"The undergraduate College received 10,316 early applications this year—an increase of 19.5 percent from last year and the largest number that the College has ever recorded."
To be fair, phuriku, it's easier to have this kind of growth when acceptance rates are higher than UChi's peers (though less so in coming years).
A large part of the school's recent success is in its direct mailers -- will other schools catch on and start employing the same practices? If so, how would that affect UChi's numbers? Or do the direct mailers uniquely function to tap into UChi's intrinsic value? The coming years will be an interesting time for admissions...
This is wild. When my daughter applied eight years ago, Chicago didn't get 10,000 applications total, much less EA. EA applications were about 2,500, and the EA acceptance rate was almost 50%.
More people applied early to Chicago this year than to Penn, Dartmouth, and Brown, combined.
This number really isn't shocking to me, it shows greater interest in the school. There is always a question of yield when dealing with the fact that UChicago is simply Early Action, not binding in anyway, and this clearly lends itself to many more applications, so reducing the admission rate. Also, the Class of 2017 needs to be 1000 or less students, in my opinion.
Yeah it doesn't surprise me compared to Penn, Dartmouth, and Brown because those are all binding. The only reason I applied early to UChicago is that it is nonrestrictive and nonbinding.
Very sad for a kid like mine who would have almost surely been admitted five years ago, and for whom it is truly a first choice school. Her EA app is in that pile, but sheesh. Stupid Common App...
Poplicola, the admissions rate should still see a big change this year. I think the administration aims to maintain a normal class size through the Pierce transition, but a normal class size is still smaller than the 2016 class. That, combined with increased apps, and we could very well see a single-digit admissions rate (though I don't even remember what the current one is).
I feel bad for my age and myself applying to universities this year at probably the most competitive admission war. For UChicago's aggressive email marketing, I kinda feel it's stupid. They attract more student with extensive emails and they reject lots of them. Can anybody post Columbia's and Cornell's ED applicant pool once they come out?
Very sad for a kid like mine who would have almost surely been admitted five years ago, and for whom it is truly a first choice school. Her EA app is in that pile, but sheesh. Stupid Common App...
