Anonymous
Post 11/08/2025 13:02     Subject: Is ED 0 a real thing?
Posters on dcum are worried about AI usage consumes energy. But no one is complaining about college mailing resulting in huge waste. At one point we are receiving material from Chicago every other day. The insanity.
Anonymous
Post 11/08/2025 12:59     Subject: Is ED 0 a real thing?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I thought U Chicago was being weird/looking desperate with the constant mailings, but it’s a great school. It was a great school and maybe even a better school when it’s acceptance rate was over 50% and the kids who went there were a self-selected group of serious kids who wanted its intense academic/intellectual atmosphere.


My kid got more mailings and emails from SO many others schools, versus UChicago, including Hamilton (ridiculous), Bucknell (ridiculous), Yale (bordering ridiculous), to name a very small few offenders. I don't know why you all give UChicago a hard time. Nobody else with a high stats kid is inundated by mailings/email non-stop? I find that extremely hard to believe.


UChicago mailed the most by far to my high stats kid. Honestly I found ALL of the mailings obnoxious. Was there a way to opt out? My DC set up their own college board account and I wondered if she missed the opt out. We didn't add a single school to the list based on a mailing.


My low stats kid got the same mailings as my high stats kid. They target high shcools as a whole sometimes.
Anonymous
Post 11/08/2025 12:51     Subject: Is ED 0 a real thing?
In 70s Harvard acceptance rate was ~ 30%. Note at this time most brilliant kids from around the country wouldn’t have applied and for NE elites it would almost be a shoe in
Anonymous
Post 11/08/2025 11:18     Subject: Is ED 0 a real thing?
Anonymous wrote:A quick google search shows Chicago’s admit rate was 61% in 1998 (source: U Chicago magazine).

An article behind a Chicago Business Journal paywall seems to report the admit rate was 72% in 1995, though I didn’t pay so can’t confirm.


Harvard acceptance rate in 1998 12%, in 1995 11%.
Anonymous
Post 11/08/2025 11:15     Subject: Is ED 0 a real thing?
This is how it was for all schools prior to oughta. And then democratization/ globalization happened , resistance to study far away from home faded and frenzy for T20 began
Anonymous
Post 11/08/2025 10:49     Subject: Is ED 0 a real thing?
A quick google search shows Chicago’s admit rate was 61% in 1998 (source: U Chicago magazine).

An article behind a Chicago Business Journal paywall seems to report the admit rate was 72% in 1995, though I didn’t pay so can’t confirm.
Anonymous
Post 11/08/2025 10:40     Subject: Is ED 0 a real thing?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I thought U Chicago was being weird/looking desperate with the constant mailings, but it’s a great school. It was a great school and maybe even a better school when it’s acceptance rate was over 50% and the kids who went there were a self-selected group of serious kids who wanted its intense academic/intellectual atmosphere.


When was the acceptance rate ever this high? I don't believe it.


Of course it was. Nowadays people naturally understand that what makes a school great is how many applicants they turn away, but in the olden days people had this quaint old-fashioned notion that what made a school great was the quality of the students it attracted and the quality of the education they received while there.
Anonymous
Post 11/08/2025 10:26     Subject: Is ED 0 a real thing?
Anonymous wrote:I thought U Chicago was being weird/looking desperate with the constant mailings, but it’s a great school. It was a great school and maybe even a better school when it’s acceptance rate was over 50% and the kids who went there were a self-selected group of serious kids who wanted its intense academic/intellectual atmosphere.


When was the acceptance rate ever this high? I don't believe it.
Anonymous
Post 11/08/2025 10:26     Subject: Is ED 0 a real thing?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I thought U Chicago was being weird/looking desperate with the constant mailings, but it’s a great school. It was a great school and maybe even a better school when it’s acceptance rate was over 50% and the kids who went there were a self-selected group of serious kids who wanted its intense academic/intellectual atmosphere.


My kid got more mailings and emails from SO many others schools, versus UChicago, including Hamilton (ridiculous), Bucknell (ridiculous), Yale (bordering ridiculous), to name a very small few offenders. I don't know why you all give UChicago a hard time. Nobody else with a high stats kid is inundated by mailings/email non-stop? I find that extremely hard to believe.


UChicago mailed the most by far to my high stats kid. Honestly I found ALL of the mailings obnoxious. Was there a way to opt out? My DC set up their own college board account and I wondered if she missed the opt out. We didn't add a single school to the list based on a mailing.


Yes, you can check a box to opt out of mailings. Personally I didn't see the big deal about mailings, nor did I obsessively keep track of which schools were sending what.
Anonymous
Post 11/08/2025 10:18     Subject: Is ED 0 a real thing?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I thought U Chicago was being weird/looking desperate with the constant mailings, but it’s a great school. It was a great school and maybe even a better school when it’s acceptance rate was over 50% and the kids who went there were a self-selected group of serious kids who wanted its intense academic/intellectual atmosphere.


My kid got more mailings and emails from SO many others schools, versus UChicago, including Hamilton (ridiculous), Bucknell (ridiculous), Yale (bordering ridiculous), to name a very small few offenders. I don't know why you all give UChicago a hard time. Nobody else with a high stats kid is inundated by mailings/email non-stop? I find that extremely hard to believe.


UChicago mailed the most by far to my high stats kid. Honestly I found ALL of the mailings obnoxious. Was there a way to opt out? My DC set up their own college board account and I wondered if she missed the opt out. We didn't add a single school to the list based on a mailing.
Anonymous
Post 11/08/2025 10:10     Subject: Is ED 0 a real thing?
Anonymous wrote:I thought U Chicago was being weird/looking desperate with the constant mailings, but it’s a great school. It was a great school and maybe even a better school when it’s acceptance rate was over 50% and the kids who went there were a self-selected group of serious kids who wanted its intense academic/intellectual atmosphere.


My kid got more mailings and emails from SO many others schools, versus UChicago, including Hamilton (ridiculous), Bucknell (ridiculous), Yale (bordering ridiculous), to name a very small few offenders. I don't know why you all give UChicago a hard time. Nobody else with a high stats kid is inundated by mailings/email non-stop? I find that extremely hard to believe.
Anonymous
Post 11/08/2025 08:59     Subject: Is ED 0 a real thing?
I thought U Chicago was being weird/looking desperate with the constant mailings, but it’s a great school. It was a great school and maybe even a better school when it’s acceptance rate was over 50% and the kids who went there were a self-selected group of serious kids who wanted its intense academic/intellectual atmosphere.
Anonymous
Post 11/08/2025 08:54     Subject: Is ED 0 a real thing?
I have a soph at U Chi and will start the college process for his sibling next year. If he also likes Chicago I would be thrilled to apply ED0 and avoid the college process BS. You're a lot more realistic the second time around - a good school is good enough and I don't feel the need to enter the 1% HYP lottery.
Anonymous
Post 11/08/2025 08:42     Subject: Is ED 0 a real thing?
Anonymous wrote:That’s an absolutely ingenious way to lock in super smart kids who don’t want to go thru EC bullshittery


Exactly. My very high stats, national science award winner is done and happy. Go figure.
Anonymous
Post 11/08/2025 08:29     Subject: Is ED 0 a real thing?
That’s an absolutely ingenious way to lock in super smart kids who don’t want to go thru EC bullshittery