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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyone know cross-admit data? I'd bet over 90% choose UofC for no other reason than it's #3 and Brown is #14 on US News.[/quote]

No one actually thinks that Chicago is #3 and the split is far from a 90% - 10%. Brown might not be a top 10 school and might be possibly the weakest or second-weakest ivy, but there are plenty of reasons a cross-admit would choose Brown over Chicago, including the ivy league brand. Parchment actually says 49% Chicago - 51% Brown. [/quote]

Clearly you don't have analysis skills, so I will point a few things out

1) Parchment doesn't break cross admit data by ED vs RD. So any school with an ED plan should have a massive advantage against a school that only had EA till a year ago, if applicants apply to both schools. It is amazing that Brown doesn't have a ratio of 70% to 30%. That tells you what you really need to know. Even with ED, Brown is not competing very well with Chicago on cross admits. 
2) Parchment data is not broken by year, so it includes old data when Chicago did not have ED. It will take a few years for that data to get included. 
3) The sample size of parchment is quite small. so it is hard to make any definitive predictions based on that limited data set.

As far as "No one actually thinks that Chicago is #3 ". Well everybody has opinions. The only problem is nobody cares about yours and many kids put way too much weight on the USNews ranking, which is sad, but they still have a lot of influence. [/quote]

[b]Actually, the Parchment cross-admit is only influenced when students are accepted to multiple schools. So they would have had to self report they got into both Brown and UChicago, which wouldn't be possible for a ED admit.[/b]

You can't use Parchment for anything beyond peer schools, which UChicago and Brown are. There will be a significant number of students who have gotten into both and used Parchment's service to indicate where they go (or elsewhere).  [/quote]

That is not correct. Chicago has EA, so a kid can apply ED to Brown and EA to Chicago and get admitted to both in Dec [/quote]

No a Brown ED admit must WITHDRAW his application from Chicago. This does not count as a cross admit. Let alone that Brown and Chicago are vastly different schools and very few people would do ED Brown/EA Chicago anyway. [/quote]

If an applicant applies to both Brown ED  and Chicago EA, they will get their decision at the same time in Mid December.  So the admit decision on Chicago is already made before they can withdraw, unless they are deferred. Then the only option is to turn down the offer from Chicago if they are also admitted to Brown which counts towards the cross admit numbers.[/quote]

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