for this cycle, so far Ivies reporting the number of ED applicants are:

Brown: 5,048
Columbia: 5,872
Dartmouth: 3,550
U Pennsylvania: 9,500

Chicago wont beat U Penn or Cornell for ED applications, likely around 6k similar to Columbia....implying a very high ED1 admissions acceptance rate

Anonymous wrote:no way U Chicago gets 10k ED applications as that would be higher than all Ivies

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Anonymous wrote:There is a troll who bashes University of Chicago pretty consistently. Back again.

Dean of Admissions Nondorf said the ED1 admissions rate is 4-5% past two years. I believe the Dean of Admissions know the stats. I don't remember what % of the class that it.

My DCs love U Chicago, and yes, I went to HYP and was a top student there. I would have been about a B-C student at U Chicago, because I am pretty bad at math and there is no way to dodge it in Economics.

Where did you find this quote? BC from what I've seen, it's 5% for ED1, ED2, and EA combined.

I was on the Chicago accepted students admission zoom last week. Dean Nondorf said "we received about 20,000 applications for the early round, and accepted about 1,000." He did NOT say that there were 20k early DECISION applications. I was listening carefully.

It's entirely possible that 18k of those 20k applications were EA, and they accepted half of the ED applicants.

No sour grapes here - my kid liked the school, he's going and I guess they have to do what they need to do to get out of their financial hole, but I don't love the shady admissions practices.

Makes no sense that the majority of the 20k applications would be EA. At least at DC’s school, most kids apply to UChicago ED1. The close-to-zero EA acceptances rate is well known. This year, out of about 85 kids, 4 kids applied ED1…2 got in and 2 were rejected.

Even if you assume that half of the 20k applications were ED1 and the other half EA and that the acceptance rate for EA was zero, the acceptance rate for ED1 would be around 10 percent.

no way U Chicago gets 10k ED applications as that would be higher than all Ivies

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Anonymous wrote:There is a troll who bashes University of Chicago pretty consistently. Back again.

Dean of Admissions Nondorf said the ED1 admissions rate is 4-5% past two years. I believe the Dean of Admissions know the stats. I don't remember what % of the class that it.

My DCs love U Chicago, and yes, I went to HYP and was a top student there. I would have been about a B-C student at U Chicago, because I am pretty bad at math and there is no way to dodge it in Economics.

Where did you find this quote? BC from what I've seen, it's 5% for ED1, ED2, and EA combined.

I was on the Chicago accepted students admission zoom last week. Dean Nondorf said "we received about 20,000 applications for the early round, and accepted about 1,000." He did NOT say that there were 20k early DECISION applications. I was listening carefully.

It's entirely possible that 18k of those 20k applications were EA, and they accepted half of the ED applicants.

No sour grapes here - my kid liked the school, he's going and I guess they have to do what they need to do to get out of their financial hole, but I don't love the shady admissions practices.

Makes no sense that the majority of the 20k applications would be EA. At least at DC’s school, most kids apply to UChicago ED1. The close-to-zero EA acceptances rate is well known. This year, out of about 85 kids, 4 kids applied ED1…2 got in and 2 were rejected.

Even if you assume that half of the 20k applications were ED1 and the other half EA and that the acceptance rate for EA was zero, the acceptance rate for ED1 would be around 10 percent.

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Anonymous wrote:There is a troll who bashes University of Chicago pretty consistently. Back again.

Dean of Admissions Nondorf said the ED1 admissions rate is 4-5% past two years. I believe the Dean of Admissions know the stats. I don't remember what % of the class that it.

My DCs love U Chicago, and yes, I went to HYP and was a top student there. I would have been about a B-C student at U Chicago, because I am pretty bad at math and there is no way to dodge it in Economics.

Where did you find this quote? BC from what I've seen, it's 5% for ED1, ED2, and EA combined.

I was on the Chicago accepted students admission zoom last week. Dean Nondorf said "we received about 20,000 applications for the early round, and accepted about 1,000." He did NOT say that there were 20k early DECISION applications. I was listening carefully.

It's entirely possible that 18k of those 20k applications were EA, and they accepted half of the ED applicants.

No sour grapes here - my kid liked the school, he's going and I guess they have to do what they need to do to get out of their financial hole, but I don't love the shady admissions practices.

