<p>Well that is your opinion, and its fine. I have one quibble.</p>
<p>So what if the “trophy hunters”, another demographic that UChicago used to not care about, are applying? Now UChicago cares about having them apply too and, I must say, as a group, they are probably not less qualified than other applicants.</p>
<p>Don’t hate on people who think that it is a good thing to get to the best school possible. It is, after all, a rational decision.</p>
<p>Like I said, the wider the application base, the better for the university and the application peer group as a whole. Will there be people who cant go in now that would have gone in 10 years ago? Definitely. But that is just a side effect of democratizing the application base - there’s more competition. And competition is good. Or are you scared?</p>