<p>Tell the friend of my D who got into Stanford but was rejected at UofC that the latter is easy to get into.</p>
<p>Fact is that Chicago seems to be less numbers driven than its peer schools, which may account for the SAT score delta. SAT scores are easy to compute, easy to compare, but not the best tool for college admissions, and most savvy adcoms know this. </p>
<p>The era of UofC as a safety school ended about a decade ago.</p>
<p>You still don’t get bragging rights if you attend, though, because too many people confuse it with other places like Chicago State. 
But that’s another topic.</p>