Makes no sense that the majority of the 20k applications would be EA. At least at DC’s school, most kids apply to UChicago ED1. The close-to-zero EA acceptances rate is well known. This year, out of about 85 kids, 4 kids applied ED1…2 got in and 2 were rejected.

Even if you assume that half of the 20k applications were ED1 and the other half EA and that the acceptance rate for EA was zero, the acceptance rate for ED1 would be around 10 percent.

how do you know how many kids applied from your school and what their results were?

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Anonymous wrote:No way UChicago's ED acceptance rate is 4-5%. If it was they'd publish it, be transparent, and trumpet it. Every school jukes stats to put their best foot forward, but some (including UChicago) do it more than others. UChicago is still a great school and has come a long way in last twenty years (acceptance rate was about 40% in 2006). Still, lack of ED transparency is a red flag.

This is like arguing with my ex. No amount of truth is good enough. Everything is questioned because someone else misled them before they met met.

You're just going to end up at home alone with no one willing to talk to you any more than absolutely necessary.

I'm sorry this happened to you. Relationships can sometimes be difficult.

But I fail to see how asking for a modicum of transparency from an institution's admissions processes, particularly one that claims to be "Ivy Plus," is the equivalent of a gaslighting partner in a relationship.

Or perhaps as parents who have been misled numerous times by universities purporting to say one thing, but in reality practicing the opposite, we have earned the right to be a little skeptical when universities fail to be transparent with their admissions practices. Nothing against UChicago in particular.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, I know of 1 rejection last year and 2 this year. All very strong students.

Just to add that there were 2 acceptances this year too. Both kids in the top 10 percent of the class. Lower ranked kids (not top 10) were accepted to Dartmouth, Cornell, Columbia.

That just tells you that those 2 kids could have aimed higher. instead they settled for a school with a 40% ED accept rate.

For the love of Pete--perhaps they wanted to attend Chicago. 99% of the world outside of DCUM does not make their college decision on rank.

Maybe, but let's be for real. No one choose Chicago over an Ivy. Which is why Chicago has to play all these crazy games with admissions. It really is to their detriment and they should stop ASAP. But it sounds like they are absolutely desperate for $$.

There are many nerdy kids who choose Chicago. One of the kids that was accepted ED Chicago was encouraged to apply to HYP but chose Chicago. My own kid would also choose Chicago over Dartmouth, Cornell, Penn, etc.

My kid is going to Chicago next year and you would never call him a nerd. He is highly academic and had no interest in "party schools," but he is sporty, social, and a lot of fun.
Would he have chose Penn over Chicago? Probably, but he wouldn't have gotten in.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:There is a troll who bashes University of Chicago pretty consistently. Back again.

Dean of Admissions Nondorf said the ED1 admissions rate is 4-5% past two years. I believe the Dean of Admissions know the stats. I don't remember what % of the class that it.

My DCs love U Chicago, and yes, I went to HYP and was a top student there. I would have been about a B-C student at U Chicago, because I am pretty bad at math and there is no way to dodge it in Economics.

Where did you find this quote? BC from what I've seen, it's 5% for ED1, ED2, and EA combined.

I was on the Chicago accepted students admission zoom last week. Dean Nondorf said "we received about 20,000 applications for the early round, and accepted about 1,000." He did NOT say that there were 20k early DECISION applications. I was listening carefully.

It's entirely possible that 18k of those 20k applications were EA, and they accepted half of the ED applicants.

No sour grapes here - my kid liked the school, he's going and I guess they have to do what they need to do to get out of their financial hole, but I don't love the shady admissions practices.

Makes no sense that the majority of the 20k applications would be EA. At least at DC’s school, most kids apply to UChicago ED1. The close-to-zero EA acceptances rate is well known. This year, out of about 85 kids, 4 kids applied ED1…2 got in and 2 were rejected.

Even if you assume that half of the 20k applications were ED1 and the other half EA and that the acceptance rate for EA was zero, the acceptance rate for ED1 would be around 10 percent.

There you go. It's 50%.

Gosh…you are really bright, aren’t you?

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Anonymous wrote:There is a troll who bashes University of Chicago pretty consistently. Back again.

