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<p>UChicago’s “relentless” marketing began to yield significant results only after the class of 2014, when it’s acceptance rate dropped below 20% and yield bordered on 40%. This year, with an acceptance rate of 8.8% and an estimated yield of 52%, Chicago is very much a different monster than it was in 2010, which is the last year the referenced document used in it’s analysis. Although I don’t think it would be toppling HYP or M today, it would almost certainly join them to complete the pentad of schools which enroll more than 2% of Stanford cross-admits. Other than Harvard, which enrolls 32% Stanford cross-admits, the elite group enroll between 12% (MIT) and 16% (Yale) Stanford cross-admits, which Chicago won’t be beating any time soon, but it will still (probably) deserve to be in the same peer group as Princeton, at least as much as MIT deserves to be in the same peer group as Harvard (as far as the study is concerned, that is).</p>
<p>Only time will tell how close it will come to challenging HYPSM’s well cemented superiority, but since it now ranks ahead of Yale in the aggregated international university rankings (and also ranks ahead of Princeton and Stanford on certain international rankings), ranks ahead of SM on USNews’s rankings and HYM on Forbes’s (slightly loony) rankings, and seems to be approaching some of the five in selectivity and yield, I’m bullish.</p>