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Anonymous wrote:Yes college realize this, it’s why ED1 and 2 exist.

And why Harvard (and the likes) defer high percentages of ED1 students. They know that they can then offer acceptances in RD and have an extremely high likelihood of getting a matriculation come fall.

Harvard does not have ED.

Anonymous wrote:Northeastern has a 43% admit rate in ED and they take half their class in ED.

So any modestly average student can get in if they want to if they ED to Northeastern. But with the all the games they play, they can still show a 5% admit rate!

You need to look behind the numbers a little bit.

Does this trouble you?

Anonymous wrote:I like the Chicago 20, 30 years when the acceptance rate is 30, 40%. Everyone at that time knew it's a serious school.

Vanderbilt, UPenn, etc. etc. had 50% 60% 70% acceptance rates little earlier than that.

Anonymous wrote:I like the Chicago 20, 30 years when the acceptance rate is 30, 40%. Everyone at that time knew it's a serious school.

That school quite simply does not exist any more. That’s why some of the most passionate Chicago bashers are Chicago alums.

Anonymous wrote:Northeastern has a 43% admit rate in ED and they take half their class in ED.

So any modestly average student can get in if they want to if they ED to Northeastern. But with the all the games they play, they can still show a 5% admit rate!

You need to look behind the numbers a little bit.

Look behind the numbers like this,
50 Smartest Colleges in America by average SAT score
https://talk.collegeconfidential.com/t/50-smartest-colleges-in-america-by-average-sat-score/2022047

This was 2018 just before pandemic when test was required.
Northeastern ranked #26 including LACs.

No, modestly average students will have slim chance for anything.

Chicago ranked #4.

Plenty of brilliant students don't see the value in the drama and choose to apply ED to excellent schools that are more straightforward.
Harvard even got sued for the drama and lost at the Supreme Court.

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Anonymous wrote:Yield Rates and Admit Rates for the Class of 2029

https://www.ivywise.com/blog/college-yield-rates/

This table is misleading without providing more context and explanation.

UChicago's crazy 88% yield rate is a result of taking 80% of the class ED.

Which means they take in less competitive candidates, it's also going to impact their ranking.

It means no such thing. It means that they are taking candidates who meet their standards and are committed to Chicago. It's more efficient and I expect that more and more schools will move in this direction in the future.

I like the Chicago 20, 30 years when the acceptance rate is 30, 40%. Everyone at that time knew it's a serious school.

Northeastern and Chicago both are extreme admit & yield whores.

Northeastern is a vanity school.

Chicago is a genuine T20 school, they dont have to play this game. But they ridiculously tarnish their name with all these games.

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Anonymous wrote:Northeastern hater alert ⚠️

so 90% of this forum?

People are not crazy like you and have lives.

Themistocles, Thucydides,
The Peloponnesian War,
X squared, Y squared,
H2SO4.
Who for? What for?
Who we gonna yell for?
Go, Maroons!

OMG! shut up about uchicago! its honestly so annoying - nobody in real life cares about all these admissions politics

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Anonymous wrote:Northeastern has a 43% admit rate in ED and they take half their class in ED.

So any modestly average student can get in if they want to if they ED to Northeastern. But with the all the games they play, they can still show a 5% admit rate!

You need to look behind the numbers a little bit.

We can discuss facts about Northeastern no one has an issue with it. Yet we can’t discuss facts about UChicago, once we do it there is always this one mom jumping out accusing us as haters.

Yes. And this one does a lot of sock puppeting, self reply to her own posts. Weird.

You are projecting. You're the real sock puppet.

This one is the sock puppet Chicago mom.

This one is the sock puppet Chicago basher.

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Anonymous wrote:Northeastern has a 43% admit rate in ED and they take half their class in ED.

So any modestly average student can get in if they want to if they ED to Northeastern. But with the all the games they play, they can still show a 5% admit rate!

You need to look behind the numbers a little bit.

We can discuss facts about Northeastern no one has an issue with it. Yet we can’t discuss facts about UChicago, once we do it there is always this one mom jumping out accusing us as haters.

Yes. And this one does a lot of sock puppeting, self reply to her own posts. Weird.

You are projecting. You're the real sock puppet.

This one is the sock puppet Chicago mom.

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Anonymous wrote:Our resident Chicago basher outs themselves as being a sock puppet daily 😂

This is the sock puppet Chicago mom!

This is the sock puppet Chicago basher! What a sad life you must live!

Anonymous wrote:Our resident Chicago basher outs themselves as being a sock puppet daily 😂

This is the sock puppet Chicago mom!