Anonymous
11/12/2025 00:32
Subject: ED0 admitted student meeting….
Anonymous wrote:So the consensus is ED0 has at least a 30% admit rate?
Also, since UChicago is test optional, most likely less than half of the students submit an SAT score, and of those that do the average is around 1530?
Given that information, an ED0 applicant with a 1550 has a 90% chance at admission. Those are very good odds.
UC really wouldn't care much about your test score. Just get a 1500+ that's more than enough for admission. You will be disappointment on that 90% chance for 1550. If your score is lower than 1500, go test optional. UC cares more about essays and courses taken.
Anonymous
11/12/2025 00:25
Subject: ED0 admitted student meeting….
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Uchicago? 1530 seems high for an average admit ED0 there.
Peer schools: Penn Duke JHU average 1550. 1530 is low.
Np, 1530 is not low and that fact that this was posted at all shows how idiotic some are here.
1530 is the 25%tile at other T20 schools.
A step down from Rice.
So much misinformation. According to the last available common datasets, UChicago and Rice both have 1510 as the 25 percentile, with fewer students submitted test scores to Rice.
DP.
JHU 25%tile is 1530.
https://oira.jhu.edu/common-data-set-2024-25/
page 10
About the same # submitters.
And the median for both UChicago and JHU is 1540. The 75 percentile is 1560 for both. Why are we splitting hairs?
Other reference points for test score ranges from CDS:
Yale: 1480-1530-1560
Princeton: 1500-1530-1560
HYP are of a different tier, they admit unicorns, future POTUS, SCOTUS, and nobel laureates. Unicorns are not bound by GPA or test scores. That's not the comparison to make. They can easily admit a 1350 over a 1600. Not an issue for them.
Fine. Here are some more stats (all in the same ballpark):
Northwestern: 1510-1540-1560
UPenn: 1510-1550-1570
Cornell: 1510-1540-1560
Is Chicago the same tier as Cornell?
Anyway, thank you for providing the data point.
Penn's median is 1550. A whopping 20 points higher than 1533.
NU and Cornell both have 1540, still higher than a 1533.
Again, it's early, let's wait for the final CDS.
Are you seriously splitting hairs on student quality over 20 points? tell me you're joking.
Anonymous
11/11/2025 23:51
Subject: ED0 admitted student meeting….
Anonymous wrote:So the consensus is ED0 has at least a 30% admit rate?
Also, since UChicago is test optional, most likely less than half of the students submit an SAT score, and of those that do the average is around 1530?
Given that information, an ED0 applicant with a 1550 has a 90% chance at admission. Those are very good odds.
Put the sherm stick down and call rehab
Anonymous
11/11/2025 23:49
Subject: ED0 admitted student meeting….
Anonymous wrote:Future Nobel laureates should definitely have top scores.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Uchicago? 1530 seems high for an average admit ED0 there.
Peer schools: Penn Duke JHU average 1550. 1530 is low.
Np, 1530 is not low and that fact that this was posted at all shows how idiotic some are here.
1530 is the 25%tile at other T20 schools.
A step down from Rice.
So much misinformation. According to the last available common datasets, UChicago and Rice both have 1510 as the 25 percentile, with fewer students submitted test scores to Rice.
DP.
JHU 25%tile is 1530.
https://oira.jhu.edu/common-data-set-2024-25/
page 10
About the same # submitters.
And the median for both UChicago and JHU is 1540. The 75 percentile is 1560 for both. Why are we splitting hairs?
Other reference points for test score ranges from CDS:
Yale: 1480-1530-1560
Princeton: 1500-1530-1560
HYP are of a different tier, they admit unicorns, future POTUS, SCOTUS, and nobel laureates. Unicorns are not bound by GPA or test scores. That's not the comparison to make. They can easily admit a 1350 over a 1600. Not an issue for them.
No effort, no laurels. No prizes for ability. World is FULL of geniuses who accomplish very little.
Anonymous
11/11/2025 23:23
Subject: ED0 admitted student meeting….
Future Nobel laureates should definitely have top scores.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Uchicago? 1530 seems high for an average admit ED0 there.
Peer schools: Penn Duke JHU average 1550. 1530 is low.
Np, 1530 is not low and that fact that this was posted at all shows how idiotic some are here.
1530 is the 25%tile at other T20 schools.
A step down from Rice.
