just rejects from the ivies. Uchicago’s undergraduate Econ, math, and physics programs are some of the hardest in the nation, and the school is academically beyond discussions of elite. There’s also a contradiction in saying they’re chasing prestige but choosing an admissions practice to only retain an academic peer group below the ivies. The school is really the same it’s always been. Chicago just got more popular, and they’ve invested heavily into updating student facilities.[/quote]

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