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Anonymous wrote:Quick peek at the internet shows it is top 10 in physics, and economics, finance, chemical engineering, law, pure math, anthropology. And it operates Argonne National Laboratory and FermiLab. Shake your fist at how they do admissions if you like.

Golly, it should be amongst the 10 toughest admits then, no? Not sure it is even amongst the 20 toughest.

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Anonymous wrote:what do people think the ed 1 acceptance rate is?

would not be surprised to see it in high 30s or 40s

My money is on 40% or so. So basically the same as Syracuse. So much for snobbery.

And if you were capable of critical thinking, you would know that 40 percent is mathematically impossible, given the overall constraints (in 2024, 1,955 students were accepted out of 43,612 applications)

I'm no mathematician but I'm unclear why it's impossible. We don't know how many applicants applied for ED (or EA that turned into ED2). For all we know, about 4,000 of the applications were ED and they accepted 1500 of them (assuming 75% - 80% of the 1,955 were accepted ED). That leaves 39,000 people sadly vying for 400 seats in RD, presumably having fallen victim to slick marketing or - gasp - being unable to commit without knowing about financial aid.

It's really ridiculous that they don't disclose this.

Let’s simplify the problem. Assume that there are only two paths to being admitted: 1) ED0+ED1+ED2 = ED, with a high and unknown acceptance rate; and 2) EA + RD, with a low acceptance rate of 1 percent.

We also need an assumption about the proportion of ED number of applicants as a proportion of the total. Let’s assume that it is at least as high as in other comparable schools (e.g. Cornell) => 13.5 percent. Since Chicago is known for giving preference to ED, let’s round up that proportion to 15 percent.

Using these assumptions, we can now compute the implied ED acceptance rate. Applying the 1 percent acceptance rate assumption for EA/RD to the 85 percent of the number of applicants (about 37000), the number of accepted EA/RD students is about 370. This leaves 1585 acceptances through ED. The implied ED acceptance rate is 1585/6652, which is about 24 percent.

Clearly, you can make different assumptions about the above parameters. But the point is that it is very, very hard (virtually impossible) to get 40 percent acceptance rate for ED.

would venture ed is far higher than 15% of the applicant pool. They are also the only “selective private” school out there that enforces a binding waitlist. aka, they will not accept you unless you agree to enroll.

between that and ed plus sketch admissions spamming with demonstrated interest considered, it reeks of insecurity

Agree. Chicago is much more "prestigious" than Tulane and is well known to be an impossible admit unless ED. I'm guessing their ED is at least 30 percent of the admissions pool.

And fwiw, from our high school, a NJ public in an affluent area, over the past five years 31.5 percent of applicants applied ED. 24.2 percent applied EA, and the rest RD.