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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. [b]It's not as if they are scooping up Ivy kids; they are picking up the layer of students below that group.[/b] 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]

Ah... this finally explains the UChicago hate. A lot of people see it as a backup to the Ivy and then when not given an outright acceptance by the school, the next move is to blame the school for it's "sHadY aDmiSsions PrActIceS". The amount of hubris on this board is pretty entertaining.
But, thanks Anonymous 22:12, I finally understand where the hate is coming from.[/quote]

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