Dean of Admissions Nondorf said the ED1 admissions rate is 4-5% past two years. I believe the Dean of Admissions know the stats. I don't remember what % of the class that it.

My DCs love U Chicago, and yes, I went to HYP and was a top student there. I would have been about a B-C student at U Chicago, because I am pretty bad at math and there is no way to dodge it in Economics.

Where did you find this quote? BC from what I've seen, it's 5% for ED1, ED2, and EA combined.

I was on the Chicago accepted students admission zoom last week. Dean Nondorf said "we received about 20,000 applications for the early round, and accepted about 1,000." He did NOT say that there were 20k early DECISION applications. I was listening carefully.

It's entirely possible that 18k of those 20k applications were EA, and they accepted half of the ED applicants.

No sour grapes here - my kid liked the school, he's going and I guess they have to do what they need to do to get out of their financial hole, but I don't love the shady admissions practices.

Makes no sense that the majority of the 20k applications would be EA. At least at DC’s school, most kids apply to UChicago ED1. The close-to-zero EA acceptances rate is well known. This year, out of about 85 kids, 4 kids applied ED1…2 got in and 2 were rejected.

Even if you assume that half of the 20k applications were ED1 and the other half EA and that the acceptance rate for EA was zero, the acceptance rate for ED1 would be around 10 percent.

There you go. It's 50%.

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Anonymous wrote:There is a troll who bashes University of Chicago pretty consistently. Back again.

Dean of Admissions Nondorf said the ED1 admissions rate is 4-5% past two years. I believe the Dean of Admissions know the stats. I don't remember what % of the class that it.

My DCs love U Chicago, and yes, I went to HYP and was a top student there. I would have been about a B-C student at U Chicago, because I am pretty bad at math and there is no way to dodge it in Economics.

Where did you find this quote? BC from what I've seen, it's 5% for ED1, ED2, and EA combined.

I was on the Chicago accepted students admission zoom last week. Dean Nondorf said "we received about 20,000 applications for the early round, and accepted about 1,000." He did NOT say that there were 20k early DECISION applications. I was listening carefully.

It's entirely possible that 18k of those 20k applications were EA, and they accepted half of the ED applicants.

No sour grapes here - my kid liked the school, he's going and I guess they have to do what they need to do to get out of their financial hole, but I don't love the shady admissions practices.

Makes no sense that the majority of the 20k applications would be EA. At least at DC’s school, most kids apply to UChicago ED1. The close-to-zero EA acceptances rate is well known. This year, out of about 85 kids, 4 kids applied ED1…2 got in and 2 were rejected.

Even if you assume that half of the 20k applications were ED1 and the other half EA and that the acceptance rate for EA was zero, the acceptance rate for ED1 would be around 10 percent.

There is absolutely no way Chicago is getting 10k ED applicants. I did a deep dive on CDS of other selective schools. I don't have the #'s in front of me but I recall JHU had maybe 6k ED applicants and Northwestern around 4.5k. Penn gets 8k - and they're Penn. I'm betting Chicago gets no more than 5k. If all 1,000 spots went to ED applicants, that's a 20% acceptance rate, which anecdotally feels right. But it could be higher.

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Anonymous wrote:There is a troll who bashes University of Chicago pretty consistently. Back again.

Dean of Admissions Nondorf said the ED1 admissions rate is 4-5% past two years. I believe the Dean of Admissions know the stats. I don't remember what % of the class that it.

My DCs love U Chicago, and yes, I went to HYP and was a top student there. I would have been about a B-C student at U Chicago, because I am pretty bad at math and there is no way to dodge it in Economics.

Where did you find this quote? BC from what I've seen, it's 5% for ED1, ED2, and EA combined.

I was on the Chicago accepted students admission zoom last week. Dean Nondorf said "we received about 20,000 applications for the early round, and accepted about 1,000." He did NOT say that there were 20k early DECISION applications. I was listening carefully.

It's entirely possible that 18k of those 20k applications were EA, and they accepted half of the ED applicants.

No sour grapes here - my kid liked the school, he's going and I guess they have to do what they need to do to get out of their financial hole, but I don't love the shady admissions practices.

Makes no sense that the majority of the 20k applications would be EA. At least at DC’s school, most kids apply to UChicago ED1. The close-to-zero EA acceptances rate is well known. This year, out of about 85 kids, 4 kids applied ED1…2 got in and 2 were rejected.