So much misinformation. According to the last available common datasets, UChicago and Rice both have 1510 as the 25 percentile, with fewer students submitted test scores to Rice.
DP.
JHU 25%tile is 1530.
https://oira.jhu.edu/common-data-set-2024-25/
page 10
About the same # submitters.
And the median for both UChicago and JHU is 1540. The 75 percentile is 1560 for both. Why are we splitting hairs?
Other reference points for test score ranges from CDS:
Yale: 1480-1530-1560
Princeton: 1500-1530-1560
HYP are of a different tier, they admit unicorns, future POTUS, SCOTUS, and nobel laureates. Unicorns are not bound by GPA or test scores. That's not the comparison to make. They can easily admit a 1350 over a 1600. Not an issue for them.
Anonymous
11/11/2025 22:40
Subject: ED0 admitted student meeting….
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Uchicago? 1530 seems high for an average admit ED0 there.
Peer schools: Penn Duke JHU average 1550. 1530 is low.
Np, 1530 is not low and that fact that this was posted at all shows how idiotic some are here.
1530 is the 25%tile at other T20 schools.
A step down from Rice.
So much misinformation. According to the last available common datasets, UChicago and Rice both have 1510 as the 25 percentile, with fewer students submitted test scores to Rice.
DP.
JHU 25%tile is 1530.
https://oira.jhu.edu/common-data-set-2024-25/
page 10
About the same # submitters.
And the median for both UChicago and JHU is 1540. The 75 percentile is 1560 for both. Why are we splitting hairs?
Other reference points for test score ranges from CDS:
Yale: 1480-1530-1560
Princeton: 1500-1530-1560
HYP are of a different tier, they admit unicorns, future POTUS, SCOTUS, and nobel laureates. Unicorns are not bound by GPA or test scores. That's not the comparison to make. They can easily admit a 1350 over a 1600. Not an issue for them.
Fine. Here are some more stats (all in the same ballpark):
Northwestern: 1510-1540-1560
UPenn: 1510-1550-1570
Cornell: 1510-1540-1560
Is Chicago the same tier as Cornell?
Anyway, thank you for providing the data point.
Penn's median is 1550. A whopping 20 points higher than 1533.
NU and Cornell both have 1540, still higher than a 1533.
Again, it's early, let's wait for the final CDS.
You do understand the difference between median and mean, right? The relevant number (apples-to-apples) is 1540 for UChicago (from the same year as the other data). My point is that all these schools have the same ranges.
Just to add that only 67 percent of UPenn students submitted test scores, which could explain the slight difference in the medians compared with the other schools.
Anonymous
11/11/2025 22:34
Subject: ED0 admitted student meeting….
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Uchicago? 1530 seems high for an average admit ED0 there.
Peer schools: Penn Duke JHU average 1550. 1530 is low.
Np, 1530 is not low and that fact that this was posted at all shows how idiotic some are here.
1530 is the 25%tile at other T20 schools.
A step down from Rice.
So much misinformation. According to the last available common datasets, UChicago and Rice both have 1510 as the 25 percentile, with fewer students submitted test scores to Rice.
DP.
JHU 25%tile is 1530.
https://oira.jhu.edu/common-data-set-2024-25/
page 10
About the same # submitters.
And the median for both UChicago and JHU is 1540. The 75 percentile is 1560 for both. Why are we splitting hairs?
Other reference points for test score ranges from CDS:
Yale: 1480-1530-1560
Princeton: 1500-1530-1560
HYP are of a different tier, they admit unicorns, future POTUS, SCOTUS, and nobel laureates. Unicorns are not bound by GPA or test scores. That's not the comparison to make. They can easily admit a 1350 over a 1600. Not an issue for them.
Fine. Here are some more stats (all in the same ballpark):
Northwestern: 1510-1540-1560
UPenn: 1510-1550-1570
Cornell: 1510-1540-1560
Is Chicago the same tier as Cornell?
Anyway, thank you for providing the data point.
Penn's median is 1550. A whopping 20 points higher than 1533.
NU and Cornell both have 1540, still higher than a 1533.
Again, it's early, let's wait for the final CDS.
You do understand the difference between median and mean, right? The relevant number (apples-to-apples) is 1540 for UChicago (from the same year as the other data). My point is that all these schools have the same ranges.
Anonymous
11/11/2025 22:32
Subject: ED0 admitted student meeting….
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Uchicago? 1530 seems high for an average admit ED0 there.
