<p>From the University of Chicago Admissions website:</p>
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<p>So, no Chicago is not need-blind for international students. That’s very common, even among “need blind” institutions. I’m not certain if any university is need-blind for internationals. As of a few years ago, none were, but I seem to remember someone (Princeton? Harvard?) going need-blind for internationals recently.</p>
<p>I would also note: (a) 75 students in three years (avg. 25 per year) is very competitive indeed. Chicago generally admits 35% of its applicants, but I’ll bet it gets a lot more than 71 (25/.35) applications per year from international students with financial need (or even more than 200 applications, which is what the normal acceptance/attendance numbers would imply). (b) $2.8 million / 75 is less than $38,000 per person. If that’s a cumulative number rather than an annual number – and that’s certainly how I read the website – it works out to something like $18,700 per person per year. If it’s a total commitment, it’s about $9,500 per person per year. That’s not so much compared to the total COA, which is pushing $50,000/year. So if there’s a LOT of need, only a very few (many fewer than 25) applicants are getting accepted.</p>
<p>universitybound -
in that case -good chance but not sure admit. If you look like a good fit to the admissions committee, your numbers are definately in range.</p>
<p>… and some apply EA when Chicago is their first choice. I don’t think the admissions office is blind to the fact that they have one of the most forgiving early admissions policies of almost any university in the nation, and as a result there is no “bonus” for applying EA. It’s as difficult to get into the school EA as it is RD-- the acceptance rates are nearly identical.</p>
<p>Nah… I know people who had the school towards the bottom of their list and they ended up coming and love it just the same as those who had it towards the top. Chicago knowingly offers EA, and like I said, it’s not any easier to get in EA as it is RD. (If it were easier to get in EA, then I’d see why people who didn’t want to go by just applied for the hey of it would be unfairly crowding out people who did have it as their first choice).</p>
<p>una: The numbers I saw for the 2006-07 admission season had a MUCH higher admission rate EA: close to 45%, compared to 27% RD (including deferred EA applications. It’s possible that over half the EA applicants are eventually accepted, and only about a quarter of the RD applicants. I think the explanation for that could be the greater strength of the EA applicants, and the fact that so many of them clearly DO want to go to Chicago. But the admission rates are not almost the same.</p>
<p>JHS- where did you get that piece of information? 45% is very very high for a top school like Chicago… Top 10 in the US… Is it because they know the yield rate for EA would not be that high that they admit so many…</p>
<p>do a search for (conjectural) reasons why the admit rate to Chicago is high. A good school does not necessarily have to be a super selective one. </p>
<p>As for the admit rates, I was under the impression that they were within a percentage point of each other, but I guess I was mistake.</p>