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Anonymous wrote:Who would want to go there. No thanks.

Wrong! Tons of kids wanted ED there. It’s a prestigious school.

If a school offers ED2, it cannot be a top school. Chicago offers ED0 on top of ED2.

This is silly. Anyone who knows academia knows Chicago is a top school.

Care more academics, less about admissions rounds.

If only Chicago could follow your advice. Anyone who knows academia knows that Chicago cares more about admission rounds and associated hijinks than any college in the country.

They do follow my advice. That’s why they are one of the top universities in the country.

College is far more than undergraduate admission policies. Some of you are way too deep in this and have lost sight of the forest.

Chicago is a great (though also declining) graduate school, as is consistent with its original mission. If by “one of the top universities in the country,” you mean grad school, I agree, with the caveat that it depends on the field.

A “top 10” undergrad school? Don’t be silly.

A “life of the mind” place? Hardly. 30% are majoring in Econ.

It is a place for kids who are hedging their bets. If you think Chicago is getting the top students, vis a vis other, actual top schools, you are nutty.

Is college more than having the top students? I guess. But it sure as heck helps.

In any T10 , the top quartile is filled with (top )brilliant students ( for MIT this could be as high as 50%) Rest 75% is riffraff and Uchicago is no exception.

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Anonymous wrote:Who would want to go there. No thanks.

Wrong! Tons of kids wanted ED there. It’s a prestigious school.

If a school offers ED2, it cannot be a top school. Chicago offers ED0 on top of ED2.

This is silly. Anyone who knows academia knows Chicago is a top school.

Care more academics, less about admissions rounds.

If only Chicago could follow your advice. Anyone who knows academia knows that Chicago cares more about admission rounds and associated hijinks than any college in the country.

They do follow my advice. That’s why they are one of the top universities in the country.

College is far more than undergraduate admission policies. Some of you are way too deep in this and have lost sight of the forest.

Chicago is a great (though also declining) graduate school, as is consistent with its original mission. If by “one of the top universities in the country,” you mean grad school, I agree, with the caveat that it depends on the field.

A “top 10” undergrad school? Don’t be silly.

A “life of the mind” place? Hardly. 30% are majoring in Econ.

It is a place for kids who are hedging their bets. If you think Chicago is getting the top students, vis a vis other, actual top schools, you are nutty.

Is college more than having the top students? I guess. But it sure as heck helps.

Intellectual depth? LOL. You forgot an important word, pseudo.

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Anonymous wrote:Supposedly they place a lot of weight on essays. I wonder if with their ED0, ED1 became harder?

Agree 100% with the above post.

The essays specifically required by U Chicago are a trap for high stats applicants who guess at what U Chicago admissions is seeking in the application essays.

Recently reviewed a very high stats, great ECs, well rounded full-pay student who was rejected as an ED applicant. Although the applicant's common app essay was adequate, the specific U Chicago essays were among the worst that I have ever read. Would make a reader doubt the intellectual depth and capacity of the otherwise stellar applicant.

Know this that lots of Dcum stats are fake. That 4.0 student should really be 3.1 . That 1550 SAT kid prolly got on to some tutoring mill with tricks to juice up SAT by 200 pts should ideally be in the 1300 range. We are not even talking about hanky panky where proxies take the tests or - god forbid- the tests are leaked to someone paying a ransom ( for paper tests it was routine and a tutoring company could skillfully interpose the leaked material in its prep tests for DCUM nabobs) So what are we left with? Mid school counselors tooting their horns about credentials - fake!- of their 4.0 “witch- kids “!

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The only similarity of N'eastern in Boston & U Chicago is that both have mastered how to manipulate admissions statistics; otherwise, they are very different.

Don’t forget NYU.

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If only Chicago could follow your advice. Anyone who knows academia knows that Chicago cares more about admission rounds and associated hijinks than any college in the country.

It is the Northeastern of the Mid West. Not to be confused with the real school further up on the lake.

Wrong.

North Eastern has it's place it is a great school. However it is not UC.

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If only Chicago could follow your advice. Anyone who knows academia knows that Chicago cares more about admission rounds and associated hijinks than any college in the country.

