<p>While I actually think that all of you that really want to attend Chicago have a good shot of reversing the deferral, I wouldn’t be a proper mom if I didn’t put out a word of caution and tell you to re-evaluate your RD list and make sure that your overall admissions strategy is safe. After all, you can apply to UChicago as a transfer as long as you are safely in college somewhere good. On the parents forum, someone mentioned that you have to be wildly optomistic and paranoic at the same time! </p>
<p>Some other match schools that would keep intellectual kids happy: Reed, Brandeis, Case, U of Rochester, Vaser, Grinnell, Smith, Bryn Mawr.</p>