<p>Byerly:
There is no way that the EA applicants are less qualified. I was deffered EA and accepted regular without any suppliments, which would go directly against your statement. Not only does this example illustrate this, but so do the statistics released by the University. Once you get to a prestigious school such as the UofC, you are completely humbled, not only by the student body, but also by the faculty. At Chicago, as elsewhere, it is not the applicants they accept, and most certainly not the number of appicants they accept, but the students they graduate. A school does not derive merit from rejecting large amounts of people but by producing alumni that contribute to the world in a positive way. Are the people that are accepted by Harvard bound to contribute to the world even if they don’t attend? Perhaps, but education propels people and teaches them how to think and reason. I am so utterly sick of acceptance rates being used to define the merit of a school that I am closing my CC account and disassociating myself with this community of elitists. I don’t know who makes the blanket and ignorant statements about schools with acceptance rates over 20%, but they have no idea about what education entails and the aim of it.</p>