It is the Northeastern of the Mid West. Not to be confused with the real school further up on the lake.

The only similarity of N'eastern in Boston & U Chicago is that both have mastered how to manipulate admissions statistics; otherwise, they are very different.

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If only Chicago could follow your advice. Anyone who knows academia knows that Chicago cares more about admission rounds and associated hijinks than any college in the country.

It is the Northeastern of the Mid West. Not to be confused with the real school further up on the lake.

Anonymous wrote:Supposedly they place a lot of weight on essays. I wonder if with their ED0, ED1 became harder?

Agree 100% with the above post.

The essays specifically required by U Chicago are a trap for high stats applicants who guess at what U Chicago admissions is seeking in the application essays.

Recently reviewed a very high stats, great ECs, well rounded full-pay student who was rejected as an ED applicant. Although the applicant's common app essay was adequate, the specific U Chicago essays were among the worst that I have ever read. Would make a reader doubt the intellectual depth and capacity of the otherwise stellar applicant.

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Anonymous wrote:Who would want to go there. No thanks.

Wrong! Tons of kids wanted ED there. It’s a prestigious school.

If a school offers ED2, it cannot be a top school. Chicago offers ED0 on top of ED2.

This is silly. Anyone who knows academia knows Chicago is a top school.

Care more academics, less about admissions rounds.

If only Chicago could follow your advice. Anyone who knows academia knows that Chicago cares more about admission rounds and associated hijinks than any college in the country.

They do follow my advice. That’s why they are one of the top universities in the country.

College is far more than undergraduate admission policies. Some of you are way too deep in this and have lost sight of the forest.

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Anonymous wrote:Who would want to go there. No thanks.

Wrong! Tons of kids wanted ED there. It’s a prestigious school.

If a school offers ED2, it cannot be a top school. Chicago offers ED0 on top of ED2.

This is silly. Anyone who knows academia knows Chicago is a top school.

Care more academics, less about admissions rounds.

If only Chicago could follow your advice. Anyone who knows academia knows that Chicago cares more about admission rounds and associated hijinks than any college in the country.

The thing is most low ranked ivy kids will have miserable time academically at Uchicago. This ain’t Brown, you see.

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Anonymous wrote:Who would want to go there. No thanks.

Wrong! Tons of kids wanted ED there. It’s a prestigious school.

If a school offers ED2, it cannot be a top school. Chicago offers ED0 on top of ED2.

This is silly. Anyone who knows academia knows Chicago is a top school.

Care more academics, less about admissions rounds.

If only Chicago could follow your advice. Anyone who knows academia knows that Chicago cares more about admission rounds and associated hijinks than any college in the country.

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Anonymous wrote:DC was accepted.

1590 SAT
Top 10 percent in class (private)
NMSF
National awards in two fields related to major(s)

Forgot to mention: really good essays!

(That last thing is what UChicago cares about a lot).

What U Chicago cares about is people applying ED so they can increase their yield. Everything else is gravy.

Obviously, that’s false. The rejected kids (including with very high stats) are also ED applicants.

Wrong interpretation. ED = maybe reject. EA and RD is a guaranteed reject. They are DESPERATE to protect their yield.

Yes, wrong interpretation by you. UChicago defers most EA applications, doesn’t reject them. RD round hasn’t happened yet. The rejections mentioned above are from ED round. I know personally 3 kids from two different private schools in DMV who were rejected in ED round.

What’s your take on why they defer EA but reject ED? I mean it’s probably not the EA kids’ first choice. Are they looking at LOCI to see if they will commit if accepted?

It’s called ED2. Their EA is a scam to get more ED2 apps. I thought this was common knowledge…

Anonymous wrote:This is the lower limit for “makes my Asian parents proud” school, so that they can say DC got in a T10.

No kidding. Sooner or later word will get out that they are not top 10 - probably not even top 20 - for selectivity in the ED round. And what then? Mass applications to California publics?

Anonymous wrote:What I want to know is who gets in RD. We know it happens.

I know someone who got in last year. Private. Top 20%. Now at UVA in-state.