The unfortunate thing about Chicago as initially discussed is that the ED rates of coming from a feeder private are far, far higher. The school caters to this with a fly-in program that wines and dines the top couple of students from pre-selected private schools for a full week the summer before senior year.
I once read somewhere that Chicago cultivates such privates as a way to bolster its prestige by association. Those kids are invited to apply ED before the official ED round and get accepted even earlier. Pre-ED?

There is nothing wrong with the school itself, though I did hear rumblings of financial issues. What is generally unfortunate is that its extensive gaming to be the almost-Ivy has been so successful, because it only incentivizes all the other schools to follow it down the path, resulting in a more confusing and (imho) unfair playing field in years to come. It and Northeastern preys off of the insecurities generated by USNWR and everyone’s need to be able to hold our head up high and say our kids did well in the college process. In an ideal world, everyone would feel that way.

A Chicago parent found out my child was at one of HYPSM and immediately began bragging extensively about her child and his institution. That’s Chicago’s admission strategy in a nutshell. And it’s worked splendidly.

if you go onto reddit, there are people who describe a call ED acceptance kids get on and the AO congratulates them. trying to hype them up. really protecting the yield there.

anyway

in it they describe the class and data and year after year, the ED rate seems to be about 9-11%. but you can search through reddit.

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Anonymous wrote:Is there any source for HOW many students are admitted early decision I or II? Or is that kept secret?

This has been hashed over on this thread. From what is indicated here there were 20,000 apps EA and ED1. 5% admitted. Not aware of the individual breakdown or ED2 and RD is not out yet. I would reach out to ur kid’s AO or to the Dean of Admissions office for ED info.

Your implication that Chicago would actually provide this information is downright absurd.

Have you tried? Or do you prefer to wine about it? Your kid get apply or not. But this hyperfixation is downright mad.

The only other school to obfuscate CDS info was Columbia and look what they were caught doing… UChicago is definitely shady

Anonymous wrote:Is there any source for HOW many students are admitted early decision I or II? Or is that kept secret?

Apologists aside, the whole point is that Chicago keeps this secret, and continues to do so.

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Anonymous wrote:Is there any source for HOW many students are admitted early decision I or II? Or is that kept secret?

This has been hashed over on this thread. From what is indicated here there were 20,000 apps EA and ED1. 5% admitted. Not aware of the individual breakdown or ED2 and RD is not out yet. I would reach out to ur kid’s AO or to the Dean of Admissions office for ED info.

Your implication that Chicago would actually provide this information is downright absurd.

Anonymous wrote:ED rates are misleading. Just apply if good fit and strong enough stats

This. It shouldn’t be about a hyperfixation on acceptance rate. Number one: The Fit. Does your kid genuinely envision themselves at a particular school? And if so, do they have the general gpa, test scores, and EC’s etc

Anonymous wrote:ED rates are misleading. Just apply if good fit and strong enough stats

Yep

ED rates are misleading. Just apply if good fit and strong enough stats

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Anonymous wrote:Is there any source for HOW many students are admitted early decision I or II? Or is that kept secret?

This has been hashed over on this thread. From what is indicated here there were 20,000 apps EA and ED1. 5% admitted. Not aware of the individual breakdown or ED2 and RD is not out yet. I would reach out to ur kid’s AO or to the Dean of Admissions office for ED info.

And the above info was shared by the Dean of Admissions.

Anonymous wrote:Is there any source for HOW many students are admitted early decision I or II? Or is that kept secret?

This has been hashed over on this thread. From what is indicated here there were 20,000 apps EA and ED1. 5% admitted. Not aware of the individual breakdown or ED2 and RD is not out yet. I would reach out to ur kid’s AO or to the Dean of Admissions office for ED info.

Anonymous wrote:Chicago also keeps the RD % low by using the WL and letting people off only if they commit.

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Is there any source for HOW many students are admitted early decision I or II? Or is that kept secret?

Chicago also keeps the RD % low by using the WL and letting people off only if they commit.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m the one who posted 30-40%. As I said in my original comment, it’s from the Harvard-Westlake data for unhooked students with GPAs of 3.9-4.3.

Unhooked Harvard-Westlake students with higher GPAs are accepted at a noticeably lower rate. That inversion (where more qualified students are less likely to be accepted) is true of a number of other ED schools, but none so highly ranked as Chicago.

We’re all guessing based on the partial information available from different high schools, because Chicago evidently believes it’s in its own best interest to hide this data.

What data is it hiding compared to other schools? Chicago recently released a CDS and provided admission stats for this year. What additional data is it hiding that other schools give a breakdown for?

ED acceptance rate. UVA gives its ED acceptance rate (and even breaks it down by in-state vs OOS). Chicago doesn’t.

Also hiding % of class filled in ED rounds, number taken off waitlist, EA admit rate. Last April released first CDS ever (was for 21-22 instead of 22-23, which other schools had already released last April). Still no 22-23 release even….

Ok. So don’t have your kid apply. And if they apply and get in, encourage them to go somewhere else. Lots of places for you to choose from. But stop maligning the school and the kids that go there over your hangups.

Chicago is the one with the hangup. It is the only selective university not publishing ED admit rates and percentage of class filled ED. That is not maligning the school; it is a fact. If Chicago wants to avoid the appearance of hiding something, it should not hide it. Unless, that is, it is really trying to hide something, as Columbia clearly was in not publishing a CDS (before it got caught).

what do you care?

If you do not care about ED rates of schools and the % of class admitted ED, go to another thread, or leave the college and university discussion altogether. Plenty of applicants and their parents care — with good reason.

Those applicants who base their college decision on whether a school shares its Ed/Rd acceptance rates via the CDS will not apply to Chicago. That is their right. If you care about this factor when making a college choice, don’t let your kid apply to the school. So many other schools for you to choose from.

Chicago may be trying to hide something. They may not think it’s relevant data to release. Or they may not want kids whose decisions are based on this info. They’ve lost your application. They’ll survive.