@aluminum_boat : Increase is irrelevant. Quality is far more important-that’s where the improvement needs to happen and I have yet to see if it did- the scores are the same…if they feature some class of 2019 members via Emory news media and they did some cool things…I’ll change my mind. But right now, there is no evidence that the increase helped. Chicago is just playing the rankings game and even before their high app. counts had a nice self-selected pool of extremely strong students to choose from (accomplishment wise and score wise), and they managed to yield them as well. Also, where did you get ED2 rates?
I suppose the impressive thing is that we had a high increase without the overspamming of students and without moving the RD deadline, which was actually earlier for class of 2019 than previous years.