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*and by spring they felt well established and did a lot of exploring in the city. Biggest challenge is distance from home and drop off/end of year pick up.

Thank you for sharing your DC’s experience. My DC is heading to UChicago next year and is excited about it, having spoken to kids who are there now from DC’s school. Thermal clothing is high on the Christmas list!

Harvard Westlake is feeder school, as it should be. HW is an excellent school, and LA money talks. Chicago welcomes full tuition payers all day long.

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*and by spring they felt well established and did a lot of exploring in the city. Biggest challenge is distance from home and drop off/end of year pick up.

Okay so steering this thread back to OP’s question about what people with experience like, don’t like about UChicago…assume they were interested in things like class sizes, vibe, housing, etc.

DC spent most of freshman year in the library acclimating. Was well prepared academically from an executive function and subject knowledge standpoint but it’s a very different pace with the quarter system. Winter was far less terrible than people made it out to be and spring

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Anonymous wrote:If 80% of students are early decision admits, that's a HUGE percentage of the class. Basically if you want to go to UChicago, you have to ED. Does anyone know how many UChicago takes off the waitlist? It doesn't list that number like other colleges. YCBK claims UChicago is sneaky and puts students on the waitlist and then calls them to see if they would accept a spot. He thinks this is not very ethical and is done only to increase UChicago's yield which is 88%, higher than Harvard's and MIT's!!!!!!!!

Every college does this, including Yale and Georgetown. I don't understand why it is sneaky.

LOL Hilarious.

None of HYPSM does this.

HLS does it.

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Anonymous wrote:And another DC private sent 3 this year and all were in the top 10 percent of the class.

How is any of this answering OP’s question about actual experiences at UChicago?

None. It's yet another opportunity for the U Chicago haters to bash the school. I'm still mystified as to what drives this person (or people, although it's mostly one person - her posts are so similar, it's very obvious).

I posted HW stats above just because I have it handy and saw folks debating who gets in. I don’t hate Chicago and am not trying to bash it. I was a new poster. Will stop now - don’t want to fight.

Sorry, don't believe you...it seems to be a HW UChicago obsession. To be honest, HW kids are probably a mix of sports and ED, does it say whether or not someone is an athlete? NO it doesn't. How many times do we have to say sports plays a big factor. If all our school's data was revealed bottom stats would be athlete, DEI and donor. Cannot just look at raw data.

Actually Harvard Westlake specifically states that the admission stats excludes legacy, recruited athletes, etc.

There is such variation by school. At our NYC school Cornell is the go-to for kids with middling stats. They can always get a sophomore admit if nothing else. And literally NO ONE gets into Vanderbilt, like ever. Why? Who knows.

Cornell favors in-state kids. On top of that, there are several contract colleges that take slightly lower stats. Many NYC high schools (private or public) send a decent number of students there every year, this is well known. Dyson, SEAS, CAS are more difficult admits even for NYC.

From Harvard Westlake's guide:

Cornell University
GPA 3.8-4.0
66 applied, 20 accepted
GPA 3.6-3.79
49 applied, 6 accepted

Vanderbilt
3.8-4.0
34 applied, 3 accepted

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Anonymous wrote:And another DC private sent 3 this year and all were in the top 10 percent of the class.

How is any of this answering OP’s question about actual experiences at UChicago?

None. It's yet another opportunity for the U Chicago haters to bash the school. I'm still mystified as to what drives this person (or people, although it's mostly one person - her posts are so similar, it's very obvious).

I posted HW stats above just because I have it handy and saw folks debating who gets in. I don’t hate Chicago and am not trying to bash it. I was a new poster. Will stop now - don’t want to fight.

Sorry, don't believe you...it seems to be a HW UChicago obsession. To be honest, HW kids are probably a mix of sports and ED, does it say whether or not someone is an athlete? NO it doesn't. How many times do we have to say sports plays a big factor. If all our school's data was revealed bottom stats would be athlete, DEI and donor. Cannot just look at raw data.

Actually Harvard Westlake specifically states that the admission stats excludes legacy, recruited athletes, etc.

There is such variation by school. At our NYC school Cornell is the go-to for kids with middling stats. They can always get a sophomore admit if nothing else. And literally NO ONE gets into Vanderbilt, like ever. Why? Who knows.