Even if you assume that half of the 20k applications were ED1 and the other half EA and that the acceptance rate for EA was zero, the acceptance rate for ED1 would be around 10 percent.

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Anonymous wrote:There is a troll who bashes University of Chicago pretty consistently. Back again.

Dean of Admissions Nondorf said the ED1 admissions rate is 4-5% past two years. I believe the Dean of Admissions know the stats. I don't remember what % of the class that it.

My DCs love U Chicago, and yes, I went to HYP and was a top student there. I would have been about a B-C student at U Chicago, because I am pretty bad at math and there is no way to dodge it in Economics.

Where did you find this quote? BC from what I've seen, it's 5% for ED1, ED2, and EA combined.

I was on the Chicago accepted students admission zoom last week. Dean Nondorf said "we received about 20,000 applications for the early round, and accepted about 1,000." He did NOT say that there were 20k early DECISION applications. I was listening carefully.

It's entirely possible that 18k of those 20k applications were EA, and they accepted half of the ED applicants.

No sour grapes here - my kid liked the school, he's going and I guess they have to do what they need to do to get out of their financial hole, but I don't love the shady admissions practices.

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Anonymous wrote:There is a troll who bashes University of Chicago pretty consistently. Back again.

Dean of Admissions Nondorf said the ED1 admissions rate is 4-5% past two years. I believe the Dean of Admissions know the stats. I don't remember what % of the class that it.

My DCs love U Chicago, and yes, I went to HYP and was a top student there. I would have been about a B-C student at U Chicago, because I am pretty bad at math and there is no way to dodge it in Economics.

Where did you find this quote? BC from what I've seen, it's 5% for ED1, ED2, and EA combined.

This was stated by Dean of Admissions during Admitted students zoom after ED1/EA round (December 2023). Approximately 20K students and about 5% (4-5%?) acceptance rate. Seems like they took a bit over half the class during this round. And this is probably what gets people confused. Just because they took half the class during this round, it doesn’t mean they have a 50% acceptance rate for this round.

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Anonymous wrote:There is a troll who bashes University of Chicago pretty consistently. Back again.

Dean of Admissions Nondorf said the ED1 admissions rate is 4-5% past two years. I believe the Dean of Admissions know the stats. I don't remember what % of the class that it.

My DCs love U Chicago, and yes, I went to HYP and was a top student there. I would have been about a B-C student at U Chicago, because I am pretty bad at math and there is no way to dodge it in Economics.

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There's no way you were a top student at HYP and were also bad at math.

Has to be bad at math to spout out this nonsense, and devoid of any critical thinking skills.

Anonymous wrote:There is a troll who bashes University of Chicago pretty consistently. Back again.

Dean of Admissions Nondorf said the ED1 admissions rate is 4-5% past two years. I believe the Dean of Admissions know the stats. I don't remember what % of the class that it.

My DCs love U Chicago, and yes, I went to HYP and was a top student there. I would have been about a B-C student at U Chicago, because I am pretty bad at math and there is no way to dodge it in Economics.

Where did you find this quote? BC from what I've seen, it's 5% for ED1, ED2, and EA combined.

Anonymous wrote:There is a troll who bashes University of Chicago pretty consistently. Back again.

Dean of Admissions Nondorf said the ED1 admissions rate is 4-5% past two years. I believe the Dean of Admissions know the stats. I don't remember what % of the class that it.

My DCs love U Chicago, and yes, I went to HYP and was a top student there. I would have been about a B-C student at U Chicago, because I am pretty bad at math and there is no way to dodge it in Economics.

So it has a lower ED acceptance rate than Harvard SCEA, all other ivies ED? How dumb are you?

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Anonymous wrote:There is a troll who bashes University of Chicago pretty consistently. Back again.

Dean of Admissions Nondorf said the ED1 admissions rate is 4-5% past two years. I believe the Dean of Admissions know the stats. I don't remember what % of the class that it.

My DCs love U Chicago, and yes, I went to HYP and was a top student there. I would have been about a B-C student at U Chicago, because I am pretty bad at math and there is no way to dodge it in Economics.

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There's no way you were a top student at HYP and were also bad at math.