<p>My daughter applied to both Swarthmore and UChicago, although she withdrew her application to UChicago after getting in ED to Swarthmore. When she did her overnight at Swarthmore, and told other students there she had also applied to UC, about 3/4 of them had too! A lot of them said they had a tough time deciding between the two…so your situation is shared by many students who ended up at Swarthmore. (and maybe also at UC, we don’t know).</p>