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Anonymous wrote:And another DC private sent 3 this year and all were in the top 10 percent of the class.

How is any of this answering OP’s question about actual experiences at UChicago?

None. It's yet another opportunity for the U Chicago haters to bash the school. I'm still mystified as to what drives this person (or people, although it's mostly one person - her posts are so similar, it's very obvious).

I posted HW stats above just because I have it handy and saw folks debating who gets in. I don’t hate Chicago and am not trying to bash it. I was a new poster. Will stop now - don’t want to fight.

Sorry, don't believe you...it seems to be a HW UChicago obsession. To be honest, HW kids are probably a mix of sports and ED, does it say whether or not someone is an athlete? NO it doesn't. How many times do we have to say sports plays a big factor. If all our school's data was revealed bottom stats would be athlete, DEI and donor. Cannot just look at raw data.

Actually Harvard Westlake specifically states that the admission stats excludes legacy, recruited athletes, etc.

And I believe HW gpa is weighted.

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Anonymous wrote:And another DC private sent 3 this year and all were in the top 10 percent of the class.

How is any of this answering OP’s question about actual experiences at UChicago?

None. It's yet another opportunity for the U Chicago haters to bash the school. I'm still mystified as to what drives this person (or people, although it's mostly one person - her posts are so similar, it's very obvious).

I posted HW stats above just because I have it handy and saw folks debating who gets in. I don’t hate Chicago and am not trying to bash it. I was a new poster. Will stop now - don’t want to fight.

Sorry, don't believe you...it seems to be a HW UChicago obsession. To be honest, HW kids are probably a mix of sports and ED, does it say whether or not someone is an athlete? NO it doesn't. How many times do we have to say sports plays a big factor. If all our school's data was revealed bottom stats would be athlete, DEI and donor. Cannot just look at raw data.

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Anonymous wrote:If 80% of students are early decision admits, that's a HUGE percentage of the class. Basically if you want to go to UChicago, you have to ED. Does anyone know how many UChicago takes off the waitlist? It doesn't list that number like other colleges. YCBK claims UChicago is sneaky and puts students on the waitlist and then calls them to see if they would accept a spot. He thinks this is not very ethical and is done only to increase UChicago's yield which is 88%, higher than Harvard's and MIT's!!!!!!!!

Every college does this, including Yale and Georgetown. I don't understand why it is sneaky.

LOL Hilarious.

None of HYPSM does this.

lol.

except for MIT , all do it. Many midwits at Harvard/ Yale/Stanford…

Harvard was doing remedial math for god sake, you DUNCE!

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Anonymous wrote:And another DC private sent 3 this year and all were in the top 10 percent of the class.

How is any of this answering OP’s question about actual experiences at UChicago?

None. It's yet another opportunity for the U Chicago haters to bash the school. I'm still mystified as to what drives this person (or people, although it's mostly one person - her posts are so similar, it's very obvious).

I posted HW stats above just because I have it handy and saw folks debating who gets in. I don’t hate Chicago and am not trying to bash it. I was a new poster. Will stop now - don’t want to fight.

Don't worry about the negative naysayers. You brought data and facts. I actually found the document you referenced. It says what you said it says. There might be extenuating circumstances, but UChicago is an easier admit than all the Ivy and Ivy pluses (Duke, Hopkins, Vanderbilt) (and even Amherst, Williams), at least from this school. According to the document, the acceptances do not include legacies, recruited athletes or other special circumstances.

UChicago drives a special kind of hate from a lot of people on here and I don’t understand it. It’s not a school for everyone. They are looking for a particular type of kid and your kid will be compared against others from their school. The top kids at your school may not fit the Chicago profile and/or might have hooks to other schools so maybe they don’t apply or choose to attend. Trying to compare GPAs across schools across the county, state, or country is pointless because the grading systems and standards varies so widely. Work with your college counselor if your DC is considering Chicago, visit the campus, consider taking a summer class taught by a current professor (DC did this and loved it), and take time to really understand the core and the quarter system.

The too many mailers gripe is silly—my kid was absolutely inundated by a lot of different schools. At least the pieces from Chicago were interesting and genuinely gave them a sense of the place.

As anyone who has gone through the process recently, you know there’s also a bit of luck involved too. Trying to crack the code on who gets admitted or not (at Chicago or elsewhere) will only make you nuts.