<p>As I have explained before, it doesn’t work that way^. Each year, Chicago admits about 1,200 kids EA in order to fill about 600 places in its final class. If somehow it could magically identify the 100 or so of the kids it admits who will be accepted ED somewhere else, it wouldn’t admit a single additional student in their place. Those students were never coming to Chicago anyway. The 600 students who will eventually enroll are still scattered among the 1,100 accepted students who were NOT accepted ED. </p>
<p>If Chicago admitted 1,200 students with no EA acceptees, it would get more enrolled students out of its early pool than it wants. It would have to cut back on the number of EA students accepted. Kid Green doesn’t get admitted under any circumstance.</p>
<p>I, for one, think the existing system works very well for Chicago. It gets a shot at strong, ambitious students who might not ever apply if they had to give up ED elsewhere to do it. Lots of those students won’t be accepted ED. Chicago, if it wants them, gets to market to them in a very focused way for three months, at least. I’m certain Chicago coverts a lot of them into students.</p>