- As mentioned above, OP is likely referring to the ongoing Odyssey scholarship program and its international component launched just last year. So that other posters so helpfully dispensing advice can be properly informed, here are a couple of useful links:
https://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/cost-aid/scholarships/odyssey-scholarships
- Highly doubtful that the percentage of international admitted would differ from prior years, except perhaps to increase given the additional financial funding available. This past summer was particularly difficult for incoming international students for several reasons (not just financial) but the College was able to step up and accommodate them anyway. No reason to expect them to pull back going forward.
- OP might find that reaching out to the Admissions office will provide more insight to the specifics of this year than asking advice on College Confidential from people who aren't informed about the College's initiatives. UChicago's been a moving target in some of these areas for the past few years and tends not to conform to some of the more generic speculations (which are likely based on what other institutions are doing).
- UChicago won't be requiring NCP financial information because to do so restricts opportunity for some incoming students requiring aid, including those who are eligible for need-based aid under some of the school's newer initiatives (Empower, UChicago Promise, UChicago Stand Together, etc). "Outside the norm of other selective schools" would be a consequence of specific choices, not a guiding principle for them.