Peer schools: Penn Duke JHU average 1550. 1530 is low.
Np, 1530 is not low and that fact that this was posted at all shows how idiotic some are here.
1530 is the 25%tile at other T20 schools.
A step down from Rice.
So much misinformation. According to the last available common datasets, UChicago and Rice both have 1510 as the 25 percentile, with fewer students submitted test scores to Rice.
DP.
JHU 25%tile is 1530.
https://oira.jhu.edu/common-data-set-2024-25/
page 10
About the same # submitters.
And the median for both UChicago and JHU is 1540. The 75 percentile is 1560 for both. Why are we splitting hairs?
Other reference points for test score ranges from CDS:
Yale: 1480-1530-1560
Princeton: 1500-1530-1560
HYP are of a different tier, they admit unicorns, future POTUS, SCOTUS, and nobel laureates. Unicorns are not bound by GPA or test scores. That's not the comparison to make. They can easily admit a 1350 over a 1600. Not an issue for them.
Fine. Here are some more stats (all in the same ballpark):
Northwestern: 1510-1540-1560
UPenn: 1510-1550-1570
Cornell: 1510-1540-1560
Is Chicago the same tier as Cornell?
Anyway, thank you for providing the data point.
Penn's median is 1550. A whopping 20 points higher than 1533.
NU and Cornell both have 1540, still higher than a 1533.
Again, it's early, let's wait for the final CDS.
Anonymous
11/11/2025 22:24
Subject: ED0 admitted student meeting….
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Uchicago? 1530 seems high for an average admit ED0 there.
Peer schools: Penn Duke JHU average 1550. 1530 is low.
Np, 1530 is not low and that fact that this was posted at all shows how idiotic some are here.
1530 is the 25%tile at other T20 schools.
A step down from Rice.
So much misinformation. According to the last available common datasets, UChicago and Rice both have 1510 as the 25 percentile, with fewer students submitted test scores to Rice.
DP.
JHU 25%tile is 1530.
https://oira.jhu.edu/common-data-set-2024-25/
page 10
About the same # submitters.
And the median for both UChicago and JHU is 1540. The 75 percentile is 1560 for both. Why are we splitting hairs?
Other reference points for test score ranges from CDS:
Yale: 1480-1530-1560
Princeton: 1500-1530-1560
HYP are of a different tier, they admit unicorns, future POTUS, SCOTUS, and nobel laureates. Unicorns are not bound by GPA or test scores. That's not the comparison to make. They can easily admit a 1350 over a 1600. Not an issue for them.
Fine. Here are some more stats (all in the same ballpark):
Northwestern: 1510-1540-1560
UPenn: 1510-1550-1570
Cornell: 1510-1540-1560
Anonymous
11/11/2025 22:23
Subject: ED0 admitted student meeting….
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Uchicago? 1530 seems high for an average admit ED0 there.
Peer schools: Penn Duke JHU average 1550. 1530 is low.
Np, 1530 is not low and that fact that this was posted at all shows how idiotic some are here.
1530 is the 25%tile at other T20 schools.
A step down from Rice.
So much misinformation. According to the last available common datasets, UChicago and Rice both have 1510 as the 25 percentile, with fewer students submitted test scores to Rice.
DP.
JHU 25%tile is 1530.
https://oira.jhu.edu/common-data-set-2024-25/
page 10
About the same # submitters.
And the median for both UChicago and JHU is 1540. The 75 percentile is 1560 for both. Why are we splitting hairs?
We will have to wait for this year's data out to see if there is a systemic drop in test scores in Chicago admits 2026. The early sign is that the average SAT score is 1530, it's a drop from last year's median 1540.
The reported average (not median) from ED0 was 1533. My guess is that the median this year will be the same or higher than last year, since the most competitive admits come from ED2.
Let's wait until the CDS is out this year. Several Chicago parents mentioned Chicago doesn't care test scores that much, and 1590 has no advantage over 1500.
Anonymous
11/11/2025 22:16
Subject: ED0 admitted student meeting….
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Uchicago? 1530 seems high for an average admit ED0 there.
Peer schools: Penn Duke JHU average 1550. 1530 is low.
Np, 1530 is not low and that fact that this was posted at all shows how idiotic some are here.
1530 is the 25%tile at other T20 schools.
A step down from Rice.
