Anonymous wrote:This is an investing take on Chicago:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/business/tulane-university-chicago-early-decision.html

This why you never go to this school as an undergraduate student.

Sorry, but the bolded is not the takeaway from this article. The article is about ED policies and how two schools led the charge in implementing ED.

Whether or not you attend Chicago as an undergraduate student is a completely different conversation. We can talk about the pros and cons of Chicago if you are genuinely interested in hearing about it, but sounds like you came here to dump on the school because you have a beef with their admissions process.

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Anonymous wrote:As usual, droves of kids got in from our school this year. ED1, feeder.

Which school?

Not the PP but St Albans is a likely answer.

This is an investing take on Chicago:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/business/tulane-university-chicago-early-decision.html

This why you never go to this school as an undergraduate student.

Anonymous wrote:As usual, droves of kids got in from our school this year. ED1, feeder.

Which school?

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Anonymous wrote:PP again. I feel bad not being able to support her dreams after a she worked so hard. But that’s life.

Congrats on the acceptance. She will do great wherever she goes.

Question: Why apply to a school that you cannot afford?

OP here. To answer your question UChicago is DD’s dream school and we told her from the get go that it’s not in the budget. She wanted to apply anyway.
As I said before, all the other schools she applied to are outside of the top 50 and we selected them based on the amount of merit aid they seem to give.

If she’s good enough to get into Chicago ea she should shop around for outside scholarships and fellowships

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Anonymous wrote:PP again. I feel bad not being able to support her dreams after a she worked so hard. But that’s life.

Congrats on the acceptance. She will do great wherever she goes.

Question: Why apply to a school that you cannot afford?

OP here. To answer your question UChicago is DD’s dream school and we told her from the get go that it’s not in the budget. She wanted to apply anyway.
As I said before, all the other schools she applied to are outside of the top 50 and we selected them based on the amount of merit aid they seem to give.

Did you consider a top 50 school that gives tons of tuition assistance? Like Princeton or JHU or even Emory? Lots of the best schools give many many kids lots of money or even free tuition so long as they have the ability to get in.

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Anonymous wrote:PP again. I feel bad not being able to support her dreams after a she worked so hard. But that’s life.

Congrats on the acceptance. She will do great wherever she goes.

Question: Why apply to a school that you cannot afford?

OP here. To answer your question UChicago is DD’s dream school and we told her from the get go that it’s not in the budget. She wanted to apply anyway.
As I said before, all the other schools she applied to are outside of the top 50 and we selected them based on the amount of merit aid they seem to give.

Best of luck to her! She will be very competitive in the other schools. There are many paths to the same destination.

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Anonymous wrote:PP again. I feel bad not being able to support her dreams after a she worked so hard. But that’s life.

Congrats on the acceptance. She will do great wherever she goes.

Question: Why apply to a school that you cannot afford?

OP here. To answer your question UChicago is DD’s dream school and we told her from the get go that it’s not in the budget. She wanted to apply anyway.
As I said before, all the other schools she applied to are outside of the top 50 and we selected them based on the amount of merit aid they seem to give.

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Anonymous wrote:PP again. I feel bad not being able to support her dreams after a she worked so hard. But that’s life.

Congrats on the acceptance. She will do great wherever she goes.

Question: Why apply to a school that you cannot afford?

CHASING MERIT AID

Anonymous wrote:My DD was accepted. She applied early action. It’s her top choice but we honestly can’t afford it.
We are chasing merit aid so all the other schools she applied to are outside of the top 50.

Try WashU and Vanderbilt for merit aid

Anonymous wrote:PP again. I feel bad not being able to support her dreams after a she worked so hard. But that’s life.

Congrats on the acceptance. She will do great wherever she goes.

Question: Why apply to a school that you cannot afford?