<p>I suggest you read the link I provided, with real September numbers rather than relying on projected numbers from April or May press releases.</p>
<p>Incidentally, most of the cut and pasted propaganda in your post is irrelevant, really,since the issue is not “what Chicago is about” or any of that stuff, but the venality of ALL early admissions programs - including Chicago’s - and the disingenuous rationalizing that is used to justify what Fallows rightly calls “The Early Admissions Racket.”</p>
<p>Every school wants (or should want) the highest yield rate possible - since it means the school has a higher “batting average” in attracting the students it would most like to have. A lower yield rate means the school, in many cases, is settling for its 2nd or 3rd choice candidates.</p>
<p>IMHO, Chicago can do two things to improve its yield other than utilizing “enrollment management” techniques, including an early admissions program - both of them, unfortunately, expensive.</p>
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<li><p>Upgrade the athletics program; there is no reason that “the life of the mind” (as the cliche goes) and the life of the body must be mutually exclusive. </p></li>
<li><p>Start spending more liberally from the endowment to invest in surrounding real estate. The setting is clearly a negative, but Chicago can do what other schools - including Trinity (in Hartford) and Yale (in New Haven) have done: become a major developer in the area near the school, since the market seems unlikely to do the job in the near future.</p></li>
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