So much misinformation. According to the last available common datasets, UChicago and Rice both have 1510 as the 25 percentile, with fewer students submitted test scores to Rice.
DP.
JHU 25%tile is 1530.
https://oira.jhu.edu/common-data-set-2024-25/
page 10
About the same # submitters.
And the median for both UChicago and JHU is 1540. The 75 percentile is 1560 for both. Why are we splitting hairs?
We will have to wait for this year's data out to see if there is a systemic drop in test scores in Chicago admits 2026. The early sign is that the average SAT score is 1530, it's a drop from last year's median 1540.
The reported average (not median) from ED0 was 1533. My guess is that the median this year will be the same or higher than last year, since the most competitive admits come from ED2.
Anonymous
11/11/2025 22:14
Subject: ED0 admitted student meeting….
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Uchicago? 1530 seems high for an average admit ED0 there.
Peer schools: Penn Duke JHU average 1550. 1530 is low.
Np, 1530 is not low and that fact that this was posted at all shows how idiotic some are here.
1530 is the 25%tile at other T20 schools.
A step down from Rice.
So much misinformation. According to the last available common datasets, UChicago and Rice both have 1510 as the 25 percentile, with fewer students submitted test scores to Rice.
DP.
JHU 25%tile is 1530.
https://oira.jhu.edu/common-data-set-2024-25/
page 10
About the same # submitters.
And the median for both UChicago and JHU is 1540. The 75 percentile is 1560 for both. Why are we splitting hairs?
Other reference points for test score ranges from CDS:
Yale: 1480-1530-1560
Princeton: 1500-1530-1560
HYP are of a different tier, they admit unicorns, future POTUS, SCOTUS, and nobel laureates. Unicorns are not bound by GPA or test scores. That's not the comparison to make. They can easily admit a 1350 over a 1600. Not an issue for them.
Anonymous
11/11/2025 22:06
Subject: ED0 admitted student meeting….
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Uchicago? 1530 seems high for an average admit ED0 there.
Peer schools: Penn Duke JHU average 1550. 1530 is low.
Np, 1530 is not low and that fact that this was posted at all shows how idiotic some are here.
1530 is the 25%tile at other T20 schools.
A step down from Rice.
So much misinformation. According to the last available common datasets, UChicago and Rice both have 1510 as the 25 percentile, with fewer students submitted test scores to Rice.
DP.
JHU 25%tile is 1530.
https://oira.jhu.edu/common-data-set-2024-25/
page 10
About the same # submitters.
And the median for both UChicago and JHU is 1540. The 75 percentile is 1560 for both. Why are we splitting hairs?
We will have to wait for this year's data out to see if there is a systemic drop in test scores in Chicago admits 2026. The early sign is that the average SAT score is 1530, it's a drop from last year's median 1540.
Anonymous
11/11/2025 22:03
Subject: ED0 admitted student meeting….
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Uchicago? 1530 seems high for an average admit ED0 there.
Peer schools: Penn Duke JHU average 1550. 1530 is low.
Np, 1530 is not low and that fact that this was posted at all shows how idiotic some are here.
1530 is the 25%tile at other T20 schools.
A step down from Rice.
So much misinformation. According to the last available common datasets, UChicago and Rice both have 1510 as the 25 percentile, with fewer students submitted test scores to Rice.
DP.
JHU 25%tile is 1530.
https://oira.jhu.edu/common-data-set-2024-25/
page 10
About the same # submitters.
And the median for both UChicago and JHU is 1540. The 75 percentile is 1560 for both. Why are we splitting hairs?
Other reference points for test score ranges from CDS:
Yale: 1480-1530-1560
Princeton: 1500-1530-1560
Anonymous
11/11/2025 21:56
Subject: ED0 admitted student meeting….
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Uchicago? 1530 seems high for an average admit ED0 there.
Peer schools: Penn Duke JHU average 1550. 1530 is low.
Np, 1530 is not low and that fact that this was posted at all shows how idiotic some are here.
1530 is the 25%tile at other T20 schools.
A step down from Rice.
So much misinformation. According to the last available common datasets, UChicago and Rice both have 1510 as the 25 percentile, with fewer students submitted test scores to Rice.
DP.
JHU 25%tile is 1530.
https://oira.jhu.edu/common-data-set-2024-25/
page 10
About the same # submitters.
And the median for both UChicago and JHU is 1540. The 75 percentile is 1560 for both. Why are we splitting hairs?